Imagination Island
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| Barney Home Video | |
| Imagination Island | |
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| Release Date | October 4, 1994 |
| Rereleased | Yes |
| Available on DVD | Yes |
| Written by | Stephen White |
| Directed by | Jim Rowley |
| previous Barney Live! In New York City | next Barney Safety |
Bedtime with Barney: Imagination Island, also known as Barney's Imagination Island, was an NBC prime-time special that aired on April 24, 1994. The video release of the special came out in October 4, 1994. On April 13, 2010, Imagination Island was rereleased on DVD, six years after the previous DVD rerelease in 2004.
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Plot
Min and Tosha are having a sleepover and Tosha's mom reads them a story about a mystical place called Imagination Island. When Barney comes to life, he shows the two they can go on a sailing adventure, if they use their imaginations. With that, Barney mystically takes them on deck aboard a huge ship destined for Imagination Island. Along the way, they meet up with Derek, Shawn, BJ, and Baby Bop. There's just one problem. As everyone's getting close to the island, a storm comes and a huge tidal wave knocks the ship up into some palm trees on the island. While Baby Bop and BJ stay on the ship, Barney and the kids go explore the island and meet Professor Tinkerputt, a toy inventor who doesn't like to share his creations. Demonstrating his new balloon maker, Barney helps him realize that sharing is a good thing, after watching Tosha share her necklace for the machine to work. Then Tinkerputt starts sharing many of his creations and gets an idea of how to get the ship out of the trees. They can fly back with the balloons! Tinkerputt takes control of the ship and, after everyone leaves, supposedly heads to a new toy factory away from the island.
Cast
- Barney (Bob West (voice), David Joyner (costume))
- Tosha (Hope Cervantes)
- Min (Pia Manalo)
- Shawn (John David Bennett II)
- Derek (Rickey Carter)
- Baby Bop (Julie Johnson/Carol Farabee (voice), Jeff Ayers (costume))
- B.J. (Patty Wirtz (voice), Jeff Brooks (costume))
- Professor Erasmus Q. Tinkerputt (Barry Pearl) (debut)
- Tosha's Mom (J.D. Mosley)
- Tosha's Dad (Cameo) (David J. Courtney)
Songs
- Just Imagine
- Sea Medley: (Sailing, Sailing, Row, Row, Row Your Boat, Blow the Man Down, My Blankey Lies Over the Ocean, and A Sailor Went To Sea, Sea, Sea)
- That's What an Island Is
- Jungle Adventure
- Tinkerputt's Song
- If You're Happy and You Know It
- Just Imagine (reprise)
- It's Good to Be Home
Trivia
- Due to the 1994 lawsuit, I Love You wasn't performed in this special.
- This is the first Barney video not to feature the "Barney Theme Song".
- This is also the first and only Barney video not to feature any of Barney's theme songs ("Barney Theme Song" and "I Love You").
- The video and DVD versions both claim that the special contains the song "Our Friend Barney Had a Boat". That song was never sung in this movie, not even during its original air date.
- Professor Tinkerputt would later return in the live stage show "Barney's Big Surprise" to show Barney, Baby Bop, BJ and the audience his brand new toy factory.
- This is the tenth episode where Time Lapse is being used. Baby Bop quickly scurries for cover when a humongous thunderstorm strikes the ship.
- This video is featured in the exclusive Blockbuster Video Barney's Island Safari (along with Let's Go to the Zoo and The Alphabet Zoo).
- Some of the songs featured in the special are included on the Barney's Favorites Vol. 2 album. The songs are "Just Imagine", "Sea Medley", Tinkerputt's Song", "Jungle Adventure", and then the reprise of "Just Imagine".
- This group (Min, Tosha, Derek and Shawn) also appeared in "May I Help You?".
- This is the last instance in which the 1993-1994 Baby Bop costume was utitlised.
- When this was on DVD, it was closed captioned by Caption Technologies, Inc., replacing the Caption Center's original closed captioning from 1994.
- Production took place before Barney Live! in New York City was performed.
- After this video, Stephen White took a hiatus from the series. He would return to the writing staff in 1996, with the Barney video Barney's 1-2-3-4 Seasons.
- The names that Professor Tinkerputt says incorrectly while writing the guest-book are Ferdinand (Derek), Elvira (Min), Rupert (Shawn), Katrinka (Tosha) and Rex (Barney). Ha-Ha. Very funny.
- In the original NBC airing, an extended shot of Professor Tinkerputt looking out the window-door was used, while the instrumental ending of Pop Goes the Weasel was played.
- During the original airing on NBC, commercials ran throughout the movie. There was a total of four commercial edits.
- After the wave hits the ship.
- After Professor Tinkerputt looks out the window-door.
- After Professor Tinkerputt comes up with his big idea.
- After the Barney doll closing shot.
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