A Christmas Story: 10 Awesome Images You've Never Seen

7. In a Flash

MCDCHST MG002 Before Ted made it cool to reference Flash Gordon in your movie, but slightly after the 80's revamp failed to make its way into cult history, A Christmas Story had a sequence planned (and filmed) that would pit Ralphie against Ming the Merciless himself. As we all know, Ralphie has the fantasy of saving his family homestead from Black Bart and his thugs, thanks to Ol' Blue. However, in the original script, there was another fantasy sequence where Ralphie was Flash's trusty sidekick, delivering our Football playing savior of the Universe from certain doom with a couple crack shots of his Red Ryder!
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Mike Reyes may or may not be a Time Lord, but he's definitely the Doctor Who editor here at What Culture. In addition to his work at What Culture, Mr. Reyes writes for Cocktails and Movies, as well as his own personal blogs Mr. Controversy and The Bookish Kind. On top of that, he's also got a couple Short Stories and Novels in various states of completion, like any good writer worth their salt. He resides in New Jersey, and compiles his work from all publications on his Facebook page.