Comments on: Obscure Blue Barrel Boy - story at 11

Question: Obscure Blue Barrel Boy - story at 11

hoborg — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:19:12 -0800

I'm trying to locate a movie I saw when I was a wee lad. It involved an unborn child (I believe) coming to Earth (I believe) in a blue barrel (I'm positive) and being raised by human parents. I thought it was D.A.R.Y.L., but I was wrong. Any thoughts?

We watched it all the time in summer camp, and I totally need to see it since I watched Follow that Bird, Flight of the Navigator, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Short Circuit. What a great camp...

By: rafter

rafter — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:44:16 -0800

hmm...

By: redfoxtail

redfoxtail — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:46:09 -0800

Sounds like the Wonderworks production of Konrad (originally a book), to me.

By: defreckled

defreckled — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:03:33 -0800

I remember watching D.A.R.Y.L. as a kid too!

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:09:35 -0800

Definitely not D.A.R.Y.L.

I recall (and was actually going to post an AskMe about) a movie where an older woman received in the mail a barrel (possibly it was blue) with a young (perhaps seven years old) boy inside. She had to pour some sort of liquid or powder (from a pouch) into the barrel to "revive" him. She complains to some kind of authority (the shipping company?) that she ordered shampoo, or something, not a little boy.

(Looking at redfoxtail's reply, actually, I'm almost positive that I'm thinking of Konrad. Hooray!)

By: fuzzbean

fuzzbean — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:17:12 -0800

neckro23, you're definitely thinking of Konrad. And the barrel in Konrad was blue, so I'm betting hoborg is too. (Yeah, watched a LOT of Wonderworks growing up.)

And Follow That Bird is GREAT!

By: jdroth

jdroth — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:13:17 -0800

I'm with Rafter on this one. Are you sure it wasn't Superman?

By: vanoakenfold

vanoakenfold — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:05:41 -0800

Hard to confuse a crystalline "star" ship with a blue barrel.

By: jdroth

jdroth — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:12:17 -0800

Good point.

By: hoborg

hoborg — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:52:51 -0800

Thanks so much! My sister and I were going NUTS figuring this one out. I'll buy you a beer next time you're in < lukeedwardsvoice> California < /lukeedwardsvoice>.

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