Every year at Christmas time, the good witch Befana flies on her broom delivering toys to all the well-behaved children of Italy. But this year, Befana’s assistant, the greedy Dr. Scarafoni, intends to force rich parents to pay for toys and to give nothing to poor children ! To fulfill his sinister plans, he makes Befana very sick… Dr. Scarafoni then begins to rule Befana’s shop with an iron hand. He drives out of the shop orphan boy Francesco, who was staring bedazzled at The Blue Arrow, a wonderful wooden train… Outraged, the toys decide to escape : they climb onto The Blue Arrow train which starts rolling, rolling away from Dr. Scarafoni ! Their aim is to go and give themselves to the children they were meant for. Spicciola, a special toy dog, makes a wish that his nose will lead him to Francesco. Francesco is accused of stealing the missing toys and arrested. Meanwhile, the toys on the Blue Arrow train are chased across the city by Dr. Scarafoni, meeting many dangers on their way. Finally, Befana finds out about Scarafoni’s dreadful plans and has her toymakers create more toys hastily. She gets Francesco released by the police, then rushes to deliver her gifts. As morning nears, Befana delivers toys to all the good children, rich or poor… and last but not least, turns Spicciola into a real dog for his new best friend Francesco !
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Enter Fliltze the Firetooth, a dragon – a child dragon to be exact – recently hatched from a long forgotten egg left in some secret hiding place since the age of myth and warrior, like the 10,000 year old Alpine mountain climber recently found still frozen where time had forgotten him. But unlike dragons of yore, Flitze has no parents to raise him, no papa dragon to teach him to breathe fire, fear humans, terrorize villages and inspire the wrath of man and the envy of other animals. Instead, what Flitze finds is friends. Flitze enters a world of animals and children, of trees and earth and wind in the ancient and sometimes scary forest of Never Moor. While cars speed past on the autobahn and satelite dishes perch atop neighboring houses, the lush and green forest life along the rocky slopes and in the dark mysterious caves of Never Moor seems to be timeless. It is a safe haven from the world of progress. When Flitze suddenly and unexpectedly falls into this world, his arrival triggers all the other dormant elements of magic, myth and legend to revive, to come back from their centuries of slumber. And into this world of reborn wonder comes our fledgling dragon anxious to learn his place in the world and, most especially, to find another like himself, to find his kin and his place in this new and wondrous world he was left so unprepared for…
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