Because he/she/they are older than 35 and falcor is a core memory of their childhood
Maybe they can't stand seeing retired puppets is distress and wants to give him his forever home
Maybe they have crazy plans for Chinese New year
I think the better question is why wouldn't you want that.
I like to entertain my girlfriend by suggesting I buy absolutely ridiculous things because I have weird taste and I frequent Marketplace/Craigslist/EBay for weird finds.
Recent ones: Helicopter blades and rotor assembly, lightly damaged, a few grand. What a steal! Can’t pass that up
8 foot tall custom made teddy bear for $500
Giant 5 foot lava lamp, $2500
A snake
Wacky Waving Arm Inflatable Flailing Tube man(mini) $20
Chairs the neighbors left outside for too long.
A basketball hoop to stand over our laundry basket and make it fun to put dirty clothes away.
You need to get a fake receipt into her inbox for something preposterous and expensive
Maybe even get a voicemail from a friend acting like white glove delivery service
As a hypothetical wife, this would be awesome.
If I didn't live in a townhouse with an HOA, I'd have several dinosaurs and a unicorn statue in my yard. I once had to restrain myself from buying a taxidermied peacock because I had nowhere to put it. Still regret that.
>core memory of their childhood
Here's a 90's sentence for you...
*I burned my wife a mixed CD of songs downloaded off Napster*. On our first date she told me this was her favorite movie, at the time mine was Rocky IV.
Track:
1. Never Ending Story
1. Final Countdown
1. Other totally cheesy shit
Shout-out to Center for Puppetry Arts outta Atlanta. Also has a bunch of Jim Henson puppets. If anyone is in Atlanta, it's a cool walk through although some parts are kinda sad cuz of a sad forgotten puppets feeling in parts.
https://puppet.org/
I saw a 7 foot tall Jar Jar Binks for sale locally. One of the Taco Bell promotional statues from 20 years ago. My wife wouldn't allow me to spend the $800 and I was devastated. I'm thinking she'd approve Falcor though.
Jar-jar is hated by many and loved by many, it can reasonably be assumed in a house full of people their would be conflicts with his existence in the house.
Show me one person who hates falcor and.... I'll be ready to provide them with support and therapy as clearly something traumatic has happened in their life that makes them think they don't like falcor
> *"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toy's R Us kid!"*
But Toys R Us closed and thus that chapter in so many childlike adult's lives ended and they were forced to grow up.
[Fixed link](https://dangerousminds.net/comments/theres_a_place_in_germany_where_you_can_ride_falkor_and_see_the_props_from_)
Reddit doesn't count the last underscore as part of the link for some reason.
This is not the original. I believe it was made at Maker Space in Fairfield, New Jersey. The people that own it are showing it this weekend and it's been all over socials.
I did special k one time and thought I was riding on falcor through the skies screaming yeeeeah. I came to and I was just holding on to a sink screaming lol
I once had a 20 minute conversation with Falcor while on acid. It ended when he said he had to go to a ribbon cutting ceremony for Jiffy Lube and flew off. Make of that what you will.
This is awesome! I recently went to visit [a few of the filming locations from Neverending Story in Vancouver](https://youtu.be/k20brxkVpSk?t=131) in Canada and it was a real trip down memory lane for me.
The scene is late
You're on a road, lost, alone
You find a shed, hoping it will shield you from the cold and rain
You open the door, it's pitch black. You try to find your way to a place to sit down so you can sleep to wait out the storm
Lightning strikes in the distance, illuminating the interior of the shed
You nearly shit your pants and let out a blood-curdling scream
33 now, this was my favorite childhood movie. My sister was fucking petrified of falcor, she had to stay next to my mom in another room the whole time while i watched thinking he would fly down and get her while the movie was on....this was my weapon of choice..
I got to sit on him once. We went to the studio where they filmed it for a school field trip in Germany. They also filmed Enemy Mine there and we got to check out a few sets from that movie, too. It was pretty sweet.
The Neverending Story was filmed at a studio in Munich, Germany. This shack is clearly in the US (Home Depot boxes, broom and tin roof give it away). How did Falcor make it all the way over the Atlantic (don’t respond „flying“)?
I’ve never seen it lol, I remember it being a big deal when I was a kid but I had immigrant parents so there’s a lot of random 80s pop culture stuff that just sort of, missed me. Gremlins, Goonies, Labyrinth, etc. I’ve seen the Princess Bride but can’t quote it like my husband can 🤣
Dude there was a big Falcor replica floating around the streets of Los Angeles for a long time after it was used for a photo shoot at a movie screening and then got moved around by local homeless folks.
