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* [[Anachronism Stew]]: The Baron's army includes knights in greathelms, Napoleonic cavalry, and late 19th-century riflemen. In what is, by best estimate, no earlier than 1913, and might actually be the 1920s.
** Also, the costuming is definitely [[The Edwardian Era|Edwardian]], but the steamship, the zeppelin and the cars could conceivably be from the ''1930s''.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Trudy's "Doll on a Music Box" song seems to suggest a story of a human who has been enspelled and turned into a doll, although possibly it's an analogy of how she feels trapped in a [[Gilded Cage]] as a [[Lonely Rich Kid]].
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Baron and Baroness Bomburst, the leaders of Vulgaria.
** Though averted hard with Truly Scrumptious, who is, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well...]]
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* [[Homemade Inventions]]: Caractacus's various devices. Some of the fun of them is noticing where he repurposed existing things -- like silverware -- to make parts for them.
* [[Hubcap Hovercraft]]: Chitty's amphibious mode, which appears to be a genuine hovercraft.
* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: Vulgaria; and it's a [[Meaningful Name]]
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: Unusually, in the [[Backstory]] of the movie: It's never explicitly specified what the law against children was going to do about any children already in existence, but the very fact that their parents hid them away suggests that a "Massacre of the Innocents" was in the offing. Worse, that was by no measure an entire barony's usual population of tweens and teens living under the castle, even given how small Vulgaria seems to be -- they are likely to be the ''survivors'' of an initial purge of children from the barony.
** And afterward: The youngest children hidden under the castle are perhaps 10 or 12, which tallies with the Toymaker's line that the Bombursts' law against children was passed a decade or so earlier. Even assuming that the villagers took turns caring for them, how many infants died during the first months or years of their exile? What happened that no children younger than 10 or 12 are in evidence? It's unlikely that an entire barony has chosen celibacy for over a decade -- so what happened to any babies born in that time? Or worse, any women who got pregnant?
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