Peru. Just a fan of animation who publishes the future projects (either official or not) he wants to achieve. When not doing that, he publishes any other stuff related to animation. My other social media: https://linkbe.me/rodrickstudios
I have a lot of things that I love about this show. I love it for picking me up after a terrible end to 2020, for its phenomenal presentation and style, shaping the way I'd be drawing things even today, for having such a great cast of plucky, scrappy leads, for its kickass soundtrack, and for giving me two of my all time favorite characters ever.
My Potential Projects 1: “Chicken Little Hard-Headed”
Alternative Title: Chicken Licken Hard-Headed (UK)
Latin Spanish Title: La nueva Chicken Little (The New Chicken Little)
Direction and Writing: Mark Dindal, Rodrick
Writing based on the original script/draft for Chicken Little (2005) by Mark Dindal and Randy Fullmer
Production done at Walt Disney Television Animation, with traditional animation provided by Mercury Filmworks, Toon City and Snipple Animation Studios
Character Design: Omar Lozano
Character design adapted from Omar Lozano’s illustrations for the graphic novel Far Out Fables: Chicken Little Saves The Moon Base, by Benjamin Harper (published by Stone Arch Books)
You've heard of Powerpuff Girls Z , now get ready for… Kid Cosmic GT!
Last year I gave Craig McCracken's Kid Cosmic a watch, and to say I liked it would be an understatement. I loved it! In fact, if you're an animation fan and haven't give it a chance on Netflix, what are you waiting for?
But I'm not here to talk about the series itself, but rather, a idea I came up with while watching it. What if Kid Cosmic got the same treatment as McCracken's other superhero cartoon and had its own anime adaptation?
The result would be "Kid Cosmic GT", or, more exactly, "Global Heroes GT". The main story for this anime would go like the following.
Unbeknownst to most Earthlings, there are two overlords that are supposed to protect the galaxy from evil: brothers Chuck and Fantos. The two are the keepers of the Cosmic Stones of Power, which grant certain super-abilities. However, Fantos grows more and more envious of that, and wishes to keep them all to himself. Knowing this, Chuck tries to reason with him, but Fantos instead considers his brother an enemy and fights him. Their fight accidentally causes all the stones to get spread across Earth; more specifically, on Tokyo, Japan (or Crackenville in the toned-down English dub), and the surrounding areas. Chuck, nonetheless, had already feared a catastrophe of that magnitude, and had previously ―and unbeknowst to Fantos― invented five ring-and-compact sets with five of the Cosmic Stones. He called them the "Go Transform Packs", or GT Packs for short. Each of these sets would trigger a transformation into a cosmic warrior that would wield the power of the latter's respective stone. With that in mind, Chuck sends his talking cat Tuna (see image) to Earth in order to look for a team of "Global Heroes GT". The Global Heroes GT are meant to be magical girls or men that, by means of the sets he created, can look for the lost Cosmic Stones and protect their planet whenever one or more of the latter cause trouble.
Once on Earth, and in order to look for a girl kind-hearted enough to become the Global Heroes' leader, Tuna goes to the Tokyo/Crackenville streets and pretends to be ill. However, it's not a girl that comes to his rescue, but rather a 14-year-old boy named Kid! Tuna ends up sympathizing with the boy's fanatism for anime heroes in general. So much so that, to Chuck's dismay ("we were meant to have men or teenage girls, not a dumb boy!"), he allows Kid to become a GH and look for the remaining heroes. Which is easier than one might think, because Chuck had made the rings so that they shrink and grow depending on the size of their wielder's finger.
Kid's GT Pack allows him to fly and gives him a green outfit ―reminescent of the one his original Western counterpart used in Season 3―, turning him into "Kid Cosmic". Afterwards, some of Kid's acquaintances end up becoming Global Heroes as well. Jo, a young woman in her early 20s that works as a waitress in the kissaten (or cafe in the dub) Kid uses to visit, becomes the purple "Portal Girl". Rosa, an 8-year-old girl that lives next door to Kid, becomes the blue "Niña Gigantica", which has the power to grow into a giant. Finally, Papa G, Kid's grandpa, becomes the yellow "Old Man Many Men", with the power to multiply himself into various clones.