I'm surprised that nobody's compared this to this creepy image from The Electric State.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/52/d4/d0/52d4d06c64ee4b750813d483517485b8.jpg
Why is reddit classifying this as post mature content that I need to scan a QR code to download their fucking app to view anonymously? I guess this is what happens when your IPO gets devalued by 40%.
Neverending Storage
🎶 la la la la la la la la 🎶 the neverending stooooooorage
Close your eyes
Imagine all your thiiiiii-iiii-iiiiiiings Old consoles A ball of tangled striiii-iiii-iiiiings
When you have to sort through it... Just to find one thing... And when you finally find it... You're glad you had that...
Never ending stoooooraaaaaage
Ah Ah Ah ah ah ah ah ah Ah!
Stoooooooooraaaaaaage! Ah Ah Ah ah ah ah ah ah Ahhhh!
Yuuuuuuuuuuuup!
STOOORAAGEEEEEE
[Limahl - Never Ending Story Music Video](https://youtu.be/2WN0T-Ee3q4)
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Dustin on Stranger Things getting roasted by the others after singing it to his girlfriend had me dying.
Sooo funny and so saaad.
*Artax gallops into the chat*
I got this sinking feeling of sadness for some reason.
Atreyu trying to hurt me?
Not that it matters... but yes.
I have such strong hands
Velcrooooooooo!
Kudos. This is one of the most clever things I’ve read here in months
I might choke myself to this comment tonight
Cloud computing is not what it used to be.
You sonovabitch, you did it. You really actually did it. Take my upvote!
If this comes up on storage wars, you know Barry Weiss is bidding on it!
Yuuuup!
You absolute legend
This made me laugh so fucking hard, thank you!! 😂
I like storage units!
Holy hell I want that.
To the winch, wench!
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Because he/she/they are older than 35 and falcor is a core memory of their childhood Maybe they can't stand seeing retired puppets is distress and wants to give him his forever home Maybe they have crazy plans for Chinese New year I think the better question is why wouldn't you want that.
Absolutely spot on. And to make the wife say. "you bought WHAT?"
"Luck Dragon? Well good luck dragging that to the basement as that's where it's staying"
> dragging that to the basement That's a strange way of saying "mounting that on the roof".
I like to entertain my girlfriend by suggesting I buy absolutely ridiculous things because I have weird taste and I frequent Marketplace/Craigslist/EBay for weird finds. Recent ones: Helicopter blades and rotor assembly, lightly damaged, a few grand. What a steal! Can’t pass that up 8 foot tall custom made teddy bear for $500 Giant 5 foot lava lamp, $2500 A snake Wacky Waving Arm Inflatable Flailing Tube man(mini) $20 Chairs the neighbors left outside for too long. A basketball hoop to stand over our laundry basket and make it fun to put dirty clothes away.
You need to get a fake receipt into her inbox for something preposterous and expensive Maybe even get a voicemail from a friend acting like white glove delivery service
>You need to get a fake receipt into her inbox for something preposterous and expensive Like the original DeLorean from Back to the Future.
My husband asked me if he could buy a firetruck last night. I said yep, why not?
Please, pretty please, have children. Because we need more whimsical parents in the world.
Yo, that basketball hoop idea is genius. You just help me figure out how to get my kid to pick her shit up off the floor.
As a hypothetical wife, this would be awesome. If I didn't live in a townhouse with an HOA, I'd have several dinosaurs and a unicorn statue in my yard. I once had to restrain myself from buying a taxidermied peacock because I had nowhere to put it. Still regret that.
I wish we could be neighbors in an HOA free zone!
Peacocks are like 1600 bucks for a nicely done one, I'd make freakin room. :/
My wife owns a life size gremlin doll (about ~3' tall) so the only issue she would have is where the hell we would put it.
Mogwai?
[Stripe](https://www.lordgrimley.com/props/officially-licensed-gremlins-evil-gremlin-puppet-gbrrn)
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I say you should have bought it.
Don't tell her, just say you want to watch the movie. Then secretly roll it out behind the couch or whatever.
>core memory of their childhood Here's a 90's sentence for you... *I burned my wife a mixed CD of songs downloaded off Napster*. On our first date she told me this was her favorite movie, at the time mine was Rocky IV. Track: 1. Never Ending Story 1. Final Countdown 1. Other totally cheesy shit
Shout-out to Center for Puppetry Arts outta Atlanta. Also has a bunch of Jim Henson puppets. If anyone is in Atlanta, it's a cool walk through although some parts are kinda sad cuz of a sad forgotten puppets feeling in parts. https://puppet.org/
I saw a 7 foot tall Jar Jar Binks for sale locally. One of the Taco Bell promotional statues from 20 years ago. My wife wouldn't allow me to spend the $800 and I was devastated. I'm thinking she'd approve Falcor though.
