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  • I love this story and song SO SO SO SO SO much. <3 <3

  • I wonder how many kids became afraid of Jack' in the box's because of this. Music was just right 4 the genre, namely the fact that it was about semi anthropomorphized toys.

  • its cute how he approached her thinking she has only one leg.

  • The greatest love story EVER told :) <3

  • this one and the firebird suit are the best of fantasia 2000

  • reminds me of The nutcracker prince, which i also love.

  • SO BEAUTIFUL!!!! :'D

  • 4:34 - LIKE A BOSS!!

  • This is why I hate clowns. Thanks Disney. Way to ruin a generation...

  • I like the original story of the "The Tin Soldier". The Russian version is good too. Different audio though. It's called the "The Brave Tin Solider". Very sad ending just like Hans Christian Andersen wrote it. Of course, Disney wouldn't put the real tragic ending. Disney didn't even put Hans' ending of the "Little Meraid", and all she did was turn into foam in that version (Grimms was like falling off a cliff or something more gruesome). -sigh- Wished they put the real whole tale on screen.

  • @takahirosakuraii yea, i have the originals and its quite annoying its been changed. mainly because its not staying true to the authors original words. disney always has to make it a happy ending. i liked the original 1940s fantasia, least it had a bit of gore to it e.g. the dinosaurs bit. think they are getting too soft lol

  • @th3kill3rbunny I mean, why not stick with the originals? I mean there are little kids out there getting plastic surgery. I think they can handle a bit of tragedy and gore. Happy endings will one day ruin little childrens lives, making them think that life is that grand. I have the original fantasia collection as well on VCR (video tapes) :3 the dinosaurs bit wasn't that gorey; they were always soft to begin with.

  • @takahirosakuraii What's wrong with hoping for a happy ending? The Disney renaissance saw a transition from happy endings given to happy endings earned, and that is quite the step forward.

  • @takahirosakuraii sometimes it's nice to change things up a bit and make it your own.

  • @citizen00erased It's not changing things up a bit when there are movies that Disney makes that all have happy endings.

  • @takahirosakuraii

    I like the original Tin Soldier too. In this one, the dancer is also in tin and the soldier and the dancer burn into the fire. When they were melted, there was a tin heart.

  • @TheJeuneFille It was a beautiful ending. The russian version shows that :3

  • This was my favorite out of them all

  • I find the tin soldier handsome and I find the ballerina beautiful.

  • OMG! I remember this! I hadn't seen this movie in like 12 years!

  • don't like the end. isn't the tin solider supposed to fall into the fire?

  • @loke177

    Yes and the dancer too.

  • I really love the animation in this segment. It's a perfect blend of 2D's characteristics (especially on the facial animation) & 3D's smooth graphics.

  • disney always make their endings happy since in the real story it didnt have a happy ending neither did the little mermaid but disney is the happiest place in the world lol!

  • Haha jerk in the box..ive always loved this story watching this reminds of how i was toy story before toy story!? anyways awesome to watch with my daughter this time round

  • @8:26.... AMAZING <3

  • I always liked this fairytale, one of my favorites out of the whole book of them my aunt had. When I saw it on Fantasia I kinda ruined it for my brother by talking about it too much while it was playing, cause I was over-excited :p

  • what were they on when they decided to use "celebrity" cameos in this movie;

  • @djuro20 quite possibly nothing. The demographic that would typically be interested in this sort of thing knows exactly who each of these people are. Besides, as far as well known actors go, James Earl Jones and Angela Landsbury are two of the best this century. And nobody does magic like Penn and Teller.

  • @ElHeffeTodd i'm not saying that the actors are bad, i mean they are pointless in a movie such as fantasia

  • I was happy to see Destino finally get finished (baseball as a metaphor for life)

  • This was my FAVORITE peice out of all of them when I first saw this film when I was 5 or somthing. I remembered every note, and this brings back so many memories

  • I Love Bette Midler she is hailiarious.

  • Aww adorable!

  • I called the boy on this Jack, I called the soldier Timmy and I called the ballerina Sarah

  • @Floobegusted If this had dialogue this is what would be said at the end

    Sarah: I Love you Timmy

    Timmy:Sarah I Love you too, will you marry me?

    Sarah:Yes Timmy I will marry you

  • To be honest I prefer Disney's ending on this, the ending in the orginal story is too grim for children in my opinion and it means that the baddie has won and as a general rule baddies should never win.

