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The Adventures of Unico

Now this was a case of me misremembering something by combining it with something else. I have vivid memories of watching both this and The Last Unicorn, but somehow, I combined them into the same movie in my mind. Back in college, I rewatched The Last Unicorn with some friends and I was like "Wait...where's the little unicorn with the pink hair and the cat that transforms into a girl" and everybody looked at me like I was crazy. Turns out I was remembering a different movie entirely as Unico was based on some manga and got made into not one, but two freaking films. Adventures of Unico is the one I know I saw. How or when, I can't be sure, but that little pink haired weirdo is an image burned into my skull and I guess it was too weird to be forgotten or to have been made up by me in the first place.

The Dragon That Wasn't (Or Was He?)

God that title hurts to look at, doesn't it? This is one I always had vague memories of, but I assumed it had to be fake. I mean a cartoon bear raising a baby dragon has to have been made up by my young self, right? Well, imagine my surprise that it actually exists, and was a Dutch made animated film. How many of those actually exist?

Fluppy Dogs

Again, I always had weird memories of multi colored talking dogs, but I always kind of wrote it off as me combining things in my head. Pound Puppies and Care Bears were out at the time, so maybe in my warped 4 year old imagination, I combined the two. A green bear and a talking dog are okay on their own, but a green talking dog? That's just too crazy to have been real! But as it turns out, my memory was right about this one too. It appears to have been sort of a pilot for a TV show that never took off. Animation wise, it looks like something that would have fit right at home the Disney Afternoon shows, but with Care Bears and Pound Puppies already established, this just seemed derivative, so I guess I'm not surprised it didn't catch on or get more beyond this TV special.

The Flight of Dragons

Unlike the other three on this list, I definitely knew this one was real. I remember watching it on The Disney Channel ages ago (come to think of it, I might have watched all of these things on the Disney Channel, who knows?). But more than the movie itself, I remember most of all WANTING to watch it because it looked cool. But I forgot the title and I could never find it in video stores or online, and whenever I mentioned it to people, they thought I was talking about the Dungeon and Dragons Animated series. I actually described it as "The Dungeon and Dragons animated movie that's not called Dungeons and Dragons".

The details I remembered were very sketchy. I remember it had dragons in it, I remember there was a wizard dressed in green, I remember the villain was dressed in red, I remembered the the hero "talked him to death" (though I could not for the life of me remember what the context was).

Every so often I'd look online to try and find it, but type "Roleplaying game movies" or "animated movies about dragons" into Google, but I always got very cluttered results.

Finally, I remembered one aspect of the film that kind of led me down the right path. The villain. I remember the villain had "a cool voice". Knowing what I know about voice actors, I went down the filmographies of guys who fit the "cool voice" category. Orson Welles? No. Brock Peters? No. Tony Jay? No. Keith David? No. Ah! What about James Earl Jones? Darth Vader himself! Bingo! The Flight of Dragons is right there in his filmography and I just knew that had to be it, and a few minutes looking at clips of the film on Youtube helped to confirm it for me.

I might actually go back and watch this one in its entirety because it looks pretty rad with its similar animation style to Rankin/Bass Hobbit cartoon.