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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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?

did you ever wonder where the idea of Laputa came from? believe it or not, Laputa wasn't Hayao Miyazaki's idea. it's actually one of the locations that are featured in Johnathan Swift's book "Gulliver's Travels". but if Laputa existed in the world of castle in the sky did the other places gulliver visited also exist? like Lilliput a country of people who are only 6 inches tall, Brodingang a country of 72 ft tall giants, the land of Houyhnhnms which is populated by talking horses, or japan which is um... japan. I'm just saying this connection opens some very strange questions.

Colonel Muska was a great first villain for studio ghibli he's cold calculating and voiced by mark hamil if you watch the English dub. But ironically for a colonel, he is a terrible strategist. he betrays general muoro and the army as well as his bodyguards instantly when they get to Laputa which in my opinion is what led to his downfall. if he wanted to win he would have continued to string the army along and flown Laputa back to their home country then he would have turned on the army after totally nuking either the fortress at tedus or that capitol of their nation and then destroying the army while they were scrambling to figure out what the heck just happened. he should have also kept his bodyguards with him when he went to the crystal chamber as they were clearly more loyal to him than their country and would have stopped sheeta from taking the levitation crystal and using it against Muska. heck, he could have convinced the army to surrender instead of killing them all and he would have had both Laputa and the goliath on his side while taking over the world.
so yeah Muska was defeated not by our heroes but by his own inability to think strategically

it's apparently called the Saturn
who else didn't know that

seriously of all possible spinoffs of ghibli movies that could work a movie about the dola gang would be the best one all of the air pirates are great characters and there is plenty of story potential here. am I the only one who wants this

when colonel Muska takes control of Laputa he proceeds to betray the army dropping many of them (including general muoro) to their deaths the rest of the soldiers attempted to retreat in the goliath but Muska sent Laputan robots to attack the goliath eventually causing the ship to explode and plunge into the sea. but could anyone have possibly survived? the goliath probably had emergency supplies like parachutes emergency rafts or life jackets. there were also the 3 spy planes hanging under the goliath that could be launched from the ship and could possibly outrun the robots and try to escape. so it's entirely possible that some of the crew from the goliath could have survived and told the government what happened to the rest of the expedition. but what do you guys think

this has always bugged me. I know that the locations on the ground are fictitious but they are clearly based on real-world countries and locations but where exactly are they? the army has uniforms that resemble imperial Germany but many of the names are English French and Japanese. also, when does the film take place? I've seen dates ranging from 1899 to 1930 but the fashion and many of the designs seem to be pre 1st world war
does anyone have any points to add

So growing up I watched this movie all the time on VHS. Absolutely adored it, watched it til the tape wore out. It was the English dub.

Tonight I went to watch it on HBOMAX and I noticed that there's quite a bit of audio differences from what I remember as a kid. For example, a number of quotes that are ad-libs from Dola's gang seem to be missing, and during Pazu's fanfare scene there isn't any accompanying guitar music that I seem to remember.

Am I just experiencing the mandala effect or has there been some kind of change to the dub in the last 20 years?

I’m looking for a song that sounds very similar to the theme of castle in the sky, especially about a minute in to the song “The girl that fell from the sky” by Joe Hisaishi. https://youtu.be/qnNQJI_jUIA

It may have sampled from it, but I can’t find it anywhere.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fgouHzt-h2ZqyQ-wS-ol1BoAh1TEFHja