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What I mean is that some of the fan do not consider the Balto sequels as "official" movies, and don't even consider them. For those people, only what is stated in Balto 1 deserves to be considered.
Well, at the risk of being very blunt, I maintain that those people are idiots. Yes,
idiots. The stuff was commissioned by Universal Studios (even if it was produced by a separate wing of Universal, which changes nothing in the grand scheme), and is owned by Universal Studios. Whether any fan (kid, adolescent or adult) happens to think otherwise, the material in the two sequels is canon. Completely official and set in stone. What Steven Spielberg and the producers, writers and animators of the first Balto movie may have been feeling about the direction or intent of the white wolf no longer is relevant as far as Universal Studios is concerned.
They make the decisions,
they own the material,
they establish what is and what is not official. So long as the sequels were authorized by them (which means there was a panel of studio executives who saw the material before it was produced, and had to authorize and budget it), it doesn't matter what any fan might think. And that's
the bottom line.[/quote]
Got to go with Jersey on this one. All 3 Balto movies are canon as is any sequel to any movie that is authorized by the owners of the Intellectual property, in this case Universal.
To get back to the original point of the topic, The movies give to clear indication as to what happened to Aniu before Balto 1, only that she died sometime before Aleu leaves on her journey. As Togo said many fan-fiction writers take this mystery into there own hands and attempt to explain it. There are many made up explanations ranging from hunters to snow storms separating the two, but as for as a canon explanation there are none.
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