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animation/tie.ins #1, from jimomura, 286 chars, Sat Mar 31 21:04:24 1990
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TITLE: Things Related to Animated Shows and Comics
This topic is for discussion of things closely related to the
main subject matter of this conference. For instance, “collectables”
like coffee mugs, games, live films based on comicbooks or things
which were animated originally.
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animation/tie.ins #2, from jimomura, 588 chars, Sat Mar 31 21:07:55 1990
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TITLE: Games
We have a ‘games’ conference on BIX. In fact, we have an
exchange related to ‘games’ as well, and the ‘games’ conference
isn’t a part of it. And there are game related topics in many
other conferences. But many games are based on animated shows
and comicbooks. I’ve discussed them before elsewhere, but I think
sometimes the discussion could be better appreciated in this
conference. That’s how the whole idea for this topic got started.
I’ll probably bring some of my messages from other conferences
back into this conference. Probably not all of them, but some.
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animation/tie.ins #3, from hmccracken, 138 chars, Sun Apr 1 11:57:27 1990
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TITLE: So, has anyone seen the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie yet?
I’m interested in knowing how good the costumes are.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #4, from tom.white, 1356 chars, Sun Apr 1 12:20:52 1990
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Yes, I saw it Friday night. I liked it very much, enough that I wouldn’t
mind paying $6 a SECOND time.
The costumes are well-done and well-used. The turtles all have distinct
complexions and colorations (up close — without the colored ninja
masks, you couldn’t put a name to any of them). On occasion the shells
give away that they are foam-rubber creations, and I thought that the
mouths looked too mechanical two times, but I was looking very closely
at the film. If you just sit back and enjoy the ride, you won’t notice
a thing. As the four main characters who have a LOT of action, the turtle
costumes are excellent.
Splinter is also well-done, but he doesn’t move around much so you
wouldn’t notice flaws anyway. He’s voiced pretty much as I’ve always
thought, a raspy, wisdom-laden delivery.
And the Shredder’s costume is kinda spiffy, but looks like it weighs
500 pounds.
The story is a good adaptation of several of the original comics, with
a few add-ins from the Marketed Cartoon Turtles and a few add-ins that
are new to this film. I think the script really underlines the TEENAGE
aspect of the turtles like never before (the NINJA and MUTANT adjectives
having been solidly established in their very first issue). The turtles
are full of pop-culture references and sometimes don’t know when to shut up.
Very well done in the whole.
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animation/tie.ins #5, from hmccracken, 216 chars, Tue Apr 3 18:30:37 1990
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Thanks for the comments, Tom. BTW, according to today’s Wall Street
Journal, the movie broke Hunt for Red October’s youthful record
for the biggest non-Summer, non-Thanksgiving opening of all
time. Wow!
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #6, from jimomura, 93 chars, Tue Apr 3 18:36:34 1990
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I saw it. If I had money for 1 movie in my pocket, I’d certainly
chose it over Batman.
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animation/tie.ins #7, from hmccracken, 352 chars, Tue Apr 3 18:40:58 1990
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I should probably check it out, then. I am not a Turtles fan, really —
haven’t ever done more than flip through the early comics. But
I can think of at least one other movie (_Dreamchild_) that was
worth seeing as much for the Jim Henson Creature Shop work
as anything else, so _TMNT_ should be worthwhile on that
score, if nothing else.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #8, from tom.white, 332 chars, Tue Apr 3 21:14:47 1990
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Headline News mentioned that TMNT pulled in $25 million and change
in its first weekend, a “Springtime opening” record.
These box-office records strike me as nonsense, since prices are
always rising and number of opening theatres is never constant.
I’d rather know attendees/theatres. But Hollywood just LOVES that
dollar sign $.
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animation/tie.ins #9, from rconner, 203 chars, Wed Apr 4 03:57:09 1990
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Ahh. But also remember that alot of ticket sales probably went to
kids under say 12-13ish? And there ticket prices are LOWER say in
the $4 area usually (at least in my area).
Pretty impressive.
-Richard
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animation/tie.ins #10, from jimomura, 342 chars, Wed Apr 4 10:05:40 1990
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Yeah. I went on a Tuesday for the 2nd afternoon showing (3:00 PM)
and there were fathers with really little kids, like 4 – 6 years old.
Not a show I’d necessarily think they’d want *little* kids to see.
Adults who worry about kids emulating behavior are going to have a
fit. But I’ll leave aside arguing the validity of such concerns.
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animation/tie.ins #11, from jimomura, 747 chars, Mon Apr 9 20:25:06 1990
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TITLE: The “Macross” Game on Nintendo
games/arcade #482, from jimomura, 643 chars, Thu Mar 22 09:08:15 1990
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And the last of the games we played was the official Macross
game. This was interesting for me because I like Thexder, and I know
the Macross anime very well. Also, I’ve seen pictures of the Macross
game that came out for MSX. This game looks like the MSX game, but
with better graphics. We didn’t get very far, but I found I liked
the responsiveness in the controls. It’s really just another fairly
straight forward “scrolling/shoot-em-up” game and “dated” by today’s
standards, but if I could buy it for MSX, I think I would. In fact,
I’d probably even buy it for the Atari ST if it was cheap.
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animation/tie.ins #12, from jimomura, 1693 chars, Mon Apr 9 20:26:28 1990
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games/arcade #484, from jimomura, 1592 chars, Sat Mar 24 10:12:59 1990
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I had another shot at the “Macross” game and I got a bit
further, and watched it a bit more closely. Here’s what I noticed:
When the game starts, you are in a Valkerie in Fighter mode.
You can switch to Gerwalk (Guardian) mode or Battloid mode at any
time. To change modes you hit the “right” fire button (A?) and
push the direction pad at the same time. The direction pad is
“left” for Battloid, “up” for Gerwalk and “right” for Fighter.
The Fighter mode makes the background screen scroll the
fastest, but has the least responsiveness. It is sluggish moving
the Valkerie up/down/left/right on the screen. Also, you can
only fire in the “right” direction, so you want to stay mainly
on the left side of the screen. Firing is with the “left” fire
button (B?). You can fire as much as you want.
Battloid mode slows the background scroll, but gives you
fast maneuverability on the screen. When you go left in Battloid
mode, the whole Valkerie turns and you can fire in the left
direction.
I haven’t tried Gerwalk mode yet. I expect it’s inbetween.
There is a “Power” bar across the top of the screen. When you
get hit by enemy fire, the power is depleted slowly. If you run out
of power, you die. If you hit an enemy Mecha (pods or fighters), I
think you die regardless of the power level. I’m not entirely sure
about that. If not, well, it’s close to being that way. Mainly,
you don’t want to get hit by enemy Mecha. Occasionally there’s a small
red disc with a “P” that shows up. You must touch that disc with
the Valkerie to regain power.
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animation/tie.ins #13, from jimomura, 2200 chars, Mon Apr 9 20:27:59 1990
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games/arcade #485, from jimomura, 2111 chars, Sat Mar 24 10:31:29 1990
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I looked for an old MSX magazine to see the screens and it looks
very different from the Nintendo game. I’m fairly sure that it’s
essentially the same game though. The first difference is that there
seems to be a “cockpit” like frame along the bottom 1/4 of the screen
for the MSX version. This seems to have a “radar” screen in the middle
which probably tells you where there are enemy mecha outside the
regular screen, like in Defender. Also, there’s an indicator of
which mode you’re in (Fighter/Gerwalk/Battloid).
In the Nintendo version, you start with a star background.
Then you enter the “battle” and you see explosions in the background
which are very similar to the explosions in the Macross TV show and
movie. It’s a nice bit of detail missing in any other shoot-em-up
space game I’ve ever seen. In the Robotech TV show, in one episode,
Rich Hunter, in his fever dream is talking to Lisa Hayes and they
admit that from a distance, a battle can be very beautiful
” . . . from a distance.” It’s an observation that brings home
the irony the characters find themselves in. If you’re a Robotech/
Macross fan, you always remember that moment when you see explosions
“blossoming” in the distance like that.
Shortly after the battle starts, the Mecha attacks. I still
haven’t played it that much, but my impression is that the attack
is mainly a fixed pattern, though the “P”ower disc didn’t seem to
show up at the same point. If you want to build up points fast,
Battloid seems to work best, but you’ll get killed off before you
get far into the screens. I don’t know if there’s some point to
this. Eventually you reach a green ship exterior (Breetai’s ship?)
and you fight along the outside for a while. Then you enter the
ship and you’re fighting inside while the background scrolls.
And then there’s a point where the scrolling stops and you are
attacked by “sparkles”. These appear similar to the “sparkle”
effect that was left behind in the Macross when the warp drive
disappeared. Unfortunately, I always get killed at this point,
so I don’t know what comes next.
đŸ™‚
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animation/tie.ins #14, from hmccracken, 140 chars, Mon Apr 9 21:07:12 1990
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Speaking of Nintendo, has anybody played the “Mickey Mousecepade” game, the
DuckTales game, or any other animation-related ones?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #15, from hmccracken, 295 chars, Mon Apr 9 21:20:48 1990
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TITLE: The current issue of _Comics Buyer’s Guide_ has an interesting
article on a new series of Baseball cards featuring Warner Bros. cartoon
characters; creation of the cards was supervised by Chuck Jones, and
they apparently feature work by some (unnamed) Warner Bros. veterans.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #16, from bsoron, 1166 chars, Mon Apr 9 22:44:32 1990
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I’ve played the Duck Tales cart, Superman, Batman, the Three Stooges,
the Road Runner carts. Superman was a complete turkey — the old Atari
2600 game was better. Duck Tales is an enjoyable game, but the characters
could be anyone; it’s a fairly standard adventure game. Three Stooges
is pretty nifty — the same game available on most other platforms —
the animation’s a bit clumsy but the game’s a lot of fun. Road Runner’s
a hoot the first few times, but seeing Wile E. catch the Road Runner five
times a game just doesn’t seem right. Fairly standard arcade action
game, aside from its not having aliens. Another violation: At one point,
I steered the Road Runner so that Wile E. would fall over a cliff, but
the cliff was just scenery; he didn’t fall. The Batman game is very
difficult, but it has graphics that just knocked me out. I turned up
the color on my TV a bit to get more of a comic book feel to the graphics
and it really looked great — the grimness of the movie and the garishness
of comics combined.
Now, if there were only a game in which Ralph had to survive Josie’s
parish Christmas party and get away before becoming engaged…
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animation/tie.ins #17, from bsoron, 80 chars, Mon Apr 9 22:45:22 1990
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Available at comics shops? Strictly mail order? Details,
friend, details!
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animation/tie.ins #18, from switch, 384 chars, Mon Apr 9 23:25:01 1990
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Speaking of the Road Runner, have you tried the arcade game? For the short
while it was at the comic store next to my school, I used to play it as often
as R-Type (which is a _lot_ of money). I rather enjoyed it, although I never
did try steering Wile E. off a cliff. I never bothered trying it on a home
system because I didn’t think it would live up to the arcade version.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #19, from jimomura, 1496 chars, Tue Apr 10 00:43:35 1990
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I eventually finished a “level” of the Macross game, so here
are a few more observations:
First, Gerwalk mode is definitely inbetween Battloid and Fighter
modes. The background seems to scroll just a bit faster than Battloid
mode and you have almost the maneuverability of Battloid mode, but
you can only shoot to the right of the screen.
Also, if you have red dots showing in the upper right hand corner
it means that you have “seeking missle barages” ready. To launch the
missle barage you press the “select” button. The missles are very
reminicent of the Macross anime! They snake around in the general
direction in which they are fired somewhat randomly. In fact, they
are almost entirely useless from what I’ve seen. They seem to miss
most of the enemy on the screen. The only time to use them would be
if you have a very thick massing of enemy mecha to whittle down.
To finish a “level”, you have to fire at the two middle rows of
blocks (horizontal rows). You can dodge the sparkles, but it’s easier
to shoot them all in Battloid mode first. There are a fixed number
of sparkles, so they stop once you’ve shot them all.
The best usage of modes I found was to stay in fighter mode
while trying to penetrate the ship, unless there’s a Power disc
to pick up. At that point, Gerwalk is maneuverable enough to
pick up the dot, but doesn’t slow you down as much as Battloid,
so it’s a good choice. Battloid is best used in the hold, against
the sparkles.
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animation/tie.ins #20, from davemackey, 241 chars, Tue Apr 10 07:04:58 1990
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I remember that cheesy old Superman game. I used to have that thing down.
Graphics primitive as hell, but loads of fun for its time. (The kids of
the Nintendo generation would probably scorn and ridicule it!)
–D.
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animation/tie.ins #21, from grekel, 633 chars, Tue Apr 10 17:23:45 1990
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“Mickey Mousecapade” seems to be positioned at younger folks,
but it is awfully complex for anyone under 12 or so. Kinda frustrating,
too — you spend the first half of each “scene” trying to rescue Minnie,
and when you finally do, she attatches herself to you and slows you
down the rest of the game. Otherwise, it’s yet another of those “walk-
around-and-shoot-everything-that-moves” games with hidden powerups
that are invisible until you punch the empty space containing them. So
you must spend the entire game punching any empty space that looks
worthy of a powerup. Not my idea of a fun game.
But, of course, TINAR…
greg
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animation/tie.ins #22, from davemackey, 194 chars, Tue Apr 10 18:03:51 1990
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TITLE: Tank McNamara…
by Millar and Hinds, could be the next comic-strip property to hit animation,
via the Film Roman studio in a format yet to be determined.
–D.
