The Magic Snowflake.

 

                                       The Magic Snowflake.

I found this one on Netflix a few years ago and it is really good for what 

it is and then I found number 2 but I will post that one later but this one 

is really good, I really loved the animation style, it has that pencil 

drawing animation look which is why it made it on my list of best 

animated Christmas movies. So, now lets get to the story shall we:

The movie opens where a little boy writes a letter to Santa Claus that he 

wants a remote control flying bug and mails it to the North Pole. At the 

North Pole, an Inuit Eskimo boy named Tim-Tim picks up the mail to 

deliver it to Santa's Workshop. Beatrice Lovejoy, Santa's wife, picks up 

the mail, but she won't allow Tim-Tim to take a peek inside. As Santa is 

about to make his rounds, Mrs. Lovejoy closes the roof and reminds 

Santa to celebrate his retirement in Sydney, Australia. As Santa gives 

Santa's robe and hat to Nicholas, Beatrice and all the elves congratulate 

him on being the new Santa. After Santa and Mrs. Lovejoy leave, 

Nicholas takes over the workshop and receives a letter from the little 

boy who wanted a remote control flying bug. Tim-Tim secretly enters the 

workshop and Beatrice notices him and decides to show him around. 

Nicholas asks Tim-Tim why is he in the workshop and asks him to leave, 

but Beatrice decides to show him around the workshop. On board the 

airplane, Santa worries about Nicholas as Mrs. Lovejoy convinces to 

Santa to remind of himself of something. He pulls his blue bunny toy and 

holds it to his heart.

When Nicholas woke up the next morning, the white hair appears on his 

face. He gets rid of it by shaving but the white hair reappears. He 

attempts making a remote control flying bug which turns out to be a 

fiery bee and causes it to damage the workshop a bit as the elves 

stopped it. He told Beatrice about what happened and he saw Tim-Tim 

again and his voice is deepened as he felt it what happened and angers 

Tim-Tim to leave and then he left through Rufus's door. Beatrice seeing 

what happened to Nicholas as she goes with Waldorf to a room to ring 

the emergency bell to call the Council of Retired Santas to explain what 

happened. At the Daffodil Orphanage, Santa and Mrs. Lovejoy meets with 

the Director of the Orphanage Mr. Ratchet and Santa asks him for a job, 

but Mr. Ratchet refuses the offer and asks Santa to leave. Santa hears 

something at the Orphanage fireplace and he goes up there and lands in 

Santa's workshop.

Santa returns and takes Nicholas to the basement to find that the magic 

snowflake was melted. They see the Council of Retired Santa's arrive as 

Nicholas and Beatrice explain what happened to Santa. Santa tells  it to 

Nicholas that he has Grown-up-it is. Beatrice and Santa asks the 

Victorian Santa to take over the workshop until Nicholas is cured. Santa 

and Nicholas go to the snow field as Nicholas sees a door marked 24. 

Santa explains to Nicholas that it is the advent calendar doors and only 

Nicholas can see it with his eyes. Nicholas enters door 24 and he sees 

himself in the future as a tyrannical corporate executive who makes 

products designed to make kids grow up faster. Nicholas and Rufus find 

a hamster marked 7 as they exit door 24.

Meanwhile, at Santa's workshop, Beatrice shows Victorian Santa a 

handheld game and he realizes that it doesn't exist in Victorian era. He 

expresses disdain at all the other modern toys kids that are now being 

made and decides to do something about it. Back at the advent calendar, 

Nicholas shows Santa a hamster with the number 7 and says that it is 

the next door to enter. He then enters door 7 and meets with Tim-Tim 

and his mother who is the Shaman of the Eskimo Village. The Shaman 

explains to Nicholas he is to find door 3 near bear mountain that leads to 

the past. Nicholas tells Santa about the last door to enter near bear 

mountain then Nicholas sees door 1. Santa warns Nicholas not to enter 

the door but Nicholas ignores Santa's warning and enters it anyway. 

Seeing baby Nicholas with his parents boarding a ship, Nicholas tries to 

stop them but it was too late. After he exits door 1, the advent calendar 

doors collapse as Nicholas now has a beard and Santa asks Nicholas that 

door 3 still works if he can find it. So Nicholas and Rufus go to bear 

mountain on their own to find door 3 as Santa returns to Daffodil 

Orphanage.

