Wall-E #1 just got a look at Wall-E #2 after his road trip with us, and he is not impressed at the shape that I brought his counterpart home in!
Baby Wall-E would be completely traumatized if he weren’t at the office and completely ignorant of the condition of Wall-E #2 (Yes, I have three Wall-E figures….well….not quite three anymore….).
I’m very sorry Wall-E #1….the road was great between Kaslo and New Denver, and he had it all together when we left Kaslo…..he was still holding it together when we stopped for a little breather halfway through …. but somewhere between that stop and the gas station in New Denver, he lost his head.
I don’t know how, I don’t know exactly where, I don’t know what he was doing back there behind me that he literally popped his lid.
I did consider going back to look for his noggin….it happened a max of 15 minutes back down the road….but would I have found his little grey gourd against a grey backdrop of pavement?
Would it have been on the road at all?
Would it have rolled into a ditch or been blown off into the grasses beside the road by a passing vehicle?
Maybe a crow picked it up and took it home for its fledgling, a prop to learn to pick at eyeballs.
The bottom line is that we will never know, and now we can call Wall-E #2 “Wall-E The Headless Ninja Rider“….hummed to a certain Warren Zevon tune…..which I haven’t been able to stop humming ever since the tragedy.
I can’t help but hearken back to an Ikea commercial that showed a lamp out in the rain and the narrator, at the end, saying “Many of you feel bad for this lamp, because you are crazy…”
So maybe I’m crazy, because I kinda feel bad for Wall-E #2……and I hope someone found Wall-E’s head and repurposed it….and gave him a second shot at life…like the sad little lamp received…..or maybe I’m just crazy 😉
IKEA | Lamp 2 from Fort York VFX on Vimeo.