Lapis The Blue Hippopotamus

Lapis The Blue Hippopotamus is a 1993 ATBW Movie starring an unusually blue pygmy hippopotamus who is left in a lake somewhere in Madagascar with his sibling after their mom, also a pygmy hippo is in danger of being eaten by a pride of lions who are looking for her and plan to feast on her. Lapis, one of her kids, who is growing up must protect his mom and his sibling from the pride of lions by using his unique blue flame breath power up he was born with. The king of the territory sees the pygmy hippo in danger and allows her and her calves to enter his territory to be safe (the territory consists of common hippos, lapis and his sibling and his mom are the only pygmy hippos there).

This movie took three years to develop and create and was part of an idea conceived by Eric Langile IV and Warren Langile in 1990 after Eric, who was 30 at the time, got a blue hippo from a dream he had one night and decided to release a movie based on his dream, which would be called Lapis The Blue Hippopotamus. This movie would take about 3 years to actually work on and would take ammence concentration to make it a bit more modern like today's world for its time, in which it went successful. However, people still could not figure out how the movie looked so modern for its time, considering it was 10 years from its time and was from 1993.

Plot
Somewhere in Madagascar, a pregnant female pygmy hippo is looking for shelter to raise her two calves, which would be Nora, and Lapis. However, she is trapped by a pride of lions on her way to a shelter. She runs and eventually finds a lake. After this, the movie title card appears and the plot stars Nora and Lapis, who had just been born, are introduced to the school of common hippopotamuses in a lake ruled by King Henry The Hippo, and even introduces himself to Lapis. At first, the group are unsure of his looks due to being blue in appearance. However, they soon find out he is able to breathe blue fire like a dragon, which is unusual for a hippo. As he gets older, during a roam planned by two lionesses, he breathes fire and scares the two away, in which case is thanked for by the group and call him a hero.