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{{Title|image=Title-legendfrosty.jpg|director=Greg Sullivan|writer=Emily Kapnek<br>[[Romeo Muller]] {{s|(characters; uncredited)}}|release=October 18, 2005|runtime=1 hour, 7 minutes|available=VHS<br>DVD<br>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07ZTVNFYT/ref=atv_dp_b07_det_c_UTPsmN_1_1 Amazon Video]}}
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[[File:81_V9dxzNzL._SL1500_.jpg|thumb|250px|The cover to the DVD release.]]
  
[[File:81_V9dxzNzL._SL1500_.jpg|thumb|250px|The cover to the DVD release.]]
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'''''The Legend of Frosty the Snowman''''' is a 2005 direct-to-video DVD animated film that serves as a sequel/ prequel to ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]''.
  
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'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is a 2005 direct-to-video film that serves as a reboot to ''[[Frosty the Snowman (Rankin/Bass)|Frosty the Snowman]]''. It was produced by {{W|Classic Media}}, the rights holder for the pre-1974 [[Rankin/Bass]] library (prior to being acquired by {{W|DreamWorks Animation}} in July 2012), and animated by {{W|Studio B Productions}} in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was also aired annually on {{W|Cartoon Network}} for a few years in the US, and on {{W|CBC Television}} in Canada.
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It was produced by {{W|Classic Media}}, the rights holder for the original [[Rankin/Bass]] special and the remainder of the pre-1974 library, prior to being purchased by {{W|DreamWorks Animation}} in July 2012.
  
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The special has been bundled with the original 1969 Rankin/Bass special and ''[[Frosty Returns]]'', and was also aired annually on {{W|Cartoon Network}} for a few years in the US, and on [[wikipedia:CBC Television|CBC]] in Canada.
  
   
 
==Synopsis==
  
==Synopsis==
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{{spoiler}}At the beginning of the story, we see [[Frosty (Rankin/Bass character)|Frosty]]'s hat escape from a locked chest in an attic, fly out a window, and descend on the picture perfect town of Evergreen. Frosty first reveals himself to [[Tommy "Thomas" Tinkerton|Tommy Tinkerton]], the younger son of the town's impossibly upbeat but no-nonsense mayor, [[Mayor Tinkerton|Mr. Tinkerton]].
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After a magical hat strongly escapes the locked-up chests in an attic and flies out through a window, we see the picture-perfect town of Evergreen, where all the local children are bound to a ridiculously strict curfew and not allowed to have any kind of fun whatsoever. One calm boy living in that town is named [[Tommy "Thomas" Tinkerton|Tommy Tinkerton]], the son of the town’s impossibly upbeat but no-nonsense [[Mayor Tinkerton|mayor]]. Another storyline stars Tommy’s best friend, [[Walter Wader]], who shocks everyone, especially his very strict mother, befriends "a magical snowman" named [[Frosty]] and first-time have fun in the woods in Evergreen.
   
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One day, Walter’s rule-breaking gets all the kids of Evergreen talking, but it greatly upsets [[Principal Pankley]], who is even more adamantly opposed to magic than Mr. Tinkerton (who betrays Tommy that he is under Pankley's control after Walter tells the truth to Mr. Tinkerton). Principal Pankley uses the arrival of Frosty to sow doubts among the townspeople about Mayor Tinkerton’s leadership, and little by little he begins to take over the town.
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But Tommy however doesn't accept Frosty's invitation to play outside in the snow, because he’s afraid of disappointing his father (ever since he fail one time in school). So Frosty instead befriends with his best friend/ next-door neighbor, [[Walter Wader]], who shocks everyone, especially his very strict mother; Mrs. Wader, by breaking curfew and flying, sledding, snowball-fighting and "''having fun''" with Frosty in the Evergreen woods.
  