Not only do the Global Heroes have amazing powers, but they also have cutesy weapons as well. Kid, for instance, has a pinwheel. And their personalities are a little different than their Western counterparts. For instance, Jo (despite still being the default voice of reason) has a craving for food, specially sweets, and straight up falls in love with every young man she comes across with. These faults sometimes hinder her efficiency as a Global Hero, forcing the others to put her in line from time to time.
Although hesitant at first, Chuck gets used to the new ragtag team of heroes and (not without a clenched oral cavity) allows them to save the world. Aside from having the additional mission to find and catch all the missing Cosmic Stones before they fall into the hands of evil, the Global Heroes GT also have to deal with Fantos constantly. Fantos, so as to get all the stones to himself, has teamed up with two young adult aliens ―male and female― that are not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. They almost always bungle his attempts to get a stone or use it to corrupt an innocent bystander. Which works in favor of our Global Heroes, despite the fact Jo constantly falls in love with the male alien.
Aside from fighting against Fantos, other adventures of the Global Heroes GT have them dealing with foes such as a giant "Doc Goomentarian" made of green goo, living mummies from Egypt, creepy farm boys, and mermaids from Atlantis. All of them have been affected by stray stones of power. The heroes also have to travel through time with their giant "Kid Cosmecha" one time and, aside from that, deal with a one-off group of hungry aliens who tie them up and almost cook them alive in a pot.
On a more personal note, Kid, Jo and Rosa also have to deal with balancing their double lifes. Thus, constant excuses in order to skip class in junior high, college and elementary (respectively) and go save the world are the order of the day. These excuses range from normal ones like Kid's "I'm having a stomachache!" or Rosa's "I have to pee!", to questionable ones like Jo's "My brain has to puke!". That, and both Kid and Rosa have to deal with bullies and classmates who theorize about the Global Heroes' true identities. Nonetheless, Jo loves using Portal Girl to get to her classes in time.
Papa G, on the other hand, lives an easy-going life in Kid's house and with Tuna by his side. However, he has to constantly keep the GH-related stuff a secret from Kid's parents, including Tuna's abbility to talk. There's also one ocassion on which he has to deal as Old Man Many Men with an old lady with whom he had made friends during childhood. The old lady has turned into a giant by a stray cosmic stone and it's up to OMMM to use his clones to hug her and make her return to her senses.
No matter what happens to them or to Earth, the Global Heroes GT are always there to save the day!... At least in their own peculiar ways, that is.
Now, with the plot out of the way, here's a concept art piece I've made of Tuna pulling a Peach/Poochie to summon the Global Heroes. I doodled the cat along with one sandwich on paper, and my sister @elmundodeanalu did all the rest digitally. So, kudos to her. The piece also comes with the English, Japanese and Latin Spanish versions of Tuna's catchphrase, based on the dubs that PPGZ got. I dedicate this to @kadiwright , another Kid Cosmic fan that has made a fanart of Kid transforming into his Global Hero suit in an anime-like way. So, in a way, you can consider my drawing as a companion to Kadi's. Check it out here.
Here's a very late Christmas artwork I've done in line with Charles Dickens 's "A Christmas Carol" turning 180 last year and both Mickey Mouse and the public domain becoming trending topics lately. Behold, the ultimate Christmas Carol crossover! Oh, and before someone wonders about this piece being very late for Christmas, here in Latin America some people leave their decorations until this very week for the most. So, consider this as a farewell to the holiday season.
One day, as I was surfing IG, I came across a deleted scene for "The Mitchells vs. The Machines" uploaded by Guillermo Martinez , the movie's head of story. It was an alternate version of the Mitchells' fight with the giant Furby. Instead of Rick having the idea to mimic his possum trap in order to defeat the Furby, Katie would have suggested her family to stand on top of each other. That way, Aaron could throw a bag of unpopped popcorn on the toy's beak so as to explode it from the inside. You can find a link to that scene as a highlight story in my account.
When discovering this deleted scene , the first thing that came to my mind was the fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians (or "The Musicians of Bremen" as it's also called), which had its four animal protagonists doing the same as what the Mitchells would do initially. Excluding the popcorn bit that is; the animals actually made a lot of noise in order to scare a bunch of robbers away.
