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I've said it before (but not on this website, so) I'll say it again: If Encanto was released in the 2010's decade, it would have the most AMAZING interactive promotional website. You could tour the entire Madrigal house and explore all the rooms, even the ones they don't show in the movie. Imagine that.

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Remember this guy from Boxtrolls?

Here's what he looks like underneath his box:

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Hey what's with the sudden obsession with Dreamwork's Trolls?

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Whatever, LAIKA glitter gifs

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It's that time of year again and I made MORE Boxtrolls-themed Valentines cards!

But they get increasingly more cursed

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So I've been thinking

Imagine if Ethical bug used to belong to Pinocchio and Geppetto at first, but got kicked out because he criticized Geppetto for milking Pinocchio's dance moves for cash or whatever. In fact, he wasn't just kicked out, but was sold on a magic black market (that just so happens to be frequently visited by Jack Horner) and that's how he ended up in Jack's possession. he was "bought" on impulse and Jack doesn't really have any recollection of acquiring him. That's why he thought he was a locust for a minute.

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Concept: a restaurant that only sells Shrek-branded food.

"The Shrekstaurant"

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Shot out to Emmet Brickowski for having the best last name for a Lego, ever.

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Starting the year off with a bang. I met a crow that says "Hoo-wah"

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WE GOT NEW WILDWOOD IMAGES!!!!

New Wildwood production images have been leaked online through Instagram! Original post (mild spoilers for the book)

I think this might be Curtis in the military uniform Alexandra gave him, given the one human hand attached to it.

A horse wearing battle armor. Already an astronomical step up from the Horse in Missing Link.

I feel like I've been waiting for this forever, COYOTE HANDS!!!!!!!!!!! I smell furry bait

Someone's arm. I don't know who.

Set design work in progress! I believe the third image with all the pillars is the location of the final battle scene inside ancient ruins. Can't wait for that! The fourth image depicts a suburban looking neighborhood, I think this is depicting St. Johns in Portland, Oregon. Maybe it's even a scale model?

Moss, Ivy, and a tunnel-like set. I suspect this is the underground military base of the Coyotes!

Not sure what this is exactly, but the artifacts do bare resemblance to a minor character in later chapters of the book

This rabbit. Overall, I'm over the moon about this film already!!!!! I mean, I'm already a massive LAIKA nerd and a fan of any off-the-walls supernatural story, so you can bet I'll be checking this out when it releases!

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HOLD ON why does Snatcher look more pale and have worse dental hygiene then someone who spent almost his entire life getting zero vitamin D and eating bugs

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*Casually drops my YouTube side channel*

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hello hello !!

I wanted to ask, who's your favorite character from Boxtrolls ?? it's one of my most favorite movies nyehe :3

(APOLOGIES IF I'VE ASKED BEFORE, I HAVE A HORRID MEMORY !!)

Hihihi!!!! Thank you for reaching out! always a pleasure to chat with some other Boxtroll fans... Boxtrollers? I love Eggs, Snatcher, and Winnifred in the film, but if I had to pick just one, it would definitely be Snatcher.

He's an absolute blast to try to analyze and try to get into his head, and I notice a new thing about him every time I re-watch the film... yes, all 63 times. I get the feeling that, the moment he learns Eggs is still alive, he starts to lose himself. He's kind of an idiot, but he makes up for it in cleverness. He knows just how to find people's weakness and exploit it for his own gain, and this is what makes him so formidable. He sees nothing but his own ambitions, completely ignoring his own weakness, and that ultimately leads to his demise. Heck, in the final scene, Eggs is telling him that he doesn’t need to eat cheese to be powerful, he is already powerful. He got people to listen to him. (although for all the wrong reasons) And what does he say to that? "I have made me, boy." Because despite Eggs making a brilliant point, Snatcher is still, exactly where he's wanted to be his whole life, eating cheese with the White Hats. Even if he only got there kind of on accident, and before that, he did the same thing to Eggs that the White hats did to him, pushing those beneath him in the social ladder even further down for the sake of gaining power. Also, in calling Eggs 'boy', he acknowledges his own progress in breaking through societal labels, it's the nicest thing he's said to him the entire movie, and he's still talking down to Eggs. So in this final scene, Eggs and Snatcher are both correct. They both want the exact same thing, to have their own identities and be accepted for it, and they achieve it by being the opposite of what they’re stereotyped as. Eggs, by being kind and brave, Snatcher, by being clever and manipulative. And that fact alone makes the little film-analyst in my brain squeal with delight.

Another thing I enjoy, and I've probably mentioned this before, every fan-depiction of Snatcher that I've seen is slightly different. We all have our different interpretations of this guy, and I think that's a key indicator as to how complicated he really is, and I love him for it. Just a bonus thing I want to admit, interestingly enough, in the novelization of the film, (Not to be confused with 'Here Be Monsters!') Winnifred ends up being my favorite character,

even if that is mostly due to how the book is only told from the direct POV from either Eggs or Winnie. As much as I dislike the novel, it provides just the right amount of extra details to really flesh out her character. She's so bored with her home life that her coping mechanism is somewhat self-destructive, and that description both over-exaggerates and summarizes her arc in the book. Again, it's a pretty bad novel, but it's a blast to compare & contrast with the film.

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Guess who figured out how to install mods

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earlier this year I woke up one morning and realized, the first four LAIKA films each have at least one scene of some sort of performance in them, and said scene can be interpreted as a metaphor for the entire story. In this essay I will...

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So APPARENTLY in 2018 some random person edited the Wikipedia page for The Boxtrolls to say it was set in a fictional European country called "Norvenia" but if that was really the case you'd think it would have some sort of confirmation from the big boys up at LAIKA, right??? NO! There's nothing. Nothing that I could find, anyway. But whatever the reason, it's stuck around to this day and it's even been showing up in more recent articles about Blu-Ray reviews and stuff. Of course, I don't have 100% confirmation so maybe I'll go ask the directors or someone involved with the fil when I get the time and confidence, but until then, hold your horses, I really don't think it's legit.