   
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But once magic is stirred up, it isn’t easily contained. One by one, Frosty wins over the other kids of Evergreen, including Tommy's older bullying brother [[Charlie Tinkerton|Charlie]], Tommy's lonely love interest [[Sara Simple]] (a sharp and independent young girl who wants to be an urban planner); and the happy-go-lucky triplets, Sonny, Sully, and Simon Sklarow. Frosty befriends each of them through the simple means of believing in them, which inspires them to begin to believe in themselves. Increasingly desperate to deny the existence of Frosty and keep Evergreen fun-free, Principal Pankley tricks Walter Wader into helping him lure Frosty for some ice-skating fun, then tricks Frosty into venturing onto thin ice. Before Walter can save his friend, Frosty, realizing it's too late to escape, falls through the ice and melts, causing Walter to get heartbroken and start sobbing. Principal Pankley captures Frosty’s hat, which is the key to his magic.
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Walter's rule-breaking gets all the other kids of Evergreen talking, but it greatly upsets [[Principal Pankley]], who is even more adamantly opposed to magic than Mayor Tinkerton. Pankley uses the arrival of Frosty to sow doubts among the townspeople about the Mayor's leadership, and little by little he begins to take over the town. But once magic is stirred up, it is not easily contained.
  
   
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As all of this unfolds, Tommy Tinkerton, the first one to whom Frosty appeared, has been sitting on the sidelines, watching his best friend, his brother, and his love interest experiencing adventure and magic in which he could share. But he has held back, even though he yearns to meet Frosty, out of loyalty to his dad (because he knows his dad would disapprove of him acknowledging the existence of magic). Everything changes, though, when Tommy finds a secret room beneath the library, in which he discovers a comic book filled with secrets about Frosty.
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Everything changes, though, when Tommy finds a secret room beneath the Evergreen library, in which he discovers a comic book filled with secrets about Frosty. At first, most of the comic book is blank. Each time Tommy checks it again, new panels appear. Over the course of several scenes, Tommy learns that Frosty's magic is in his hat; that his father (which is Mayor Tinkerton) met Frosty when he was a boy, and did believe in magic ''once upon a time''; and that Pankley, a childhood friend of his father's, took Frosty's hat and hid it away in an attic (which is the same attic from the beginning of the movie), causing young Mayor Tinkerton to lose his faith in magic.
  
   
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At first, most of the comic book is blank, but each time Tommy checks it, new panels appear. Over the course of several scenes, Tommy learns that Frosty’s magic is in his hat; that his dad (Mr. Tinkerton) met Frosty when he was a boy, and did believe in magic once upon a time; and that Principal Pankley, a childhood friend of his father’s, took Frosty’s hat and hid it away in an attic (the same attic from which the hat escaped at the beginning of the film), causing young Mr. Tinkerton to lose his faith in magic. The comic book also reveals to Tommy what Principal Pankley has just done (with Walter Wader’s unwitting help) to recapture Frosty.
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Meanwhile, Frosty joyfully wins over the kids, including Tommy's love interest; [[Sara Simple]] (a sharp, independent young girl who tells [[Mrs. Simple|her mother]], "''I don't want to be a princess- I want to be an urban planner''"), his older brother; [[Charlie Tinkerton]]; and even Simon, Sully, and Sonny Sklarow. Frosty befriends each of them through the simple means of believing in them, which inspires them to begin to believe in themselves one by one.
  
   
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All this time, Tommy has held back from befriending Frosty out of loyalty to his dad, who has always told Tommy not to believe in magic. But now Tommy sees that his dad once believed in magic, too, but was tricked into losing faith. And Tommy realizes that the most loyal thing he can do is not to hide from magic, but to help his dad rediscover that magic is indeed real. Tommy explains what’s really going on to a now-reformed Charlie, Sara, Walter, and the Sklarow triplets, and leads a daring rescue of Frosty’s hat in which all the kids help out.
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Increasingly desperate to deny the existence of Frosty and keep Evergreen fun-free, Pankley tricks Walter into helping him lure Frosty for some ice-skating fun in the woods, then tricks Frosty into venturing him onto "''thin ice''". But before Walter, noticing the thin ice begin cracking, can be able to save his friend, the unnoticed Frosty falls through the ice after it cracked and melts, and Pankley was be able to capture his hat, which is the key to his magic. This incident makes Walter sob in tears.
  
