seventh wonder of the universe.

My copy of Jim’s Journal, the Treasure Planet junior novel just came in, and it’s FANTASTIC for a kids book. Here’s every other line some little key points that caught my attention for anyone curious. There’s a few canon movie contradictions in it, so whether you consider it canon or not is up for debate, but it’s basically a quarter inch thick essay on Treasure Planet details.

The dates on this thing make no sense. Jim gets the map on “02.0-106.00″ and gets home on “029.0-028.50″. I have no idea how high these numbers scale or the scope of it. 

Jim is an AMAZING artist. (Here’s some of my favorite examples) He regularly draws very detailed pictures of moments in time, as well as scenery pictures that includes himself. New headcanon. It can be argued pretty seriously that Jim has an Eidetic memory, and GREAT visual memory, which makes sense with how well he picks up new skills with a little example.

Jim beats the best solar surfer on Montressor (Ray Quandree) in a race a bit before the movie

The little frog girl that eats the spoonful of Delbert’s food at the beginning of the movie is named Angela Legintoe, her species is called Loppytonians (in other media, they are Benbonians) and she tends to spill her Zirellian jellyworms on the table. Jim hates cleaning it up.

An entire two pages of solar surfing lingo

Jim has mixed feelings about his father. When an old spacer that used to work with the old man show up and tell stories, Jim is all about hearing them. He just doesn’t want to talk about the old man.

Jim accidentally breaks a whole tray of plates when exhausted and feels so bad about it he spends all night trying to glue them back together to make his mom feel better (MY HEART)

The Armada is repeatably referred to as “The Queen’s Armada”. Space has a queen.

The Solar surfing Galactic Grand Prix takes place on Crescentia.

Apparently Doppler studied “Modern spheroid cryptology” in his undergrad days and was totally stumped by the map

Jim’s mom gave him a huge list of stuff to pack, of which he only took “5 T-shirts”, “6 pairs underwear and socks”, and “toothbrush and toothpaste”

the most interesting things he crossed off on taking were “Royal Galactic Passport”, “System Health Services Immunization Form”, and “Solarium Crystals”

Doppler’s space suit is about 100 years out of style. (OH MY GOD)

For those of us who know nothing about boats, the Legacy is apparently a solar Galleon

Captain Amelia battled with the Procyan Armada

Jim was actually terrified during the fight with Scroop, to the point of shaking. Silver saving him was a huge deal for him.

Scroop is the Rigger in charge and was good friends with Oxy and Moron  (the torso and head tentacle guy). The other riggers are Greedy, Dogbreath (”Brush your teeth, my friend!”, and actual quote from Jim), and Birdbrain Mary. The ships gunner (the guy with huge thighs who shoots down the escape ship) is named Meltdown, and he’s also the mechanic. The Ropers are named Hands, Pigors, Aquanoggin, and Schwartzkopf. 

Jim get’s etherium sickness when it gets a little rough (like seasickness), and regrets tossing the medicine his mother packed for him

Jim admires Amelia’s abilities as a captain.

Amelia once almost single-handedly saved seven ships during a battle, and was the youngest spacer to ever be made captain.

There was a Kattindog (HA oh my god, please tell me that’s her species name) Quasar War 15 years before the movie, and Amelia was awarded the Green Badge of Honor for her deeds

Silver tells bad pirate jokes to pass time.   

Jim thinks They Are Hilarious. I am 100% serious, it’s the highlight of his day.

Jim’s duties include scrubbing the astrobarnicals from the keel, swabbing both decks, organizing the food stores, cleaning the crow’s nest, bathrooms, and oven, helping with food prep, refilling all water containers, checking all ropes and lines, and making one cafe lattoid for Captain Amelia each morning, delivered at 7am sharp

There’s a recipe for Bonzabeast Stew that Silver wrote down for him and he just taped it into the journal the dork. The recipe is full of sailing puns

you need one whole bonzabeast and it has to be defuzzed first.

make sure to include all 12 eyeballs for flavor

A bit of movie contradiction. The scene from “I’m still here” where Silver is showing Jim how to tie knots is different. Here, Silver took him up to the crows nest to surprise Jim. They watched a close by planet (Saxonite, which has huge rings) pass by, and Silver teaches him knots to pass the time. Jim was SUPER into it and it takes up like SIX WHOLE pages of this 50 page thing

Silver teaches Jim an old spacer song. It’s really morbid

Jim suspected that Amelia and Doppler had a thing for each other before Arrow even died. 

Jim’s not only betrayed by Silver’s mutiny. He’s positive Silver knew about Jim’s connection to the map and was using him all along

Jim’s thought processed about Silver after the mutiny is HEARTBREAKING

Like a good section of this book is Jim zigzagging between beating himself up over being fooled and being mad at Silver and it hurts

Jim’s reasoning for not going with Silver is “If there’s one thing I learned from that bucket of bolts, it’s that I have to chart my own course” and now i’m crying

Another canon contradiction, Amelia doesn’t tell him about her recommendation to the Astro Academy until after they land.

Amelia’s wounds were bad enough that she had to go to the hospital overnight

Jim. Is. A. Sap. 

Seriously “It never would have happened if it weren’t for that old pirate who helped me find the real treasure - the one inside of myself!”