There was a great scary dinosaur, a duck, a clever little bunny rabbit, 
and a woman in a purple gown with purple hair. They explained to Princess Nell 
that her wicked stepmother was an evil sorceress in the Land Beyond, and that 
the four of them had long ago sworn to defeat her evil plans. She had placed an 
enchantment on them, so that they were dolls in the daytime but returned to 
their normal selves at night. Then she had imprisoned them in this castle, 
where the trolls had shut them up inside a cave. They thanked Nell for 
releasing them.