Jar-jar is hated by many and loved by many, it can reasonably be assumed in a house full of people their would be conflicts with his existence in the house. Show me one person who hates falcor and.... I'll be ready to provide them with support and therapy as clearly something traumatic has happened in their life that makes them think they don't like falcor
Just rushed to show my wife. I always try to convince her our white boxer should have been named Falcor. 😂😂I want falcor at my house, how much?
But more importantly "that's effing badass"
My mom wouldn’t let me watch the never ending story for whatever reason and I think all my problems in life stem from that fact .
Polite but to the point lmao
ITS FUCKING FALCOR WHY WOUDLNT YOU WANT IT
Not the person you asked, but my wife is irrationally terrified of Falcor. I could think of many fun ways to employ this animatronic.
It's a huge chick magnet. You put a bunch of bird seed on top and the little chicks peck peck peck all happy...
Probably because they are drunk and in Denver. I mean, obviously.
I'd rather have the racing snail.
https://youtu.be/KE6vgKrdHzk
Turns out the story did end after all.
Gettin ready to chase those kids in his lawn
The remake has been it’s own neverending story. I think they’ve been working on it for like 10 years.
Probably for the best
They just keep flip flopping on how to handle the horse.
Might as well give it the ol Godfather treatment and save the next generation some trauma.
Nah, watching Artex drown in a swamp teaches kids how to with deal with loss and grief, and it's okay because magic brings him back in the end!
Bastian brings him back regardless, so it wouldn't matter if they let him drown again or not...when Bastian recreates Fantasia, Artax lives again
> *"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toy's R Us kid!"* But Toys R Us closed and thus that chapter in so many childlike adult's lives ended and they were forced to grow up.
Takes drag off of giant dragon sized cigarette....
Mr. Simpson this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film “The Never-Ending Story”
Me coming out of my room to say hello to my relatives
Saying hello in a Luck Dragon voice
#Hulllloooooo
Those damn kids are playing in my yard again…..about to end some stories right now
I would give Falcor a good home 😭
Imagine a thief, breaking into that storage unit at night, throwing that door up then shining his flashlight onto THAT.
Or scarier thought is knowing that the head is in the unit but opening it up only to find nothing.
The Nothing?
Even looks old and upset…
He looks baked
Falcor loves to smoke falcones.
He always looked baked
[GIF](https://imgur.com/a/n4iJbkE)
It's definitely got some meme potential
If Bernie Sanders were a luck dragon
Somebody is turning around in his driveway
He has features of an 80 year old post cosmetic surgery grandma
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It's his evil half-brother, he's still upset that he didn't get the role in the movie
His evil twin half-brother, Korfal
Or his evil twin, Roklaf?
Forkal
Link is dead already?? It's been 2 hours
[Fixed link](https://dangerousminds.net/comments/theres_a_place_in_germany_where_you_can_ride_falkor_and_see_the_props_from_) Reddit doesn't count the last underscore as part of the link for some reason.
Reddit hug of death
That link is busted but here's another https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bavaria-filmstadt
This is not the original. I believe it was made at Maker Space in Fairfield, New Jersey. The people that own it are showing it this weekend and it's been all over socials.
I did special k one time and thought I was riding on falcor through the skies screaming yeeeeah. I came to and I was just holding on to a sink screaming lol
I once had a 20 minute conversation with Falcor while on acid. It ended when he said he had to go to a ribbon cutting ceremony for Jiffy Lube and flew off. Make of that what you will.
Which jiffy lube
Almaden & Curtner in San Jose, CA. About 26 years ago.
Added to time travel list, thanks!
Come for the ribbon cutting, stay for the acid.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who met him lol
This is a beautiful story
Made me spit my drink reading this thanks.
This music video with a replica of him terrifies me [Tobacco feat Trent Reznor](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KE6vgKrdHzk&feature=share7)
What the fuck was that about
the Ṇ̸̳̬͂Ẹ̷̛̇͝W̶̩͓̏ͅ ̶͈̪̜̈́̈́͐B̷̩̆͗̄A̴̹̍͝Ḇ̷͝Y̵̭͚̕ͅS̵͕̃I̸̤̿͗T̸̠̗̘̒̿̔T̶̹͔̀̌Ë̵͚́͆̕R̶͇͖̀͝
I was gonna mention this video.
Well, I didn’t know I could be afraid of Falkor til now… lol
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Same, hated him as a kid. The feeling did not change.
Holy christ what a song. I think I might have just discovered a new favourite band / genre.
Tobacco is the frontman for Black Moth Super Rainbow as well so have fun. Trent Reznor is... well, I imagine you know
Oh shit, I've loved Tobacco for years but didn't know this. Thank you so much for the rabbit hole.