P.D: Thinking about the similarities between Bremen and Mitchells, I wondered: "What if the Mitchells took the roles of the animals in the story?". Thus, I have written a fanfic based on that idea that you can find on my Deviantart account "rodrickart17" under the name "The Mitchell Musicians of Bremen". You can check it out if you are interested.
The Mitchells vs. the Madrigals - Fan script for a mini sketch
DISCLAIMER: The following script is a parody. Any use of names related to movies, institutions or people (whether fictional or not) is not meant to be taken seriously.
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Dolby Theater, March 27th 2022. The Oscars are about to begin. Among various live action actors, directors and similar film crew, some CGI animated characters and a 2-D Amin Nawabi (Flee) look for their seats apart from those that belong to the directors of their respective movies. Among the CGI toons are Raya and Sisu; next to them, Luca, Alberto and Giulia. Amin, in particular, wears a tuxedo while Sisu only wears a tie. Raya, on the other hand, wears an elegant dress. They all sit. The spectators around these toon stars clap and cheer at them with eerie-looking faces and smiles. Last but not least, two toon families in elegant clothing also find their seats among the clapping spectators. At one side, the Madrigals; at the other, the Mitchells. The spectators suddenly stop clapping as the two families sit and get comfortable. Aaron Mitchell, along with Monchi (who also wears a little tuxedo, like a little gentleman), get closer to where Antonio Madrigal is. Aaron stares at Antonio and does a little dino roar while showing his T-Rex snapper.
ANTONIO: Guys, take a seat!
At this command, some wild animals appear out of nowhere: a leopard, a few capibaras, a toucan, a few tapirs, some coatis… Aaron feels uncomfortable about this. Monchi, on the other hand, gets scared at the animals and leaves towards the rest of the Mitchell family. Aaron follows him. Meanwhile, Rick gets approached by Linda.
LINDA: I don’t know about you honey, but I hope Encanto wins.
RICK: Enchan…to? You mean the one with that, what was called… “Bruno”… song? Aaron never stops seeing that video Katie has made with Monchi barfing it.
LINDA: Well…yeah! I guess so.
A second Linda approaches Rick.
LINDA 2: Ehm…Rick?
The first Linda changes into Camilo Madrigal, who returns with the rest of the Madrigals with an annoyed yet confused look on his face. He can't believe Rick knows little about Encanto. Mirabel, on the other hand, approaches Katie.
MIRABEL (with an optimistic tone): Hey, good luck.
They both shake hands, but Katie feels a little unsecure about what just happened.
KATIE: Ehm…thanks I suppose?
Mirabel returns to where the rest of the Madrigals are.
CUT TO: An hour later
The time all the toons and the directors of their movies have been waiting for has finally come. Lily James, Naomi Scott and Halle Bailey get on stage to present the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Everyone cheers.
HALLE BAILEY: All of these characters hold such a special place in our hearts, because animated films make up some of our most formative movie experiences as kids.
Katie gets surprised and mumbles angrily.
LILY JAMES: So many kids watch these movies over, and over…
HALLE BAILEY: And over and over and over and over and over!
NAOMI SCOTT: I see some parents out there know exactly what we’re talking about!
Linda also gets surprised and mumbles angrily, but in a tone that’s little louder than Katie. Katie sees this and calms her down.
KATIE (whispering): Calm down, mom! There’s… there’s a big chance for us to win! I hope…
NAOMI SCOTT: Here are the nominees for Best Animated Feature Film. Encanto; Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer.
As Scott reads the previous title and directors, the Madrigals get surprised as the ever-so-cheerful crowd claps at them. A rainbow appears over Pepa. Isabela produces some beautiful flowers on her hair and Antonio’s animal friends look at him happily. However, Abuela Alma seems to just be happy about the situation; she doesn’t celebrate with the family. Mirabel, on the other hand, just looks at everyone with discommodity in her eyes.
N.S. (cont’d): Flee; Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte de la Gournerie.
Amin hesitates for a moment, then stands up and, with a confused look, bows at the crowd around him.
N.S. (cont’d): Luca; Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren.
While the monotonous crowd cheers, Giulia waves at them while Luca and Alberto celebrate by throwing bottles of water at themselves. This causes them to change into their sea monster forms, much to Giulia’s surprise.
N.S. (cont’d): The Mitchells vs the Machines; Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht.