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animation/tie.ins #23, from bsoron, 244 chars, Tue Apr 10 19:24:26 1990
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Haven’t seen the RR arcade game — haven’t been in an arcade for more
years than I want to admit. I assume Tengen’s cart is an adaptation,
but most of its fun comes from the sight gags, so I’m in little hurry to
start dropping quarters…
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animation/tie.ins #24, from hkenner, 47 chars, Tue Apr 10 19:25:59 1990
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And CHEAP to animate. Tank just sits there.
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animation/tie.ins #25, from hmccracken, 336 chars, Tue Apr 10 20:12:51 1990
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The Road Runner arcade game is an excellent little timewaster that’s
fun to play and captures the spirit of the cartoon quite well (better,
in fact, than the infamous DePatie-Freleng Road Runner cartoons of
the 1960s do). BTW, Warner Bros. Cartoons has one sitting in
its lobby, or at least did when I visited back in 1988.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #26, from hmccracken, 118 chars, Tue Apr 10 20:26:36 1990
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Oh, no! The Jean Shepherd thread rears its ugly head again!
…Say, I wonder if Jean has a twin sibling?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #27, from hmccracken, 103 chars, Tue Apr 10 20:27:15 1990
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Actually, if an unlikely humorist is to get his own video game, I vote
for Albert Brooks…
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #28, from morganfox, 234 chars, Tue Apr 10 21:50:07 1990
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TITLE: er….
Not having seen this game, but from the TINAR, I wonder if I want 12 and under
children to play/learn that females must be rescued and then they cling to you
and slow you down. Can you say Sexist? I knew you could……
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animation/tie.ins #29, from tom.white, 1637 chars, Wed Apr 11 20:00:24 1990
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Latest Comic Buyer’s Guide (#857, 4/20/90) has a headline story on a new
set of cards coming from Upper Deck, the newest big baseball-card publisher.
UD has licensed with both Warner Brothers and Major League Baseball to
produce a new series titled Comic Ball. The first series will be 396 cards,
99 cards to a story (so when you put them in standard 9-card pages, 11 full
pages make one readable story). Basic premise is Warner characters, in
baseball uniforms (of real teams), have a story 99 panels long, and the
preliminary report is that, while not animated, they work quite well.
Creation of these cards has been greatly assisted by Chuck Jones.
A review by Kit Kiefer, editor of _Baseball_Cards_, suggests that there
should be minimal demand for certain cards, unlike baseball cards where
the prices can fluctuate based on the week’s offense statistics. Statistical
analysis says it would take buying 217 packs (12 cards/pack) at 89c/pack
a total cost of some $192, to get the
entire set. However, card stores often make their own sets and sell them
for considerably less (and no annoying duplicates), and Kiefer estimates
$20 for such a set when available. No plans from UD to factory package
complete sets. Kiefer also points out that each box of packs contains
a single card-size hologram that, while not described in detail, has to be
seen to be believed. Intriguing.
Further review by CBG co-editors Don and Maggie Thompson just sort of
raves over the prospect from the comic collector’s point of view.
Upper Deck makes very good cards, using excellent reproduction and very stiff
card stock. Hey, I’ll buy a set.
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animation/tie.ins #30, from davemackey, 253 chars, Wed Apr 11 23:54:32 1990
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Warner Bros. held a promotion today at Shea Stadium, in fact, honoring the
50th birthday of Bugs Bunny. I don’t have any details on what went on but
I can tell you the Mets won 3-0 on the strong pitching of Frank Viola.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #31, from bsoron, 265 chars, Thu Apr 12 19:04:31 1990
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The Looney Tunes/baseball promotion moves north this weekend — it
will be at the Red Sox game here in Boston Saturday, which, in a
desperate attempt to sell tickets, has been named “Kids’ Opening Day.”
Last year Mickey and Minnie were at the Sox’ home opener.
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animation/tie.ins #32, from tom.white, 57 chars, Thu Apr 12 19:09:19 1990
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Oh come on, the Sox never have problems selling tickets.
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animation/tie.ins #33, from davemackey, 293 chars, Fri Apr 13 03:18:07 1990
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The Mets’ used it as part of a promotional gambit they’ve been doing last
several years called “Opening Day II.” In earlier years, they used to have
Rodney Dangerfield throw out the first ball on the theory that the second
game of the season never got any respect.
–D
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animation/tie.ins #34, from hmccracken, 439 chars, Sat Apr 14 01:35:35 1990
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TITLE: I was surprised, and sort of pleased, to happen across an
animated TV ad for a line of toys based on Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s
old “Rat Fink” characters today. Rat Fink was a rodent ahead of
his time who certainly fits in well with the current toy trend towards
gross and weird; it’s nice to think that Big Daddy will be profiting
at least a little from the fad. The animation of his characters was
quite respectable, too.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #35, from davemackey, 431 chars, Sat Apr 14 04:26:29 1990
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I had read an article a few years ago in a one-shot Rat Fink comic book that
Roth was still interested in giving the characters a life, despite the
fact that their decade (the sixties, the muscle car decade — my brother
had a hopped up ’57 Chevy I wish he still had) had long since passed.
I think it’s nice the kids can have something to play with that their dads
might be able to relate to.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #36, from richard.pini, 135 chars, Sat Apr 14 17:58:23 1990
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For anyone who’s interested – and I suspect Roth would be too – he can be
reached at 14245 San Feliciano Avenue, La Mirada, CA 90638.
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animation/tie.ins #37, from bsoron, 114 chars, Sat Apr 14 21:24:51 1990
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Sorry — but I can never remember which of those little smily
faces connotes “dry irony with raised eyebrow.”
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animation/tie.ins #38, from bsoron, 95 chars, Sat Apr 14 21:25:59 1990
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But then, ’til recently, neither have the Mets. (Is there a smily
face for drum rimshot?)
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animation/tie.ins #39, from richard.pini, 439 chars, Sun Apr 15 21:24:34 1990
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Didja know there’s a machine out now (similar to those dashboard Destructor
boxes) that will give you a rimshot, an alarm bell, hysterical laughter,
a beautiful cartoon boinnng!, and a sexy (boom boom ba-dum) drum riff? It’s
called the Inter-Comedy, looks like an intercom box, sits on your desk, and
is great! Now, if I only knew where to get one… (The one I saw belonged to
someone else and I was unable to get the information…sigh)
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animation/tie.ins #40, from bcapps, 570 chars, Tue Apr 17 23:41:17 1990
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BTW, Stabur Corp., is offering limited edition Rat Fink cels, signed and
numbered by Ed “Big Daddy” Roth hisself! Dey’s hand-painted wid’ ai’-bruss
backgrouns! Fur only $49.95! Edition is limited to 100.
Stabur Corp. 1-800-346-8940. Address is in animation/sources.
Also of note: They are offering a 395 edition run of Mort Walker’s Beetle
Bailey “Buns” Sunday strip from January of this year, which was pulled due
to obvious editorial fear of _any_ form of nudity. This one’s only
$59.95 with a cert. of authenticity.
(Reportin’ ’em as I sees them!) Bob
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animation/tie.ins #42, from jimomura, 478 chars, Sun Apr 22 19:39:48 1990
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TITLE: Sega Genesis, “Revenge of Shinobi”, Spiderman, Batman
I just watched my freind play a full game of “Revenge of Shinobi”.
I helped a bit in the early stages (gave him some relief time so he
was sharper in the later stages of the game) and we watched the sunset
at the end of the game. It was interesting to see both Spiderman and
a Batman like character making “guest appearances” in the game, as
does a Godzilla-like character. All are appropriately hard to kill.
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animation/tie.ins #43, from hmccracken, 411 chars, Fri May 11 18:44:01 1990
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TITLE: I just received my copy of the new edition of the Whole Toon Catalog,
so those of you who accepted my invitation to put you on their mailing
list (as well as anybody else who is on the list for other reasons) should
be getting it shortly. It’s massive and excellent — a definite must for
cartoon fans, with hundreds of cartoon videotape and lots of other
interesting and hard-to-find stuff.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #44, from bsoron, 107 chars, Fri May 11 20:33:02 1990
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Got mine today as well; I really wish they packed a winning lottery
ticket with each catalog *sigh*…
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animation/tie.ins #45, from dquick, 50 chars, Sat May 12 00:20:03 1990
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Got mine today as well, thanks Harry.
Dave Quick
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animation/tie.ins #46, from hmccracken, 27 chars, Sat May 12 00:59:24 1990
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You’re welcome! — Harry
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animation/tie.ins #47, from davemackey, 198 chars, Sat May 12 01:56:16 1990
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Haven’t gotten mine yet. Bad enough they’re changing our area code in this
part of Jersey, now the USPS has joined UPS in refusal to deliver to P.O.
boxes? Curiouser and curiouser……. đŸ™‚ —Dave
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animation/tie.ins #48, from switch, 364 chars, Sat May 12 13:37:39 1990
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TITLE: Batman?
I just got back from a trip to the mall (grabbing the lunch I’m currently
eating) where I saw a gaggle of children crowding about. Amidst it all
was Batman and a Batmobile. I was trying to figure out what was wrong with
this picture when I realized — the Batman costume was that of the movie, and
the car was that from the old TV series…
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #49, from davemackey, 173 chars, Sat May 12 16:58:19 1990
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Down near where I work is the man who owns an original Batmobile. Where did you
see this car, and I’ll try to determine if it’s the same dude.
–D.
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animation/tie.ins #50, from switch, 108 chars, Sat May 12 17:30:21 1990
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Fairview Shopping Center, Montreal, Quebec, Great White North (currently in
the midst of bad skiing).
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #51, from dquick, 92 chars, Sat May 12 19:41:21 1990
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What!?!?!?!?! The people with the keys to the box won’t deliver to it?
Sheesh.
Dave Quick
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animation/tie.ins #52, from hmccracken, 301 chars, Sun May 13 09:33:17 1990
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Oddly enough, I was driving through Pella, Iowa last week and saw
the — well, a — Batmobile cruising down the street. After assuming
for a second that Gotham City must be located somewhere near
Pella, I realized that this Batmobile was a (quite good-looking)
amateur job, and drove on.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #53, from bsoron, 279 chars, Sun May 13 16:59:18 1990
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TITLE: Little Nemo Hits the Chips
According to one of the videogame magazines my brother gets, Little Nemo
will become a Nintendo game later this year, traveling through Slumberland
to rescue its King. Don’t know many details, but I doubt its graphics will
rival McCay’s…
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animation/tie.ins #54, from hmccracken, 247 chars, Sun May 13 21:54:11 1990
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Winsor McCay is probably spinning in his — well he probably isn’t,
since he presumably doesn’t know what a videogame is. But if he
did, he would.
— Harry
(Wonder if the videogame is a tie-in with the upcoming Japanese
animated feature film?)
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animation/tie.ins #55, from bsoron, 287 chars, Mon May 14 23:04:59 1990
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Apparently, each time Nemo defeats an adversary, he can either ride
the creature or take on its attributes — he can ride on a bee or
turn into a bee and sting other adversaries, for instance. (They
presumably take a bit of license and keep him alive after stinging his
enemies…)
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animation/tie.ins #56, from hmccracken, 699 chars, Mon May 14 23:18:08 1990
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TITLE: I read a lot of annual reports as part of my job…
but one of the few I really *enjoy* reading is the one published by the
Walt Disney Company. Last year’s included a pop-up Roger Rabbit;
this year’s edition doesn’t have anything that spectacular, but it’s still
a very interesting overview of the millions of things the studio is
doing, with lots of good pictures. The annual is so popular that the
one they send me was a black-and-white reprint; they had run out of
the color original.
You don’t need to be a stockholder or anything to get a free copy;
just call the studio and ask for one. I don’t have the phone number
handy, but you can call Burbank information for it.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #57, from bcapps, 79 chars, Tue May 15 22:19:47 1990
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I got mine as well. Thanks Harry! Now, where are the Animato sub forms?
Bob
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animation/tie.ins #59, from hmccracken, 274 chars, Tue May 15 22:50:10 1990
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The Whole Toon Catalog has some information on subscribing to
Animato; they also offer back issues (which I can also supply).
Information on Animato is also available in the sources topic
here in the animation conference. If you’ve got any questions,
just ask!
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #60, from davemackey, 226 chars, Wed May 16 06:51:09 1990
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I finally received by copy of the catalogue and was staggered by the breadth
of the releases therein. Will likely be placing a good-sized order for some
of the more obscure Warners stuff.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #61, from sharonfisher, 124 chars, Wed May 16 11:42:50 1990
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I got mine over the weekend and am attempting to figure out what I can get
without costing myself thousands of dollars. đŸ™‚
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animation/tie.ins #62, from davemackey, 194 chars, Wed May 16 18:00:52 1990
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I definitely want to get the “Uncensored Cartoons” volume, for starters, and
some of the Bosko Video collections. That should just about burn my credit
card up.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #63, from tom.white, 278 chars, Wed May 16 19:13:41 1990
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Finally got to see a few of the Comic Ball card artwork, though not the
cards themselves. Pure Chuck Jones stuff, gorgeous. Bugs was swinging
a giant carrot in lieu of a bat.
No idea when these may arrive, as Upper Deck is notoriously slow,
but it should be worth the wait.
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animation/tie.ins #64, from hmccracken, 72 chars, Wed May 16 20:18:03 1990
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Neat! Where’d you see it? I’ve been looking for the cards.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #65, from tom.white, 623 chars, Wed May 16 21:04:50 1990
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I wish the cards were out, but you’ll have to settle for
the article in the July 1990 issue of Baseball Cards… any
card store should have it, and comic stores might also carry it.