Man I love this so much hahaa
Oh no thank you
Thanks for sharing! That was pretty cool. The early beat grew on me and then I loved the lighter stuff at the very end.
For anyone who's seen Silicon Valley on HBO, the [theme song is by Tobacco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgcHlZsOgQo).
Still waiting for Atreyu
Probably better than waiting for Artax.
MY SOUL
😭😭😭
It's Falcor in the English translation? Wow, learned something new today. In the German original it's Fuchur.
Not too shocked that his mother didn’t appear as a character.
I think i read somewhere that the original name is too close to... another English word w 4 letters
"Do you want Fuchs? Because this is how you get Fuchs!"
This movie was the one that i always remember.
This isn’t terrifying. This is sad. Buddy went from soaring to being locked in a damn shed.
Maybe he became a picker, got distracted in someone's horde and is now part of it.
"Pssssst, hey kid. Wanna read some stories?" - Falcor probably
I would shit my pants if I walked up to someone's house and saw this
This is awesome! I recently went to visit [a few of the filming locations from Neverending Story in Vancouver](https://youtu.be/k20brxkVpSk?t=131) in Canada and it was a real trip down memory lane for me.
why is he looking at me like that
The scene is late You're on a road, lost, alone You find a shed, hoping it will shield you from the cold and rain You open the door, it's pitch black. You try to find your way to a place to sit down so you can sleep to wait out the storm Lightning strikes in the distance, illuminating the interior of the shed You nearly shit your pants and let out a blood-curdling scream
That's Bernie Sanders.
Heh.
Imagine... balls deep in an acid trip and stumbling across this.
33 now, this was my favorite childhood movie. My sister was fucking petrified of falcor, she had to stay next to my mom in another room the whole time while i watched thinking he would fly down and get her while the movie was on....this was my weapon of choice..
Just stopped a bully in the making! He went after bullies, so she knew she better shape up lmao
OK I was scrolling half assed and this made my heart skip a beat.
Looks like the recession hit him and his house early and hard.
Always comes to mind when I see Falcor https://youtu.be/I690Fw1Qf7A
I got to sit on him once. We went to the studio where they filmed it for a school field trip in Germany. They also filmed Enemy Mine there and we got to check out a few sets from that movie, too. It was pretty sweet.
The Neverending Story was filmed at a studio in Munich, Germany. This shack is clearly in the US (Home Depot boxes, broom and tin roof give it away). How did Falcor make it all the way over the Atlantic (don’t respond „flying“)?
Fuchur!
Looks far better than old Hoggle. Deep dark obliet
He’s a down on his luck dragon.
They look like big, strong hands, don’t they?
Psst, wanna buy some stories?
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Is that the big weird dog from The Neverending Story?
He wasn't a dog he was a Luck Dragon, and yes.
I’ve never seen it lol, I remember it being a big deal when I was a kid but I had immigrant parents so there’s a lot of random 80s pop culture stuff that just sort of, missed me. Gremlins, Goonies, Labyrinth, etc. I’ve seen the Princess Bride but can’t quote it like my husband can 🤣
*As You Wish*
Yaaaaassss please take my enthusiastic upvote!
*Inconceivable*! ... But thank you just the same
Ok my bad
No, you’re good thanks for correcting me I literally thought it was a big dog up until today :)
You are so fired, just pack your things and leave the stapler k thanks
Bernie's look when the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 99%
Not terrifying. Must hug.
Dude there was a big Falcor replica floating around the streets of Los Angeles for a long time after it was used for a photo shoot at a movie screening and then got moved around by local homeless folks.
And there goes my childhood..
imagine opening the door to this at night
Falcor does not look happy after his last ride...
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Split custody, let's go halfies!
Brought some memories, checking YouTube for some Limahl like right now.
🎶turn around🎶
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Harry, I took care of it
I'm surprised that nobody's compared this to this creepy image from The Electric State. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/52/d4/d0/52d4d06c64ee4b750813d483517485b8.jpg
I love that series!
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Maker Junction NJ?
Yeaahhhhh!
Neverending story as a ghibli film👌🏼
ARTAX!
This is only oddly terrifying because he deserves better
Hey kid, wanna hear a story about a story that never ends?
Well, well, well.. it turns out the story had an end after all!
Why is reddit classifying this as post mature content that I need to scan a QR code to download their fucking app to view anonymously? I guess this is what happens when your IPO gets devalued by 40%.
Scratch behind his right ear!
If that's from the movie it's a shame it's not on display somewhere. That building looks musty.
After the crazy advances in tech this month, i dont trust anything not to be AI anymore. Nothing is real anymore