By Daniel Dern: Having periodically done a web search for a comparison (usually for two competing products I’m considering buying), ITEM (5) in Pixel Scroll 5/18/24, “BWAH! Gizmodo’s James Whitbrook contends there are ‘25 Great Things About The Phantom Menace’” started me thinking about, of course, The Phantom Tollbooth. So here, off the top of my happily-haired-with-a-bald-spot head, and, having seen The Phantom Menace at least 1x but probably not more than 2.5x, and having reread The Phantom Tollbooth dozens of times (and a quick one-item lookup just now), we go (with, in some cases, allowing stuff in other Star Wars films to count):
| WHAT | THE PHANTOM MENACE | THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH |
| Weapons/tools | Light-saber | (Mathemagian’s) Pencil |
| Untall characters | Yoda | Officer Short Shrift |
| Princess(es) | Amidala, Leia | Sweet Rhyme, Pure Reason |
| Punishment | Carbonite | “I am” (shortest sentence from the judge) |
| Odd Food(s) | Blue milk | Subtraction Stew |
| Challenging Routes | Kessel Run | The Doldrums |
| Talking characters | C3PO, R2D2 | Tick (watchdog); Spelling Bee |
| Powers of mind | Force stuff | Car that goes without saying |