YMMV / The Toy Castle

• Awesome Moments: The choreography. Each member of the cast came from Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and it shows through each episode's use of spinning, leaping, miming, and en pointe.
• He Really Can Act: Rick Jones, who narrates, also does voices for all the characters, which is a pretty wide variety. This includes a goofy voice for the Clown, a nasal, mischievous for the Goblin, a babyish voice for the Rag Doll, and more; all from just one person.
• Most Wonderful Sound: The sound of any character's laughter, be it the Ballerina's gentle laugh, the Rag Doll's babyish giggles, the Clown's goofy guffaw, or the Goblin's mischievous snickers.
• Stock Footage Failure: The final shot of the "wake-up scramble" is the same every time in most episodes, and sometimes certain mid-scramble scenes are reused in multiple episodes. While it makes sense why this would happen, as all the toys need to get back into position for when the children wake up, this almost always results in characters who weren't in the episode magically appearing out of nowhere. In one specific case, in "Music Box", the Goblin is wearing a wizard costume when the scramble starts, but when it ends, he's suddenly back in his regular costume without any sign of taking the wizard costume off.
• Tear Jerker: In "Beautiful Tears", the Ballerina makes up a dance about a girl who leaves a castle to travel the world. The Goblin and the Rag Doll overhear this and think she's actually leaving, and in a rare moment of seriousness for them, they think it's because they had been squabbling and are devastated. They even burst into tears and beg on their knees for her not to go. Thankfully, the Ballerina reassures them that she's not leaving, but it's still okay for them to cry.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • In "Party for One", the intended lesson is for the Goblin to work together with the other toys to create one song. However, the Goblin's irritation at the others is mainly based on how loud and/or repetitive they are, implying he may be misophonic (a condition in which the subject is more sensitive to sounds and other sensations). However, in the end, everyone works things out, and they play a song that they all agree on and that doesn't hurt the Goblin's ears.
  • In "A Frog is a Frog", the intended lesson is for the Ballerina to not be so bossy, as she learns that the Frogs' more bouncy dancing made her ballet more fun. However, in real life, performing a group choreography requires everyone to work together and follow instructions, which the Frogs refused to do, making them start the dance over again and again. Thus, the conflict seems a little more skewed in Ballerina's favour.
  • In "Mop Master", the Goblin is upset with the Rag Doll and the Clown because their chores (putting blocks away and dusting) are far easier than his (mopping), so he turns mopping into a game to convince them to help. The intended Aesop is for the Goblin not to push his responsibilities onto others, but he really did have a bigger job than the other two (mopping is messy and requires some amount of upper arm strength), and in one instance, the Rag Doll actively hinders him by diving into him while he's working. However, in the end, they all have fun mopping together and it seems that all three did an equal amount of mopping anyway, so everyone got a happy ending.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley:
  • The excessive makeup on certain characters, such as the Clown and the Rag Doll, can be rather unnerving.
  • Unlike the other characters, the Baby Mice are animatronic puppets with giant eyes, which stick out a lot from the live performers and make them creepy to look at.

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