'Tronics/Man, Mascara, and Machine

"A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well. - Hiromu Arakawa, opening quote"  'Tronics: Man, Mascara, and Machine is a 2025 live-action/computer-animated action-adventure dramedy film, based on several of the rides at the Disney theme parks. It is the first film in the 'Tronics series.

The world premiere was held at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, on May 28, 2025, the 59th anniversary of the It's a Small World ride. For its return to obsessed-over Disney features, especially a lack of politics, it was an unexpected success, with positive reviews and grossing billions worldwide. The film would earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature and an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

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Plot
The movie contains an Overture for viewers who have not read The Happiest Place, and background information, like how It's a Small World came to be, to set the stage for the series. This film and its successors are structed like a Paper Mario game, with a prologue and episodic Acts.

Prologue: The Wrong Star
In a world co-populated by both humans and cartoon characters, animatronics take the back seat. The film brings us to the world of The Happiest Place, telling of how the magic of Disneyland works behind the scenes and how Characters and Tronics structure themselves. The Clockids (Small World Dolls) are a super-soldier army, the last line of defense should the Characters be threatened. However, in all their years of service, they were only once ever officially allowed to leave their ride, and that was during the War of 2011, when the Disney Villains formed a party to destroy the magic. Should the magic be destroyed, all the Characters good and evil would die, and the Tronics would be restricted only by nature. The Characters cannot let that happen, as they are powered by reputation and belief. As a result, the Clockids often feel both left out by everyone else in the parks and at the bottom of the chain.

Hedwig, the Swiss yodeler Clockid, in particular can't take it. The seven people he knows the most - Rin (Japan), Joaquin (Mexico), Valha (Sweden), Colt (Texas), Gosrely (Kenya), Kunewal (New Guinea), and Abdul (Saudi Arabia) - all have problems that he knows he could help them with, but cannot due to the tight rule of Aleksei, a Russian, prolific dick of a leader, in turn just following the orders of Mushu. Hedwig feels even more lonesome in that he can't tell any of the Characters without them not being very sympathetic due to being focused on maintaining the magic. One May Midnight, at 12:01 AM on the Small World Anniversary, Hedwig takes this chance to make his fateful wish: that Toons except for Mickey were not real, forcing the mouse to free his Clockids and Hedwig to become friends with his acquaintances.

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