There’s a quick review on p.14 with one card, Foghorn Leghorn
and Porky Pig in the announcer’s booth:
FL:”He struck out the side with _one_ pitch!”
PP:”It’s a muh-muh-mir-acuh-buh- It’s magnuh-muh magnuh- oh, forget it–
It _was_ a nice pitch.”
A larger article starts on p.22 and is accompanied by four color card
illustrations and one B&W card.
As usual, though, home plate mistakenly has the point facing the
field of play. sigh.
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animation/tie.ins #66, from rmunafo, 425 chars, Mon May 21 15:11:22 1990
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TITLE: Marvin the Martian?
I got my Whole Toon Catalog, too. Thanks, Harry!
There was one thing I was expecting to find in it, which I didn’t — there
doesn’t seem to be a collection which includes the “Martin the Martian”
cartoons (2 or 3 were Bugs Bunny cartoons, 2 or 3 were Daffy Duck). Does
anyone know if these have been collected together on one tape? I’d really
love to get them!
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animation/tie.ins #67, from davemackey, 412 chars, Mon May 21 17:56:56 1990
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The answer to that, unfortunately, is no. You would have to get at least
the tape with “Haredevil Hare” from MGM/UA and the one with “Duck
Dodgers…” from Warner Bros. to have the full extent of Marvin Martian
cartoons that have been released on home video. “Mad As A Mars Hare,”
“Hare-Way To The Stars” and “Hasty Hare” still show up on the network
package from time to time.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #68, from tom.white, 540 chars, Mon May 21 18:54:32 1990
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Latest CBG (June 1, 1990) has a full-page ad by Upper Deck (p. 69)
plugging their Comic Ball cards (it doesn’t show the cards, just the
box and packs, but the display is eye-catching). The other half of
the ad is for their Looney Tunes “Laserchron” holographic watch.
Apparently there is more than one model, but the one shown is of
Daffy’s bust, in cap, jersey, and glove, tossing a ball. You’ve
probably seen these things before, at the little stands in the hallways
of the local mall, but the characters haven’t been available before.
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animation/tie.ins #69, from jimomura, 2342 chars, Fri Jun 8 21:40:25 1990
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TITLE: Robotech Collectables
Tonight was the openning for Ad Astra 10 in Toronto and I dropped
in to pick up the usual handouts and get a feel for what I’m going to
do for the weekend. There were 2 smallish dealer rooms, so it didn’t
take long to buzz them. Nobody showed up with particularly heavy animation
oriented stuff. Ad Astra is sort of settling into a kind of SF tunnel
vision. It’s very “SF maintstream”. But 1 dealer had some really
interesting models and collectables. He had a large Dalek about 2 feet
high which was a prize winner. He also had the 2nd prize winner from
the same contest (I forget which contest) which was a vinyl “Boomer”
kit from Bubblegum Crisis. He estimated 5 hours for construction
including spray painting and adding LEDs in the eyes and cutting a
hole in the base for batteries and circuitry. I was amazed. I’d
never actually touched a blown vinyl kit before and the pieces are
actually hard, like styrene, when it’s done. The kit was perfectly
proportioned and detailed. He sprayed it a metallic blue. It was
about 8″ high.
He also had a solid vinyl Misa Hayase. There aren’t many pieces
to these kits, but this one again is perfectly formed and when painted
it looks very life-like. I was impressed with all these kits. He has
a Boomer kit on sale for $80.00 (Cdn) and a Misa Hayase kit for $45.00
(Cdn).
Anyway, I didn’t buy these. What I did buy though was a Miriya
Sterling “Action Figure” from the Matchbox Robotech series. This is
the small version of Miriya which apparently was never imported into
Canada. The fellow brought it in from the US. I paid $18.00 (Cdn)
for it. I talked to him about it and apparently the Minmei was never
really brought it. I’ve seen a picture of it and I guess they only
had some samples. He paid $35.00 for a Rook Bartley recently. I’ve
never seen the Rook Bartley at all. The Miriya is passable. The
body looks like the Lisa Hayes body, but cast in red material and
painted with white, black and skin colour trim. The head looks like
the Dana Sterling model with a bit of minor detail changes, and the
hair is, of course, green. It comes with a helmet and an assault gun.
Amazing to think I just paid $18.00 for something that should
have costed much less if the merchandizer had had the brains to bring
them in.
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animation/tie.ins #70, from jimomura, 211 chars, Mon Jun 11 13:09:59 1990
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I went back yesterday and I bought a 1/12th scale Minmei model
kit. It’s styrene injection moulded by Imai and comes with a Skull
Squadron sticker. At about $16.00 Cdn., it was all I could really
afford.
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animation/tie.ins #71, from jimomura, 1994 chars, Tue Jun 12 01:01:17 1990
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TITLE: “Target Earth” on the Sega Genesis
games/arcade #622, from jimomura, 1934 chars, Tue Jun 12 00:59:24 1990
Tonight I was playing these two games with a freind. “Target Earth”
is interesting but too hard for me. It’s essentially a walk along/shooter
game, but with the ability to backtrack. I don’t know how far you can
backtrack, but it’s interesting to have more freedom in that sense
than in most other similar games. The biggest annoyance is that it’s
not very forgiving of getting killed. You only have a couple of “lives”
and when those are done, they start you from the beginning. With my
freind playing, I only got to see to the 3rd level, and he’s a *excellent*
games player! The third level was the most fun because it takes place
in space.
The artwork is comparable others in the better range of this
type of game. The storyline is a bit unique. It’s a war with an
unknown enemy and the 2nd level is actually an organized retreat!
In most other games, you keep winning and beating the opposition
as you roll along in the storyline. In this game, the 2nd level
is a “win” only in the sense that you’ve escaped with your life.
That’s a nice touch. Also, the 3rd level is reminiscent of the openning
of the “Mobile Suit Gundam” TV series when White Base has to enter
Earth’s atmosphere and only a small handful of defenders fight off
the Zabi interception attempt. In that story, Amuro Lai almost died
in re-entry and the Zabi soldier he was fighting at the end was burned
alive in his armour. In “Target Earth”, if you enter the atmosphere
you lose your “life force” level and it can kill you. It’s very well
handled. You *can* dip into the atmosphere as a tactic, but only
as a calculated risk! Other elements of the game come from Gundam
or other Japanese Anime and Manga stories. In that sense I could
be interesting for trivia fanatics.
There’s also a broad array of weapons. But I didn’t learn all
of them. I hope I get to try it again.
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animation/tie.ins #72, from tom.white, 441 chars, Thu Jun 14 15:10:06 1990
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The latest issue of Rolling Stone has Bart Simpson on the cover, quite
glaringly actually, and inside, there’s an “interview” with the family
and another with the creators. This morning’s USA Today had the op-ed
page full of Simpsons stuff, a short Q&A session with Charles Solomon
(author of Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation, it notes) and
some commentary from The People, both those who love it and those that
don’t get it.
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animation/tie.ins #73, from davemackey, 301 chars, Thu Jun 14 21:29:58 1990
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I’ve given up on trying to report every piece of Simpsons epherma out
there, simply because poor Harry would have to open a new topic just
to handle all of it. Fortunately, he’s pushed Roseanne Barr out of the
limelight somewhat since his series became ultra-popular.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #74, from hmccracken, 137 chars, Thu Jun 14 23:23:04 1990
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…And if we’re *un*lucky, the “Little Rosey” cartoon show might
push the Simpsons out of the spotlight. Not likely, though.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #75, from jimomura, 113 chars, Fri Jun 15 16:47:24 1990
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TITLE: Dick Tracy — Good?
Has anybody seen this movie yet? The coverage so far makes it
look really good.
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animation/tie.ins #76, from hmccracken, 1498 chars, Sat Jun 16 00:26:15 1990
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Yup — I saw it tonight (well, yesterday, now), in an orgy of
moviegoing that also included Roller Coaster Rabbit (which
is playing with Tracy) and Gremlins II — both of which I
will comment on in separate messages.
Dick Tracy is in most respects excellent — the look of the film
really surpasses even all the hype. (It’s comic strippy, yes, but
the backgrounds looked as much like animation backgrounds
as anything else.) The makeup on all the Chester Gould villains,
too, is magnificent.
But what makes the movie as good as it is — and it’s certainly
one of the best comic-strip adaptations of them all, vastly
superior to Batman — are other things, too, like brilliant
casting and fine acting from everybody from Beatty to Al
Pacino to Dick Van Dyke and Estelle Parsons. Beatty’s
direction is visually very witty, while quite reverent to
Chester Gould, comic strips, and old-timey junk culture
in general. I’m not that big a Sondheim fan, or a Madonna
one, but their parts in the film’s music aren’t bad, either.
If I was in a nit-picking mood, I’d complain that the pacing
drags in spots during the second half, and that perhaps the
film should have saved some of its bag of tricks for longer
than it does; the first twenty minutes or so are so wondrous that
the spectacular stuff that follows doesn’t have *quite* the impact
that it could have. But I’m not in a nit-picking mood, really.
I’ll save the criticism for when I see the movie again, which
I’ll certainly do.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #77, from hmccracken, 553 chars, Sat Jun 16 00:28:48 1990
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TITLE: Despite being in live action, _Gremlins II_
deserves mention here for several cartoon references, ranging
from opening and closing credits written and directed by Chuck
Jones (not particularly germaine to the movie, but cute, and it’s
good to see him working) to a cameo appearance by Leonard
Maltin. Fred Steiner, who I believe composed the _Bullwinkle_
theme, is also credited with some work on the film’s score.
My viewing of the flm was preceded by a trailer for the
Jetsons movie, by the way, which does not look very promising.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #78, from davemackey, 365 chars, Sat Jun 16 08:53:50 1990
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I think there were two themes, one composed by Fred Steiner and the other
by Frank Comstock. I have the Jay Ward Music Tape he sold out of his store,
and while some of the quality is subpar, it’s a pretty good listen. There’s
some material on that tape which seems to be sung by Mr. Ward himself
accompanying himself on piano.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #79, from hmccracken, 214 chars, Sat Jun 16 10:30:26 1990
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Gee, do you happen to know if the Dudley Do-Right Emporium
survived Ward’s passing. (It was run mainly by his wife,as
I understand it.) I plan to be in California in August, and
would love to stop by.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #80, from davemackey, 242 chars, Sat Jun 16 23:14:05 1990
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Last time I was in LA was in January of 1989 (the week before I got fired)
and the Emporium was still there on Sunset Blvd. I hope it’s still there
for the sake of those still wanting to make the pilgrimage.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #81, from hmccracken, 216 chars, Sun Jun 17 07:49:58 1990
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Well, I have spent a grand total of 1 (one) day in L.A., and didn’t
find time to visit the Emporium then. I plan to be there a little
longer this time. I’ve heard it keeps brief, erratic hours, though.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #82, from jimomura, 478 chars, Wed Jun 20 11:34:46 1990
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TITLE: Wagner “The Ring of Nibelungen”
The following was part of the discussion about this series of
operas.
music/classical #406, from jimomura, 271 chars, Wed Jun 20 11:32:05 1990
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Actually, while watching The Rhinegold I was thinking about
doing an animated video. The trouble is avoiding Jack Kirby. He’s
just about copped the field. Check back the Thor series and Tales
of Asgard (Marvel Comics), and later in DC comics The New Gods
series.
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animation/tie.ins #83, from jimomura, 268 chars, Wed Jun 20 11:38:29 1990
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I was watching the end of The Rhinegold where Donner (god of
thunder) swings his hammer and I thought that it would have been more
effective if he gave it a real swing like Thor did in the comicbooks
and TV shows. The stage prop didn’t look heavy enough either.
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animation/tie.ins #84, from jenn, 477 chars, Sun Jun 24 17:42:14 1990
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animation/coming.soon #319, from jenn, 348 chars, Sun Jun 24 17:30:52 1990
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You know, I caught an episode of The Simpsons, finally. And
frankly, I wasn’t THAT impressed by it. I can’t understand
what the hub-bub is about. It was the episode where Bart
takes a picture of his dad dancing with a belly dancer
and then the picture ends up being spread all over town….
Bart WAS my favorite character though. What a brat.
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animation/tie.ins #85, from tshim, 536 chars, Wed Aug 1 14:40:37 1990
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TITLE: Bugs’s 50th Anniversary Cel-ebrations
So far, there is the exhibition at the Museum of Cartoon Art in Rye,
New York, and a roving museum exhibit currently in Portsmouth, VA.
The former is based along the information in Adamson’s “Bugs Bunny:
50 Years and Only One Grey Hare,” while the latter is basically the
collection of Steve Schneider, author of “That’s All Folks!: The Art
of Warner Bros. Animation.”
Any others? (No, the birthday “bash” at Six Flags parks aren’t included.)
[P.S. Did they show shorts at those things?]
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animation/tie.ins #86, from switch, 419 chars, Wed Aug 1 23:20:28 1990
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Here in Montreal, we’ve had a Bugs Bunny compilation (which was also
a dedication to Mel Blanc) at the Cinematheque Quebecoise — I
believe I may have commented on that here.
There was also the Comedy in Animation: Chuck Jones show at the
Rialto, where an hour of shorts (mostly of Bugs Bunny) were shown
two nights in a row, with Chuck Jones speaking. Later in the week
there was Chuck Jones’ Greatest Hits.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #87, from tshim, 122 chars, Sun Aug 5 17:23:22 1990
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So if everyone here loved TMNT (I didn’t see it), why were almost all the
reviews not only negative, but downright surly?
