Behind The Scenes Scuttlebutt: Apparently some of the BG artists (& other crewmembers) were shortchanged of their salaries, so they would put things in like the occult 10-pointed star on the Rats ‘Council Room’ floor for revenge as Bluth was a hard-core Protestant.

I still like it.

Of course if they ever did do a new adaptation of the book, I wouldn’t mind seeing where they’d go with it, it would definitely be done in CG these days for instance.

The “Frisby” debacle is a rather interesting one. I’m surprised Wham-O didn’t attack the original author herself for having used that name in the first place. Of course both names are not spelled the same but the fact that they are pronounced the same way is what I suppose threw off Wham-O completely into feeling concerned over people confusing the name for their product. Ironically, I recently found a commercial from 1956 where someone was clearly named “Frisbee”, roughly a year before Wham-O debuted it’s famous toy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXhB7jvKpUI

As a kid, this film probably game more than enough confidence that animation could do more than make you laugh, having been more acquainted to what was usually shown on TV then, with a character you wanted to connect with emotionally as with Brisby’s quest to cure her son. She obviously pulls a lot of weight in this film and we’re rewarded for her efforts at the end, at least to see Timmy try to get out of his bed and is told not to yet (poor Timmy, you’re such a trope).

One thing you can say about the characters in the NIMH film, they are not immortal, these are beings that can get sick, stabbed, crushed and killed in anyway possible, and never come back. Of course Watership Down showed this to us perfectly, but I liked the easier approach NIMH had otherwise.

I agree completely. For what it was it was pretty good. But it’s not one I’ll be running out to buy

Reminded I had pneumonia about 7 years ago. It was not pretty.

It is, though they tried a while back with putting it out in a nice widescreen edition with extras. We waited decades for that. MGM never really treated this anymore than they treated Tom & Jerry as I put it.

I’m still thinking of that stupid spider. It’s such a clash from the more realistic-looking one that nearly gets at Brisby before The Great Owl smashed it to goo.