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Directed by "Aladdin" and "The Little Mermaid" directors John Musker and Ron Clements, Treasure Planet is a fun family adventure with uplifting messages of friendship, courage and self discovery where you will travel on a beautiful futuristic sailboat named Legacy mixed with an old fashion cachet.

Treasure Planet is based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous tale "Treasure Island," a classic story about a boy in search of his dreams who discovers the greatest treasure hunt of all time which was also made into Treasure Island the movie where it was produced in 1950 by Walt Disney himself.

The uniqueness of this movie is with the character of John Silver the Cyborg, an hand draw character mixed with a computer graphically drawn arm. They used Captain Hook as a model then added the CG arm then refined it into John Silver.

Plus they also used cutting-edge 3D animation in order to make this movie graphically stunning. No wonder that in 2002, Treasure Planet received a nomination for Best Animated Feature.

Bonus Features are:

--- Deleted Scenes;
- Original Prologue: Adult Jim
- Alternate Ending: Rebuilding the Benbow
- Jim Meets Ethan
Each scenes are introduced by Directors John Musker and Ron Clements.

--- Behind the Scenes is divided in 8 sections.
- Story
- Art Design
- The Characters
- Animation
- Deleted Scenes
- Dimensional Staging
- Merging 2D and 3D Worlds
- Music
- Release

--- Intergalactic Space Adventure; - RLS Legacy: Virtual 3D Tour and Treasure Hunt, - DisneyPedia: The Life of a Pirate Revealed, - Disney's Animation Magic: Hosted be Roy Edward Disney, -I'm Still Here Music Video performed by John Rzenik of the Goo Goo Dolls.

Not only there is an enormous amount of Bonus Feature but you will also learn interesting bits and pieces on how they actually do the animation like a Character on a moving ship.

If all this is not enough :), you can actually view the movie again but this time with many people that worked on the movie who will explain to you different inside detail about the movie.

Treasure Planet is a unique beautiful and touching movie where not only it is an adventure where all the family can enjoy plus with reviewing the movie again with the video commentary, you will learn how they made the movie and also it is a great way to educate your children about how drawing can create this beautiful animation movie.