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animation/tie.ins #88, from tshim, 189 chars, Sun Aug 5 17:36:31 1990
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What are all of you guys complaining about? I just sent half-a-grand
Doug’s way.
I hope he has a good time with all the cash that people in this BIX
are wiring to the Whole Toon Catalog.
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animation/tie.ins #89, from tshim, 34 chars, Sun Aug 5 17:48:32 1990
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What is in the Do-Right Emporium?
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animation/tie.ins #90, from davemackey, 408 chars, Mon Aug 6 22:24:12 1990
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The Dudley Do-Right Emporium is on Sunset Boulevard and was a place where
you could buy T-shirts, production art and other merchandise goodies of the
major Jay Ward characters. Notable for its giant statue of Bullwinkle guarding
the front.
I think Harry mentioned that he was going to check out the post-Jay
state of affairs at the Emporium on his West Coast trip.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #91, from hmccracken, 1067 chars, Fri Aug 10 19:03:58 1990
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That’s right — one of my pilgrimages during my California trip was
to the Emporium — which is next door to the place where the Ward
studio was located (but I didn’t see the studio and suppose it’s
been closed).
TheThe Emporium is a very small store stocked with Jay Ward merchandise,
some of which is new but much of which seems to have been in stock
since, oh, 1965. The prices on cels and some other things are
sky-high; other stuff is more reasonable. I made my purchase of
a Super Chicken T-shirt and some old Jay Ward press material from
the Widow Ward herself, who says that the live-action Boris and
Natasha movie is unlikely to be released, but that Disney now
says that the Bullwinkle videotapes will start being released in
October. Any folks in the area should check the store out, but
call ahead — it keeps odd hours. It was very busy the ten or
so minutes I was there.
The aforementioned Bullwinkle statue (which is actually a couple of
buildings down the street), mural, and mosaic courtyard are worth
checking out all by themselves.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #92, from steven_edwards, 669 chars, Sun Aug 12 21:31:34 1990
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TITLE: New Magazine
According to the Associated Press wire, Disney is introducing a new
U.S. produced magazine this fall. Entited _Disney Adventures_, it’s aimed at
the 7 to 14 year old set and is intended to as an adjunct to traditional
television entertainment. The company stated that one of the goals of the
new periodical is to support greater literacy among the targeted readers.
I would guess that this is going to be some kind of “activity book”.
Probably more entertaining than _Weekly Reader_. I guess the upper age limit
sounds anout right; fourteen is about the age many boys and girls switch to
_Playboy_ and _Cosmopolitan_ respectively.
— Steve
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animation/tie.ins #93, from tshim, 137 chars, Mon Aug 13 23:44:01 1990
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Speaking of kiddie mags: Does anyone know the content of “Looney Tunes”
Magazine (put out by Time Warner in conjunction with DC Comics).
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animation/tie.ins #94, from tshim, 600 chars, Tue Aug 14 00:00:50 1990
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TITLE: AMC Theatres and WB Shorts
Does anyone know of an AMC Theatres branch in the northwest, close to NYC?
I called up Warner Bros. studio (under the guise of a reporter) and got a
callback (after about twenty transfers from Animation to WB proper to WB
merchandising to WB sales back to animation) from a WB VP in charge of sales,
and he bent my ear for a good hour telling me about Box Office Bunny (which
will open in the Fall).
He tells me, anyway, about two theatres in Morristown, NJ. Dave (Mackey),
maybe you can tell me about the drive from NYC to there. Anybody else
seen one of these?
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animation/tie.ins #95, from davemackey, 278 chars, Tue Aug 14 20:40:51 1990
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“Looney Tunes” magazine is primarily for the younger folk and has
activities, strips, stories and other fictional material on the
Looney Tunes gang. You won’t find any doctoral dissertations on
the use of Fudd as a Christ figure in there.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #96, from davemackey, 498 chars, Tue Aug 14 20:43:22 1990
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Tom–
Morristown is definitely within your range, but I could suggest also
the AMC Rockaway, which I believe is in that shopping mall that is
off the Interstate.
The only other AMC theatres that are in NJ are in the southwestern
part of the state.
Best way to get to Morristown from NYC would be to somehow get ahold
of Route 24. The AMC theatres are in the Headquarters Plaza, a shopping
mall inside a hotel in the redeveloped business district of town.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #97, from sharonfisher, 47 chars, Tue Aug 14 20:43:25 1990
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“Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. I’m being cwucified.”
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animation/tie.ins #98, from tshim, 78 chars, Tue Aug 14 23:50:54 1990
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Thanks, Dave. One q: AMC Rockaway? As in Rockaway, Queens?
What Interstate?
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animation/tie.ins #99, from davemackey, 203 chars, Wed Aug 15 18:55:35 1990
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It’s in Rockaway, NJ, and I believe it’s off I-80. A look at a road map
will lead you right to it. I know of no other AMC theatres in the greater
New York area, and definitely none in the five boroughs.
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animation/tie.ins #100, from davemackey, 858 chars, Wed Aug 15 20:54:51 1990
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TITLE: Looney calendar
You know summer’s soon going to end when the new year’s calendars start
appearing in book and gift shops. One must-buy for the Warner Bros.
cartoon fan (I must have bought mine by now, that is) is the Hallmark
Looney Tunes 1991 calendar. The calendar features reproductions of
artwork from the following cartoons: “Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid,”
“Fast and Furry-Ous,” “The Leghorn Blows At Midnight,” “Scent-imental
Romeo,” “Ballot Box Bunny,” “Drip-Along Daffy,” “Tree For Two,” “Beanstalk
Bunny,” “Double Or Mutton,” “Ali Baba Bunny,” “What’s Opera, Doc?” and
“Hyde and Go Tweet.” Each carries a description of the cartoon written
by Chuck Jones. Apart from the mis-citing of the title of “Scent-imental
Romeo” as “Scenti-Mental Rome,” this IMHO is a nice product.
TINAR,
Dave
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animation/tie.ins #101, from tshim, 106 chars, Thu Aug 16 00:26:13 1990
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One last ambiguity: Have you (or anyone for that matter) tried out
an AMC Theatre? How are their prints?
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animation/tie.ins #102, from switch, 233 chars, Fri Aug 17 01:20:53 1990
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TITLE: This is a weird one…
My sister was walking near Ste. Catherine and Bleury St. today past a
strip club called “Appeel”, when she heard the strains of “How Far To
Paradise” (from _Area 88_ Act I) blaring from within…
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #103, from davemackey, 234 chars, Fri Aug 17 18:37:57 1990
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Yes, I have, and the one that I caught, which was “A Bear For Punishment,”
really looked good. But I don’t think AMC had new prints struck, instead
hoping to find some really nice used ones.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #104, from tshim, 226 chars, Fri Aug 17 23:12:39 1990
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Yes, in the “interview” I held with WB VP of sales, AMC thought many of the
current prints to be
(whoops) “unfit” for showing. WB Animation buffed up a few prints, and gave
the (still) many good ones over to AMC for duping.
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animation/tie.ins #105, from hmccracken, 153 chars, Sat Aug 25 22:18:09 1990
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According to an article by Charles Solomon in the _Los Angeles Times_,
new prints *were* struck for the AMC showings of Warner Bros. cartoons.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #106, from tshim, 24 chars, Sat Aug 25 23:31:54 1990
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Which article was this?
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animation/tie.ins #107, from tshim, 103 chars, Sat Aug 25 23:36:53 1990
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TITLE: Talking Animals
Is Shamus Culhane’s out-of-print book available anywhere?
Thanks for any info.
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animation/tie.ins #108, from davemackey, 143 chars, Sun Aug 26 07:35:32 1990
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I think the Whole Toon Catalogue was selling the last of their supply
in their Summer 1990 catalogue.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #109, from hmccracken, 170 chars, Sun Aug 26 10:25:21 1990
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An article on how “cartoons are back,” which Solomon seems to write
about once every six months — it covered _Roller Coaster Rabbit_,
_Box Office Bunny_, etc.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #110, from hmccracken, 71 chars, Sun Aug 26 10:25:55 1990
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Yes, and as a bonus their copies are autographed by Culhane.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #111, from davemackey, 278 chars, Sun Aug 26 22:41:52 1990
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TITLE: DC strikes again
DC has published the first issue of the “Tiny Toon Adventures” magazine.
In the same vein as “Looney Tunes” magazine, the mag includes artwork
from the likes of John Costanza, Chad Grothkopf, Bill Wray and Mike
DeCarlo.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #112, from tshim, 51 chars, Sun Aug 26 23:39:21 1990
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They’re out, which is why I posted the msg.
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animation/tie.ins #113, from tshim, 154 chars, Sun Aug 26 23:48:33 1990
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Wow — if possible, could you track down the date of the article
off the top of your head (or the newspaper) … I’m gonna try to
view it at the library.
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animation/tie.ins #115, from tshim, 104 chars, Sun Aug 26 23:50:03 1990
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Yeah, they’re all out-of-stock, though.
Oh well, time to solicit Xerox copies of these books again …
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animation/tie.ins #116, from hmccracken, 408 chars, Mon Aug 27 19:26:26 1990
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May 25th, 1990. It’s not all that interesting an article…
It reports that AMC polled moviegoers to see what kinds of
enhancement they’d like to the moviegoing experience, and
42% wanted cartoons — the highest of any potential improvement.
Then it talks a bit abot _Roller Coaster Rabbit_, and ends with
a quote from Friz Freleng about how happy he is to see his
films on the big screen again.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #117, from hmccracken, 407 chars, Sat Sep 8 22:10:40 1990
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TITLE: Some of you may have gotten a recent supplementary _Whole
Toon Catalog_ which features two French Tex Avery lamps — one
of the Avery wolf, and one of Droopy — that have got to be seen
to be believed. They’re beautiful beyond words, but unfortunately
they’re also well over a hundred bucks each. The supplement also
has some fine looking Avery tie tacks that are more reasonably
priced.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #118, from davemackey, 106 chars, Sun Sep 9 00:42:28 1990
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I know how you feel. I saw the Bugs Bunny chess set and cried when I saw
the price. (about $500, boo hoo)
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animation/tie.ins #119, from tom.white, 336 chars, Tue Sep 11 22:32:39 1990
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My local Bookstop has two copies of an immense book entitled History
of Disney Animation or something like that. The dust cover shows
Pinnochio gestating from pencil sketch to finished animation.
List price is $85 but it’s discounted down to $45. If anyone is
interested in a copy I could probably be talked into acting as middleman.
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animation/tie.ins #120, from switch, 149 chars, Wed Sep 12 08:31:19 1990
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List is $85? US? Wow! I always used to see it here for around $60 Canuck,
max. (Got mine discounted to $14.99…)
Excellent book, though.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #121, from hmccracken, 255 chars, Wed Sep 12 22:10:06 1990
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TITLE: I’m not sure if this is the right topic for this, but…
the Jack Nicholson movie _The Two Jakes_ has a scene that includes
the soundtracks and a brief snippet of video from early Shamus
Culhane TV commercials for Muriel cigars and Ajax.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #122, from davemackey, 146 chars, Thu Sep 13 01:12:41 1990
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The little elves scrubbing the sink? Fantastic! I always liked those
little elves. Why pay the elbow tax?
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #124, from hmccracken, 289 chars, Sun Sep 23 13:12:23 1990
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TITLE: Did you know…
that there is now a Nintendo game based on _Little Nemo in Slumberland_?
It’s called “Little Nemo: the DreamMaster,” and is presumably based
on the Japanese _Nemo_ film which has not been released in this
country. I wonder what Winsor McCay would think?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #125, from davemackey, 270 chars, Sun Sep 23 15:24:27 1990
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If anything, I think he’d be pleased to see that his creation has stood
up after all these years when many of his contemporaries have been long
since forgotten. Since I don’t have a Nintendo, I can’t really judge
how the game would be.
–D.
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animation/tie.ins #126, from hmccracken, 352 chars, Sun Sep 23 17:25:42 1990
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Looks like a typical Nintendo scrolling maze-type game set in several
different dreamlands. The person who illustrated the box rendered
Nemo in a rather Disneyesque style, but does seem to know McCay’s
work. (I don’t own a Nintendo either; I’m reporting this from an
ad on the back cover of the current issue of _Donald Duck Adventures_.)
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #127, from davemackey, 613 chars, Mon Oct 15 18:15:50 1990
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TITLE: All in the (Keane) Family
We don’t know what compelled Bil Keane to insert a Simpsons reference
in one of his “Family Circus” strips last week. In the strip, one
of the children holds up a Simpsons coloring book and whines that his
orange crayon has worn out.
But today’s strip (10/15/90) is a little easier to figure out. Dolly
and Jeffy are watching “the Little Mermaid” and Dolly mentions that real
mermaids don’t talk like they do in cartoons. Keane’s son Glen was a
directing animator on the Disney film, and he was responsible for some
of Ariel’s best scenes.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #128, from hmccracken, 228 chars, Thu Oct 25 22:06:08 1990
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TITLE: I haven’t seen this, but…
I am told that there is a wonderful 200-page book out of music that was
composed or used by Carl Stalling in Warner Bros. cartoons. Definitely
sounds like something to look out for.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #129, from hmccracken, 187 chars, Sat Nov 3 22:02:44 1990
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Did those Upper Deck Warner Bros. cartoon cards ever get released? I
saw some at an Upper Deck display at the San Diego Comics Con, but have
never actually seen them for sale.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #130, from davemackey, 365 chars, Sun Nov 4 06:55:39 1990
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They may have been giving them away as unannounced premiums when they
were doing those ballpark promotions this past baseball season. But since
I couldn’t get to the New York area ones, I can’t tell you for sure.
