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superman complex
06-26-2004, 10:35 AM
This is a very odd title I'm trying to identify and hopefully someone here will be able to identify the movie with this strange description.

I saw this animated feature it on television sometime from the mid to late 80s, when I was still a little kid. It was probably on Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel(when the Disney Channel was a premium station without commercials or much originally produced programming).

From what I can remember it was about an older brother who returns to his family who live on a farm and he's become magic or just mysterious or something. Then he starts turning the village people into people shaped, brown blocks that slowly walk away from the village and build themselves into a castle for the brother. Then I think the little sister runs around the castle trying to get her brother to stop.

One image I remember most of all was the sister standing on this ramp shaped formation in the castle and someone was attacking her with magic lightning or something.

It may have been an anime or it may have been from any number of countries. Does anyone have a clue what I'm talking about?

TnAdct1
06-26-2004, 11:56 AM
Sounds a little bit like the second Unico film, Unico in the Island of Magic, which is an anime film (with it being created by the same person behind Astroboy and Metropolis).

superman complex
06-26-2004, 12:07 PM
Yes! I think that has to be it! Awesome! Thanks for the quick response. I saw that movie a couple times when I was a kid and started thinking about it recently, but had no luck searching on my own.

Darn! It looks like it's kinda hard to get my hands on. $50 for an original VHS copy! Crazy... Oh well. What price can you put on your childhood?... Well, 50 bucks apparently.

superman complex
06-26-2004, 12:12 PM
Oh that's better. Yeah 50 bucks on Froogle, 14 on eBay. Thank goodness.