Katie is trying to calm down Linda when, suddenly, she realizes her family has just been mentioned. She immediately and insecurely waves at the crowd along with Rick. Linda waves frowning while Aaron waves Monchi’s left front paw. Both Rick and Aaron’s faces are also showing the same insecurity as the women of their family.
N.S. (cont’d): Raya and the Last Dragon; Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter del Vecho.
Sisu and Raya wave at the crowd. Sisu then pats Raya in the head.
LILY JAMES: The Academy rules specify that animated characters must remain in their seats.
N.S.: Only real people can accept the award, so please be animated.
HALLE BAILEY: And the Oscar goes to…
Suspense is in the air. All toons stare at the three hosts in excitement. There’s even fog surrounding Pepa! Monchi just drools over the deadpan capibara, though, but the latter doesn’t even react to that. Finally, Bailey opens the envelope. The winner is…
JAMES, SCOTT AND BAILEY: Encanto!!!
All of the live-action audience members clap and cheer. While the Encanto live-action crew heads to the stage, the Madrigals and Antonio’s animals celebrate their victory along with the crowd surrounding them. A ray of sunshine appears over Pepa. Abuela Alma is still only happy and keeps distancing herself from the Madrigals’ celebration. Also, Mirabel is still looking uncomfortable. Amin gets a little frustrated at not winning the award while a member of the crowd turns around to give a “better luck next time” look towards his neck. A similar thing happens with some crowd members next to the remaining “loosers”. The Luca trio is straight up angry at the situation, but that doesn’t compare to Linda’s reaction. She starts breathing and growling uncontrollably with her face having turned hot and her pupils having shrunk down to some dangerously familiar ones. Her scene attracts the attention of Raya and Sisu; Sisu being just about to pat Raya in the shoulder as consolation. Katie and Rick, meanwhile, are trying to calm Linda down.
KATIE: Mom, mom, please calm down!
RICK: Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, it’s OK!
Linda’s breakdown doesn’t seem to worry the live-action assistants of the ceremony. The Encanto live action crew do their speech.
CLARK SPENCER: And everyone in the Walt Disney Animation Studios, this film only exists because of your talent and your passion…
LINDA (in a very angry tone): KATIE, IS IT TRUE THE ACADEMY IS BOUGHT BY DISNEY?!
This interrupts Spencer’s speech. The Encanto LA crew, the three hostess and everyone in the audience turns to Linda. The audience in particular emits the traditional crowd gasp sound effect.
KATIE (unsecure and worried at the same time): Well, not exactly, you see…
Linda interrupts Katie with a loud yell. Rick and Katie look at each other; they know what to do in these cases. They get up and wave their arms in desperation.
RICK: Everyone leave the building, quick!
KATIE: Code Lavender! Code Lavender!
Rick and Katie’s efforts are worthless. Linda angrily heads towards the stage throwing away every seat (all with an audience member on them) she finds on her path. Once Linda is on stage, she runs towards every Encanto LA crew member, grabs and throws them into the air. She then runs at the three hostesses, who all try to escape.
LINDA: YOU THREE, GET ANIMATION OUT OF YOUR F**KING MOUTHS!!!
Linda grabs the three and also throws them into the air. All the live action audience members, by now, have left the building in fear. Abuela, through a movement of her arm, draws the Madrigals’ attention to Linda. They all get on stage in an attempt to stop her. All, that is, except for Dolores, Felix, Agustín, Mirabel and Bruno. Dolores mumbles and covers her ears.
DOLORES: Ugh, those steps!
The attempts of the remaining Madrigals to stop Linda, still, are in vain. A storm cloud appears over Pepa. From it, a thunder catches The Lavender One. However, she somehow survives said thunder, but ends up looking cartoonishly calcinated (i.e. turns completely gray and smoke rises from her body). This, nonetheless, doesn’t stop her from throwing Pepa in the air, running towards Julieta, snatching the arepita con queso the latter had at hand and eating it. In a second, her calcinated body turns back to normal. She throws Julieta away too. Antonio then uses his arm to command the animals (except for the deadpan capibaras) to throw themselves into her. They all do at once, but Linda, in just two arm movements, grabs and throws them away with ease, leopard included. Isabela summons two large flowers to tangle her up, but Linda rips them off, again, easily. She heads towards Isa, grabs and throws her away. Meanwhile, Mirabel reaches Katie, who is watching everything calmly.
