Forget
everything you thought you ever knew about Pinocchio and Geppetto.
Why, you ask? Because it's all wrong. But-it's just a fairy tale,
you say. Again...wrong.
You are about
to hear the true story of the Wooden Boy, the Blue Fairy and the
amazing group of magic tools who help him come to life. Imagine
this: once upon a time, not so very long ago, there was a time-traveling
repair crew that went back and forth from the real world to the
realm of fantasy. Their job? Fixing things…
Our story begins
in ancient Greece, where we meet the Tools… Airon, the air
pump, the youngest, most excitable and clumsiest; Jack, the jackhammer,
the leader and most macho (he calls himself a power tool); and all
the other wise-cracking, irreverent members of the Blue Fairy Crew.
(You'll meet them all in the Character Section that follows this
synopsis.) They've just finished helping a frustrated sculptor by
finishing his new work while he's napping. It's called the Venus
de Milo. Unfortunately, clumsy Airon manages to knock her arms off
just before the Blue Fairy calls them back to help her with the
next job: building a son for a kindly old man named Geppetto.
A word about
the Blue Fairy: she rides a magic, time-traveling motorcycle and
rides herd over the magic tools. Hip, efficient and tough, the Blue
Fairy doesn't take "no" for an answer. The perfect boss
for the fix-it gang. The crew's first job is to procure some magic
wood. This they will use to build the boy. Unfortunately, the villain
of the story, a mean-spirited, nasty circus master named Sneap,
has gotten there first and tricked the magic wood into joining his
circus by promising him a life of excitement, a sharp contrast to
life in the boring Magic Forest.
Once there,
the Magic Wood becomes the prisoner of Mr. Sneap. But the tools
are not deterred. They execute a daring raid on Sneap's trailer
and rescue the Magic Wood. Now they're ready to go to work.
However, things
do not go as planned. Sneap has discovered the magic tools and now
he wants them for his circus! Armed with his brawny but not too
bright henchmen, he's ready to rumble.
In the meantime,
the tools have almost completed the Wooden Boy, and he's the light
of Geppetto's life. But their happiness is shortlived. Sneap and
his bullies break in and capture the tools and Geppetto.
Luckily he doesn't
get Airon, who's commiserating with the cricket over his many blunders
with the team, and the half finished Wooden Boy, who managed to
disguise himself as a coat rack and escape Sneap's notice.
Now it's up
to the two of them to rescue their comrades. And this unlikely duo
has to do it all before the tools' time runs out. When the tools
are called back to their own time zone, if they miss the boat-er,
the magic tool box -they're stuck in this time zone forever.
Thus begins
a madcap race against time filled with try-and-fail gags, wild slapstick
fun, as Airon's total klutziness and Wooden Boy's total naiveté
nature combine to confound the evil Sneap and his strong-arm cohorts
-just in the nick of time. |