   
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A final battle between Principal Pankley, Walter, Tommy, Charlie, Sara and the Sklarow triplets playing "capture the flag" with the hat as the flag features a climactic series of scenes follows in which Pankley tries and fails to recapture the hat, then tries to deter the townspeople (including Mr. Tinkerton) from going into the woods to see what all the ruckus and noise are about. But Mr. Tinkerton refuses to be deterred, and Tommy is able to reintroduce his dad to the old friend, who Mr. Tinkerton had long since stopped believing in.
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As all of this unfolds, Tommy, who was the first one to whom Frosty appeared, has been sitting on the sidelines in gym class, watching his best friend, his brother, and his hoped-for sweetheart experiencing adventure and magic in which he could share. But he has held back, even though he yearns to meet Frosty, out of loyalty to his dad (because he knows his father would disapprove of him acknowledging the existence of magic). The comic book also reveals to Tommy what Pankley has just done (with Walter's unwitting help) to recapture Frosty.
  
   
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Meanwhile, the other parents are confused and angry: why are their kids out at night? And can this magical snowman they’ve been hearing about be real after all? Principal Pankley tries to stir them up to regain control of the situation, but Walter Wader breaks the spell by throwing a snowball at Principal Pankley. And one by one, the other kids and parents join in, until the town of Evergreen, which had forgotten how to have fun, gives itself over joyously to a “snowball-fighting, horseplaying, lark of a good time.”
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All this time, Tommy has held back from befriending Frosty out of loyalty to his father, who has always told Tommy not to believe in magic. But now Tommy sees that his father believed in magic one time, too, but was tricked into losing faith. And Tommy realizes that the most loyal thing he can do is not to hide from magic, but to help his father rediscover that magic is indeed real.
  
   
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As the snow melts, the unseen Frosty joyfully says goodbye to Evergreen and the unseen Pankley gets fired as principal and being arrested for banning fun and magic, an epilogue shows us a Evergreen transformed into spring—with Charlie playing football, Tommy skateboarding, Mr. Tinkerton doing magic tricks (in honor of his father), Sara reading a book about urban planning (before she gave up on her dreams and be with Tommy instead) and letting the parents take care of their children.
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Tommy explains what's really going on to Charlie, Sara, Walter and the Sklarow brothers, and leads a daring rescue of Frosty and his hat in which Tommy and his companions help out. A climactic series of scenes follows in which Pankley tries and fails to recapture the hat, then tries to deter the townspeople (including Mayor Tinkerton) from going into the woods to see what all the ruckus and noise are about. The parents are angry, worried and confused: why are their kids out at night? And can this magical snowman they have been hearing about be real after all?
  
   
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All the time, the story has been narrated (à la ''Our Town'') by a warm, wise, seemingly omniscient old man named Thomas who had appeared periodically and comments on the events unfolding in Evergreen. The final scene reveals that he is Tommy, all grown up, now married to Sara and telling the audience his own story.
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Meanwhile, Mayor Tinkerton refuses to be deterred, and Tommy is able to reintroduce his father to the old friend, who Mayor Tinkerton had long since stopped believing in ever since. Pankley tries to stir them up to regain control of the situation, but Walter however breaks the spell by throwing a snowball at Pankley. And one by one, the other kids--including Tommy and their parents join in, until all the citizens of Evergreen, which had forgotten how to have fun, gives itself over joyously to a "''snowball-fighting, horseplaying, lark of a good time''."
  
   
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==Trivia==
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A brief epilogue shows the audience Evergreen transformed into spring—with Charlie playing football, Tommy skateboarding, Mayor Tinkerton doing magic tricks (in honor of his father; [[Professor Hinkle]]), and Sara reading a book about urban planning, even when she glazed to Tommy into her eyes.
  
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* The young Mr. Tinkerton's father greatly resembles [[Professor Hinkle]] from the original ''Frosty'' special.
   
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==Cast==
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All the time, the story has been narrated (à la "''Our Town''") by a warm, wise, seemingly omniscient old man named "''Thomas''" who appears periodically and comments on the events unfolding in Evergreen. In the final scene, Thomas reveals that he is Tommy, all grown up and now married to Sara; and he has been telling the audience his own story.
  
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|Jeannie Elias || [[Charlie Tinkerton]]<br>Librarian
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==Continuity==
  
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Though advertised as a sequel to the classic Rankin/Bass special, ''The Legend of Frosty the Snowman'' holds only a loose continuity with it. The only connection between the two seems to be the magician (Professor Hinkle), Tommy's father; Mayor Tinkerton (whose name is revealed as "''Theodore Tinkerton''", also one of [[Karen|Karen's]] friends in the original special and apparently Hinkle's son), and the hat. Other than them and Frosty, no character appears in both stories, nor do the stories match up in details such as who first brought Frosty to life or what happened to him afterwards. Despite this, the film has more continuity with the original than does the show more commonly recognized as its sequel, ''[[Frosty Returns]]''.
  
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|[[Bill Fagerbakke]] || [[Frosty]]
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|Evan Gore || Paperboy
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*[[Grey DeLisle]] - Miss Sharpey, Simon Sklarow, Sully Sklarow
  
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*Jeannie Elias - [[Charlie Tinkerton]], Librarian
  
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|[[Grey DeLisle]] || Miss Sharpey<br>Simon Sklarow<br>Sullivan Sklarow
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*{{W|Bill Fagerbakke}} - [[Frosty]]
  
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*Evan Gore - Paperboy
  
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|David Jeremiah || Mr. Simple<br>Townsperson #1<br>Mr. Sklarow
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*[[Tom Kenny]] - [[Mayor Tinkerton|Mr. Tinkerton]]
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|[[Tom Kenny]] || [[Mayor Tinkerton|Mr. Tinkerton]]
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*[[Tress MacNeille]] - [[Mrs. Simple]], Girl #1
  
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*Kenny Blank (also credited as Kenn Michael) - [[Walter Wader]]
  
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|[[Tress MacNeille]] || [[Mrs. Simple]]<br>Girl #1
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*Larry Miller - [[Principal Pankley]]
  
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*{{W|Candi Milo}} - [[Mrs. Tinkerton]], Girl #2
  
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|Kenn Michael || [[Walter Wader]]
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*{{W|Burt Reynolds}} - The Narrator (a.k.a Thomas)
  
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*[[Kath Soucie]] - [[Tommy "Thomas" Tinkerton|Tommy Tinkerton]], Adult Sara Simple
  
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|Larry Miller || [[Principal Pankley]]
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*[[Tara Strong]] - [[Sara Simple]], Sonny Sklarow
  
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*Vernee Watson-Johnson - Mrs. Wader
  
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|[[Candi Milo]] || [[Mrs. Tinkerton]]<br>Girl #2
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|{{W|Burt Reynolds}} || Narrator<br>Old Tommy Tinkerton
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|[[Kath Soucie]] || [[Tommy "Thomas" Tinkerton|Tommy Tinkerton]]<br>Old Sara Simple
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|[[Tara Strong]] || [[Sara Simple]]<br>Sonny Sklarow
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==Gallery==
  
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TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 4.png|"I've gotta do something."
  
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 4.png|"I've gotta do something."
 
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 3.png|Sara and the brothers sledding away.
  
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 3.png|Sara and the brothers sledding away.
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TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 22.png|"*thought* Mother, why are you so popularity with my father?"
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TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 22.png|"Mother, why are you so popularity with my father?"
 
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 5.png|Sara meets Frosty outside the window.
  
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 5.png|Sara meets Frosty outside the window.
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TLoFtSm DVD cover.png|TLoFtSm DVD disc cover
  
 
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 14.png|Tommy on a daring Frosty rescue!
  
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 14.png|Tommy on a daring Frosty rescue!
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TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 13.png|"(bored) Yeah. Uhhh... My mother's expecting me."
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TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 13.png|"Yeah. Uhhh... My mother's expecting me."
 
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman Widest screen (4).png|Tommy discovers his dad's past in the photo and a comic book.
  
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman Widest screen (4).png|Tommy discovers his dad's past in the photo and a comic book.
 
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman Widest screen (3).png|"Horse-playing and lark of the good times."
  
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman Widest screen (3).png|"Horse-playing and lark of the good times."
 
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman Widerscreen (4).png|Walter Wader discovers Frosty's hat
  
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman Widerscreen (4).png|Walter Wader discovers Frosty's hat
 
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman Widerscreen (13).png|"I don't want to be a princess--I want to be an urban planner."
  
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman Widerscreen (13).png|"I don't want to be a princess--I want to be an urban planner."
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TLoFtSm- Proffesor Hinkle.png|Professor Hinkle's cameo.
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TLoFtSm- Proffesor Hinkle.png|Professor Hinkle cameo in ''The Legend of Frosty the Snowman''
  
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TLoFtSm- Custom Comic front.png|Frosty the Snowman front comic cover
  
 
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 8.png|Curious Sara Simple
  
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 8.png|Curious Sara Simple
 
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TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 10.png|"It looks like a snowman!"
  
