The film was preceded by the animated short The Ballad of Nessie, which was about a friendly Loch Ness Monster named Nessie and how she and her best friend MacQuack, the rubber duck, came to live in the moor they now call home [REF].
The film was first released on DVD only on August 22, 2011 in the UK, where it does not fall under the numbered Animated Classic branding [REF].