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“Hybrid-animated short: toy train comes alive at night, teaching a boy train etiquette through dreams.”
Taro's Toy Train
太郎さんの汽車
5.38
13,422 rank · 2,191 viewers · 2 favorites
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Synopsis
Hybrid-animated short: toy train comes alive at night, teaching a boy train etiquette through dreams.
A combination of live action, traditional animation, and stop motion animation. A father buys his son a toy train, which he loves. When the boy goes to sleep, the train comes to life and crawls into the bed with the boy, giving him a dream about proper train etiquette.
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Derived from 5 sampled reviews
8.2
/10
What 5 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 0.98
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.98 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.20
Running avg · Apr 2014 → Apr 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “This was quit adorable to watch. Now don't be confused at first time since it starts as a live action film, it does turn into anime soon. Kinda shame it has short run time. it's beatifully...”
- 8 “Watched it with background music. Didn't expect real life footage at the start, thought I entered a wrong show XD. Liked the stop motion clips too it was surprising seeing. However with the...”
- 8 “At first, I was thrown off, since it began with actual film and didn't quickly transition into animation. But when the animation began, I was delighted to find that for once, I wasn't the slightest...”
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Short · 100%
Medium · 0%
Long · 0%
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A Movie Production
- Format 1 × 15′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 15m all episodes
- Aired Jun 1929 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-4334 catalog