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 10.png|"It looks like a snowman!"
 
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TLoFtSm scenes 1.png|"No matter how many times you have be chanced, you never hang out with him!" comparisons
  
 
TLoFtSm- Custom Comic 1st page.png|Frosty the Snownan 1st comic panel
  
TLoFtSm- Custom Comic 1st page.png|Frosty the Snownan 1st comic panel
 
TLoFtSm- Custom Comic 2nd page.png|Frosty the Snowman 2nd comic panel
  
TLoFtSm- Custom Comic 2nd page.png|Frosty the Snowman 2nd comic panel
 
snehuliak-frosty.jpg|Snehulak Frosty DVD
  
snehuliak-frosty.jpg|Snehulak Frosty DVD
 
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TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 24.png|"Well, gotta go."
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TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 28.png|"That was incredible!"
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TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 27.png|"Who's there?"
  
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 27.png|"Who's there?"
 
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TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 30.png|Tommy introduce his father, Mayor Tinkerton to Frosty (Widescreen)
  
TLoFtSm Wider screen custom 30.png|Tommy introduce his father, Mayor Tinkerton to Frosty (Widescreen)
 
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TLoFtSm- Unliving Frosty.png|Lifeless Frosty
  
 
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TLoFtSm- Tommy Tinkerton (He's real, Dad.).png|"He's real, Dad."
  
TLoFtSm- Tommy Tinkerton (He's real, Dad.).png|"He's real, Dad."
 
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TLoFtSm- Tommy Tinkerton (He was real all along).png|"He was real all the long."
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TLoFtSm- Frosty (I love to ice skate!).png|"I LOVE to Ice Skate!"
  
TLoFtSm- Frosty (I love to ice skate!).png|"I LOVE to Ice Skate!"
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TLoFtSm- Frosty tells tommy he did listen.png|"But, you did listen."
  
TLoFtSm- Frosty tells tommy he did listen.png|"But, you did listen."
 
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The Legend of Frosty the Snowman is a 2005 direct-to-video film that serves as a reboot to Frosty the Snowman. It was produced by Classic Media, the rights holder for the pre-1974 Rankin/Bass library (prior to being acquired by DreamWorks Animation in July 2012), and animated by Studio B Productions in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was also aired annually on Cartoon Network for a few years in the US, and on CBC Television in Canada.

Synopsis

After a magical hat strongly escapes the locked-up chests in an attic and flies out through a window, we see the picture-perfect town of Evergreen, where all the local children are bound to a ridiculously strict curfew and not allowed to have any kind of fun whatsoever. One calm boy living in that town is named Tommy Tinkerton, the son of the town’s impossibly upbeat but no-nonsense mayor. Another storyline stars Tommy’s best friend, Walter Wader, who shocks everyone, especially his very strict mother, befriends "a magical snowman" named Frosty and first-time have fun in the woods in Evergreen.

One day, Walter’s rule-breaking gets all the kids of Evergreen talking, but it greatly upsets Principal Pankley, who is even more adamantly opposed to magic than Mr. Tinkerton (who betrays Tommy that he is under Pankley's control after Walter tells the truth to Mr. Tinkerton). Principal Pankley uses the arrival of Frosty to sow doubts among the townspeople about Mayor Tinkerton’s leadership, and little by little he begins to take over the town.

But once magic is stirred up, it isn’t easily contained. One by one, Frosty wins over the other kids of Evergreen, including Tommy's older bullying brother Charlie, Tommy's lonely love interest Sara Simple (a sharp and independent young girl who wants to be an urban planner); and the happy-go-lucky triplets, Sonny, Sully, and Simon Sklarow. Frosty befriends each of them through the simple means of believing in them, which inspires them to begin to believe in themselves. Increasingly desperate to deny the existence of Frosty and keep Evergreen fun-free, Principal Pankley tricks Walter Wader into helping him lure Frosty for some ice-skating fun, then tricks Frosty into venturing onto thin ice. Before Walter can save his friend, Frosty, realizing it's too late to escape, falls through the ice and melts, causing Walter to get heartbroken and start sobbing. Principal Pankley captures Frosty’s hat, which is the key to his magic.