KATIE: No offence to your family, but I think they deserve this.
MIRABEL: Yeah, I guess you’re right.
Amin reaches the two girls.
AMIN: Do you want to know something kids? After that awful speech about animation, I won’t trust the Academy anymore.
KATIE: Same here Mr. Nawabi. Oh, by the way, I watched your movie. And I LOVE it. It’s incredible how…
Katie gets interrupted by a screech from her mum. The fight is still going strong. Linda has just thrown Camilo away. Luisa grabs a column pillar with both hands and heads with it towards Linda. Linda, with just one hand, grabs said pillar and throws both it and Luisa towards the roof, breaking it. The Mitchell mum breathes in and out, still in rage. Almost every Madrigal has been knocked out and the theater has been ruined. Suddenly, Abuela stands up.
ABUELA: Alright, that’s enough Señora Mitchell!
Linda looks towards Abuela while calming herself down. Luisa falls back down, breaking the roof yet again.
ABUELA: What a shame! I know you’re angry because we won the Award, but that’s no way of treating us!
Linda lowers her head in shame.
ABUELA (cont'd): But don't worry! To solve our rivalry. I suggest you to go with your family to our Casita Madrigal. We'll throw a big party there!
Pepa gets surprised and a storm cloud appears over her again.
ABUELA (cont’d): The other nominees are also invited! The Casita pays!
Linda thinks about it and gets calmed and cheerful all of a sudden. She finally gets off the stage and joins the rest of the Mitchells, who all are puzzled at what has just happened. Pepa, still accompained by her storm cloud, approaches Abuela in anger.
PEPA: What are you thinking?! They will all trash out Casita!
ABUELA: (Giggles) I know. You'll soon see.
CUT TO: Casita, some hours later.
Casita opens up her doors. The floors’ tiles push the Mitchells, Monchi, Raya, Sisu, Amin and the Luca trio outside. They all fall on each other. The doors close. A roof tile from over the door goes up and down continuously as a way to wave them goodbye. The Madrigals, with Abuela having their Oscar at hand, see it all through a window.
KATIE: You know mom? It's still not too late to bring "The Lavender One" back.
Linda's face gets hot and her pupils shrink again. Cue the yelling.
Now that the Oscars are just around the corner, I’ve been thinking of how 2022 was the year of the Pinocchio cinematic universe. Last year we’ve seen the famous wooden boy asking his father when can he leave to be on his own, smelling horse dung, delving into the concepts of obedience and life in 1930s Italy and stealing Jack Horner’s thunder. Based on that, I’ve made this concept poster for an idea I’ve had back on 2016 about the Steven Universe characters tackling the story of Pinocchio in a generic modern setting (you know, with cars and videogames and such). I was 14 at the time, so the whole concept was flawed from the get go. Firstly, Geppetto’s counterpart was called “Greg Petto” and Pinocchio’s gem would glow when he lied. With that you can tell how creative I got when coming up with the idea. It was because of the flawed concept that I ended up cancelling it in favour of other more promising projects of mine, like the one about Wendy Corduroy I’ve talked about previously. Nonetheless, I still have a place in my heart for Pinocchio Universe, so that’s why I’ve made the poster. The base for it was the cover of a Pinocchio book made by the Indian press "Kohwai & Young" for their "My Big Book of Favorite Fairy Tales" series. Oh, and by the way, I chose Garnet as the counterpart of Stromboli back then because in the original book he (who was named Mangiafuoco) felt pity for Pinocchio.
My Potential Projects 2: “Teens” (Concept Art Included!)
