We limit screen time as parents, but once a week we have “movie night”. I decided to show my son Totoro. He was hesitant at first but quickly fell in love.

Now it’s the only movie he requests. It’s adorable seeing him light up. He said “the cat bus” is his favorite.

If you have any suggestions for similar movies, feel free to share!

I'm looking for a set of figures or a playset for my daughter to play with.

Considering the popularity and legacy of the film, I'm surprised that there isn't more available.

It’s mostly PVC figurines and statues, not poseable figures in scale with each other which is what i'm looking for.

A cat bus with removable roof that you can fit and seat the figures inside and some accessories.

Something similar to the link below, but obviously better quality and not knock-off.

Knock-off Totoro Figures

So lucky 🍀🍀🍀

Bought him yesterday. One of the best investment of my life

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone! I stuck this sticker on a candle and it came out cooler than I could have hoped!

Greetings, I recently picked up this long out of print disc from Studio Ghibli Records. This is the film's music released in the "Hi Tech series." This series took a few of the soundtracks from Ghibli back when they were on Animage Records and rearranged the music in either an electronic style or, in this case, "world music" and "ethnopop," according to the liner notes. You be the judge. Enjoy!

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https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLtCZlY7Qqv0SfGR9kWPgNLMsrbfVziac&si=pUwoqgZBm0DSr1Ea

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Hi everyone, I'm not sure if anybody ever asked this question. There were a couple of scenes in the movie where they say "Hiya". One when they were in the rafters (I always wondered what that thing was with a paper fan... I always thought it was a lamp, lol) and other scene when they leave the house up to totoro's tree.

I do want to add that I grew up with the Japanese version of My Neighbor Totoro. My late father was good friends with a film collector in Philadelphia, P.A. who had ties with Hanna-Barbera and he also had a Japanese wife who worked with Studio Ghibli and worked in the production of My Neighbor Totoro. They kindly gave my family a VHS tape with the movie the same year it was in Theaters in Japan in 1988. (I also remembered it was recorded 2 parts of film to VHS tape)There was no substitutes so my siblings and I watched it and understood it by body language... we were around 2 when I first saw it. we absolutely loved it ever though we didn't know Japanese. Sadly the VHS tape was ruined in 2007 when our storage shed leaked from a Nor'easter that year, but I'm happy to see that I can watch it through streaming online.

I still always wondered what the dustbunnies are saying on those scenes, unless it was gibberish in Japanese... lol! Even in the English versions, they were never dubbed.

So anybody ever wondered about that?

What you think?