As all of this unfolds, Tommy Tinkerton, the first one to whom Frosty appeared, has been sitting on the sidelines, watching his best friend, his brother, and his love interest experiencing adventure and magic in which he could share. But he has held back, even though he yearns to meet Frosty, out of loyalty to his dad (because he knows his dad would disapprove of him acknowledging the existence of magic). Everything changes, though, when Tommy finds a secret room beneath the library, in which he discovers a comic book filled with secrets about Frosty.

At first, most of the comic book is blank, but each time Tommy checks it, new panels appear. Over the course of several scenes, Tommy learns that Frosty’s magic is in his hat; that his dad (Mr. Tinkerton) met Frosty when he was a boy, and did believe in magic once upon a time; and that Principal Pankley, a childhood friend of his father’s, took Frosty’s hat and hid it away in an attic (the same attic from which the hat escaped at the beginning of the film), causing young Mr. Tinkerton to lose his faith in magic. The comic book also reveals to Tommy what Principal Pankley has just done (with Walter Wader’s unwitting help) to recapture Frosty.

All this time, Tommy has held back from befriending Frosty out of loyalty to his dad, who has always told Tommy not to believe in magic. But now Tommy sees that his dad once believed in magic, too, but was tricked into losing faith. And Tommy realizes that the most loyal thing he can do is not to hide from magic, but to help his dad rediscover that magic is indeed real. Tommy explains what’s really going on to a now-reformed Charlie, Sara, Walter, and the Sklarow triplets, and leads a daring rescue of Frosty’s hat in which all the kids help out.

A final battle between Principal Pankley, Walter, Tommy, Charlie, Sara and the Sklarow triplets playing "capture the flag" with the hat as the flag features a climactic series of scenes follows in which Pankley tries and fails to recapture the hat, then tries to deter the townspeople (including Mr. Tinkerton) from going into the woods to see what all the ruckus and noise are about. But Mr. Tinkerton refuses to be deterred, and Tommy is able to reintroduce his dad to the old friend, who Mr. Tinkerton had long since stopped believing in.

Meanwhile, the other parents are confused and angry: why are their kids out at night? And can this magical snowman they’ve been hearing about be real after all? Principal Pankley tries to stir them up to regain control of the situation, but Walter Wader breaks the spell by throwing a snowball at Principal Pankley. And one by one, the other kids and parents join in, until the town of Evergreen, which had forgotten how to have fun, gives itself over joyously to a “snowball-fighting, horseplaying, lark of a good time.”

As the snow melts, the unseen Frosty joyfully says goodbye to Evergreen and the unseen Pankley gets fired as principal and being arrested for banning fun and magic, an epilogue shows us a Evergreen transformed into spring—with Charlie playing football, Tommy skateboarding, Mr. Tinkerton doing magic tricks (in honor of his father), Sara reading a book about urban planning (before she gave up on her dreams and be with Tommy instead) and letting the parents take care of their children.

All the time, the story has been narrated (à la Our Town) by a warm, wise, seemingly omniscient old man named Thomas who had appeared periodically and comments on the events unfolding in Evergreen. The final scene reveals that he is Tommy, all grown up, now married to Sara and telling the audience his own story.

Trivia

  • The young Mr. Tinkerton's father greatly resembles Professor Hinkle from the original Frosty special.

Cast

Voice actor/actress Character(s)
Jeannie Elias Charlie Tinkerton
Librarian
Bill Fagerbakke Frosty
Evan Gore Paperboy
Grey DeLisle Miss Sharpey
Simon Sklarow
Sullivan Sklarow
David Jeremiah Mr. Simple
Townsperson #1
Mr. Sklarow
Tom Kenny Mr. Tinkerton
Tress MacNeille Mrs. Simple
Girl #1
Kenn Michael Walter Wader
Larry Miller Principal Pankley
Candi Milo Mrs. Tinkerton
Girl #2
Burt Reynolds Narrator
Old Tommy Tinkerton
Kath Soucie Tommy Tinkerton
Old Sara Simple
Tara Strong Sara Simple
Sonny Sklarow
Vernee Watson-Johnson Mrs. Wader