Back at Santa's workshop, Victorian Santa converts toys to bricks and 

Beatrice notices this and asks the Victorian Santa why, he explains to 

Beatrice that kids will use their imaginations with bricks for anything 

they can come up with. He then locks Beatrice in a toy production room 

until after Christmas Eve so that she won't stop him. Back at the 

Orphanage, Santa picks up the bunny to entertain Zoe, a little girl at the 

orphanage until Mr. Ratchet sees this and Santa takes Mr. Ratchet and 

Zoe to the fireplace through the tunnels to the ship at the North Pole. Mr. 

Ratchet knows how to steer the ship. They finally arrive at Santa's 

workshop and seeing Victorian Santa making bricks instead of toys and 

tries to convince him to revert it but Victorian Santa refuses and he locks 

up Santa, Mr. Ratchet, and Zoe in the toy production room as 

Waldobarely escapes and goes to find Nicholas.

Meanwhile, Nicholas and Rufus arrive at bear mountain by moonlight. 

Nicholas runs and slides down the snow and his beard is starting to fade 

away as the magic snowflake is restored and the spirit fairies fly to bear 

mountain. He finally arrives at bear mountain and the magic snowflake 

spirit fairies reveal the bear and take Nicholas to the base of bear 

mountain. The bear reveals door 3 as he hears Waldorf calling. Nicholas 

finally enters door 3 and sees himself when he was 3-years-old at the 

orphanage. Nicholas figures out that his Teddy bear was a toy that Santa 

gave to him when he was 3-years-old. At the toy production room of 

Santa's Workshop, Santa entertains and gives a bunny to Zoe and Mr. 

Ratchet sees how thoughtful Santa was to Zoe. Santa knew that it was 

his glowing heart that was the bonding connection. Back at the 

orphanage in the past, Nicholas hugs his teddy bear to his heart and 

gives it back to his 3-year-old self and exits door 3. At last Nicholas's 

Grown-up-itis is cured as Nicholas and Rufus ride on Waldorf to Tim-

Tim's igloo in the Eskimo Village and the Shaman congratulates Nicholas 

upon succeeding in his tasks. Nicholas invites Tim-Tim to Santa's 

workshop and apologizes for yelling. Nicholas, Tim-Tim, Rufus, and 

Waldorf head to Santa's Workshop as Tim-Tim distract the elves. Then, 

Nicholas unlocks the door to the toy production room with his pencil as a 

lock pick and explains everything to Santa. Victorian Santa notices this 

and locks them in the toy production room as well along with Tim-Tim.

Nicholas comes up with a plan to make the little boy's Christmas wish 

come true, so Nicholas makes a remote control butterfly and uses a 

pencil as a lock pick attached to the butterfly to unlock the door of the 

toy production room. As they are freed at last, Nicholas rides on Waldorf 

to stop the Victorian Santa. When Nicholas sees Victorian Santa, he 

convinces him to change his ways and makes him turn around back to 

the workshop. Nicholas collapses and Victorian Santa is stricken with 

remorse. Eventually, Nicholas is revived with the butterfly wings that he 

made for the child who wrote the letter at the start of the movie and the 

sleigh returns to the workshop.

Nicholas, Beatrice, Humphrey, and Santa convert the bricks back into 

toys only to find that there are 2 hours left to make the Christmas 

delivery around the world. Nicholas convinces them to use the butterfly 

wings to speed things up. They make a speedy Christmas delivery 

around the world and deliver the remote control butterfly to child who 

wanted it for Christmas. Everything is successful as Nicholas now allows 

children to visit at Santa's Workshop. Victorian Santa has kept his 

promise and provides Christmas dinner to Santa, Nicholas, Beatrice, Mr. 

Ratchet, Zoe, Waldorf, Humphrey and Tim-Tim. Mrs. Lovejoy enters the 

room and figures out why Santa wasn't in Sydney. Santa explains to Mrs. 

Lovejoy about the events that had happened. Mr. Ratchet sees what 

Santa did all along and finally offers Santa the job to run the Orphanage. 

Everyone including, Mrs. Lovejoy enjoys Christmas Dinner. At the 

basement, the retired Santa's are still playing a choosing game under the 

magic snowflake.