When we started to write this, we were going to make jokes about how Link hates Zelda when he's not rescuing her, and how they have a dysfunctional relationship and all that, and then maybe about how Super Smash Bros. Brawl started with a Super Smash Bros. Yelling Match.
But then we noticed something: Zelda is clearly in the foreground, because she's drawn slightly bigger than Link, and because Link has turned toward the camera to look at her. And yet his hair is somehow in front of hers. A horribly out-of-context scene plus a technical flub? Good luck outbidding us!
[Via GameSniped]
'Excuse me for selling my animation cel, Princess!'
Posted Mar 15th 2008 12:30PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Fan stuff
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3-15-2008 @ 12:33PM
RupeeClock said...
Hell, that's just Dic for you, they can't animate for shit.
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3-15-2008 @ 1:18PM
nintendolink007-entertainment said...
Dic Owns! Zelda was one of my favorite cheezy cartoons of the late 80s. This Zelda and Link should of made it into the smash bros game :-) along with captain n.
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3-15-2008 @ 4:14PM
CJLopez said...
Hey, that's another character they could have make it into de Brawl cast, Captain N!!!!!
Damn, i'd have lovedto use someone like him, with an ability to control a carachter (only nintendo characters) with his power glove, and firing like fox using the nintendo zapper, man, i'd really would have loved something like that!!!!
3-16-2008 @ 4:58AM
Hala Madrid!!! SSBB Code:3866-7729-0830 said...
I wanted RockMan and Waluigi in the SSBB cast:(
3-15-2008 @ 1:39PM
Croove55 said...
Link's shoulder also seems to go over her chest. My hypothesis is that Link is being carried off by Zelda, who's become an Amazon warrior, and he's yelling at some passerby to save him. They aren't, of course, and Zelda's going to bash his brains in with a hammer.
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3-15-2008 @ 2:23PM
mian said...
That's the east german Zelda.
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3-15-2008 @ 2:26PM
Hafk said...
FOLLOW THE LEDGEND...
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3-15-2008 @ 2:49PM
Brian G said...
This is really just an assembly error. Each of those elements would have been on a different cell (there's probably a good dozen acetate cells to make that up), and whoever assembled the cells together put Link's hair over top of Zelda.
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3-15-2008 @ 4:45PM
Jhongerkong said...
The title should be:
'Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuussssssssssse me for selling my animation cel, Princess!'
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3-15-2008 @ 8:23PM
hvnlysoldr said...
Well excuuuuuuuse them.
3-15-2008 @ 10:26PM
doom saber said...
Aren't animation frames made up of 3-4 different layers of plastic cells? My guess is that whoever is selling this handpainted cell put the Link cell over the Zelda cell.
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3-16-2008 @ 12:39AM
Alisha Karabinus said...
Super Smash Bros. Yelling Match -- I lol'd.
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3-16-2008 @ 1:30AM
nintendolink007-entertainment said...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxY8lpYAUM
I hope this is ok, it has the scene that has that cell, so pretty much its just bad animation, since really they had a cheap budget making it with Super Mario Bros Super Show, there were many many issues with the Mario Cartoon then there were for Zeldas.
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3-16-2008 @ 1:33AM
3G58 said...
hahahah
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3-16-2008 @ 2:51AM
Haohmaru said...
And then, the day finally came when Link was excused.
Violently.
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3-16-2008 @ 3:52AM
Anaris82 said...
When one man quests to be excused, he finds himself partnered a with a princess who constantly rides his ass about everything. This summer... Steven Segal... is... LINK!
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3-16-2008 @ 6:47AM
Haohmaru said...
I laughed.
3-16-2008 @ 6:49PM
munjey said...
Weird, I was just watching this cartoon last night
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3-17-2008 @ 1:42AM
Garst said...
Maybe Zelda ate one of poison mushrooms that Mario always eat and she is actually in the background.
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3-20-2008 @ 9:40PM
Soog said...
Gives new definition for the term "Toon Link"
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