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Hello! I'm still figuring out this whole tumblr thing, but this blog will probably soon be full of Treasure Planet stuff. Mostly overly wordy microanalysis and miscellaneous silly stuff.

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Can anybody please post the May 31st story from Disney 365 Bedtime Stories?

It’s called “Scary Solar Surfing”.

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Here you go! It’s pretty hilarious.

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Quick little doodle thingies that I made to be my lockscreen and background, respectively. So you unlock the map and it opens into the projection of Treasure Planet. I’m easily entertained I suppose, but I like it. 😆 Thought I’d share them in case any other Treasure Planet fans wanted to use them.

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I wanted to have something more to contribute to the Treasure Planet’s 16th anniversary, but life has been most uncooperative. So have this little story that I found in a collection of 365 Disney bedtime stories. Actual Disney-made Treasure Planet content published (and maybe written?) this year! I couldn’t believe it when I found it! And there are 4 other TP stories in the book too, and some other obscure movies like Atlantis and Hunchback. But I’ll have to post some of those (and a better picture of this one) at a later date.

Anyway, Happy Anniversary Treasure Planet! 🌙💫✨

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Headcanon time: Morph's Name

Let us take a moment to consider these two lines:

"What is that thing?"

"He's a morph."

Now, Silver is a pretty creative guy linguistically. Just look at the "Makings of Greatness" and "Rattle the Stars" speeches, or even his attempts to flatter Amelia. He is exceptionally eloquent in his own rough, pirate-y kind of way.

So why does he call his pet morph "Morph"? It's basically the equivalent of calling your dog "Dog." Nothing is wrong with it persay, but it's kinda odd. I mean, this guy gives Jim 3-4 nicknames over the course of the movie, it seems like he could easily have come up with something more creative to name his pet. And Morph's analogue in the original Treasure Island, the parrot, is quite amusingly named "Captain Flint," so it isn't like this comes from the original cannon or anything.

So here's my theory:

We know Silver rescued Morph (on Proteus One), but I believe that when Silver first saved Morph, he did not in any way shape or form plan to keep him as a pet. Yet Morph just kept following him around, and Silver put up with it, still planning to dump Morph off once they are somewhere safer for the endearing annoying little blob. And of course, the number one rule for not bonding with a cute little animal is DO NOT NAME IT. So for months, Silver just thinks of Morph as "the morph." He is NOT going to make the mistake of naming the thing, thank you very much,

But Silver has a soft spot, so slowly “Get back here ye silly morph!" transforms into "Come here, Morph," because somehow Silver never seems to have the right opportunity to leave Morph somewhere and Morph starts to learn that the word "morph" refers to him.

Basically, the word Silver used to avoid giving Morph a name and bonding with the little blob becomes Morph's actual name because Silver bonds with him anyway. And after the first time "Morph" transforms into "Morphie" Silver just has to stop kidding himself and accept that this is his pet now. But that's fine, pirates can have pets, and Morph has his practical uses like turning into keys to break out of prison cells and turning into tools to help him repair his cyborg parts, so, yeah... no big deal.

It's not like he's going to make a habit of adopting little lost troublemakers or anything, right?

Right?

Exactly.

John Silver: master of not getting attached.

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*drops back onto my own blog after not posting anything in forever, how does this thing work, testing one two three*

So... ages ago I made this necklace. It is really simple, just high quality gold paint on a small metal base, with the pattern from the map to Treasure Planet etched into it, since I was in a hurry to make something Treasure Planet related to wear after my exams and before going to Disney World. The pattern was really not as obvious as I would have liked in some lighting, but it was sort of an experiment anyway, and it still made me really happy to wear it around Disney World.

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Microanalysis of Wittle Jim’s Missing Tooth

So, I was rewatching Treasure Planet today (again). And of course before we see our hero as a temperamental, law-breaking, leather-jacket-clad teenager, we meet him as this adorable little bundle of cuteness: 

Big-eyed, smiling, and gap-toothed. The image of childhood innocence (even if he is awake at least an hour past his bedtime so his disregard for rules has already kicked in ;) ).

But take a closer look at the tooth that is missing. Second to the right on the top row. From an artistic perspective this is a nice choice. Being off center, it is aesthetically pleasing. And of course, showing a kid with a missing tooth is a classic way to emphasize playful youthful innocence.

But from a science perspective, this is a rather odd tooth to choose. According to my research, the average age to loose that tooth is around eight to nine years old.

[For the curious, here is the source I used, a chart by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry: http://www.aapd.org/media/Policies_Guidelines/RS_DENTGrowthandDev.pdf (See exfoliation (falling out) of the maxillary (upper) lateral incisor (second from the front).)

Note: I have also seen sites that say that 7-8 is the average age to loose this tooth, but I can't find where they are getting their info and so I don’t know if it is a reputable source, so I'm going with this one. And it really doesn't matter anyway.]

There is no way this little mini-munchkin who looks like he's barely tall enough to reach his Mom's knees is eight years old:

(Also, if this mini-micro Jim is eight, then the rebellious "teenager" we know and love from the main story is actually twenty years old, post-12 Years Later time skip. Seems unlikely.)

This Jim is probably around eight years old, especially if the internet is correct in telling me that the artbook says that Jim's father left when he was eight:

Big difference.

Depending on whether you believe that Jim is fifteen or seventeen during the main adventure, our mini-micro-Jimbo is either three or five, and either way, that is very young for him to have lost that tooth naturally.

The more likely scenario would be that wittle mini-Jimbo managed to knock that tooth out.

Judging from Sarah's reaction when he jumps a couple feet (if that) from his headboard to his mattress:

And his complete disregard for gravity at any age:

My guess, though we are clearly diving into headcanon territory instead of just analysis, would be that he jumped off something too tall onto something too hard, knocked out a tooth, and then proceeded to gain absolutely zero respect for gravity from the experience.

In conclusion, Sarah really had her hands full raising Jim right from the start.

(Of course, we could have guessed that already.)

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So this is a little out of season, but I thought I’d share anyway. For Easter this year I made a Treasure Planet themed egg! Used one (blown-out) egg, gold leafing paint, and an etching tool I’m still learning how to use. XD The lines aren’t perfect, but it has a nice metallic look, and I’m pretty happy with the design considering how I was pretty much winging it with an unfamiliar tool on a strangely shaped surface. It was a lot of fun to make!