#with islands on top of them

[boxturret]

The Mystery of the Exploding Truck

Atlantis: The Lost Empire is one of my favourite movies, in fact its the one gisnep 2d animated movie I like. This is a little rambling article about the convoy of vehicles that the middle of the movie focuses on.

The movie features a ton of really interesting vehicles, from the massive Ulysses submarine to the more conventional trucks, all brought to life by some really stunning 3d animation. If you've looked in to behind the scenes materials and toys there's actually quite a few that were designed but never used. (Well, actually most if not all of them are in the movie, you just have to look closely, but that's another topic entirely)

Recently, I was watching the movie closely and was quite impressed how consistent the convoy is throughout the movie. After the Ulysses submarine is destroyed only one evac pod survived (conveniently the one with the main characters in it) and it contained a small fraction of the number of vehicles for the expedition.

This little convoy is what makes the final trek to Atlantis. Its made up of 8 vehicles:

1-The Command Car

2-The Drill

3-The large tanker truck that actually houses the escape balloon

4-Cookie's wagon

5-The Oiler, the truck containing fuel

6-The truck hiding the plane launcher catapult

7a and 7b-two generic covered trucks

Its quite consistent about this. There's some scenes where you can't easily see ALL of the vehicles, but overall they're quite good at keeping it straight.

Where things get a bit confused is the scene where the fireflies attack.

There's a truck they explodes behind Milo, it seems to be one of the covered trucks, you can even make out the emblem on the side of the canvas. The truck that Milo is attempting to get in is also one of these for what its worth.

Then afterwards another truck blows up, the Oiler.

The larger explosion of this one seems enough to take down the bridge and cause the rest of the convoy to fall in to the chasm below.

As they all fall down the bridge you actually get a pretty clear look at every remaining vehicle.

First you've got a covered truck followed by the plane launcher, then the tanker, the wagon, the command car, a second covered truck and then finally the drill. So that's everything minus the Oiler, 7 vehicles in total.

So somehow a third covered truck appeared only to blow up.

For the rest of the movie the convoy has less focus, since they've gotten to Atlantis, but it remains constant. Audrey says that two of the vehicles were totalled and for the rest of the movie you only see the digger, the two covered trucks, though their coverings eventually get removed, the tanker, and the plane launcher, so its possible that the two vehicles in question were Cookie's wagon and the command car, leaving the functional convoy at 5.

So I guess just for completeness sake, he's what happens with the rest of the convoy.

The group takes the two covered trucks with them to Atlantis. Can't imagine how brave you'd have to be to drive on that bridge.

And then once they've revealed their true intentions the trucks carry the kidnapped princess and everyone who didn't stay behind back to the shaft.

And then they get zapped. A tragic end to these two loyal trucks, so far from home. It wasn't even intentional, Vinny accidentally hit the kill button.

The drill was abandoned after it broke through the wall in to the main chamber, and then eventually met a magma induced end.

The plane launcher finally gets to fulfill its true purpose, before cruelly being killed.

And the Tanker grows up in to a beautiful balloon. (it disappears after this so it might have transformed in to the balloon somehow...)

I don't see a tractor with massive metal wheels in there but anything is possible.

Now the question is, where did that truck come from? Well its interesting, because up to that point, there's actually been a missing truck. If you've looked in to the toys there was a truck for Vinny, an explosives truck.

Its actually in the movie, you can see it very briefly in the background of the loading scene.

The tires match up, as does the haphazard way the truck is loaded.

Now this could just be written off as one of the many casualties of the submarine sinking, but it actually does appear later on, in the scene where they trick Milo in to thinking he's drunken nitroglycerine.

Without seeing the wheels its hard to say for sure, as the covered trucks do take their canopies down occasionally.

One thing against this being part of the convoy is that Vinny goes to drive the Oiler initially, and gets told that he's not allowed within 50 yards of it, which wouldn't have happened if he had a whole truck full of explosives just for him.

But in any case, this mysterious third covered truck appears from no where and explodes. As a little gruesome detail you can actually see the hand of the driver pressed up against the window if you go frame by frame.

Its an interesting catch-22, where the more you like something the more you watch it, and the closer you watch it, so you start to pick up on little mistakes and inconsistencies, and now you know that they're there, forever....

Really, though I'm pointing out an error, I'm really trying to highlight how much care and attention was put in to the movie, outside of that one slip up they did a great job of consistently depicting this little convoy as it travelled to Atlantis.

