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The Power and Thrill of Naming: Bottom-of-Barrel Kid's Animations

Move over Pixar, shift aside DreamWorks.  

Animated movies have covered a lot of ground.  Toys, insects, emotions, and junk-cleaning robots have all been made into movies.  Even (cringe) emojis have had their day.  So, what else is there to animate that isn't flogging a dead horse?  That's where this edition of the Power and Thrill of Naming Things come in.  We'll scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with Animated Kid's Movie ideas.

  1. The Secret Lives of Plants: not to be confused with Plants Vs. Zombies, the Movie
  2. Soil Nematodes: an exciting concept for exactly 5 people worldwide
  3. Deep Sea Environment: think a gritty reboot of Finding Nemo
  4. Petri Dish: entire civilization of bacteria in a single dish; think Horton Hears a Who, but stickier
  5. Planets of the Solar System: flying around, acting like the Roman gods they're named after
  6. Whales: an entire movie expanding on that one song from Fantasia 2000
  7. Elementary particles: quarks, bosons, and leptons, oh my!
  8. Clouds: a lowly Cumulus longs to visit the stratosphere
  9. Living Sketches: vibrant characters that leap right off the page!
  10. Scorpions: a Bug's Life? not enough legs; Charlotte's Web? to many webs
  11. Pre-Cambrian Life: rather than the Good Dinosaur, think the Good Stromatolite
  12. Old Technology: rotary phones, CD-players, and cathode-ray tube TVs escape the big city
  13. Ugly Welsh Dragons: shedding some light on less charismatic beasties
  14. Maritime Signal Flags: Victor (V) flag goes missing, prompting an epic journey
  15. Musical instruments: a musical, obviously
  16. Jellyfish: aka, three hours of Blue Earth B-roll in animated form
  17. Mushroom folk: the main character is a fun guy
  18. Driftwood golems: think Guardians of the Galaxy, but every character is Groot; also, seawater
  19. Hourglasses: time is running out, so is this movie's plot
  20. Balloons: Severely convoluted spin-off of Up

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