Show Click here for Greater Long Island newsletters and get news delivered weekly from across L.I. It’s true that no child would want to play with a boat that couldn’t stay afla-fla-float. And bringing a cowboy who rides an ostrich into first grade show-and-tell would surely draw jeers. Most of the toys banished to the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) TV special were there for understandable reasons. You try giving your kid a train with square wheels on its caboose. They’re all misfits! But there’s always been that one toy, Dolly, a little doll on the island and the only character with speaking lines who doesn’t get to explain her, um, nonconformity, to the viewer. Ever-obsessed with Christmas specials for reasons only intense psychotherapy would begin to explain, a few years back I located and reached out to a historian for Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment. At the time, I was working on a mushy holiday column for The Riverhead News-Review. I believe I contacted him over Twitter and got right down to brass tacks with Rick Goldschmidt, author of “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Making Of The Rankin/Bass Holiday Classic” and other books. “So what’s wrong with a Dolly for Sue? The thing talks and cries. That would have been some feat of technology back in 1964. The doll should have been sold-out everywhere.” Goldschmidt’s candid response satisfied my decades-old curiosity, and something I believe the Greater Long Island community needs to know this holiday season. In short, Goldschmidt had discovered, Dolly’s got issues, is all: “There is nothing in the scripts about the misfit doll,” Goldschmidt informed me back in 2013. He explained that Dolly suddenly found herself with more lines and screen time after the producers — reacting to public outcry after the special’s first airing — added a final scene that included Santa going back to the island to rescue the misfit toys. With the new scene, he said, “she became more significant.” Yet unlike with the other misfit toys, her “issue” remained unexplained. Mr. Goldschmidt said he had once asked Arthur Rankin about Dolly. The producer responded that Dolly’s problems were psychological and explained that she “was cast off by her mistress and was clinically depressed and Prozac did not exist in those days.” Basically, the girl was struggling with mental health issues and so she got sent away to an island. The poor thing. One other misfit toy I now have to advocate for is the water pistol that shoots jelly. I watched Rudolph last week with my 6-year-old and he’s now telling me that’s what he wants for Christmas. As long as he doesn’t shoot it in the house. Then he would find himself banished to some island. PHOTO SOURCE: CBS Click here for my original, full column that was published for the News-Review: There are no TV Airings of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys in the next 14 days. Add Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys to your Watchlist to find out when it's coming back. Check if it is available to stream online via "Where to Watch".
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 The Misfit Toys introducing themselves to Rudolph, Hermey, and Yukon. Rudolph and Hermey meet more Misfit Toys in Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys. The residents of the Island of Misfit Toys are a group of characters from the Rankin/Bass television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. They are sentient toys who all have some strange quirk about them. Because of said quirks, these toys feel that there is no human child who could possibly want to play with them. As such, King Moonracer brings them to stay on the island until suitable owners can be found. In the special, Rudolph, Hermey, and Yukon Cornelius first encounter the Misfit Toys upon accidentally landing on their island. The Misfit Toys explain their predicament to the trio through the song "The Most Wonderful Day of the Year". In the special's original broadcast, this was the toys' only scene, with the only resolution to their subplot being Santa Claus promising to find homes for them after Rudolph tells him about the island, and later saying that the island would be his first stop on his annual run that year. When viewers complained about not seeing him keep that promise, the following year's broadcast added a new scene to the ending, showing Santa arriving to pick up the Misfit Toys, which has remained in all subsequent releases of the special. Some of the original Misfit Toys reappeared in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys, which also featured several new inhabitants to the island. In that movie, the original Misfit Toys are abducted from their new homes by the villainous Toy Taker. After Rudolph and his friends catch the Toy Taker as he's kidnapping the island's new residents, the original Misfit Toys are brought back to their homes. In addition, the most prominent Misfit Toys from the original special also starred in a midquel graphic novel titled The Island of Misfit Toys, published for the special's 50th anniversary in 2014. A cowboy who rides an ostrich A train with square wheels on his caboose A scooter for Jimmy A water pistol that squirts jelly A bird that swims A boat that can't stay afloat A winged bear An airplane that can't fly A wind-up mouse in a set of nesting clown dolls Two tin soldiers A sailboat A pink fire truck A blue race car A blue bicycle A white rocking horse A push up toy cat A kite who's afraid of heights A piggy bank with no slot A boomerang that doesn't come back A rattle without a noise Where can I watch Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys?Dinosaur Island Of Misfit Toys From Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer | Dinosaur Toys Kids Videos, a holiday-children movie is available to stream now. Watch it on HappyKids on your Roku device.
Is the Island of Misfit Toys in the original Rudolph?Some of the original Misfit Toys reappeared in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys, which also featured several new inhabitants to the island. In that movie, the original Misfit Toys are abducted from their new homes by the villainous Toy Taker.
What was wrong with the doll on the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph?In a post, he wrote that the doll was a "last-minute add-on" to the island, and her issue is "as plain as the nose on your face. More precisely, it's the nose missing from her face."
Is King Moonracer a toy Rudolph?King Moonracer is a supporting character in the 1964 Rankin/Bass film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and its 2001 sequel Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Island Of Misfit Toys.
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