What do you remeber the most about this movie as a kid??

You guys have no idea how traumatic that horse scene is as a child lol. When I think of a sad childhood movie memory, this is it 😩😆

Don't ruin your Neverending Story experience by watching the sequels. lol

I watched it in the cinema as a child. Believe me, at the reveal of "other children have watched Bastian as he watched Atreyu" all of the kids (me included) gasped out loud!🤣 This was so mind blowing at that age!

One of the best parts of the book is that Gmork says everyone taken by the Nothing becomes a lie - "Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.”

As an 80s child I honestly thought quick sand was going to be a big problem for me growing up 😂😂😂

The 80s cloud effect was a very tricky but rewarding technique, basically, a water tank would be filled part way with salt water, a thin piece of plastic put on top, then filled the rest of the way with fresh-water , the plastic would be removed and the water left to settle. With the water being different densities there's actually two layers of water, paint or ink would be injected where the two layers of water meet, and it gives the effect of rolling clouds.

The Artex scene. Ruining childhoods since 1984.

His mom‘s name that he yells is Moonchild. The main thing I remember is being confused about that. And rewinding it over and over again to try to figure out what he was saying. Also the wolf thing scared me to death. To death. I had nightmares about that thing. I only just managed to rewatch the movie a few years ago and enjoy it because all I remembered was being terrified.

Think about it. Bastian was watching the story unfold in Fantasia, these two guys are watching Bastian (as the childlike Empress said) and we're watching them watching Bastian watching Fantasia. THAT'S the neverending story!

Artax’s death had been listed by some as one of the saddest movie deaths

The Nothing in the book wasn't a violent storm, like in the movie. It was just a slow, creeping, blind spot. Quiet. In order to make Bastian break down enough to say her name, the empress actually went to an old man in a mountain, that turned out to be the story teller, and he started the story all over again. Only instead of starting at the beginning of the Fantasia story, or even at the beginning of Bastian's story, it goes full meta and starts with YOU, opening the book and reading about Bastian. The story keeps starting over and over again until Bastian relents and realizes he can stop it by saying her new name.

You glossed over what I think is the most important line in the movie, where Gmork explains that the Nothing is "the emptiness that's left. It's like a despair, destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it....Because people who have no hopes, are easy to control. And whoever has control, has the power."

This movie pulled me out of my depression as a child.

Legend with Tom Cruise is another cool 80s fantasy movie. Also Fantasia is a name of a Disney movie as well as being the world's name in the book of this movie. So might have heard the name from either.

Fun fact: The real Auryn pendant used in the film is currently hanging in Steven Spielberg's office.

You guys should definitely check out the movie legend with Tom cruise and Tim Curry. It's like labyrinth and the Neverending Story type movie.

That's an old-school trick for opening jars - holding the lid under hot water for a few seconds. Most matter expands when heated, and the thin metal of the lid expands faster than the thicker glass of the jar; hence, the lid 'loosens' by becoming slightly bigger than the jar.

Thank you for contributing your imaginations to help perpetuate Fantasia and its Never-Ending Story. After all, that

Legend has it that The Neverending Story suggests that Atreyu's journey has happened many times before, and will probably happen again. This cycle of life and destruction and life emerging again is a neverending story.