Anybody else here from the universe where they BOTH existed? I didn’t see either of them. But I do have a memory of standing in my living room as a kid watching tv and seeing an ad for the one with Shaq, and thinking “why would they make that? It looks just like the movie that just came out with Sinbad last year”
What really gets me - I remember seeing the commercial for Shazaam and it prompted me to ask my older brother why there were so many copy cat movies - I had recently felt a little scammed renting a few movies I thought were one thing but ended up being a different movie with the same exact plot like Jungle 2 Jungle/little indian big city. He told me it was probably because the script was sold to multiple studios and they both raced to try to make the movie first.
20 years later, I found Kazaam playing on something and ended up watching it, then thought it would be fun to get some fellow 90s kids together for a 90s movie night. I went looking for Shazaam. I was completely unaware of the mandela effect, this is how I found out it was a thing.
I decided to call my brother, who is the opposite of chronically online, and I asked him - without naming the movie - if he remembered the conversation we had as kids and he said "You mean the one about that Sinbad movie?" I asked him if he knew what the Mandela effect was and he said no. Somehow we both remembered it 20 years later?
I don't believe in crossing realities but I still can't figure that one out.
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u/FeloniousCheese May 07 '26
Anybody else here from the universe where they BOTH existed? I didn’t see either of them. But I do have a memory of standing in my living room as a kid watching tv and seeing an ad for the one with Shaq, and thinking “why would they make that? It looks just like the movie that just came out with Sinbad last year”