The Legend of Frosty the Snowman (20th Anniversary Edition)

The Legend of Frosty the Snowman is a American/Canadian upcoming 2018 Special Edition only-straight-to DVD animated film that serves as still a sequel to Frosty the Snowman 45th Anniversary. The special originally aired annually on Cartoon Network few years ago in the United States, and it airs on Kids & Teens TV in the country ever longtime since December 11, 2011.

Plot (Story)
At the beginning of the story, we see Frosty's hat escape from a locked chest in an attic, flies out a window and descend on the picture perfect town of "Evergreen", where the local children are bound to a ridiculously strict curfew and not allowed to have any kind of fun whatsoever. Frosty first reveals himself to Tommy Tinkerton, the younger son of the town's impossibly upbeat but no-nonsense mayor; Mr. Tinkerton.

But Tommy however refuses to accept Frosty's invitation to play outside in the snow, because he’s afraid of disappointing his father (ever since he had failed in Evergreen school once). So Frosty instead befriends with his best next-door neighbor friend; Walter Wader, who shocks everyone, especially his very strict mother by breaking curfew and flying, sledding, snowball-fighting and "having fun" with Frosty in the Evergreen woods.

Walter's rule-breaking gets all the other kids talking, but it greatly upsets Principal Hank Pankley, who's even more adamantly opposed to magic than Mayor Tinkerton. Pankley uses the arrival of Frosty to sow doubts among the townspeople about the Mayor's leadership, and little by little he begins to take over the town. But once magic is stirred up, it is not easily contained.

Everything changes, though, when Tommy finds a secret room beneath the Evergreen library, in which he discovers a comic book filled with secrets about Frosty. At first, most of the comic book is blank. Each time Tommy checks it again, new panels appear. Over the course of several scenes, Tommy learns that Frosty's magic is in his hat, that his father (which is Mayor Tinkerton) met Frosty when he was a boy and did believe in magic once upon a time; and that Pankley, a jealous childhood friend of his father's, took Frosty's hat and hid it away in an attic (which is the same attic from the beginning of the movie), causing young Mayor Tinkerton to lose his faith in magic.

Meanwhile, Frosty happily wins over the kids, including Tommy's love interest; Sara Simple (a sharp, independent young girl who wants of become an urban planner instead of a "princess"), his older brother; Charlie Tinkerton and even the triplets; Simon, Sully, and Sonny Sklarow. Frosty befriends each of them through the simple means of believing in them, which inspires them to begin to believe in themselves one by one.

Increasingly desperate to deny the existence of Frosty and keep Evergreen fun-free, Pankley tricks Walter into helping him lure Frosty for some ice-skating fun in the woods, later then tricks Frosty into venturing him onto "thin ice". But before Walter, noticing the thin ice starting to crack, can be able to save his friend, the unnoticed Frosty, now seeing the ice cracking and feeling too late to escape, falls through the ice and melts, and Pankley was be able to capture his hat, which is the key to his magic. This incident makes Walter in tears after watching the incident in heartwrenching.

As all of this unfolds, Tommy, who was the first one to whom Frosty appeared first, has been sitting on the sidelines in gym class, watching his best friend, his brother and his love interest experiencing adventure and magic in which he could share. But he has held back, even though he yearns to meet Frosty, out of loyalty to his father (because he knows his father would disapprove of him acknowledging the existence of magic). The comic book also reveals to Tommy what Pankley has just done (with Walter's unwitting help) to recapture Frosty.

All this time, Tommy has held back from befriending Frosty out of loyalty to his father, who has always told Tommy not to believe in magic. But now Tommy sees that his father believed in magic one time, too, but was being tricked into losing faith. And Tommy realizes that the most loyal thing he can do is not to hide from magic, but to help his father rediscover that magic is indeed real.

Tommy explains the truth to Charlie, Sara and Walter and leads them and the Skarlow brothers (which Tommy invite them for "backup") a daring rescue of Frosty and his hat in which Tommy and his companions help out. A climactic series of scenes follows in which Pankley tries and fails to recapture the hat, then tries to deter the townspeople (including Mayor Tinkerton) from going into the woods to see what all the ruckus and noise are about. The parents are too worried, angry and confused: why are their kids out at night? And can this "magical snowman" they have been hearing about be real after all?