If you check the ads in “Sports Collectors Digest” or some equivalent
you may find people selling them there.
Dave
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animation/tie.ins #131, from tom.white, 353 chars, Sun Nov 4 11:09:58 1990
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The cards are called Comic Ball, and I haven’t heard a word about them
in months. They’re not in Texas. I’ve _heard_ that they were released
in New England, but that says maybe. Write to Upper Deck at
23705 Via Del Rio, Yorba Linda, CA 92686. My enthusiasm for the cards
has waned over time. Upper Deck is notoriously slow at releasing anything.
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animation/tie.ins #132, from hmccracken, 235 chars, Sun Nov 4 13:15:57 1990
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Thanks for the address. I do hope the cards came out, because what I
saw in San Diego (I haven’t seen ’em up here in New England) was very
good. Perhaps they’ll wait until April to put them out, having missed
this season.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #133, from tom.white, 313 chars, Mon Nov 5 00:00:27 1990
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Ah, Harry, you reveal yourself to be a novice in the world of sportscards!
The sport season has very little correlation to the release date of
cards — e.g., the 1991 Topps Baseball cards are slated to appear the
first week of January. So when the Comic Ball cards arrive, they’ll
arrive for no special reason.
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animation/tie.ins #134, from tom.white, 393 chars, Mon Nov 5 00:04:04 1990
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TITLE: 1957 Fantasia soundtrack
At a collector’s show/sale today, one dealer had a copy of the 1957
release of the Fantasia soundtrack, Stokowski’s name very prominent on
the jacket. It’s a 2-record set with a 24-page libretto. I didn’t
inspect the vinyl, but the outer appearance was good. Asking price
was $35. If anyone is interested, email me and I’ll send you the dealer’s
address.
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animation/tie.ins #135, from richard.pini, 435 chars, Mon Nov 5 09:20:23 1990
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Um, I think that’s supposed to be a 3-record set…at least the copy I have
is. Kind of a blue binder/cover with bits of art all over it?
Reason I ask is that on all the LPs I’ve seen (the ‘soundtrack set’ and
the individual LPs released by Buena Vista in individual jackets (with real
neat production art on the jackets), each LP holds only two ‘sections’ of
music (Bald Mtn and Ave Maria are on one side). So three’d be necessary.
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animation/tie.ins #136, from steven_edwards, 323 chars, Mon Nov 5 10:27:48 1990
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Disney has now released the original soundtrack on a two volume
compact disc. This is in addition to the previous two volume CD with the
1983 digitally mastered soundtrack. Unless one is interested in the LP album
specifically, I would get either of the CD versions for the quality and
longevity of the music. — Steve
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animation/tie.ins #137, from hmccracken, 265 chars, Mon Nov 5 18:10:02 1990
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You’ve got me down pat — I know little about baseball cards (although
I am quite a baseball fan). The only card I have is a Todd Benzinger
one given to me by a collecting friend who is aware of my enthusiasm
for the former Red Soz, current Reds player.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #138, from hmccracken, 473 chars, Mon Nov 5 18:12:26 1990
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Speaking of _Fantasia_, I heard recently that the new prints Disney
struck of the film all had Stokowski’s name spelled wrong in the
opening credits: this was pointed out by the Maestro’s nephew at
the premiere, whereupon Disney struck 500 new prints of the opening
reel to correct the problem. (The copy of Disney’s version of
_Alice in Wonderland_ I have, taped off the Disney Channel, has
Lewis Carroll’s name spelled Carrol on the title card, incidentally.)
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #139, from richard.pini, 227 chars, Mon Nov 5 19:05:56 1990
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No question there. It was my impression that the initial message had to do
with a collectiable item (i.e., original LPs) rather than something to
listen to. No one was happier than I when the remastered Stokowski CDs
appeared.
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animation/tie.ins #140, from tom.white, 336 chars, Mon Nov 5 19:51:49 1990
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Hmm, maybe it is a 3-record set, I wasn’t paying close attention.
I rather think the newest release of Fantasia on CD would be the
better choice, but mentioned this available 1957 edition as an item
of potential interest. Yeah, it’s a mostly-blue jacket.
If no one asks for the address by the end of the week, I’ll
just discard it.
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animation/tie.ins #141, from davemackey, 689 chars, Thu Nov 8 07:32:30 1990
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TITLE: Flip out with Bart
This is probably the largest, heaviest and most expensive piece of Simpsons
merchandising yet. Data East has come out with a Simpsons pinball machine.
The game features digitized sound of the characters, great Groeningesque
graphics, and pretty nice game play. It’s in only a few arcades now, but
the pinball world will get their first major glimpse as it’s the centerpiece
of this year’s Flip-Out, the pinball industry’s annual convention/tournament
which is taking place this weekend in Chicago. And since this year’s factory
tour is Data East, it’s a safe bet that the Simpsons game will be the ones
being assembled.
Dave
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animation/tie.ins #142, from davemackey, 631 chars, Sun Nov 11 09:04:23 1990
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As the trail of bread crumbs from my house to the Ramada Hotel O’Hare will
tell you, I just got back from the Pinball Expo, and yes on both counts:
“The Simpsons” machine was being assembled at the Data East factory, and
it was the machine for the qualifying round (the machine for the finals
was a never-before-seen model called Checkpoint). We learned from Data
East officials that the digitized speech featured in the game was actually
recorded by The Simpsons voice actors (including Nancy Cartwright as Bart
telling us to “Eat my shorts,” which has already upset some arcade managers).
Dave
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animation/tie.ins #143, from hmccracken, 201 chars, Sun Nov 11 11:19:35 1990
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So how was the expo? Is it a trade show or a meeting of pinball
players? And what is the health of the pinball industry?
(If I might be allowed to ask these non-animation questions here…)
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #144, from davemackey, 421 chars, Sun Nov 11 15:27:23 1990
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A little of both, actually, and the industry is on an upward curve,
having been left for dead in the early 80’s due to the growth of video
games. By comparison, at the AMOA (Amusement Machine Operators of America)
trade show held in New Orleans a few weeks ago, few new videos were on
display, and the four major pin manufacturers all had booths showing
their latest concoctions.
Dave
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animation/tie.ins #145, from hmccracken, 583 chars, Sun Nov 11 22:31:52 1990
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Well, that’s good! Who are the four main manufacturers now? Williams?
Data East? Are Midway and Gottlieb still around?
(I’m showing my ignorance here. For me, pinball was never the same when
they started using electronic displays and sounds and so forth. I’m
never (well, rarely) so happy as when I happen upon one of those
fourth-rate arcades (usually found at fourth-rate amusement parks)
which still has ancient, mechanical pinball machines. Those places
generally have black-and-white Atari racing video games, circa 1974,
as their one nod to the computer age.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #146, from davemackey, 635 chars, Mon Nov 12 00:00:43 1990
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Williams is the industry leader, and the other manufacturers are Gottlieb,
Bally (which is actually Midway, which is owned by the same people who
own Williams), and Data East. And the son of the founder of Gottlieb just
announced he’s coming out of retirement to start his own company.
There haven’t been too many comic/cartoon adaptations in pinball due
to the expensive nature of licensing. Gottlieb had “The Amazing Spider-Man”
and “The Incredible Hulk” in the early 80’s, and of course Atari had its
“Superman” machine.
And where are these fourth rate arcades? I’d like to visit them.
Dave
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animation/tie.ins #147, from davemackey, 428 chars, Mon Nov 12 00:02:38 1990
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TITLE: I’m hunting wabbits
I can’t say too much about the show since it’s just beginning on the West
Coast, but you come away with the feeling that the creators of “Married…
With Children,” Michael Moye and Ron Leavitt, watched a lot of Warner Bros.
cartoons growing up. The show has Al trying to dispose of a rabbit that’s
gotten into his garden. Moye and Leavitt wrote the episode.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #148, from tom.white, 319 chars, Mon Nov 12 01:47:29 1990
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Stern doesn’t still make pinball? No loss, their machines were lame.
Quassy Amusement Park on the shores of Lake Quassapog in Southbury, CT,
had a wonderful huge arcade of olde-tyme vidgames and pinballs, but heck
I haven’t been near there in over six years. Worth a peek though.
No doubt it’s closed until summer.
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animation/tie.ins #149, from ewhac, 161 chars, Mon Nov 12 05:32:29 1990
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> … upset some arcade managers
Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone in this country is
turning into an intolerant hypersensitive dweeb?
Schwab
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animation/tie.ins #150, from hmccracken, 1210 chars, Mon Nov 12 18:28:25 1990
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We have, actually, lost many fine fourth-rate arcades in New England in the
last five years or so: preservationists have not yet turned their
attention to this problem, sad to say. Paragon Park was a wonderful place
with many old-timey arcades; it was torn down to make room for a condo
development (named, as such interlopers always are, after the thing that
was torn down to make room for it). The condo development has since gone
bankrupt. Benson’s Wild Animal Farm in New Hampshire is another place
with a good arcade that closed several years ago (although — speaking
of animation, as we do here — before it closed it took on Terry Toons
as its theme and was festooned with some other the obscurest cartoon
characters you’ve ever seen).
I did not get to any New England amusement parks this year, but last
time I checked, Canobie Lake Park had some nice old machines. And there
is an entire seaside amusements area in New Hampshire, the name of
which slips my mind (Hampden or Hampton beach?), which seems barely
changed from what it must have looked like in 1934. I haven’t been there
in about five years, so it’s possible the wrecking ball has destroyed
that wonderful place as well.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #151, from davemackey, 124 chars, Tue Nov 13 07:23:38 1990
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> took on Terrytoons as its theme
Oil Can Harry Land? Dinkyville? Heckle & Jeckle’s Shooting Gallery?
The mind boggles.
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animation/tie.ins #152, from hmccracken, 394 chars, Tue Nov 13 07:57:41 1990
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It was even more obscure than that! They had Possible Possum and
Astro-Nut snack bars, a Terry Bears gift shop, a Lariat Sam shooting
gallery…Sourpuss roamed the park greeting visitors…Sad Cat appeared
on trashbins. This was all in 1986 or so! Very strange, and it only
lasted one year. (They also had a beautiful, gigantic mobile statue of
Mighty Mouse riding an elephant.)
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #153, from davemackey, 136 chars, Tue Nov 13 23:35:25 1990
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And did that wizened old man taking tickets happen to wear a name badge
that said “Bill Weiss”?
Dave
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animation/tie.ins #154, from davemackey, 423 chars, Thu Nov 15 07:56:10 1990
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The book in question is called “The Great Looney Tunes Collection,” compiled
by Jeff Sultanof, and is composed (pardon the pun) of the original sheet music
for most of the familiar melodies corrupted by Stalling for use in Warner
Bros. cartoons. It is available in the new Whole Toon Catalogue, which should
be gracing mailboxes across the land any day now, and the price is $16.95.
Dave
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animation/tie.ins #155, from hmccracken, 313 chars, Thu Nov 15 18:11:43 1990
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That reminds me of an earlier book of Warner’s sheet music that had
original and obscure songs about Warner characters with lyrics by
Warner storyman Warren Foster. Does anybody have this? I saw it once
at a music store when I had no money on me, and when I returned to
purchase it it had been sold.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #156, from davemackey, 358 chars, Fri Nov 16 07:20:23 1990
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There are some old sheet music things associated with the studio, some of
which were written by Warren Foster and Tedd Pierce. I believe both men
were members of ASCAP. Some of these were illustrated somewhere in “That’s
All Folks.” I think if you look around antique and sheet music stores,
you can find this stuff.
Dave
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animation/tie.ins #157, from davemackey, 829 chars, Sun Dec 9 00:30:06 1990
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TITLE: F-P Movie Viewer
I found an old Fisher-Price Movie Viewer at a flea market. For
the uninitiated, this is a toy that looks like a movie camera and
when you hold it up to your eyes, you get to see a movie instead
of making one. The removable cartridge has an Super 8 loop of
film.
What appears to have been the film that came with the toy is
a heavily edited print of “Lonesome Ghosts,” a 1937 Disney
cartoon; I once cannibalized a cartridge and mounted the film
on a reel just for the hell of it. From my youth I remember
having a cartridge which I believe was Bugs Bunny in “Big Top
Bunny.”
Does anyone have any further information on which other
films (particularly Warner Bros. product as that is my area of
most rabid interest) were available for this or similar toys?
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #158, from hmccracken, 907 chars, Sun Dec 9 01:25:32 1990
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Back in the days before video, I had one of those viewers and tons
of cartoons for it which I watched endlessly. The cartoons are
heavily edited, both by cutting out lots of material and (I recall)
by not using every frame. There were dozens of tapes available —
clips from most of the significant Disney features, _The Brave
Little Tailor_, _Good Scouts_ (starring Donald Duck), _Mickey’s
Trailer_, _Goofy’s Glider_, _Roman Legion-hare_, _Zipping
Along_, at least one Tweety and Sylvester cartoon, and others
I’m forgetting right now. There were also live-action cartridges,
including a whole line of Sesame Street ones. Oh, and quite a
few Charlie Brown ones, too. It was definitely a very popular toy,
but presumably video killed it. Come to think of it, viewers of all
sorts — Give-A-Show Projectors, View Masters, etc. — used to be
very popular toys and are practically extinct now.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #159, from aturn, 79 chars, Fri Dec 21 16:19:32 1990
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I suppose it’s just you turning into an intolerant hypersensitive
dweeb (-:
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animation/tie.ins #160, from aturn, 844 chars, Fri Dec 21 16:33:07 1990
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The Comic Ball cards are finally out, at least in the Boston area!