  • and then the boy buys buzz lightyear...

  • WHAAAAT? WHY DIDN'T THEY USE SOMETHING FROM PETROUCHKA????

  • i remember seeing this being played by real people when i was like 4

    brings back so many memories :D

  • I absolutely LOVE this one! :3

  • actually the cutest love story <3

  • oh my gosh i remember this story! My grandma had a seperate animated movie of this story (which included the sad ending) that was narrated by Christopher Plummer. Wow, major childhood flashback, thanks Disney!

  • i cried when the tin man died, al he wanted wus sum love man =`( also i cried when the little girl with the lucifers died... nobody cared and left her too die on the streets snif

  • This is one ending where I don't mind the change. I understand why the Little Mermaid had to die. I understand why the Little Match Girl had to die. I do not understand why the the Tin Soldier and the Ballerina had to die. I know I should be angry at the change, but I just wanted these two to have their happy ending.

  • Pixar just got the idea for Toy Story 4.

  • This could make a kickass videogame

    

  • This is the Piano Concerto No 2,by Shostakovich

  • This segement is my favorite in the whole movie. Just the way the music matches the movements of the characters shows how much time the animators put into this.

  • Where were the other soilders in this when he was in danger?

  • @rainglasses they were at a rave, but they all got alcohol poisening and died. they had a lot of tequila

  • Bette Midler!

  • Anyone else think that Jack In the Box looks like Lord Farquad?

  • @impagain I just thought of that!

  • 1:52 Gotta love that smug look on the joker's face. xD

  • i think my favorite segment from this one is rhapsody in blue or pomp and circumstance, from the first one it would probably be night on bald mountain or the rite of spring.

  • I love this video!!! the piano is perfect.... it blows me away...

    I almost cry when I saw it....

  • Yeah ! This one has a HAPPY ending! X)

    Nice

  • All i remember from this damn movie is that jack in the box and the Fucking flying whales!! And Mickey the sorcerer.

  • the jack-in-the-box is a jerk!

  • This was my grandpa's Toy Story lol

  • 2:21 and 6:05 make me wanna cry Jk but the song is beautiful

  • It didn't have to be like that, Jack-in-the-Box, but nooooo, you just had to be a butthead.

  • In the original story, the end is a little bit diffrent: the soldier came back to the castle and the dancer, in the morning, the maid opened the window for a while, a flurry took the soldier and the dancer to the oven where both burn. After cleaning the oven the maid found a little clump of iron in formed like a heart and in the middle was a little peace of the skirt. So the soilder and the dancer are together, for ever combined.

  • @Seastorm13

    I prefer those kind of endings. They may be sad but the meaning of it goes so much deeper.

  • Bette Midler ;___;

  • @SmokingWickerman HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH

  • I used to watch this when I was four, and I never understood what the woman was talking about...and the clown scared me to bits!!!

  • the jack in the box looks like claude frollo from the hunchback of notre dame lol

  • fantasia was my childhood in a nutshell. gosh i love this movie sooooooo much! <3

  • great movie i just don't think i was ever able to sit in my downstairs and watch the whole thing, i think i was maybe 3 when this came out so it was kinda hard to watch

  • this is my favorite in fantasia 2000! really amazing

  • I love how the entire Fantasia movie is all classy and serious, then she comes on screen and she's like "Hi!" ^_^ It's awesome.

  • I agree with jecka1021. Disney really changed the endings of some of Hans Christen Anderson's fairy tales. Sooner or later, more people will have to know the real endings of some of his fairy tales.

  • Hans Christen Anderson also did The Little Mermaid! But this piece reminds me that you can do great things regardless of what, who, or how you are!

  • Dear god, I tracked down one nightmare from my childhood......

  • @SmokingWickerman I can relate, I recently saw that horrible seal from Pingu, the one that ate Pingu's bed and destroyed his house :O

  • that Jack in the Box reminds me of Jafar....XD

  • 23 people got attacked by the jack in the box , fell in the gutter and got eaten by fish.

  • I love this story!

  • Disney, of course, changed the ending to make it that beloved Disney ending that we all know and love but it is actually a very sad story. But Disney did turn this into a wonderful way to tell their version

  • @jecka1021 i like the original ending better -.- far more romantic. -.- .

  • That guy was a real Jerk-in-the-box.

  • @Ecrylate he sure was... lol

  • @Ecrylate I agree.

