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Animation Station: Should I Have Blogged About The Reluctant Dragon?

Posted on September 13, 2025 by stationmaster

This is one of those ideas that I described as Blog Posts That Were Not to Be, one I’ve now decided should be, so a faithful reader of The Adaptation Station.com already knows the gist of it. I even practically … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Kate DiCamillo Adaptations

Posted on August 22, 2025 by stationmaster

“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.”-Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux I really don’t envy any Hollywood screenwriter faced with the task of adapting one of Kate DiCamillo’s books. That’s not to say her books … Continue reading →

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How Good of an Adaptation is The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?

Posted on August 16, 2025 by stationmaster

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) is actually a compilation of three previously released animated featurettes (e.g. twenty-five-minute length cartoons that would originally appear before full length movies in theaters) with some (entertaining) bridging material and an epilogue … Continue reading →

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How Bad of an Adaptation is The Black Cauldron?

Posted on August 8, 2025 by stationmaster

The Chronicles of Prydain are a series of children’s fantasy adventure novels from the 1960s by Lloyd Alexander. They are beloved largely because of their characterizations. The Black Cauldron (1985) is an animated movie adaptation of the first two books … Continue reading →

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Adaptation Station Blog Posts That Were Not to Be

Posted on July 25, 2025 by stationmaster

Waste not, want not, I suppose. Scott Cramer, a YouTuber whom I like[1]Partially because we’re both North Dakotans., once did a video about ideas he had for YouTube videos which he ultimately never made for various reasons. This allowed him … Continue reading →

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Speaking of Snow White Movies…

Posted on July 19, 2025 by stationmaster

I first saw Hallmark Entertainment’s Snow White: The Fairest of Them All (2001) before I was ten years old. It would be a long time before I got to watch it again, so it loomed large in my childhood imagination. … Continue reading →

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Snow White (2025) Makes Me Neither Happy nor Grumpy Part 2

Posted on July 11, 2025 by stationmaster

This is a continuation of Part 1. If you haven’t read it already and you want to understand this, you’d better do so. CCC 3: The Movie is Anti-Man/Anti-Romance I can’t blame people for expecting this since Rachel Zegler’s infamous … Continue reading →

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Snow White (2025) Makes Me Neither Happy nor Grumpy Part 1

Posted on July 10, 2025 by stationmaster

I never wanted this to be a Disney blog. I mean, I always wanted to do some blog posts about Disney movies since I’m a fan of fairy tales and classic children’s fantasies, many of which they’ve adapted, and I … Continue reading →

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Two Peter Pans That Fly Under the Radar

Posted on June 13, 2025 by stationmaster

Back when I did a series on Peter Pan movies, in this blog’s early days, I only wrote about the three theatrically released ones and the various TV versions of the musical by Mark Charlap and Carolyn Leigh. Now I’d … Continue reading →

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Return to Neverland Is Better Before It Actually Returns to Neverland

Posted on June 6, 2025 by stationmaster

That Mother’s Day post got me in the mood to blog about Peter Pan adaptations, ones I haven’t really covered here in detail before. Technically, the movie I’ll be discussing in this post is a sequel to Peter Pan (1953), … Continue reading →

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