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via JohnPomeroy

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Dude Atlantis is the craziest movie.

Imagine you’re just some guy with a hyperfixation and your dead grandpa’s ex boyfriend says he’ll send you to Atlantis, and less than 24 hours later over 100 people are killed by the robot lobster from hell.

You meet a really pretty (possibly immortal) girl and she actually likes you, the resident Twink Dweebus, only to immediately get yoinked into a commentary on capitalist corruption.

Your new girlfriend gets possessed by a sentient rock and is then kidnapped in a hot air balloon.

You slice open the Big Bad Military Capitalist and he turns into a crystal monster, which you graphically shred to pieces in an engine fan. (Yes, this is a kids movie.) The volcano you were all fighting in erupts (did I mention it’s a volcano?) but it’s fine because millennia old robots rise up from the ocean and stop it.

Don’t worry, your girlfriend is fine the rock gave her back.

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One other Kida exists! She’s a 6-inch porcelain doll by the European company DeAgostini and was part of a magazine-based “doll-a-month” subscription, along with several other heroines and their accompanying males (sadly, Milo was not included):

Forever pissed that these were the only Atlantis dolls barring the 17" LE Kida. They're not the worst, but Mattel definitely could have made them better, especially at this time, and tell me Milo doesn't look like Surprised Pikachu Face

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someone more eloquent than me please elaborate on the fact that atlantis the lost empire is about a guy who doesn’t realize he’s in somebody else’s heist movie until too late

like, the heist movie gang was all there and everything

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Pomeroy, designer and animation lead for Milo, looks at a picture of the character from the press kit. “I’ve never enjoyed animating anyone as much as I have this one.”

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Mixed media film posters by John Alvin for Atlantis: The Lost Empire

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I just want you all to know, that if and when this site does experience a real exodus and/or get sunsetted for good, even if we don't keep in touch I'll remember you so fondly. You're the online equivalent of the other kid on the beach where we built sandcastles together; the girl at the campsite where we explored the trees. You're the drunk person who shared kind words in the bathroom at the club, you're the talented artists at the life drawing class or the poetry night in a city where I don't live anymore. It makes me sad that maybe in the future our paths won't cross so easily, but even when we leave this little shared piece of cyberspace, carried away on our briefly intersecting trajectories, just know I still love you

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Are there ever any official illustrations of Kida in her queen dress at the end of the movie?

there’s most likely one in each of the picture book adaptations, plus some other print media like the Illustrated Script book and the “Milo’s Rescue Mission” short story I have reblogged before. she also always appears in her robe as a Disney park character, and in her full queen outfit on certain occasions such as parades! ♡

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make me choose: ↳ anonymous asked: road to el dorado or atlantis: the lost empire

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"Cartographer, linguist, plumbler. Hard to believe he's still single."

It's interactions like this in the movie that really make the original expedition team come to life. The way that they all talk and make little jokes around each other. The way they carry themselves side-by-side, just because they're comfortable. It makes Milo stick out even more when you see how much everyone else already fits in.

Plus, it keeps the audience from thinking about Helga and Rourke as being any different from the rest of them, because everyone treats Milo like the odd one out; they all poke at him and get upset with him and don't want to be around him unless they have to. But, as we get to meet the rest of the team, Helga and Rourke don't seem to adjust like the others. They're the least understanding, the most self-interested, and the least willing to listen or open up. So, when these two make the call to do what benefits themselves over anyone else, it doesn't actually feel out of place. It's not some slap-in-the-face twist to shock you: it's a twist that makes sense, keeps the conflict going, and you still get to enjoy what comes out it.

Regardless, all of these mercenaries have done these kinds of jobs before, and have done them with each other. They know each other's quirks, humors, and stories (at least somewhat). It even comes off as them feeling like family around one another, and they play favorites like parents and siblings. I mean, try to tell me that Rourke would've smiled if anyone else would've said what Helga said. Look at his smirk.

They're treated like people. People with both positives and negatives. [Insert quote about the Atlantis characters being the best DnD party put to screen.]

Helga Sinclair and Lyle Tyberious Rourke - Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

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Think it might be time for a little nostalgia movie night.

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checking the Disney store app every blue moon finally paid off! the sweatshirt looks SO amazing, but I personally don’t care for oversized fits, so I’m getting the tote! eeee ♡

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If you’re a fan of Atlantis the Lost Empire, I recommend you pop into the Toy Soldier toy store in the United Kingdom Pavilion in EPCOT.

Go to the back, at the Kidcot Fun Stop, to find a book with Atlantian writing on the spine and framed concept art by famous comic book creator Mike Mignola.

I’ll say it again, the parks have so many details that no one ever notices and many of them are being done away with to make way for new things.

Eyes wide, heads up, hearts open, take it all in while you can! 👀 🫡💖

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire concept art by John Pomeroy.