stackyFACTSIndustry insiders gleefully dubbed it a catastrophic folly, utterly convinced that nobody would sit through eighty minutes of a brightly colored cartoon. The studio boss mortgaged his own house to finish it, proving that unhinged financial gambles occasionally result in an absolute global monopoly.
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