Six reindeer instead of eight?

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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OmegaWolf747 — 12 years ago(December 20, 2013 05:46 PM)

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I noticed there are six reindeer instead of eight behind Rudolph? Was this by design or an oversight on the part of the crew?
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JR541 — 12 years ago(December 22, 2013 11:44 PM)

I suspect it was just easier to do it that way.
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tjihnat — 11 years ago(December 09, 2014 09:03 PM)

They didn't have enough money for 8 reindeer. Those puppets weren't cheap to make

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dutchman063 — 11 years ago(December 09, 2014 09:08 PM)

Yeah and when santa drove his sled out of the elfs shop at the end two addtional reindeer are following behind and NOT pullin the sleighwtf?

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first-things-first — 11 years ago(December 10, 2014 11:10 AM)

I think they the the elves that parachuted out of the sleigh.
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Final_Hitokiri — 11 years ago(December 11, 2014 09:52 AM)

Also, they didn't film TV specials in widescreen back then.
I'd imagine 6 with a sleigh and Rudolph was easier to fit on the screen.

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garfieldcamp — 10 years ago(December 02, 2015 09:11 PM)

It said there was a sub-plot where the reindeer were split up for some reasonit was edited out

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Wolfram-And-Hart — 9 years ago(November 08, 2016 10:10 AM)

Well, Donner was the team leader and in the end, he stays behind at the end as the sleigh takes off. I imagine he did that so Rudolph could have that honor without being in his dad's shadow.
As for the other missing reindeer, I like to imagine Comet was grounded for his behavior of excluding Rudolph at the reindeer games.
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sailorspysedna — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 06:27 PM)

Maybe an oversight or something. Also I can't tell which of the other reindeer are apart from each other