Got a pack at my comic shop this noon, and they are every bit as gorgeous
as you could hope for. (I hadn’t seen any of the pre-release artwork, and
know nothing about sports cards, so had no notion of Upper Deck’s rep in
the card area)
When I walked into the shop, the guy behind the counter happened to
be on the phone with the distributor, pleading for 10 or 12 boxed sets,
which he knew he could sell immediately.
Most of the ones in the pack I got feature Bugs or Daffy, but I also
got Charlie Dog, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, Marvin Martian, Road Runner, and
Tweety, as well as one with a Looney Tunes All-Stars logo featuring many
of the characters.
Who these are going to appeal to other than a small hard-core
crossover crowd I don’t know, though.
But I like ’em!
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animation/tie.ins #161, from hmccracken, 319 chars, Fri Dec 21 18:57:37 1990
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Well, they’ll appeal to *me*, and a lot of other comics fans, I’ll wager.
Chuck Jones’s association with them should give them a lot o f appeeal to
discriminating animation fans. Whether baseball fans will care, I wonder.
I told my one baseball card-collecting friend about them, and he was
not interested.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #162, from aturn, 479 chars, Fri Dec 21 22:20:26 1990
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By the way, I went to another comics shop in the evening. In the
place I mentioned in message #160, they were selling for a buck a pack. They
were a buck and a quarter in the second place.
Stupidly enough, I bought a pack there anyway, figuring to minimize
the chances of getting duplicates. Not only did I pay a quarter more, but
there were only 11 cards in the pack instead of the twelve there should’ve
been. Serves me right for getting caught up in the thing, I guess.
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animation/tie.ins #163, from hmccracken, 367 chars, Thu Dec 27 18:30:47 1990
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I don’t know if anyone has mentioned here that Upper Deck has another
Warner Bros.-related product on the market: holographic cartoon wrist
watches of Bugs, Daffy, Tweety, and others. They are fairly attractive
(at least as attractive as a cheap hologram can be), and cost about
$11.00 at the QuikTrip convenience store I saw them at in Des Moines, Iowa.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #165, from hmccracken, 399 chars, Sun Jan 6 22:48:51 1991
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I made my first stop at a comics store in a while today and picked up
some of those Upper Deck comic ball cards. They’re quite nice —
the holographic ones, especially, are great. Did Chuck Jones actually
draw all of these? The artwork is erratic.
I also like the fact that they feature a lot of lesser-known Warner
characters — the Three Bears, the Mighty Angelo, Charlie Dog
et al.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #166, from hkenner, 82 chars, Sun Jan 6 23:24:51 1991
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The baseball cards? Yes, he drew them. I’m not sure how far his heart
was in it.
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animation/tie.ins #167, from hmccracken, 437 chars, Mon Jan 7 17:35:17 1991
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That’s interesting. For fans, a set of cards drawn by Chuck Jones is a real
treat. To the great unwashed that doesn’t know who the man is, they may
look a bit strange — they’re definitely “Chuck Jones late period” in style,
rather than adhering precisely to official model sheets. I didn’t notice
any credit to him on the cards or packaging.
Do you know if he wrote them, or was he working from somebody else’s
material?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #168, from hkenner, 46 chars, Mon Jan 7 19:56:43 1991
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>>…if he wrote them …
Alas, I’ve no idea.
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animation/tie.ins #169, from hmccracken, 90 chars, Mon Jan 7 22:02:50 1991
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I think he probably didn’t — at least they don’t sound especially Jonesesque.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #170, from davemackey, 203 chars, Mon Jan 7 23:56:28 1991
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It sounds like Jones characters predominate, if you mention the
Three Bears, Charlie Dog and The M.A. Are any of the creations of
the other directors represented?
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #171, from hmccracken, 144 chars, Tue Jan 8 00:41:38 1991
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Yes, Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety, etc. are also present. But the obscure
characters are mostly Jones ones, at least on the cards I have.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #172, from hmccracken, 350 chars, Sat Jan 12 22:07:38 1991
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Just read an article on these Looney Tunes baseball cards in
_Comics Buyer’s Guide_ that reports that Jones was somehow involved
in writing the cards, along with others, and that he did 800
drawings for them. It also notes that Bugs Bunny is a LA Dodger
(logical), Wile E. Coyote is a Chicago Cub, and the Tasmanian
Devil is an Oakland A.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #173, from aturn, 109 chars, Sun Jan 13 00:42:28 1991
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Road Runner is a New York Yankee, and Daffy Duck is a Seattle
Mariner, and Sylvester is a Baltimore Oriole.
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animation/tie.ins #174, from bsoron, 105 chars, Sun Jan 13 14:31:06 1991
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Can any of the Boston-area folks in this conf mention where I can
find these baseball cards? Thanks.
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animation/tie.ins #175, from hmccracken, 196 chars, Sun Jan 13 18:05:18 1991
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I got mine at the New England Comics store in Quincy, where they
were a buck a pack (suggested retail is seventy-nine cents).
Presumably they’re available at NEC’s other stores as well.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #176, from aturn, 161 chars, Mon Jan 14 10:19:52 1991
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Well, Bob, they have ’em over at Million-Year Picnic in Cambridge,
and they have ’em over at Comically Speaking in Arlington. At least they
did last I looked.
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animation/tie.ins #177, from bsoron, 109 chars, Mon Jan 14 11:47:12 1991
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Thanks — didn’t see ’em at the Picnic, but now that I know they have
’em, I’ll ask next time I’m there.
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animation/tie.ins #178, from rcrook, 73 chars, Mon Jan 14 22:02:33 1991
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Any Red Sox? (Porky pig, mebbe?)
(a die-hard BoSox fan!)
= Argosy =
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animation/tie.ins #179, from rjenks, 59 chars, Sun Jan 27 03:59:10 1991
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Sounds like Daffy got a raw deal playing for the Mariners.
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animation/tie.ins #180, from aturn, 445 chars, Sun Jan 27 09:01:19 1991
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No, Porky is a former Atlanta Brave who now works the broadcast
booth in tandem with Foghorn Leghorn.
Haven’t noticed any Red Sox, yet.
Also, Sam and Ralph are a New York Met and a Cincannati Red.
By the way, I finally got one of the much-touted holograms,
(in this case, Wile E. Coyote on the mounds for the Cubs), and the
depth of field is incredible! This product continues to live up to
its billing, IMHO, and this continues to be NAR.
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animation/tie.ins #181, from davemackey, 296 chars, Sun Jan 27 21:43:19 1991
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Porky, of course, still hasn’t been elected to the Hall of Fame,
and he’s only got a few years of eligibility left. Apparently,
the fact that he stutters overshadows anything he’s done on the
field, including over 7000 strikeouts and seventeen no hitters.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #182, from davemackey, 472 chars, Fri Feb 1 21:15:19 1991
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Porky in the broadcast booth? Nothing new for him. In 1940,
Friz Freleng cast him in the role of a radio sportscaster in
a black-and-white Looney Tune, “Porky’s Baseball Broadcast.”
It bears mentioning that in this and other films, the radio
microphones are often labeled KFWB. These call letters represent
an actual Los Angeles radio station, and I wonder if Warner Bros.
had a financial interest in the station at one point.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #183, from hmccracken, 95 chars, Fri Feb 1 21:20:04 1991
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One would think so — we can figure out what the WB stood for, but
how about the F?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #184, from aturn, 108 chars, Sat Feb 2 23:16:27 1991
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Were there, perchance, *four* or *five* Warner Brothers? Or perhaps
the “F” was some sort of expletive…
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animation/tie.ins #185, from davemackey, 412 chars, Thu Feb 21 22:30:15 1991
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I’ve just been informed that KFWB is owned by Group W, which is
the present-day incarnation of Westinghouse Broadcasting, which
possibly accounts for the WB. I think it just caught Warner
Bros.’ animators’ fancies that there were radio call letters that
suited their purposes.
By my reckoning, the earliest WB cartoon bearing a KFWB mike
is “Toy Town Hall,” in 1936.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #186, from davemackey, 572 chars, Mon Feb 25 19:06:44 1991
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It’s taken me this long to actually get some of the Comic Ball
cards, but I’ll try a few packs now that I have a few bucks in
my pocket after a few draining weeks financially. The Wawa stores
around here sell them for 69c a pack. By comparison, I was in a
baseball card store today, and they were already asking 99c a
pack.
I checked out Toys “R” Us to see if I could get a better
price, and I couldn’t find them anywhere in an otherwise
overloaded baseball card display. (They did have the regular
Upper Deck cards, though.)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #187, from hmccracken, 138 chars, Tue Feb 26 19:42:09 1991
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The Little Peach (Massachusetts equivalent of Wawa) has Comic Ball
cards at 75c a pack, beating the comics shops by a quarter.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #188, from sje, 1268 chars, Tue Feb 26 21:19:09 1991
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TITLE: Sad Times for a Cartoon Corner Franchise
I stopped into the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, NH this evening to
get a quick kilometer’s worth of walking and storefront viewing. One of the
over one hundred stores that had been there for the past several years was
the Nashua branch of the Cartoon Corner chain. This store had various clothes,
toys, trinkets, video, and a cel ordering service; but all was emptied out
earlier today. No explanation other than a short note taped to the inside
of the locked glass door that said something about “an unexpected vacancy”.
This is really a shame because the store featured items related to all the
major animation sources; I had purchased a few things myself in times gone by.
This will probably mean even more business for the Disney Store located in
the same mall only a hundred meters to the north on the same level. Of course,
no non-Disney items for sale there.
By the way, I’ve never seen a live pheasant around this part of New
Hampshire. A more accurate name for the shopping center would have been
“Landfill Lane Mall”.
Is this just an isolated failure, or do the other Cartoon Corner
stores have problems also? It would be a real shame to lose a source of
animation-related merchandise. — Steve
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animation/tie.ins #189, from hmccracken, 769 chars, Tue Feb 26 22:21:51 1991
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Next time you’re in Massachusetts, Steve, you can pop by the
Burlington Mall; there is a Cartoon Corner location there. It’s
also just a short walk down the mall from a Disney Store site.
(At least the store was there last time I checked.) Cartoon Corner,
as a corporate entity, is definitely still in business; I spoke to
someone yesterday who had been to their corporate HQ (which
is located in Woburn about a mile from where I work) recently.
The kids who work at Cartoon Corners get the coolest work
clothes I’ve ever seen — polo shirts and jackets with
“Cartoon Historian” emblazoned on them. I’ve often contemplated
1) asking if they are available for sale, or 2) seeking a job at
a CC just for the sake of getting my hands on one of the jackets.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #190, from switch, 53 chars, Tue Feb 26 22:43:13 1991
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Could you post the address in /sources, Harry?
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #191, from hmccracken, 154 chars, Tue Feb 26 23:10:33 1991
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I’ll try to find it — at the moment the best I can do is:
Cartoon Corner
About a mile from where Harry works
Woburn, MA 0180-something.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #192, from davemackey, 162 chars, Wed Feb 27 00:46:58 1991
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Cartoon Corner? Why aren’t there any keen stores like this in my
neck of the woods? You New Englanders have all the luck.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #193, from davemackey, 281 chars, Wed Feb 27 00:47:39 1991
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Actually, it’s more like this
Cartoon Corner
Somewhere in the Northeast
Over the river and through the woods
Third Stone From The Sun
Somewhere Dave would like to be
Earth
Sounds like a Haiku, don’t it?
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #194, from mscoville, 505 chars, Thu Feb 28 20:16:33 1991
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Cartoon Corner…
Dear Harry et al,
If you want the t-shirt you had better hurry as they will be closing up shop
in the near future. The present business which is a corporate store set-up is
changing its business operation and becoming a franchise set up. The present
stores will be closing, except for the Bridgewater store in New Jersey. They
will be opening up stores as part of the franchise in Scottsdale, AZ and
Columbus, OH. The new stores will continue with the name of Cartoon Corner.
mscoville
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animation/tie.ins #195, from hmccracken, 131 chars, Thu Feb 28 20:38:08 1991
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I will have to scoot down to the Burlington location and try to take
advantage of any closeout sales they may be having.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #196, from hmccracken, 374 chars, Fri Mar 1 19:00:18 1991
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This just in: the Burlington Cartoon Corner is shuttered. As of just
today, maybe: they seem to have left so quickly that there was a note
on their door addressed to mall management saying that they would call
on Monday to explain the sudden vacancy. I am told that the partners
in the chain had business disagreements recently and dissolved their
partnership.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #197, from davemackey, 105 chars, Fri Mar 1 19:05:19 1991
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Bridgewater Commons? Now I have something to do with my weekend!
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #198, from hmccracken, 498 chars, Sun Mar 3 21:49:47 1991
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TITLE: The new edition of the Warner Bros. Collection catalog is
out and can probably be had by calling them at 1-800-223-6524.
At least half of the merchandise displayed relates to Warner Bros.
cartoons, including a goodly amount of _Tiny Toon Adventures_
stuff. There’s some nice stuff, although a lot of it is very, very
expensive. I can’t tell you how many times something in the
catalog caught my eye, only to turn out to be three or four hundred
dollars when I checked the price.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #199, from morganfox, 344 chars, Mon Mar 4 19:21:59 1991
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TITLE: Love to eat those little mousies!