I feel Atlantis is unfairly maligned, but a lot of care and heart went in to this movie.

For my next trick I'll track all the Sub Pods.

[danieyells]

Ritsu investigating Hyde. . . .

Leo investigating Dante. . . .

Ritsu running into Leo sneaking/breaking into the staff room. . . .

They come to an agreement to share their findings, two people going through information will be faster and easier, especially the two smartest first years. . . .

Ritsu and Leo working together. . .Leo telling Ritsu about Hyde because he's known Sho since they were in middle school so he's known Hyde since he was younger even though he only saw him once in a while. . .Ritsu telling Leo about Dante and the case regarding Alan and Alan's father. . . .

Two genius first years working together. . . . . . .

[fisheito]

what sort of twisted powerplay is this

[mimicmew]

my friends made me watch bfdi.. i like these things..

[goddesspharo]

Time cast a spell on you, but you won't forget me. I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me. [Top Gun: Maverick + The Silver Springs Era]

[notquiteaghost]

as someone who has also been consumed by mcci fishing it is v funny to see so many people saying oh etho got first maybe now he'll make a video!!!! cuz like. i dont think that was his goal. im sorry to tell you this but btwn when i logged off yday n logged in today he got 200 more trophies. in first place the whole time, 200 more trophies anyway. i think he is going for completion. there are 32'330 fishing trophies & he has 27'580 rn, so. yknow. personally im expecting the next hermitcraft ep in march

[kuroananosanji]

Is it too late for my we listen but we don’t judge one piece opinion? I like robin and nami’s post time skip designs, hair and all, and I’m sick of pretending they’re inferior to the pre ts ones lol

[abcwordsurge]

incomplete list of states that I usually headcanon as aspec:

Illinois (aroace)

Nebraska (aroace)

Missouri (aro)

Gov (aro)

Florida (arospec)

Rhode Island (aroace)

Alaska (ace)

[oneiroy]

some time after the events of endwalker, these two disappear without alerting anyone, only to show up months later with matching rings

ryss and fornax (@verysmallcyborg's wol) are now eternally bonded \o/

[hana-bobo-finch]

“this is a character who, intentionally, plays a very small role and could feasibly be removed from the story with no consequences,” I announce as I continue to give said character traits and motivations and—

[yuri-is-online]

WHY ARE 2/3 OF THE ROMANCABLE MERFOLK ALCOHOLICS?!?!?!!?!?

[totallydramaticqueen]

Some tdroti redesigns because I really like the characters but their designs are too simple for my taste 😮‍💨

[zeb-z]

also something about foolish, who usually sticks around spawn, who builds or fools around, who takes care of his daughter, going off thousands of blocks away to fight in dungeons. to throw himself into the fight again and again. to find something harder to fight each time, to get a reward that he doesn’t really need or want anyway. no leo around for him to worry about, or worry about him in return, after all

[bussinpoots]

I'm the type of guy to play a zombie game and then check to see if there is a peaceful mode bc Im a pussy

[hanzajesthanza]

nooo like reading maria janion's such comprehensive overview of vampires and what defines a vampire and how the myth changes through times and authors, as entirely expected, has contributed to my regis brainrot.

because though it's obvious how many tropes regis subverts as he literally talks about himself, it's more overwhelming when they're all summarized focused on examples from across history and the literature canon, and pretty much hitting none of them or fucking with all of them. because it's not that he just doesn't fit in within his own fantasy universe, but that he doesn't fit in within the broader canonical definition...

"my personal vision of fantasy (...) he is not the typical vampire bloodsucker, according to the dictates of the canon" ... uggghhhh sapkowski, in his witcher, by challenging all genre expectations and tropes, creates all of these characters that don't fit in anywhere, neither in their universe or in the broader canon. and thus, can only find fraternity with each other

i was just reading like 'so... so he doesn't fit in *anywhere*... 🥺'. regis in baptism of fire explaining how he doesn't conform to either vampiric expectations of vampires (socially, for his personal principles) nor of human expectations of vampires (biologically, for his literal existence). but it even goes farther when you look beyond the witcher and to the broader literary and mythological canon. in practically every understanding of a vampire he would not be recognized as one of them... and does he even want to.

[a-little-monotonous]

I think about lot about that gap of time between shadow getting ejected from the ark and him getting put in stasis...