In Gravity Falls, Oregon, there live six ordinary teenagers: Wendy, Lee, Nate, Thompson, Tambry and Robbie. During their summer break, this group of friends deals with, in a nutshell, firsts. First jobs, first crushes and a first taste of freedom... Of course, not every new experience is a positive one. Phone-addicted and gothic Tambry, for instance, despises the fact that she is obligated to have a perpetually smiley attitude and wear a very hot owl costume when working at Hoo-Ha Owl’s Pizzamatronic Jamboree. Wendy, on the other hand, bores out working as a cashier in the tourist trap “The Mystery Shack” and as a lifeguard in the community pool. Still, she doesn’t hesitate to rebel against the rules set by her bosses Mr. Pines and Mr. Poolcheck along with her working peers, which, by the way, include a nerdy tween boy named Dipper that has his eyes set on her. Robbie, the emo of the team, may tolerate his job at the burger stand of the Gravity Falls mall, but is completely obsesse with Wendy and really wants her to be his girlfriend. Now, although there’s a considerable ammount of negative experiences, coward Thompson loves his position as the Royal Ragtime Theater manager. That way, he can switch the tables with ushers Lee and Nate by using his authority to force them to clean the toilets and seats. His off-the-clock status as the group’s living “Kick Me” sign really tires him out in secret!
These friends may live a generic teenage live, but the supernatural always lurks in the shadows ready to surprise them when they least expect it. As Gravity Falls is a town where this stuff is common, the group helping Lee practice for his upcoming driving test can become a wild escapade from a horde of gnomes! Similarly, things like haunted convenience stores and gravity mishaps aren’t left out!
However, no matter what happens to them and in the town, the gang attempts to make the good times last on one of their very few summers left. It’s a constant balance between minimum wages and maximum scares!
SAMPLE EPISODE 1: Wendy wants to watch a movie. However, Thompson bans her from the local theater because she entered with food. Wendy thinks that, of course, he realizes this mean war! She’ll try various ways to enter the theater avoiding his iron-fist. The clock is ticking in this battle of wits and trickery!
SAMPLE EPISODE 2: The whole gang, along with Wendy’s working peers Dipper and Mabel, explore an abandoned convenience store. They have usual teenage fun in there, which may or may not end up with them in one ghost of an unexciting adventure.
SE3: Tambry, so as to catch a break from all the Hoo-Ha hubbub, babysits the town-famous L’il Gideon. She soon realizes it may not have been a good idea to do so, because things with that little boy will definitely not be down to earth!
SE4: Tambry holds a Summerween party at her house while her parents are out. Her five friends, along with the rest of the Gravity Falls High School students, join in, not knowing a simple bottle-spinning game can unleash an evil entity that will force them into eating cursed lollipop sticks.
SE5: Lee has trouble practicing for his upcoming driving test, so he calls upon the rest of the gang for help. They all hop aboard the Thompson family van and let Lee at the wheel in order to guide him on a drive through the forest. Soon, however, a horde of gnomes starts chasing them, and only Lee’s parallel parking skills can save the day!
SE6: The Gravity Falls Community Pool is looking for a new assistant lifeguard. Still, Wendy is fed up with having to stay in the community pool after her usual shift in order to try out people. Thus, when Dipper suggests he can be the lifeguard, Wendy admits him on the spot. The two have fun breaking the rules, but Mr. Poolcheck has other ideas regarding fun...
SE7: Robbie decides to record a song dedicated to Wendy so as to make her fall in love with him. To do so, he’ll have to get help from some unusual creatures.
SE8: Robbie convinces Thompson to join him in summoning an evil triangle that, at least according to him, can grant three wishes. But despite how much he boasts that they’re not scared in such a beautiful night, the shock the two end up going through, to say the least, is to die for.
SE9: Thompson comes face to face with a creature who gifts him a magic tablecloth that can make food on command. Seeing this as an opportunity to redeem himself at the eyes of his friends, Thompson decides to show the tablecloth first to Robbie and then to the rest. However, Robbie ends up making things more complicated when his greed gets the best of him.
SE10: Tambry and Robbie start dating without any warning, which surprises the rest of the teens... for worse.
SE11: It’s another usual day at the town, until suddenly (and literally) gravity starts falling. The gang must do all they can if they want to keep down to earth!
SE12: Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s classic “On the Road”, Wendy convinces the gang, along with her working peers, to do some hitch hike. She, secretly, wants to stay away from her father after a fight they got into. But then, a mysterious truck driver captures the group and takes them to a haunted diner in order to keep them prisoners.
SE13: Both Wendy’s stress towards life in general and Tambry’s “monthly pain” get the best of them. So much so that Wendy gains weather powers and Tambry turns into an overreacting ugly creature that runs loose! The boys must team up with Wendy’s working peers in order to stop the situation.
