# Moving a nested movieclip from one mc to another

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moving-a-nested-movieclip-from-one-mc-to-another/53121>\
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**Created:** [May 31, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moving-a-nested-movieclip-from-one-mc-to-another/53121 "2004-05-31T17:16:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![nemoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@nemoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nemoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moving-a-nested-movieclip-from-one-mc-to-another/53121/1 "2004-05-31T17:16:47Z")

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hi!

i’ve got a sticky problem:  
i’m working on a zelda-GBA type game, and i need to load the tiles (16x16px graphics) from an external SWF file.

sounds easy, but i want to be able to duplicate or attach them into a given movieclip.

do you see what i mean?

here’s a light reconstruction of my problem:

on frame 1 of root

```auto
loadMovie("../worlds/comadose/environment.swf", "droptarget");

```

on “droptarget” mc:

```auto
onClipEvent (data) {
	duplicateMovieClip("terra", "myTerra", 100);
	myTerra._y = 100;
}

```

but i would like to be able to do something like

```auto
duplicateMovieClip("terra", "_root.world.myTerra", 100);

```

or in the root:

```auto
droptarget.terra.duplicateMovieClip("world.myTerra", 100);

```

**IN SHORT:** 🙂

how can you pass a nested mc from one mc to another?  
_preferrably dynamically…_

thanks in advance for the feedback!!!