Santa
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Rockhound6165 — 10 years ago(December 22, 2015 06:40 PM)
The Lion King (on the Island of Misfit Toys)
How was he not nice? He simply said that his island is for Misfit Toys and not living creatures but he still allowed them to stay the night. Hell, King Moonracer is the nicest character on this show. -
romar289 — 10 years ago(December 31, 2015 05:35 PM)
Have to agreeand I saw this when it came out and was 11 years old. Thought exactly the same thing. Rudolph should have hit them with a comp package for himself. You know, to smack 'em back for all their rudness to him. They only wanted to accept him when they needed his help. Ha!
Pay me the big bucks babyor you can go fly your own sleigh. I'll be back by the fireplace makin' out with Clarice! -
Born_Tomorrow — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 10:52 AM)
LolThis is what another poster said and I totally agree.
I just watched this and actually paid attention for once. This is a terrible example for kids. The whole town, including Santa Claus treats Rudoulph like a sack of sh!t just for being born different. The other reindeer want absolutely nothing to do with him. His own father is embarrassed by him and even his mother offers him little comfort. The other reindeer make fun, laugh at him and won't allow him to play with them just because he looks different. They are so nasty to him that he runs away but later, on X-Mas eve, he returns home to find all the ones that initially treated him like sh!t are in a huge bind because of the weather. Then they notice how bright Rudoulph's nose is, which gives Santa the bright idea that Rudoulph's nose could guide his sleigh through the snow storm. Now that Santa realize he could use him, Rudoulph is welcomed back with open arms. Poor Rudoulph's self esteem is so low from being treated like an outcast and made fun of his whole life that he's happy to allow them to use him just to be accepted and liked. Really? Who wrote this? What message are they trying to send? Its okay to allow people to ostracize and mistreat you if you are different and let them use you to do the hard work while they take all the credit?
I woke up this way -
pioneergrrrl — 9 years ago(December 26, 2016 09:49 AM)
The show is a fable to explain why segregation is bad. It looks gloomy and nasty to us because our world and cultural expectations of what is appropriate conduct HAVE altered so drastically since the 1960's.
The misfit toys and Rudolph are children with disabilities. Rudolph is sent home from Reindeer school after his disability is discovered. He cannot participate anymore even though he had the best take off.
When they are on the island of misfit toys, it is bleaklike an institution. King moonracer says he brings the toys to the island. He does not say how the toys get off once they are brought. The toys tone of voice in their song make it clear that they actually do not want to be there. They are unhappy and desperately want to leave.
They also have disabilities (elephant with spots, train with square wheels, water pistol shooting jelly, bird which cannot fly, dolly which is not happy).
It looks odd to us in an era when we have Special Education in the local neighborhood school, we are not taken away from our families just because we have disabilities, we can attend college.etc -
stevenackerman69 — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 05:45 PM)
The idea was that they didn't accept the misfits at first, but after hearing their story when they returned, they realized they had been wrong. As for King Moonracer, he was being honest about why they couldn't stay on the Island.
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rosemei — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 09:25 AM)
He said that a misfit living being can't hide himself away from the world the way a misfit toy did.
Although I wonder why he didn't try to contact Santa sooner about finding homes for the toys. It seems some of them had been there for years. -
muchmeow — 9 years ago(December 22, 2016 07:51 AM)
That was my point. King Moonracer had no way to contact Santa about finding homes for the toys. Although he flew around the world everyday looking for misfit toys. He could have stopped by the north pole every now and then.
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sailorspysedna — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 06:17 PM)
You missed the point of the special. If you hate it, then here's a thing: why did you watch it? Why listen to a song you hate?
Plus King Moonracer, (the Lion King) wasn't nasty, he was actually a pretty good character. -
pioneergrrrl — 9 years ago(December 26, 2016 05:03 PM)
King Moonracer isn't 'evil' but the Toys brought to the island actually belong with boys and girlslike all other toys (inclusion).;
the toys believe that they would feel better with a little kid. They feel bad because of the "isolation imposed from their difference" rather than the general difference itself.
Their society did not consider that there was a child who would want a pistol shooting jelly, a spotted elephantetc