  • @Ecrylate I would prefer, douche in the box.

  • @Ecrylate Oooooo! Punny. Very Punny.

  • tell you what, this had amazing animation for its time! well done disney!!!

  • Tht butt-crack "Jack-in-the-box" had it comming.

  • Yeah another good thing about these movies is that it's than the sort of thing you can make fun of without getting away with it.I mean make a youtube poop with this,make a video making fun of it you instantly have ALOT of enemies.And I mean ALOT.

  • Combining classic literature with classical music, with the magic of animation...if only other mediums tried to do something interesting like this too...video games, I'm looking at you...

  • The original ending is very poignant and always makes me cry...I am usually a purist but although I love the real ending to this story, it was nice to see the soldier and ballerina get a happy ending this one time.

  • The jack in the box used to haunt my dreams.

  • and this is why no one likes pop-up jesters.

  • This isn't actually the ending.... Pretty sure that in the end the soldier gets knocked into the fire and melts into the shape of a heart, and then the ballerina is blown by wind into the fire as well, and the spangle on her belt melts into the center of the heart.

  • @letsgoskitzo yeahh, at the end the boy throws the soldier into the stove, then the ballerina is blown in after him. All that's found is a little tin heart and the dancer's spangle, all burnt up. Not exactly the Disney-perfect happy ending.

  • He's thinking

    "Hand off my woman Jack!"

  • I wanna know why the 4 Tin Soldiers didn't help AT ALL!!!

    Thanx guys... way to stick up for your comrade!

  • Very LUCKY for him it's ironically 'a small world'

    For him to go through the sewers, get eaten by a fish and end up as dinner on the table of the house from which he had originated from! That's definitely a big coincidence- Right?

  • @MrShaun42088 It's a Disney movie....they all have happy endings

  • @dragonson04 Not happy endings for the villains.

  • This is such a beautiful adaptation and vision for the story. Thanx Disney.

    So sweet... the one legged tin soldier fell in love at first sight with the ballerina who also stood on one leg.

    this always reminds me of the Nutcracker

  • What song is it?

    

  • @Pichicha123 Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2

  • That was so cute. Thank you for posting!

  • when i first saw that picture @0:29 i was like wtf is that? a few years later and i STILL dont know what the heck it is xD..... while you guys are cheering for the jack and box to burn in the fire think about the other toys that were lost in this film... the toy boat and those little bloocks that were also burned in the fire and tossed out the window.. and does anyone else but me love soldiers crooked smile? ;D

  • @Koolkat197 have you seen "Destino"? I managed to find the whole thing somewhere on the net (can't recall).. but you could see a few clips of it on youtube at least... it was meant to be for the first Fantasia and that didn't happen, however they did decide to complete the idea not too long ago (first premiered in 2003). Haha anyway I have no idea what those crazy looking creatures were but we could watch that short animation and have an interpretation..

  • fish: goodbye cruel world

    Soldier:karmas a bitch isnt it

  • BETTE MIDLER!!!!! <3

  • I know the original ending for this story but can somone tell me the original ending for "The Little Mermaid" I saw it in the comments and I got intrested.

  • @glitchmastaz10000 The prince falls in love with another girl and and the mermaid was supposed to kill him. But she did into and jumped into the ocean and turned into sea foam.

  • @Hotiechic101 But this is not the end yet. After her body turned into foam, the little mermaid sees herself among the daughters of the air, who tell her she had become a spirit of the air thanks to her good heart.

  • @Hotiechic101 my sister wrote this comment not me you can find her wathing other fantasia videos she is FantasiaFan2000

  • @Hotiechic101 sorry,my sister wrote this,but anyway thanks

  • Those of you hoping for a another Fantasia DON'T disney SUCKS ever since hanna montana and we don't want to be dissapointed! But if Disney and Disney Channel work seperatly or something then yes another Fantasia would be Great!

  • They should have named that "The One-Legged soldier" :)

  • oh my god that jack-in-the-box scared me SO MUCH when i was little

  • 23 jack in the boxes thumbed this down.

  • This is wrong. The original story was meant to show that being steadfast, or conforming and passive, ultimately leads to one's demise. You may like this ending more, but that's not the point of Anderson's fairy tale! His fairy tales makes you think, makes children think! How can they change the moral of the story and call it an Anderson's tale, seriously.

