Trivia: When the hobo puts on the Santa cap, he is imitating the mechanical Santa the kids saw in the window of Herpolsheimer's department store.
Scott215
9th Nov 2023
The Polar Express (2004)
29th Dec 2018
The Polar Express (2004)
29th Dec 2018
The Polar Express (2004)
Trivia: In the car holding all the toys slated for recycling, one of the marionettes is of Jessica Rabbit, from another Robert Zemeckis film, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
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Suggested correction: As you yourself stated, the whole thing is likely a dream, where "normal" reality doesn't apply. In the "real world", the train would never be able to do any of the things that it does in the film.
wizard_of_gore ★
Dream or not, it is still a stupidity of the train crew to not secure a pin that could work itself free of the controls of the locomotive.
Scott215
Dreams are often unrealistic. There is no mistake.
The entry doesn't say anything about the entire trip to the North Pole being a dream.
Agreed. It was never stated that it was a dream considering that Hero Boy lost the sleigh bell only to find it Christmas morning with a note from Santa. And to add, Steamer said that cotter pin was sheared off which caused it to come loose.