SE14 (pre-series finale): School is right around the corner, for registration at Gravity Falls High has just started. The whole gang is devasted at this, but their devastation turns into panic as strange creatures invade the town and things become much, much weirder than usual.
SE15 (SERIES FINALE): The Weirdmageddon has been stopped by Robbie, Wendy and the Mystery Shack gang. However, before Dipper and Mabel leave Gravity Falls, Wendy decides to prepare a surprise that will require her and the teenage gang to move all through the town in one last summer adventure together.
“You know how to say ‘I missed you’ in elephant language?”
A year or so ago I was remembering the Bob the Builder special A Christmas To Remember. When doing that, I just couldn’t help but compare the story role of Bob and Tom’s toy elephant, Jumbo, with that of Rick’s wooden moose in one of my all-time favorite movies, The Mitchells vs. the Machines (I gave that moose the fan-nickname of “Gulpi” by the way, considering the elephant had a name).
Firstly, both toy animals symbolize the connection (ba-dum-tss) that the main pair —Bob and Tom on one hand, Rick and Katie on the other— had on the past. They also symbolize that said connection, no matter how far away one of them might be in the present (whether at the North Pole or at film school), will still be present among the two pairs.
On another note, Jumbo and Gulpi are also presented to the viewer in similar ways. When they first appear in a video recording, one thinks they're just a simple toy (case of the elephant) or an object that a main character has just forgotten about over the years (case of the moose, as Katie first thought of giving it away forgeting how it had helped her back at camp). However, when they appear on another recording later, the view towards them changes drastically: an accident with Jumbo led to Bob conning his famous “Can we fix it?” phrase and Rick took Gulpi as a reminder of the wooden house he had to sacrifice in order to raise Katie. In other words, both elephant and moose represent objects that, at first, don't seem to be that relevant story-wise, but become so via a revelation done through recordings.
It was based on the previous thoughts that I made these two memes, which I publish here before Christmas comes to a close these days.
Oh, and before I forget, both Mitchells and A Christmas have another similarity. The two have renowned Mexican voice actor José Antonio Macías (known for voicing James in Pokemon, Captain America, Bert in Sesame Street and many other characters) doing a secondary role. In Mitchells, he's Mark Bowman, and on Bob, he's non-other than Elton John.
My Potential Projects 1: “Chicken Little Hard-Headed”
Alternative Title: Chicken Licken Hard-Headed (UK)
Latin Spanish Title: La nueva Chicken Little (The New Chicken Little)
Direction and Writing: Mark Dindal, Rodrick
Writing based on the original script/draft for Chicken Little (2005) by Mark Dindal and Randy Fullmer
Production done at Walt Disney Television Animation, with traditional animation provided by Mercury Filmworks, Toon City and Snipple Animation Studios
Character Design: Omar Lozano
Character design adapted from Omar Lozano's illustrations for the graphic novel Far Out Fables: Chicken Little Saves The Moon Base, by Benjamin Harper (published by Stone Arch Books)
In a world of talking animals, 12-year-old (and 6 acorns tall) Chicken Little's overactive imagination and proneness to panic attacks have made her an outcast at home and in Mayberry Town, where she lives. Her father, Randall Rooster, just wants to have a regular kid like everyone else, which most of the time leads to her questioning about being a "freak" due to how often she seemingly witnesses vampires, ghosts, aliens and monsters lurking around. Because of this, Hailey Hen, Chicken Little's mother, has to constantly keep her husband in line so as to avoid Little from wrongly believing that he doesn't love her after all.
At Mayberry Town Middle School, things are even harder for Little, as the mean trio of Foxy Loxy, Goosey Loosey and Ducky Lucky doesn't stop reminding her of how much of an outcast she is. Principal Owl Powell isn't of help either, as he also sees her as crazy. But then things take a turn for the worst.
One day, Chicken Little gets hit on the head by an acorn and thinks it's a piece of the sky, so she runs from one end of Mayberry Town to the other yelling with all her might "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!". All of the townspeople freak out at this warning. Soon enough Little has unintentionally incited civil unrest across the town, so much so that it almost gets destroyed. After discovering it was just an acorn what started it all, everyone is angry at Chicken Little for raising a false alarm. Thus, almost all of them (including Mayor Turkey Lurkey himself) force her to shape up in order to avoid another incident.
