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yup. gotta have a Dorothy Gale too

or Ellie Smith. gonna stick to Dorothy as the name tho since she's the OG

the thing is, those are two completely different canons. Ellie Smith and Dorothy are two different girls with two different destinies. Their dogs happen to have the same name (ish) and they had a very similar inciting incident but Oz and Magic Land are located completely differently so you can't even say it's the same one. Yes the first book is a stolen translation but the rest of the lore elaborated upon in the subsequent books makes the stories COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!! I don't think Dorothy has an uncle Black. Their hair color isn't even the same!

tfw a movie in a language I don't understand has a cute fat scarecrow and I'm like

actually there's two of them. (two of them)

anyway enjoy these gifs lol

...I only just now realized the movie has an English title too asfagffd

but yeah, Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты (2017). it has cute scarecrows.

hear me out

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#oh gosh!!!! what a cute design#Oz#scarecrow#the tin man#the cowardly lion#blonde dorothy is weird to me somehow hhh but otherwise Nice#Huck get in here

her name is Ellie in the knockoff! and the place is just called "Magic Land" it's not Oz. it's not particularly similar to Oz either, only the first book is a direct 'creative translation' knockoff

basically Oz veers really hard into "this place is weird" after book 1 while the Emerald City series veers into fantasy sociopolitics instead