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For our American readers, I am pretty sure that If Only is using the word "torch" in the modern British sense, what Americans would call a "flashlight".
Haha, yeah, that's right. Thank you for clarifying, I never even stopped to think that the word might be misinterpreted.
KEVP, lay off, wouldn't you? I am quite sure Ifonly knows darn well the difference between a torch and a flashlight. Seriously! How old are you ten?
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A search of Chain of People suggests Veggie Tales: The Toy that Saved Christmas as a possibility.
- As Wally P. Nezzer goes flying into the air over a cliff, then Buzzsaw Louie and a gaggle of penguins go flying after him. Louie and the penguins form a chain in midair, and then one end of the chain gets snagged by someone on solid ground, and the other end catches Mr. Nezzer.
I am sure If Only knows the difference, however I was confused when I first read the query, and was going to post a question, then I reread the query and realized that If Only mentioned "batteries" so must be using the term "torch" in the modern British sense. I thought if I was confused (and I have lived in the UK) Americans less used to the British dialect of English might be confused as well. If Only replied that they never stopped to think about this difference between the British and U.S. dialects of English.
No, it can't have been Veggie Tales. I'm fairly certain it had traditional 2D animation, not 3D. And there was no cliff, just ice (falling through the ice is the element I'm most confident in, way more than the Animate Inanimate Object stuff).
Thanks for the suggestion, though!
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Could it be Beauty and the Beast: the Enchanted Christmas, or the two Brave Little Toaster sequels? In Beauty and the Beast: the Enchanted Christmas, there is in an in-animated candelabra, but not a torch or flashlight, though.
Fairly sure it wasn't The Enchanted Christmas, since I also saw the original Beauty And The Beast and would have recognised the characters. I've seen The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue since then and so I know that wasn't it, but The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars warrants a look. Will check it out!
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The Bears Who Saved Christmas
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There's an Animate Inanimate Object flashlight named Flashy, the "going into the snowy woods" stuff checks out, and there's a scene where a character falls through some ice and Flashy (who had been worrying about his battery life earlier) declares "To heck with batteries!" and shines his light into the dark water.
A cartoon that was on TV; going by how long I remember it being it must have been a TV show rather than a movie, but if it was a series then I only ever saw one episode. Could even have been just a short. In terms of timeframe, it must have been in the late 90s: I had it taped along with the Christmas Episode of X Men, if that helps. The cartoon I'm looking for might also have been Christmassy.
The one thing I'm absolutely certain of is the plot: it was really snowy and a character left the house for a walk and fell through some ice into the cold water, the other characters rescued them by all co-operating to pull them out.
More uncertain: I think it was something similar to The Brave Little Toaster, because I have kind of conflated it with that movie in my memories. I think the characters were household appliances like in that movie, and the hero was a torch (edited to clarify: I mean an electronic torch; Americans would call it a flashlight). Or maybe they just had a torch, but I'm pretty sure a torch figured, as did its batteries. The torch might have been used to reach down to the person in the water.
This one has been bothering me for a long time; any help would be much appreciated.
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