However, when the car containing the damaged and unwanted toys is shown in an interior shot, it is very dark and unlit. The Hero Boy finds the Hero Girl's ticket on her seat. However, when she takes the cup of hot chocolate to the lonely boy in the next car, her ticket isn't where the Hero Boy found it. When the Hero Boy is skiing with the Hobo atop the train, the camera angle pans several times.
At one point, the view is from the front of the train, showing the engine and the two fellows are on the third car, with two cars between them and the engine.
Subsequent pans show them jumping at least three more times, and traveling on more than just two cars. The first time the Boy goes downstairs on Christmas eve there is a red snowman skirt on the tree.
Then on Christmas morning, as the train is going around the tree the skirt on the tree is yellow kind of color and has bells on it.
The number of children standing on the square at the North Pole keeps changing. When the PE is pulling away from Billy poor boy , the train is moving -- but the window light patterns spilling onto the snow around Billy are not. Next scene the train gathers speed and the window light patterns are moving and have jumped to not reaching his feet. When the Hero Girl's ticket has blown outside the train and comes back in and rests on an air intake, in the following shots it disappears and reappears.
When the Hero Boy runs out of his house when The Polar Express arrives, he leaves footprints as well as a long skid mark, in the snow. After he boards the train, you can clearly see that his footprints and the skid mark are gone. When the conductor is punching the Hero Boy's ticket, you can see the holes flying out of the puncher and on to Hero Boy's face. If you count the holes that fell out against the holes that were punched on the ticket, they do not match.
There are obviously more holes that fell out and on to the Hero Boy's face than were actually punched, most likely for effect. When the children are in the sack of presents, the blimp starts to close the sack. The sack was shown closing over the children's heads, but in the next scene it was shown at eye-level. The height of the sack of presents constantly changes.
Whenever the engineer opens the throttle on the locomotive, he pushes it away from him, the further away he pushes it the faster the train will go. In reality, the engineer must pull the throttle lever towards him to accelerate while pushing it away from him closes the throttle valve.
The hero boy has to jump between cars because of the gap between them. In actuality there are metal plates between cars to cover the couplers and allow easy access. When the conductor and the hero girl move from car to car they simply walk across.
After the caribou begin to step away from the track, the conductor instructs the train's engineer, "All ahead As the train approaches Glacier Gulch, the sign says degree grade. Chris Van Allsburg, a little boy at the time, would play on it while attending football games at the stadium with his father. In November , the same year The Polar Express book was published, was back in service and moved under its own power for the first time since Today, the locomotive currently resides in Owosso, Michigan and is one of two surviving members of the N-1 class with the other being Pere Marquette Annually since , has hauled winter weekend excursions in November and December initially as the Polar Express, then as The North Pole Express after the film license expired.
The Polar Express Wiki Explore. Browse wiki. Explore Wikis Community Central. Everyone soon notices the cracking ice, so Smokey and Steamer get the train back on the tracks with the Conductor navigating. The Conductor, Hero Boy and Hero Girl later walk across the locomotive to get back to the passenger cars. He chose this design because he used to play on the locomotive while attending games at the Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan, where it was placed on static display at the time.
He was also inspired by its number, which is also the date of Christmas. The locomotive's design was used in the film, as well as its sounds, with the exception of its whistle, which came from Sierra Railway No 3.
Drawings and blueprints of the locomotive were used to create the 3D model. Today, the is housed in Owosso, Michigan and is operated and maintained by the Steam Railroading Institute. The frequently hauls passenger excursions in Michigan throughout the year, including the world-famous North Pole Express trips throughout the months of November and December. In both the original book and the film adaptation, the Polar Express is painted black along with its tender.
Its tender in the film, unlike in the book, has the words "Polar Express" in white on both sides. In some merchandise, the wording on the tender is yellow. The locomotive often also has the number with its color matching the wording on the tender under its side cab windows, like Pere Marquette , even though it has no number in either the book or the film.
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