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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
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Momby. Momby stole the heads of all the dancing girls of Emerald City, and switches her head everyday.
Fairuza Balk. Fairuza also was in 'The Waterboy', like the next question says.
Waterboy. She played Adam Sandler's girlfriend.
Tik-Tok. Tik-Tok has to be wound up to talk, think, and move.
| What does the 'Gnome King' serve Dorothy and her friends? | Return To Oz
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Limestone cakes and melted silver. The Gnome King is all made of rock and to him, chickens' eggs are poisonous.
shooting star. The night before the key is found, Dorothy spots a shooting star while she is trying to sleep.
Billina. She's a cute chicken :) and smart too!
Gnome King. The Gnome King was a mean dude.
| Where does Mombi keep the key to the cabinet with her original head? | Return to Oz
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Around her wrist. Dorothy unties it without trouble from Mombi's wrist but gets into trouble when she knocks over a bottle near Mombi's original sleeping head. She starts to scream, along with all the other heads in her collection. Scary scene!
| What did Tick-Tock fake to trick the Gnome King into allowing Dorothy into the Gnome King's gallery with him? | Return to Oz
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His action had run down. He wanted to have Dorothy check to see what he turned into just in case he didn't choose correctly.
| What kind of sandwich does Dorothy get when she first opens a lunch from the lunch pail tree? | Return to Oz
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| What kind of powder does Dorothy steal from Mambi? | Return to Oz
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powder of life. She sprinkles it on a Gump's head tied to a couch, and makes it fly.
eggs. Billina lays an egg and kills the Gnome King while in Jack's head hiding.
| What is the name of the rightful ruler of Oz (and Jack's mother)? | Return to Oz
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Ozma. She is the reflection in the mirror Dorothy sees throughout the movie. Ozma sends Dorothy to Kansas soon after.
Fairuza Balk. Fairuza made her acting debut at the tender age of 9. The film has an interesting clip with her at the end where she gives you some insight on the making of the film.
shock therapy. Princess Ozma helps Dorothy escape from the doctor just before she's about to be shocked.
Billina. In Kansas, she was just a chicken who couldn't even lay an egg, but in Oz, she talks, talks, talks!
A lightning storm. When Dorothy and Ozma are running away, a storm blows up and Dorothy floats off in a crate and ends up back in Oz.
Ozma. The Nome King & Mombi want her to be locked in the mirror so they can rule Oz.
the Royal Army of Oz. In order for Tik-Tok to work, his thought, action & speech have to be kept wound up.
a green ornament. He gives Dorothy and her friends the chance to find him by touching things and calling out "Oz".
a ham sandwich. She tells Billina to share her lunch and Billina's comment is, "OK, as long as it isn't chicken."
the Deadly Desert. If you step on the ground in the Deadly Desert, you turn to sand. They have to jump across the rocks to get to the grass.
an egg. And guess who saves the day? Billina, who have never layed an egg in her life, suddenly does!
Michael Sundin. He had to walk backwards, too, and wasn't allowed to be inside Tik Tok more than 10 minutes at a time. He died of AIDS in July 1989. R.I.P., dear Michael!
1980. This movie was a long-time dream for both him and Disney.
England. It proved less expensive to shoot there.
| How many drafts of the screenplay did Walter Murch and Gill Dennis go through before coming up with a workable version? | Know Your "Return to Oz"
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7. It was very frustrating having to cut scene that included an alternate opening, scenes with the Tin Man and Cowardly lion and the rest of the Army of Oz.
Billina. It slowed down production time quite a bit and really frustrated Mak Wilson.
Oz. The title was changed after they won a major copyright battle with the studio which produced an animated TV movie in 1964 of the same name.
| Which song did Billina lip synch to, in her first screen test, entertaining the rest of the crew? | Know Your "Return to Oz"
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My Way. That just proves how happy they were that she actually worked. (Information from Cinefex Magazine, June 1985)
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