Yes, folks step right up, and you too can have Mickey Mouse waffles for
breakfast! Just hand over $50.00 and you can own a waffle iron that makes
Smiling Mickey Face waffles. The maker is Vitantonio. The $49.99 price tag is
a special purchase item listed in a Jorden Marsh circular. The price may vary.
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animation/tie.ins #200, from richard.pini, 30 chars, Mon Mar 4 19:53:09 1991
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Cheap at half the price… đŸ˜‰
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animation/tie.ins #201, from davemackey, 323 chars, Mon Mar 4 23:04:57 1991
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That’s sort of like those bread presses. You mash the bread
against them and it makes an impression of Mickey on the toast.
I’ve always found those things to be quaint in a Midwestern sort
of way, but can’t imagine anyone east of the ol’ Missippi River
to get the least bit excited.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #202, from davemackey, 1060 chars, Mon Mar 4 23:05:53 1991
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I was able to confirm the continued existence of the New Jersey
location of Cartoon Corner this past weekend; it’s in the
Bridgewater Commons, at the intersection of routes 22, 202 and
206. There seemed to be a good sized crowd in there — and one of
the things I noticed was a “Rocky and Bullwinkle” videocassette
display stand with no tapes to sell! But they appeared to have a
healthy stock of stuffed animals, other tapes, T-shirts and
animation artwork on display. They had T-shirts on which had the
slogan “For the kid in all of us” on the back, I guess it was too
warm to wear the “Animation Historian” jackets of which you
speak.
I would guess that most of the Cartoon Corner inventory
(specifically the animation art, which is probably not kept on
premises anyway for security reasons) would be liquidated through
the Bridgewater store, but probably not at closeout prices.
Incidentally, the Corner in Bridgewater Commons is just a
short escalator ride away from — you guessed it! — a Disney
Store.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #203, from sje, 336 chars, Tue Mar 5 19:23:13 1991
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On a final note about the Cartoon Corner chain, up until a week before
its untimely demise, the Nashua branch had a colorful advertisement for
propective franchise operators placed prominently in the storefront window.
It said something to the effect of a sure and steady profit stream (for the
kid in all of us, of course). — Steve
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animation/tie.ins #204, from sje, 1293 chars, Tue Mar 5 19:37:21 1991
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TITLE: Looney Tunes Chess Set
Yes folks, for the collector who just must have everything, there is
now a handpainted figurine chess set featuring the traditional Looney Tunes
characters. Offered by the Franklin Mint (also known as “Acme Mass Produced
Rare Collectable Trinket Company”), this set is advertised in the April 1991
issue of _Chess Life_ published by the United States Chess Federation. Other
chess sets offered by the Franklin Mint in past issues include themes on
_Star Trek_, classical mythology (“The Chess Set of the Gods” [sic]), and the
American Civil War. Perhaps a Bush/Saddam set is in the works.
The Looney Tunes “good guys” make up the White pieces with Bugs as
King, Daffy as Queen, and the Roadrunner as a Knight. Black pieces include
Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, and the Coyote. Prices are US$29 per piece plus
sales tax (for you with the misfortune to live in such states) for a total
of $928 for the complete set. They will throw in a board for no additional
charge. I would be quite surprised if the material and labor cost is more
than 10% of the purchase price. As a big fan of both chess and animation,
I just can’t see how anyone would touch this when there are plenty of other
nifty items that could be bought for a fraction of the price. — Steve
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animation/tie.ins #205, from davemackey, 328 chars, Tue Mar 5 21:47:27 1991
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Stop! You’re breaking my heart. I learned chess back when Bobby
Fischer was duelling with Boris Spassky in Iceland, but have
since forgotten it. A set like this would make me brush up on my
Nimzo-Indian Defense for sure. But at almost a thousand bucks, I
can’t afford to bite the carrot.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #206, from bsoron, 156 chars, Tue Mar 5 22:37:24 1991
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If you want a kind-of-look at some of the pieces, the set was
advertised in TV Guide a week or two ago. I was interested ’til
I did the math, myself…
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animation/tie.ins #207, from hmccracken, 221 chars, Tue Mar 5 22:55:19 1991
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The chess set is a fantastic idea, but I find the execution (based on the
glimpse I got in the Warner Bros. catalog) unexciting enough that
I’m not *that* sad that I don’t have the thousand bucks to shell
out.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #208, from rcrook, 113 chars, Wed Mar 6 18:55:48 1991
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Ole P.T. Barnum was right! (“There’s a sucker born every minute,
and two more to take his money!”)
= Argosy =
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animation/tie.ins #209, from rcrook, 354 chars, Sat Mar 9 10:46:28 1991
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>… a total of $928 for the complete set. They will throw in a
board for no additional cost.
For $928 they jolly well *better* throw in the board free!!
$928 for a mass-produced chess set – What a racket!!
(For a hand-carved wood or custom-made set, I’d believe a price
like that.)
Sigh! I’m in the wrong business, as usual! Harumph!
= Argosy =
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animation/tie.ins #210, from davemackey, 1610 chars, Wed Mar 13 01:12:25 1991
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TITLE: WB’s short-lived restaurant chain
It’s amazing when memories come back to haunt you. I had
forgotten until recently that there was a time in my life that
Warner Bros. was actually writing my paychecks. This is a
combination remembrance and horror story. Bear with me here.
My local mall had opened a new restaurant called “Gizmos”
which was a Warner Bros. enterprise. It used the Looney Tunes
characters as mascots. The bartenders and arcade changeboys
(which I started out as) wore lab coats; drinks were served from
laboratory beakers, and the whole place looked like a factory —
I half expected Charlie Chaplin to come in brandishing two
wrenches.
One Saturday, they wanted Bugs Bunny to meet the kids in the
mall. Guess who had to wear the Bugs suit. If I were a little
kid, I’d sure be scared of a Bugs who not only talked, but could
tell you the intrinsic stylistic differences between Jones,
Freleng and McKimson. (I since learned that these costumed
mascots generally don’t speak. They never sent me out in the suit
again.)
My tenure was brief there; they took me out of the arcade,
which I was qualified for, and had me making pizzas on the food
line, which I wasn’t qualified for. One Sunday I worked sixteen
hours without a break. I threw in the towel shortly thereafter.
I think Warner Bros. eventually sold their interest in the
restaurant, and the place was renamed Gadgets. I could never
bring myself to eat there again.
I’m wondering if there were other Gizmos, and where. This
one was in Ocean Township, NJ, about 1982.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #211, from hmccracken, 298 chars, Wed Mar 13 21:53:14 1991
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I remember reading about Gadgets back around 1982; an early issue of
_Animato_ even mentioned them briefly. As I recall they had talking
Warner Bros. character robots ala Chuck E. Cheese, with voices by
Mel Blanc. There was also a chain of Bullwinkle restaurants in
much the same vein.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #212, from davemackey, 516 chars, Thu Mar 14 19:06:41 1991
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I don’t think we ever got to the talking robot stage. We did have
some funny looking mechanized contraptions on the walls, some of
which actually worked. And one of the local radio stations once
did a remote from the restaurant, and one of the participants was
a guy named Jim Hunter who’s now a sportscaster for the CBS Radio
Network.
We had three different types of pizza: “First Gear,” “Second
Gear,” and “Third Gear.” Reminded me about that old song, “Little
Honda.”
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #213, from davemackey, 750 chars, Wed Mar 20 20:57:27 1991
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TITLE: Do you remember this oldie but goodie
There was a song in the 1960’s called “Yogi” by the Ivy Three. It
was based on the Yogi Bear character and used an approximation of
the voice.
The Ivy Three were students at Adelphi University on Long
Island. Doing Yogi impressions does pay off: group member Charlie
Koppelman is now the head of SBK Records.
Outside of that, Pat Boone’s “Speedy Gonzales” (which
wasn’t released domestically as a single but did feature Mel
Blanc), and “Alley-Oop” recorded by a number of groups in the
early 60’s, let’s see if we can come up with some more
animation or comics-related hit records (rather than album
tracks: “Sgt. Rock” by XTC isn’t going to count here).
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #214, from hmccracken, 169 chars, Wed Mar 20 21:07:36 1991
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Didn’t someone do an “I Tawt I Taw a Putty Tat” record that was fairly
popular? “The Woody Woodpecker Song” comes to mind as a hit animation-
related record. — Harry
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animation/tie.ins #215, from davemackey, 281 chars, Thu Mar 21 03:38:28 1991
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“…Putty Tat” was probably one of those jobs that Blanc did for
Capitol Records, and yes! “Woody Woodpecker” by Kay Kyser and his
orchestra, with Harry Babbit and Gloria “Nelly” Wood on vocals,
which led the hit parade for many many weeks.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #216, from aturn, 120 chars, Thu Mar 21 08:35:36 1991
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“Snoopy and the Red Baron”, by I forget who.
The same well-known group also did a Christmas version of the same
song.
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animation/tie.ins #217, from richard.pini, 77 chars, Thu Mar 21 09:51:06 1991
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I think the group was named the Royal Guardsmen, sort of a bubble-gum group.
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animation/tie.ins #218, from davemackey, 195 chars, Thu Mar 21 21:03:46 1991
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You’re absolutely right! The Christmas version was called
“Snoopy’s Christmas.” It ended with the Red Baron wishing Snoopy
“Merry Christmas, mein friend!”
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #219, from hmccracken, 47 chars, Thu Mar 21 21:03:51 1991
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Do all of the Archies’ songs count?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #220, from switch, 122 chars, Fri Mar 22 13:54:05 1991
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I wonder if I still have that record anywhere? I used to listen
to it incessantly every holiday season as a child.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #221, from davemackey, 836 chars, Fri Mar 22 18:43:29 1991
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Yes, and if you want to be broad, so do Josie and The Pussycats
(no pun intended). But what I was aiming for was songs about
cartoon characters, not by cartoon characters.
The Archies had the advantage of top-flight studio musicians
and the production genius of Don Kirschner and Ron Dante. I
think Len Barry and Andy Kim, both of whom had chart hits, had
lesser roles in the Archie sound.
Unfortunately, the animation never quite matched the
characters (thanks, Filmation). I think if someone took the
classic Archie style quite literally, especially as executed by
Dan DeCarlo in his prime, and used the type of script that Frank
Doyle has consistently done well for 40 years, an animated Archie
could be done good for a change (I regarded “The New Archies”
as an aberration myself).
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #222, from grekel, 426 chars, Sat Mar 23 16:49:11 1991
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I have the “Red Baron” song as a cut on an ancient K-Tel “Goofy Greats”
album — cut 1, side 1. Also contains “Alley Oop by the Hollywood Argyles,
and the one-shot “Mah-na-mah-na” by Piero Umiliani…
The funniest thing about the album today is the flyer packed inside with
a comprehensive listing of all the “current” K-Tel collections, as well
as those nifty “record selectors” that flip thru your collection automatically!
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animation/tie.ins #223, from davemackey, 87 chars, Sat Mar 23 19:20:53 1991
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Can I fit my CD’s into one of those things? đŸ˜‰
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #224, from davemackey, 923 chars, Sat Mar 23 22:15:10 1991
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TITLE: Looney Tunes Comic Ball Cards Needed
A plea for help, if there’s anyone else out there who is
SERIOUSLY collecting the “Looney Tunes” Comic Ball Cards released
by Upper Deck.
I have a shoebox full of duplicates for trade for the
following card numbers:
3/18 8/11 22/31 29/32 41/50 45/48 55/70
93/108 99/102 113/122 119/121 131/140 146/161 164/179
169/172 184/193 188/191 201/216 206/209 220/229 239/248
253/268 273/288 277/280 291/306 296/299 311/320 315/318
329/338 344/359 349/352 362/377 367/370 381/396 386/389
399/414 418/427 423/426 441/444 455/464 470/485 474/483
488/503 494/497 508/517 512/515 526/535 541/556 546/555
559/574 560/575 565/568 579/594 584/587
If there are numbers not on this list that you might need, I
probably have duplicates. Please send BIX mail to me and we will
arrange shipping details. Thank you!
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #225, from bsoron, 356 chars, Sun Mar 24 00:18:35 1991
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I’m pretty sure I have some of these, Dave, and I know I need a fair
number of them. Let me spend some time with the stack o’ dupes and get
back to you in Bixmail tomorrow. (Until recently, I’d amassed maybe a
hundred cards with only two or three duplicates — then the dam broke.
Thursday I bought two packs and of the 24 cards, I already had *12*.)
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animation/tie.ins #226, from davemackey, 1593 chars, Sun Mar 31 21:41:21 1991
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TITLE: Bugs Bunny comes to the arcades
It may be a little too late, but you can now check your local
amusement arcades for a pinball salute to Bugs Bunny’s 50th
birthday.
Bally/Midway has released “Bugs Bunny’s Birthday Ball,” a
new pinball machine featuring the Warner Bros. characters. It
seems a little easier than your average pin to give the kids a
chance at something a little less complicated. Completing LOONEY
TUNES targets lights million-point shots, and there’s a random
shot for 50 million points.
Python Anghelo, a Bally staff artist, executed the artwork
on the backflash, playfield and cabinet (we suspect he may have
had some help and guidance from animator Bob Kirk). Digitized
sound includes both the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies themes,
“This Is It,” various sound effects including Trombone Gobble,
and the voices of Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Taz Boy, Yosemite Sam,
Tweety, Sylvester, Pepe LePew, Foggy, and Speedy Gonzales, all
provided by Jeff Bergman.