Pressured by this, Little convinces her parents to sign her up at Camp Yes-U-Can, a summer camp set outside of Mayberry Town and meant to improve self-esteem on animal young ones. In fact, even its motto is “Of course you can! At Camp Yes-U-Can!”. To Little’s dismay, Foxy Loxy, Goosey Loosey and Ducky Lucky end up going as well, and the bullying towards her isn't stopped. Despite this, the little chicken is comforted at camp after meeting other outcast animals from across the land that also have challenges of their own.
Cygrus "Ugly Duckling" Mallard is a down-to-earth bird from the town of Pondey Ponds. He was adopted from the local orphanage by Mrs. Mallard, who already had ducklings of her own. Nowadays, Cygrus is constantly bullied by them and by his school peers. He feels different from the rest and can’t wait for the day on which, according to his mother, he will become a beautiful swan.
Runt of the Litter is the smallest of twelve pig siblings and now weights 700 pounds. Still, he sees himself as a “wee, helpless little pig” because of his constant comparisons with his other brothers and sisters, who (believe it or not) are way more colossal than him. However, despite his low self-esteem, he is very open to meeting new friends.
Fish Out of Water is very silly and playful, but not completely accustumed to the lifestyles from dry land yet. The whole fish family, the parents being very prestigious scientists, has moved from their ocean hometown in order to study the behavior of terrestial animals. At land, Fish has problems socializing with other animal young ones. While, for example, sea animals play ball by letting it float in order for another player to catch it, at land one’s supposed to toss the ball directly. Fish hasn’t still get accustumed to this and other aspects from terrestial culture, and is viewed as a weirdo by the land kids.
Chicken Little gets really well with those animals, who understand her worries as a whole. However, she soon realizes the bullying from Foxy Loxy, Goosey Loosey and Ducky Lucky will be the least of her problems there, as the three sheep who are camp counselors may not be what they seem. She discovers they, led by Counselor Matt Hornsby, are cooking up a very evil plan for the end of the summer. Thus, she will have to use a lot of courage in order to foil them. But she isn’t alone. Will Little and her new friends obtain the fruits of their personal growth in time to save the day?
NOTE 1: Goosey Loosey will not talk, but rather have a voice actor doing their respective animal noises á lá Frank Welker.
Chicken Little - Holly Hunter
Randall Rooster - Danny McBride
Hailey Hen - Maya Rudolph
Foxy Loxy - Amy Sedaris
Cygrus Mallard - Sean Hayes
Runt of the Litter - Jason Ritter
Fish out of Water - Zach Tyler Eisen (aided by a water cooler and a straw)
Mayor Turkey Lurkey - Tom Kenny
Counselor Matt - Penn Jilette (when in evil mode)
2nd Counselor - Jenny Slate (when in evil mode)
3rd Counselor - Tom Kenny (when in... you get the idea)
NOTE 2: I've priorized the Latin Spanish/Mexican cast here because I'm an actual Latin American myself and also a big fan of Latin Spanish dubbing. All voice actors listed below are accompanied by one of their characters in parenthesis. I want them to use the voices of those characters when taking their respective roles in Chicken Little Hard-Headed.
Chicken Little - Fernanda Gastélum (Aira Shiratori in the Netflix dub of Dan Da Dan)
Randall Rooster - Ricardo Tejedo (Rick Mitchell in The Mitchells vs. the Machines)
Hailey Hen - Berenice Vega (Linda Mitchell in Mitchells)
Foxy Loxy - Jessica Ángeles (Catra in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
Mayor Turkey Lurkey - Gerardo Reyero (Hugh Pickles in Rugrats)
Cygrus Mallard - Yamil Atala (Dexter in Dexter’s Laboratory)
Runt of the Litter - Miguel Ángel Ruiz (Joey Felt in Atomic Puppet)
Counselor Matt - Arturo Mercado (Bob the Builder) when in good mode; José Roberto Pisano (Death in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) when in evil mode
2nd Counselor - Rubén Cerda (Horton in Horton Hears a Who) when in good mode; Carla Medina (Bellwether in Zootopia) when in evil mode
3rd Counselor - Adriana Núñez (Miss Rabbit in Peppa Pig) when in good mode; Rolando de Castro (Dr. Wolfowitz in 3 Pigs and a Baby) when in evil mode
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