[ID: two photos of a porcelain triceratops from different angles. The triceratops is very small and has blue floral designs on its crown and body. Its three horns are painted with gold luster.]
Also were the vaguely culty vibes of the movie intentional? Like, if someone I knew told me one day "Bye, I'm moving to a super cool new place! The leader is this awesome guy that was tired of the Bad Things happening all the time so he made his own country were there are no Bad Things. Also, he can grant your heart's greatest wish, you just have to hand it over to him, wiping it forever from your memory. Well, he doesn't grant it right away, obviously, but eventually he probably will, and in the meantime he keeps it safe with his magic powers. No, it's not that other people are unable to use magic, in fact anyone could probably learn to use it, it's just that he was the first to think about it, so that's how it's going to be..." I think I'd sit them down for a moment
King Magnifico is such a selectively bred villain. And poorly done at that. It's like they looked at every individual trait that could make a compelling character and smashed them together without considering how to properly make it work as a whole
TIL In an epilogue at the end of the original 1931 Dracula film, Dracula breaks the fourth wall and taunts the audience, saying vampires are real and to be afraid. In a 1936 re-release, this was censored by the Hays Code, out of fear it would encourage belief in the occult.