Gallery

External links

WildBrain
WildBrain Spark "Christmas Tree" • "Twinkle's Wish" • A Holly Johnny Christmas • "Christmas" (Yo Gabba Gabba!) • "A Very Awesome Christmas" • Yo Gabba Gabba!: A Very Awesome Live Holiday Show! • "SheZon's Greetings" • Dorg and the Christmas Fairy • "Johnny's Holiday Light Fight" • "Christmas at Malory Towers"
Studio B Productions Snowden: Raggedy Ann & Andy's Adventure • "Joy to Yvon" • "Snow Biz" • The Legend of Frosty the Snowman • Tis the Season for Revenge • Secret Santa • "Jungle Bells" / "Goat of Christmas Presents" • "Sleighs of Hazard" • "Jingle Cans" • The Side Show Christmas • "Kid vs. Kat vs. Christmas" • "Fangs for the Memories" • "Hearth's Warming Eve" • "I Heard the Barks on Christmas Day" • "Christmas Evil" • "Hearthbreakers" • "Charles Dickens" • "A Hearth's Warming Tail" • "Robert Edwin Peary" • "The Hearth's Warming Club" • My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Holidays Unwrapped
CINAR / Cookie Jar Entertainment "The Dogs' Christmas" • Madeline's Christmas • "The Real Story of O Christmas Tree" • "Thomas' Snowsuit" • "50 Below Zero" • "A Gift of Munsch" • "The Night Before Christmas" • "The Perfect Christmas" • "The Best Christmas Present Ever" • "Abe and Babe's Christmas Lesson" • "Sally Cat's Christmas Dream" • "The Big Apple Christmas Caper" • "Santa Needs Help" • "All I Want for Christmouse" • "Christmas Star" • "Snowmobile to Panic" • Arthur's Perfect Christmas • "Caillou's Christmas" • Caillou's Holiday Movie • Gotta Catch Santa Claus • The Velveteen Rabbit • "A Holly Johnny Christmas" • "That's Swellaphant!" • "Caillou’s Perfect Christmas"
DiC Entertainment "Christmas Memories" • "North Pole Cat" • "Xmas Marks the Spot" • "There's No Such Thing as Stego-Claws" • "The Year Scroogenip Swiped Christmas" • "Koopa Klaus" • "Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush" • "Merry Christmas, Mr. Carroll" • "Christmas in July" • "The Night Before Cave Christmas" • A Christmas Adventure • "Merry Christmas, Super Dave!" • Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas • A Hollywood Hounds Christmas • "Do Not Reboot 'Til Christmas" • "Kilo Is Coming to Town" • "It's a Gorganus Life" • "Madeline at the North Pole" • "Just Like Old Times" • Twas the Night Before Bumpy • Jingle Bell Rock • Sonic Christmas Blast • The Adventures of Snowden • A Christmas Carol • "Holiday on Ice" • "A Gadget Boy Christmas Around the World" • "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" • "Witchmas Carole" • "The Christmas Phantom" • "Across the Delaware" • "Berry Merry Christmas" • "Santa Claw" • "The Claw Who Stole Christmas"
Ragdoll Productions "Magical Lights" • "Christmas Tree" • "Making Christmas Cards" • "Crackers" • "Christmas Carols" • "The Perfect Tree"
Decode Entertainment "Santa Sword is Coming to Town" • "Secret Santa" • "Last Day of Christmas" • "A Very Sadie Christmas" • "His Master's Choice" • "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" • "The Nutcracker" • "The Happy Holidays Issue" • "How to Make a Christmas Miracle" • "Lobster Claus is Coming to Town"
Halifax Films "Bob's Broken Sleigh" • "A Wish World Christmas"
Iconix Brand Group A Charlie Brown Christmas • "The Play" • It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown • Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales • "Berry Merry Christmas" • I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown • "Dear Santa Claus" • "Happy First Frost" • "Christmas is Coming" • "Christmas is on Its Way" • "It's Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown" • "Berry Merry Melody" • "Lemon's Name in Lights" • "Happiness is the Gift of Giving" • "Mission Unfrostable" • "Happiness Is Holiday Traditions"
FilmFair "Paddington's Christmas" • "Paddington and the Christmas Shopping" • "Christmas in Fabuland" • "Huxley Pig's Cinderella"
Nerd Corps Entertainment "A Christmas Wish" • "Monster Machine Christmas" • Lego Friends: Holiday Special • "Happy Sniffmas" • "A Blazing Amazing Christmas"
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