Nanoha and Fate both receive brand-new (and very slick) transformation sequences, although the famous exploding knickers are still there in all their (debatable) glory. (Fortunately, that particular brand of fan-servicey stuff is minimal throughout the rest of the film, except perhaps for a few moments in the early fight scenes.)

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The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.

Bruce's daughter, Marjory, and his sister Mary, were likewise to be encaged, the former in the Tower of London, the latter in Roxburghe Castle.