Meanwhile, Mayor Tinkerton refuses to be deterred, and, after bringing Frosty back again, Tommy is able to reintroduce his father to his old friend, who Mayor Tinkerton had long since stopped believing in ever since. Pankley tries to stir them up to regain control of the situation, but Walter however breaks the spell by throwing a snowball at Pankley. And one by one, the other kids--including Tommy (apparently he joins them for the first time) and their parents join in, until all the citizens of Evergreen, which had forgotten how to have fun, gives itself over joyously to a "snowball-fighting, horseplaying, lark of a good time."

A brief epilogue shows the audience Evergreen transformed into spring—with Charlie playing football, Tommy skateboarding, Mayor Tinkerton doing magic tricks (in honor of his father; Professor Hinkle), and Sara reading a book about urban planning.

All the time, the story has been narrated (à la "Our Town") by a warm, wise, seemingly omniscient old man named "Thomas" who appears periodically and comments on the events unfolding in Evergreen. In the final scene, Thomas reveals that he is Tommy, all grown up and now married to Sara; and he has been telling the audience his own story.

Trivia

 * In the original Special Edition version, this is the first time that Sara Simple, all grown up, made her debut performance during at the end of the movie.
 * In "The Comic Book" scene only in the original Special Edition version, Karen and her friends were all recolored as the original classic forms, including Professor Hinkle and Hocus Pocus, inspired from the original Frosty the Snowman (in honor of the 45th Anniversary DVD release).
 * In "The First Heed to the Call" scene only in the original Special Edition version, Frosty, after his unexpected chestburst by Walter Wader, quickly started smiling and reduced in tiny cracked-up tears before end up laughing after his hat stops spinning and lands back on his head.
 * In "The Scent of a Mischief" song In a deleted scene, Sara Simple sings exactly like Melody.
 * In the original Special Edition version, this is the first time in a next scene where Sara Simple asked her mother "How long am I going to be in a piano for?" before Mrs. Simple answered "Until your scales are perfect".
 * In "Taught Her New Ice Skating Tricks" song also In a deleted scene, Frosty's singing voice was portrayed by Bill Fagerbakke.
 * In the original Special Edition version, Frosty resembles his truer original Television Christmas classic form much better, created by the DreamWorks Animation.
 * In the original Special Edition, Sara Simple was reading a book about urban planning, but in the alternate version, she was alternatively reading a book about "Magic and You".
 * In the original Special Edition version, the movie was narrated by Burt Reynolds, but in the alternate version, the movie was first narrated by Evan Gore.

Original Version

 * Bill Fagerbakke as Frosty
 * Burt Reynolds as The Narrator
 * Grey DeLisle as Miss Sharpey/ Simon Sklarow/ Sullivan Sklarow
 * Jeannie Elias as Charlie Tinkerton/ The Librarian
 * Evan Gore as Paperboy
 * David Jeremiah as Mr. Simple/ Townsperson #1/ Mr. Sklarow
 * Tom Kenny as Mr. Tinkerton
 * Tress MacNeille as Mrs. Simple/ Girl #1
 * Kenn Michael as Walter Wader
 * Larry Miller as Principal Pankley
 * Candi Milo as Mrs. Tinkerton/ Girl #2
 * Kath Soucie as Tommy Tinkerton/ Old Sara Simple
 * Tara Strong as Sara Simple/ Sonny Sklarow
 * Vernee Watson-Johnson as Mrs. Wader

Alternate Version

 * Bill Fagerbakke as Frosty
 * Grey DeLisle as Miss Sharpey/ Simon Sklarow/ Sullivan Sklarow
 * Jeannie Elias as Charlie Tinkerton/ The Librarian
 * Evan Gore as The Narrator/ Paperboy
 * David Jeremiah as Mr. Simple/ Townsperson #1/ Mr. Sklarow
 * Tom Kenny as Mr. Tinkerton
 * Tress MacNeille as Mrs. Simple/ Girl #1
 * Kenn Michael as Walter Wader
 * Larry Miller as Principal Pankley
 * Candi Milo as Mrs. Tinkerton/ Girl #2
 * Kath Soucie as Tommy Tinkerton/ Old Sara Simple
 * Tara Strong as Sara Simple/ Sonny Sklarow
 * Vernee Watson-Johnson as Mrs. Wader

