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I saw this animated show/movie (can't remember which it was) on TV when I was really young. It couldn't have been before 1985. It involved a witch or sorcerer who had the ablity to turn people into stone. The villain hyponotized the young men of the village and used them to round up all the adults so he/she could turn the townspeople into stone, and ultimately used the stone bodies to build his/her castle.

I think the protagonists included a little boy, a talking cat and some other fantastical creature(s).

I remember one scene where one of the hypnotized young men (the older brother of the young hero) was forced to bring his parents to the villain to be turned to stone.

If anyone knows anything about this... pleassssee let me know... I remember really enjoying the music to it, and id like to find out what it was.

I don't know what you was smoking back then but I never heard of or seen a program like that before.Was it an after school special or something.

It was one of the Unico movies.

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I saw this animated show/movie (can't remember which it was) on TV when I was really young. It couldn't have been before 1985. It involved a witch or sorcerer who had the ablity to turn people into stone. The villian hyponotized the young men of the village and used them to round up all the adults so he/she could turn the townspeople into stone, and ultimately used the stone bodies to build his/her castle.

I think the protagonists included a little boy, a talking cat and some other fantastical creature(s).

I remember one scene where one of the hypnotized young men (the older brother of the young hero) was forced to bring his parents to the villian to be turned to stone.

If anyone knows anything about this... pleassssee let me know... i remember really enjoying the music to it, and id like to find out what it was.

Gargoyles?

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Originally Posted by Legend of Fuzz

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I saw this animated show/movie (can't remember which it was) on TV when I was really young. It couldn't have been before 1985. It involved a witch or sorcerer who had the ablity to turn people into stone. The villian hyponotized the young men of the village and used them to round up all the adults so he/she could turn the townspeople into stone, and ultimately used the stone bodies to build his/her castle.

I think the protagonists included a little boy, a talking cat and some other fantastical creature(s).

I remember one scene where one of the hypnotized young men (the older brother of the young hero) was forced to bring his parents to the villian to be turned to stone.

If anyone knows anything about this... pleassssee let me know... i remember really enjoying the music to it, and id like to find out what it was.

I REMEMBER THIS. I found this site because I was searching for this movie, too! I've been trying to find this movie for almost ten years now. No one I've ever asked says it sounds familiar, and this is the FIRST thing I've ever seen on the internet about it. However, I remember it as being anime, and the main character being a girl. I also could have sworn there were two cats, one orange and one blue. I also picture the main villain as looking kind of like Mumm-Ra from Thundercats, and that the main character and friends were turned in to children's toys by the villain at one point, but I could be making all of this up and mixing it up with other movies.

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I REMEMBER THIS. I found this site because I was searching for this movie, too! I've been trying to find this movie for almost ten years now. No one I've ever asked says it sounds familiar, and this is the FIRST thing I've ever seen on the internet about it. However, I remember it as being anime, and the main character being a girl. I also could have sworn there were two cats, one orange and one blue. I also picture the main villain as looking kind of like Mumm-Ra from Thundercats, and that the main character and friends were turned in to children's toys by the villain at one point, but I could be making all of this up and mixing it up with other movies.

I agree with everything above said until it gets to the cat part-I just don't remember the cats. However, I remember the movie too, I have also asked other people and no one ever remembers anything like that. I remember (I was pretty young, 5 or 6 maybe) the parents all being turned into something. I remember they looked like big gingerbread men/women when they got turned into stone. I remember one scene VERY clearly though out of the whole movie... The older boy/brother was sitting on the floor of a house when the evil villain came to question him or command him to turn over his parents. The older boy I remember wearing a red cape or something but he was FACING the villain when sitting... I remember that because he was hidding his sister, the heroine of the movie, behind him and his cape from the villain.
I also don't know what the movie was called, but it didn't have anything to do with a unicorn from what I remember of it. And it was not gargoles because my mother never let me watch that. If anyone else knows of the title, let me know too! I also want to get it.

I actually found it with mercyofidiots' help. I didn't remember anything about a unicorn, either, but it's definitely Unico in the Island of Magic. The description fits it perfectly. And reading more about the movie brought back a flood of memories, like the term "Living puppets," and the older brother's name being "Toby." Apparently the Disney Channel aired it in rotation in 1986, which confirms my memories of A, being four or five years old, and B, seeing it on a premium channel like HBO or the Disney Channel. It's out of print, but if you search for it, you can find an old VHS copy. I've already ordered mine.

Possibly Unico in the Island of Magic?
YouTube - Unico In the Island of Magic 9 of 10

IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND A MOVIE LIKE THIS IN FOREVER.

Seriously,I only remember the final scene.The main villain,whose kindof like a vampire,don't know if really or not, turns people to stone,but at the end,his two (?) semi sympathethical henchemen find him under his red cloak,turned to stone.

And NO-IT IS NOT UNICO.

I have been trying to figure this one out for myself for a VERY long time too- actually found this thread by searching for answers about what the title is. I really... Really don't think it's that unico thing. I do not remember a unicorn in it at all, and I went to look at pics of unico/etc and it doesn't look like even the same animation, but I could be wrong.

I remember the villan in this movie too- the one that was turning people into bricks and whatnot, and lived in the castle. He was so short, round (drawn like a circle with a small head and long pointy nose) and he (I think!) had a few pieces of long scraggely red hair. It was actually a little scary as a child.

I remember the other parts that they posted too. The cats, the kids, and the castle being way up high. This is driving me nuts and has been for years. I'd really love to know what this movie is. They used to play it on the disney channel so long ago.. in the 80s or 90s.

Anyone? :confused: