Before The NeverEnding Story whisked us away to Fantasia ... From battling the Swamps of Sadness with Artax to soaring the skies on Falkor, Hathaway became a childhood legend.

The team, which was aboard the R/V Falkor (a research vessel I really hope was named after The Neverending Story‘s luck dragon) was 57 miles away from the George VI ice shelf when it broke away ...

"We definitely wanted a Falkor moment from The Neverending Story that was both majestic and beautiful, but also one that goes south pretty quickly," A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess said.