This careful approach to ensuring the film was the best it could be went into creating the tornado as well. According to a ...

T he recent theatrical release of "Wicked" sets up the story of how "The Wizard of Oz," its tornado, the Wicked Witch of the West and Dorothy Gale's trip to see the wizard came about.

The case of the missing Wizard of Oz ruby slippers has ended abruptly ... He blasted it with compressed air and, voila, it's the tornado that sends our heroine flying over the rainbow.