Crew

 * Director: Greg Sullivan
 * Writer: Emily Kapnek
 * Story: Tony Benedict
 * Casting Director: Barbara Wright
 * Storyboard: Jan Green, Kirk Hanson, Scott Jeralds, David Thrasher
 * Design Clean-up: Patrick Dufresne
 * Graphic Design: Ric Gonzales, Martin Strudler
 * Sheet Timing: Chad Van De Keere, Dale Baer, John Wilson, Mike Stribling, Michael Longden
 * Animation: Norm McCabe, Tom Ray, Joe Roman, Allen Wilzbach, Malcolm Draper, Glen Kennedy, Brad Case, Art Leonardi, John Gibbs, Bob Kirk, Bill Hutten, Warren Batchelder, Bob Richardson, Michael Toth, Jon McClenahan, Steven Gordon, Leslie Gorin, Jesse Cosio, Charlie Downs
 * Layouts: George Goode, Mario Piluso, Dan Krall, Ed Ghertner
 * Backgrounds: Andrew Phillipson, Michael Humphries, Tim Maloney, Raymond Zibach
 * Digital Timing: Chad Van De Keere, Richard Corwin
 * Digital Supervisor: Mark Anthony Rocchio
 * Voice Director: Evan Gore, Chad Van De Keere
 * Sound Editors: Todd Araki, Jason Frederickson, Michael Bradley, Brian F. Mars
 * Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Marcel Duperreault
 * Film Editor: David H. DePatie Jr.
 * Camera: Ray Lee
 * Animation Production by: Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd.
 * Produced by: Evan Baily & Kathy Antonsen Rocchio

DVD Menu

 * Play Movie
 * Scene Selection
 * Introduction
 * "Good Morning, Evergreen!"
 * Something Different About Today
 * "I Just Can't"
 * The First Heed of the Call
 * Walter the Renegade
 * The Scent of the Mischief
 * "Walter, Call Me!"
 * The Comic Book
 * Piecing it Together
 * Mayhem in Evergreen
 * A New Day
 * "That Snowman is Back!"
 * Pankley Strikes Again
 * The Age of Pankley
 * "Time To Go Get Our Snowman"
 * A Frosty Reunion
 * At the Beginning
 * Ending Credits
 * Set Up
 * Languages
 * English
 * French
 * Spanish
 * Brazilian Portuguese
 * Hebrew
 * Screen Selection
 * Widerscreen
 * Original
 * Fullscreen
 * Subtitles
 * English
 * French
 * Spanish 
 * Brazilian Portuguese
 * Hebrew
 * Audio Selection
 * Special Edition (Original)
 * Alternate Version
 * Bonus Features
 * Build Your Own Snowman
 * Snowball Fight Mania
 * The Frosty Says Challenge
 * New! The Legend of Frosty the Snowman: Read Along Storybook (read by Bill Fagerbakke - The voice of Frosty)
 * New! A Great Frosty Rescue! 3D Game
 * Deleted Scenes
 * New! Tommy and Sara First Time Meet After School (Extended) (only seen in Special Edition)
 * New! Walter meets Frosty (Alternate)
 * New! "The Scent of a Mischief" (song)
 * New! Frosty overhears Mrs. Simple (only seen in Alternate Version)
 * New! "Taught Her New Ice Skating Tricks" (song)
 * New! Walter took Frosty ice skating
 * New! Tommy and Charlie at Sara's House
 * New! Walter's Nightmare
 * New! At The New Beginning (Alternate)
 * New! Frosty returns home to the North Pole

Follow-up Sequel
A brand-new upcoming sequel, The Legend of Frosty the Snowman 2 will release in December 2019.