Hi guys,

a few days ago my post about three really great, Ghibli-inspired Lego models of an artist from the Internet went online! I go in it on the details of the models themselves and also on costs and so on. One of the models is an great model of the robot from Castle in the Sky you should take a look at! :)

I would be very happy if you look in and leave feedback!

https://diestubeghibli-de.translate.goog/2022/03/31/lego-mocs-fuer-fantasy-fans-von-martin-otreba/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

I cannot for the life of me find a quality version of the 2003 English DVD! This is the audio version I grew up with and I am hoping someone may have synced the old DVD audio with the Blu-Ray video file. Its funny these days I don't own a DVD ripper or even a CDrom drive, haha! Oh times have changed...

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Anyway... any help here would be great!

EDIT: For those of you stumbling on this thread. Feel free to DM me for the Lucid Sync! Perfectly synced audio from the 2003 version.

#EDIT 2: PLZ DIRECT MESSAGE ME INSTEAD OF COMMENTING! Thanks!!!

We talked about Castle in the Sky quite a bit in this week's episode of our anime podcast, so figured I'd share it here as well! The entire episode is dedicated to Studio Ghibli, but if you want to skip to the Castle in the Sky discussion most of it happens starting at 1:11:55.

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Thanks in advance if you listen to the episode, and we're always open to feedback and suggestions.

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I took my husband to watch the movie for the first time (this was my 3rd time) and the only question that is still on my mind after all these years is. Why are all but the one gardener robots dead? And why are all their bodies in the same place and not just strewn about the garden where they dropped? Were they all but the one shut off before everybody left the island? Is the memorial that they put flowers on for the robots? Like there’s so much from that scene that leaves so much unanswered. It breaks my mind

1. Were there other cities like Laputa? The intro shows another isle in the sky that crashed down on earth. The rotots are broken, so it cannot be Laputa.

2. Why was Laputa left flying 700 years ago, contrary to the other isles? And not only that, but why was it also left armed? There is a simple spell to disarm it, but it was not used. This indicates that the royal family didn't leave Laputa as voluntarily as is suggested. Seems like they intended to go back one day and rule again?

3. Why is Laputa left in the sky again at the end of the movie, but "easy" to reach and with lots of gold -> a reason for people to enter it again, for gold or the giant flying stone? It seems as if this was supposed to be a "happy" end, but I'm wondering

4. General question: someone argued that CitS could play hundreds of years after Valley of the Wind, and that the flying cities were built to avoid the toxic forests. Is there a confirmed connection between any Ghibli movies, (not just these two) time- and/or world-wise?