Full title: In The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Dorothy chooses to walk to the Emerald City, despite Wicked (2024) showing there was a train that went directly to the city centre. This is because she is American, and therefore does not understand quality public transport.
By the same token she wouldn’t have walked, she’d have driven.
Dorothy rolling up in a Buick Special with Scarecrow blasting flying monkeys out of the suicide doors?
I feel really bad about being American but I’d watch that.
More likely is that the wizard is American and bribed by oil and gas executives to tear out the rail line, as was standard practice in the 1950’s.
Munchkinlanders are poor, and Munchkinland (where Dorothy landed) does not have a rail system. They only recently had the yellow brick road installed.
Meanwhile Shiz is the top (only?) university in the area. It has a rail line directly to Emerald City.
