[Editor's Note: There is an old 80's show called The Defenders of the Earth which featured the non-DC, non-Marvel "super heroes": Flash Gordon, the Phantom and Mandrake the Magician. It is one of Sydney's favorite shows and she spent the better part of an episode taking literal screen shots.]
They are walking in the snow to America because there is a famous bad guy. He is really big, like this big [stretching arms very far apart]. They are in trouble by the aliens. The elephant is five years old. The baby elephant is two years old. They are in trouble by the aliens. There is another bad guy alien and he is this big [stretching arms a smaller distance apart] and he blows up the bridge. The baby animals fell and the mamas and the papas and daddies and mamas didn't.
Edited to add: from there the story became very convoluted and involved Catwoman and Batman and Frozone from the Incredibles and I was unable to keep up in typing as she was telling. Suffice to say that they all made it to America.
They brought two dancing dolls. The arm broke off the nutcracker. She laid him down on the thing that looks like a bathtub. And then they fight. And then the king wins. And then she saves the nutcracker. And then they went back home.