  • @MichaelShi8 calm down. If you haven't notice, that's how Disney roll. Didn't the Beast eat Bell in the original? Didn't Esmeralda die in the original? lol, we can only assume why they aren't making a Pocahuntas 3.

  • Well -- so much for that bittersweet Hans Christian Anderson story. Why are we so unable to take a sad ending? Or why do we think our children can't?

  • @manthasagittarius hey even if they did keep the original ending, still, children would be sobbing over mufasa's death and the death of littlefoot's mother (I know the land before time wasn't disney, but still, it had children crying tears the size of the nile

  • This is one of the best movies Disney has ever created. It is universal. All of the stories are accessible in a way that few movies EVER accomplish.

  • @3:48 is it weird to say that i thought that the music was pretty even though it was kinda evil sounding? maybe im just weird altogether =)

  • not going to lie to u .. i had my pointe shoes on dancing along with this :D

  • bug ballet baby ballet

    say THAT 5 times fast ahaha

  • 6:05

    Musicgasm. That is all.

  • 23 people are the jack-in-the-boxes friends

  • didnt the ballerina and the tin soldier end up in the fryer together in the original story?

  • In orchestra class, we were watching this movie so we could learn to actively listen to music. One of my classmates said that this one was sad. I don't see anything sad about it...

  • How can people listen to music like this and say classical music is boring? On another topic: If this were today, the ballerina would be a stripper at least part time because no ballerina can find work today and the tin soldier would be sucking us dry through social security disability.

  • Hooray for the corny happy ending that never happened...

  • When I eventually get blu-ray in life, I swear this is going to be the first movie I get on it. . .

  • I'm really glad they did. This is a Disney movie after all.

  • Nyehh..They gave it a happy ending.

  • Yes. If you read the book or watch some of the original short films the dancer and the soldier die together. In fact, I think they get thrown into the fire and they form a heart from the melted metal.

  • @marialee330 Well the tine soldier forms a metal heart when he dies, and the dancer, all that was left of her in the real thing was a burnt flower. :'( I like the sad way better.

  • Doesn't the soldier and the dancer die in the origianal?

  • The piano in this blows me away.

  • still, music tells a different story, and it shows. that piano concerto is not incidental music and the animation should be adapted to the music, not the other way around. all in all, it's a very nice animation though...

  • @PawelWysocki

    Hard to believe that we went from beautiful stuff like this to crappy shows about teenagers in only 11 years...

  • @EternityCode814 it was as much an exception back then as it's predecessor was in 1940s.

  • I read about this book in one of the Ink triologies

  • I almost forgot that even American cartoons have to have a happy ending. Stupid.

  • @minnyska, you probably haven't seen The Little Match Girl.

  • :')

  • 23 people were related to the Jack in the Box and were sad that he didn't win

  • faith sure has its way in reuniting love

  • I Like it ! :D

  • I tried dancing like that when I was little at 1:34-1:49

  • @TheSapphireKat1, I tried dancing like that now. XD

  • Not QUITE the same as the original story went, but still lovely.

  • this is basically the same idea as toy story.

  • @IsaacH1273 The Tin Solder was around long before tv was invented, long before the brain behind Toy Story was even a sperm.

  • @IsaacH1273 LOL at that. Hans Christian Andersen wrote the Steadfast Tin Soldier in 1838.

  • @ElgartheWise  Also wrote The Little Mermaid!

  • @ElgartheWise He also did The Little Mermaid!

  • @IsaacH1273, it's not the same at all.

  • How sweet the tin soldier...

  • 2:25-3:37 - beautiful

  • Thanks God he had a sucker on his bottom to stay attached at the boat at 5:00

  • it is a nice short and i guess there will never be a disney film a dark ending or have a fairy tale in the original ending.

  • was that bette midler in the beginning?

  • Another Hans Christian Anderson fairytale given a wonderful happy ending by Disney!

  • i didnt get what the woman said "they couldnt get the perfect musical match until now."

    well, they have gotten it already right? its piano concerto no. 2.

  • That Solider had skills!

  • One of my favourite fantasia shorts (:

  • this is funny LOL! 8:20

  • I just enjoy it for what it is: another piece of fantastic Disney animation of a classic fairytale, set brilliantly to the wonderful music of Shostakovich.

  • This scene used to scare the crap out of me when I was a kid. To be honest, it still kinda creeps me out.

  • lol dont worry lads ill kill him myself u lazy mofos 8:14+