Treasure Planet... 12 weeks!

Wait... what? Treasure Planet? But Jenna, last week you said you were going to watch Zootopia! Yes, yes I did. That was the plan. Right until Thursday before the weekend when my husband talked to his brother and we found out that he and his family couldn't come over. Cubby is dead set on spending that particular movie night with his cousins, so when they cancelled, he asked if we could switch to something different. Luckily, I got the text from the local library that Treasure Planet was being held for me, soooo...

Truth be told, we've never seen the movie and I had absolutely ZERO idea what to do with this one. We really wanted to have movies on the list that we've never seen, but it definitely presents a challenge when it comes to planning! Even a Google search didn't help much. Treasure Planet just isn't popular enough, I guess. Thankfully, the Purple Patch was a great resource. I was so excited to be able to point out the things we had that matched up with what was in the movie!

Dinner was simple: chicken strips (dippers), fries, and salad. Not super thematic! "Purp Juice" for drink. We love Sparkling Ice and I happened to find Grape Raspberry flavor at Target. I felt better about that than serving grape soda again!

Cubby had an idea to get gold coin chocolates ("Mommy, Treasure Planet! We have to get them!"), but for the life of me I couldn't find them! I searched Target and Walmart to no avail. We stood in the candy aisle at Walmart trying to find a viable alternative. He wanted to get jelly beans and pick out all the yellow ones (the 5 year old mind is a beautiful thing). I thought a Hershey Gold bar would be a great compromise. We ended up with both... aaaand then I forgot to put out the Gold bar LOL. The rest? Dr. Doppler's dog biscuits and Zorellian jelly worms.

Let's discuss the caramel popcorn. Because it was AH-mazing. It was super easy to make, too. I also followed their recipe for making the popcorn on the stove. Honestly, I may never go back to using our air-popper! The caramel sauce was just the right amount of buttery and gooey, without feeling like I was going to break a tooth. Just make sure to let it cool for long enough: I didn't and our hands ended up a little buttery! Nothing a couple of napkins couldn't fix LOL.

I upped my prop game a bit for this one and got some slime stuff from Walmart. I made sure to grab the last pink one they had so that Cubby could have his own personal Morph. That little fella was a very cute part of the movie and Cubby loved playing with the goo for a bit. Luckily, Lady A could have cared less about it since it's not made for someone her age.

We all enjoyed the movie. It's part of Disney's so-called "second dark ages" or "lost years" and not a movie that anyone I know has even seen. I don't know why though! Maybe because it was around the same time that Pixar started making movies and the hand-drawn animation was on it's way out the door. Watching Treasure Planet, you can see where they were starting to use the CG animation and trying to blend it with the 2D that we were so familiar with. It was a fun movie! Plus, it has a song by the Goo Goo Dolls as it's theme. Yeah, I'm a sucker for anything 90s. I got a little teary when Silver gives Jim that little pep talk at the end "You're going to rattle the stars, you are." I just loved that.

Next up... well, we'll see. It should be Zootopia if I can convince Cubby to get over the whole cousins bit. Stay tuned!

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