I warned you. Don´t tell me I did not warn you.
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I hear he likes it in the caboose
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what consenting engines get up to in the roundhouse is none of my business
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yeah, there’s nothing creepy about the Toys universe.
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I have seen that first one before, but you have to survive long enough to do 100k damage to the previous two forms.
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Don’t even get me started on narwhals…
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I never really understood this need to ridicule anthropomorphic vehicles, like Thomas the Tank Engine or every character in Cars. Making inanimate objects come to life has been part of animation since the very beginning.
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You should never anthropomorphise locomotives or cars because they really hate things like that.
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Torchinsky Jalopnik is Best Jalopnik. He’s my favourite writer on there since Murilee left.
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Nope. It isn’t a horn, its tooth.
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Has it been scientifically established that unicorn spikes are horns rather than tusks?
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horns, teeth, or tusks, they’re all projections. That’s what unicorns do.
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Oh, well, you got me there.
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Is no one else reminded yet of the colorful designs from Cho Aniki, the series of flamboyant Japanese shmups?
The discourse on Sodor-as-totalitarian-regime is also fine reading. (Click through for full album.)
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But at least we get basic things like “who makes the toys” and such. In the Cars universe there are some fundamental questions about the nature of their society that are hard to avoid thinking about after a while.
Where do all these vehicles come from? Are they built in factories? Are they brought into the world with adult awareness? Who runs those factories? How can some cars appear to have siblings? Are all vehicles fated into the occupation they were built for? Could a tank choose a civilian life or a Mini Cooper join the Marines? How does anything get done when the vast majority of vehicles have no appendages for manipulating objects?
And then there’s the fact that sweet lovable Mater lives in a creepy compound strewn with the body parts of his fellow citizens.
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Rarely mentioned is the deleted scene in the original movie that suggests McQueen’s engine could be removed and deposited in a street-paving vehicle, which of course is an entirely sensible and practical thing that happens all the time with high-performance race car engines.
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“Wax on, wax off…or it gets the hose again.”
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In fairness that was a nightmare scene so it doesn’t have to make sense even within the rules of the Cars universe. But another unused scene had a terrified and disoriented McQueen lost in a junkyard/graveyard, suggesting “dead” cars are just left to rot/rust above ground.
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