Besides the usual thank yous and acknowledgements (including
one for Dan Romanelli, head of Licensing Corporation Of America,
Time/Warner’s licensing arm), there is a special thanks card
on the front of the machine honoring (in this order) Chuck Jones,
Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Mel
Blanc, and all of the Warner Bros. animators who have given the
world so much laughter over the years.
This is not going to be the last cartoon tie-in pinball; we
can expect a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” machine from Data
East in a few months.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #227, from davemackey, 806 chars, Sun Apr 7 09:41:28 1991
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TITLE: Promotion of “Disney Afternoon” hits parks
The Walt Disney Company is turning to its theme parks to grab
viewers for its two-hour “Disney Afternoon” animation block.
Afternoon Avenue, featuring the characters from all four of
the series, will be open at Disneyland in Anaheim, Ca. through
November 1991. Though no firm figures are available, Disneyland’s
promotional budget for the attraction approaches what the park
spent on promotion of Mickey Mouse’s 60th birthday.
Orlando’s Walt Disney World is getting into the act on a
lesser scale by using the characters as part of Star Land.
Buena Vista prices the total marketing push for “Disney
Afternoon,” encompassing the park attraction as well as various
promotional tie-ins, at $100 million.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #228, from davemackey, 398 chars, Wed May 8 18:08:28 1991
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TITLE: Betty Boop’s got everything and the Kitchen Sink
Kitchen Sink Press is issuing two metal signs featuring Betty Boop.
The signs, priced at $20, were designed by Leslie Cabarga, the most
renowned Betty Boop artist of present times (not to mention author of “The
Fleischer Story). One has an anti-smoking message, the other advertises a
Love Meter.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #229, from davemackey, 845 chars, Mon May 13 19:07:37 1991
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TITLE: Cartoon voices in commercials
Three of the great animation voices have been featured in some new radio
spots that have begun airing in the New York area (and possibly
elsewhere) within the past week.
First, Gary Owens has a bit part as a newscaster in a commercial for
Bell Atlantic Corp., for a spot reminding central New Jersey that its area
code is now 908. (Gary just recently celebrated a birthday, I think his 55th.
Happy birthday, Gary.)
Secondly, Lorenzo Music has a key role in a spot for AAA/American
Express Traveler’s Checks.
And third, a new series of Amoco commercials with Jackson Beck once
again doing the voice of the car engine trying to convince his owner to tank
up with Amoco Ultimate gasoline. (In one, Beck actually sounds like King
Leonardo…. confound it!)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #230, from davemackey, 391 chars, Tue May 14 19:07:56 1991
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TITLE: Fox up in arms…
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. is none too pleased about the latest
unauthorized use of Bart Simpson.
A group of neo-Nazis called White Aryan Resistance have adopted Bart as
their t-shirt mascot, wearing a Nazi armband and saying “Pure Nazi, Dude!”
The shirt is for sale through their telephone hotline and newsletter.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #231, from bferg, 138 chars, Wed May 15 11:01:22 1991
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HA! Have to *borrow*/*steal* another’s idea…not too creative!
I assume that they would be reprimanded, sued, or whatever!
đŸ˜‰
Barbara
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animation/tie.ins #233, from hmccracken, 76 chars, Wed May 15 11:13:59 1991
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Thank you for not providing us with the toll-free number, Dave…
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #234, from davemackey, 131 chars, Wed May 15 19:54:08 1991
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Well, Fox is considering legal action. And I always thought Bart was orange,
not white. đŸ˜‰
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #235, from davemackey, 319 chars, Wed May 15 19:54:20 1991
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Sure, Harry, it’s 555-NAZI…. have fun finding which number corresponds to
Z. đŸ˜‰
That’s one collector’s item I’d rather not have. And I hope my posting
of this item has not been construed by anyone as an endorsement of the group
and their beliefs, as it is certainly not.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #236, from bferg, 95 chars, Wed May 15 20:46:06 1991
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“Bart was orange, not white.”
This could bring up a whole new area of litigation! đŸ˜‰
Barbara
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animation/tie.ins #237, from hmccracken, 98 chars, Wed May 15 21:16:59 1991
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Or, as we say in BIX parlance, TINAEORT.
(This is not an endorsement of racist trash.)
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #238, from switch, 33 chars, Thu May 16 08:07:53 1991
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Could you pronounce that?
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #239, from rcrook, 28 chars, Sat May 18 11:24:38 1991
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“TIN-ay-ort”
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animation/tie.ins #240, from davemackey, 355 chars, Sat May 18 20:56:26 1991
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TITLE: Legitimate Simpsons Merchandising
Bart Simpson will now wish you a happy birthday. This is similar to the
VIP-BUGS phone service and is probably marketed by the same people. You pay
about $9, let them know the recipient, and that person will receive a
personal recorded phone call from the Bart-Man himself.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #241, from sje, 1139 chars, Sun May 19 12:47:31 1991
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TITLE: An Unusual Item in Birnbaum’s _1991 Offical Walt Disney World Guide_
A clear and informative writer, Steve Birnbaum’s travel guide are
always useful for the vacation planner and sometimes reveal things that
would otherwise be unnoticed by the casual tourist. From page 181:
“HUMUNGA KOWABUNGA: These two speed slides, reported to have
been carved into the landscape by the historic earthquake, will send
guests zooming thorugh caves at speeds of 30 miles per hour. The
214-foot slides offer a 51-foot drop, and the view from the top is a
little scary. But it’s over before you know it, and once wary guests
hurry back for another try. Disney Imagineers, when doing their
research for the park, discovered that large crowds tend to gather
where speed slides exist at other parks, to watch women wearing
bikinis lose their bathing suit tops on the way down. Ever
considerate, the Imagineers built a grandstand so that the voyeurs
in the crowd have a place to sit. Modest maidens beware! A one-piece
suit is far safer than a skimpy 2-piece.”
Ah, yes, something for twelve year old boys of all ages. — Steve
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animation/tie.ins #242, from davemackey, 219 chars, Sun May 19 20:11:32 1991
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That attraction, of course, is at the Typhoon Lagoon water park on the Disney
grounds. I will definitely tuck that away for my next visit, probably late
summer. Thanks, Steve! đŸ˜‰
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #243, from davemackey, 537 chars, Mon May 20 18:27:07 1991
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TITLE: Orlando featured in Time
Dinosaur Gertie’s Ice Cream Parlor is prominently featured on the cover of
this week’s Time Magazine, as the cover feature is Orlando, home of Disney
World, Sea World, Universal Studios, and countless other attractions. (The
ice cream parlor is on the grounds of the Disney/MGM Studios, for the
uninitiated.)
The article describes how tourism has affected the community: one
visitor says it’s now like “Norman Rockwell’s America or Dennis The Menace on
acid.”
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #244, from davemackey, 883 chars, Mon May 20 22:15:53 1991
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TITLE: Surprise in the mail
The Adventurers Club, headquartered on Pleasure Island at the Walt Disney
World Resort, has sent out the first issue of its newsletter, “Adventurers
Almanac” to its Associate and Presidential members. (Since the Club, along
with the entire Pleasure Island, has a much larger history than just the past
few years of its renewed existence, it’s actually the first issue of Vol. 54
of its newsletter.)
This is possibly the first time a Park attraction has attempted
out-of-park participation by its patronage; letters and submissions are
encouraged to be sent to the cast of the Club, only a fraction of whom I met
at the meeting I attended. Do any of the other Park sympathizers here (and I
know who you are) know of any precedent for the Adventurers Club mailing,
with an attraction maintaining a mailing list?
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #245, from hmccracken, 164 chars, Tue May 21 09:09:34 1991
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How did they get your name? I haven’t heard boo from WDW since I went in
1989, and I stayed on the grounds, so they presumably have my name and
address.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #246, from davemackey, 456 chars, Tue May 21 20:26:02 1991
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When I joined the Adventurers Club with an associate membership (five dollars
gets you a pin and a “free” drink from Nash the bartender), they made me fill
out a card with my name and address on it, and one of the cast members said
they were going to be starting up a newsletter and the first issue should be
in the mail within three weeks. Which it certainly was. I wonder how many
went out with the first mailing.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #247, from morganfox, 168 chars, Tue May 21 20:49:32 1991
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OK, so I am uninformed or naive or something [don’t say, crawled out from
under a rock] but what is The Adventurers Club? “Cast members”? In other
words…”Say what?”
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animation/tie.ins #248, from bcapps, 118 chars, Tue May 21 21:26:44 1991
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Well, Cast Members is Disney-speak for employees, kinda like Associates
in other businesses. I dunno about TAC.
Bob
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animation/tie.ins #249, from sje, 97 chars, Tue May 21 21:48:02 1991
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Also, Disney’s main interview/recruiting site in Florida is called
“Casting Central”. — Steve
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animation/tie.ins #250, from hmccracken, 158 chars, Tue May 21 22:00:18 1991
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The Adventurers’ Club is one of the Disney-style nightclubs
at Pleasure Island, a complex of clubs that tries to bring
nightlife to Disney World.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #251, from davemackey, 876 chars, Tue May 21 23:31:08 1991
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Okay, backtracking. The Adventurers Club is one of the little taverns on
Pleasure Island, only this one is set up like the headquarters of a group of
hunters, mountain climbers, and other adventurers. There are lots of
artifacts on the walls, some Audio-Animatronic. Besides the bartenders (all
of whom are called Nash), there is a regular cast of characters who put on
skits and provide various forms of entertainment, a different event every ten
minutes throughout the evening. It’s like being in the middle of a live show.
The cast interacts quite well with the guests, and hecklers (yes, hecklers!)
are taken aside by the more conventional cast members working the attraction
and told to cool it. It’s one of the more unique things in the Disney
Vacation Kingdom and something I regret not discovering earlier.. it was lots
of fun.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #252, from davemackey, 449 chars, Fri May 24 20:00:35 1991
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TITLE: Here’s a surprise for my fellow NJ BIXen!
“Bugs Bunny On Broadway” — on the Parkway!
The Garden State Arts Center will be presenting the famous stage show
featuring George Daugherty and the Warner Bros. Symphony Orchestra on Sunday,
July 21.
Tickets will go on sale at the Arts Center box office on Monday, June 3.
The Arts Center is in Holmdel, NJ, at Exit 116 of the Garden State Parkway.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #253, from richard.pini, 616 chars, Sun May 26 13:46:15 1991
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Three months later, I found (at the Stormville flea market, a very good one
that happens 5-6 times a year from May to October or so) a fellow selling
the complete set of cards (or what I assume is complete; it’s in 3 albums,
and has something around 600 ‘sides’ of art) for $40. On a per-card basis
this may be good, bad, or indifferent, but *I* was happy not to have to
slog through umpty packs of cards looking for the missing ones! He also had
some of the holo cards for $3.50 each; I passed on them. They are cute, but
don’t do a thing for me. Maybe if he still has them next time and I can get
a good deal…
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animation/tie.ins #254, from davemackey, 217 chars, Sun May 26 20:19:30 1991
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There is a total of 297 of the Comic Ball Cards, which translates into 594
different “storyboard drawings.” (Baseball cards have traditionally been
released in “series” of 99.)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #255, from davemackey, 320 chars, Tue May 28 18:20:17 1991
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TITLE: Bugs Bunny world tour
Now this is not “Bugs Bunny On Broadway.” This is something different. Warner
Bros. is going to be mounting the first live-on-stage Bugs Bunny arena show
in many years, with a premiere set for sometime in October at Madison Square
Garden in New York.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #256, from davemackey, 1028 chars, Sun Jun 2 00:57:01 1991
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TITLE: Disney launches book publishing arm
The newest of the Disney enterprises is Hyperion Books. Among the first
offerings will be a number of potentially interesting animation books,
including “The Disney That Never Was,” a book by Charles Solomon about Disney
films which were never completed, as well as “Disney’s Art Of Animation From
Mickey Mouse To Beauty & The Beast,” and “The Art Of Mickey Mouse: Artists
Interpret The World’s Favorite Mouse.” The latter two books are due this
coming Fall.
A smattering of other planned titles include a book by Dave Marsh about
the song “Louie Louie”; a biography of Rick Nelson to be written by Philip
Bashe, who co-authored Mel Blanc’s autobiography; a 50th-anniversary tribute
to “Casablanca” by Aljean Harmetz; and “Between Thought And Expression:
Selected Lyrics Of Lou Reed.”
The book line, named for the street on which Walt Disney had his first
animation studio in Hollywood, will initially be distributed by Little,
Brown.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #257, from hmccracken, 405 chars, Sun Jun 2 12:15:38 1991
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I think it’s *terrible* that Disney is publishing its own books
on its own animation (unless they continue to license others
to publish Disney animation books, which seems unlikely).
It’ll be surprising in the extreme if such books contain
anything sharply critical of Walt or his films — I suspect
they’ll end up reading like printed versions of all those
toothless Disney animation specials.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #258, from davemackey, 769 chars, Wed Jun 5 00:10:36 1991
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TITLE: Is that’s what’s troubling you, Bunky?
He’s back, folks: the most recent radio commercials for Rolaids feature Eddie
Lawrence reprising his Old Philosopher character.
During the 1960’s, Eddie Lawrence was employed by the Paramount cartoon
studio, where he provided voices for characters like Jeepers and Creepers and
the later Swifty and Shorty, and wrote many of their stories, too. (“Cartoon
Kablooey” is a good place to see lots of these over and over again until
they can get some new ones to run instead of the same old ones. đŸ˜‰ He’s been
doing his Old Philosopher character for many commercials ever since, with the
character even becoming the mascot for the Claridge Casino in Atlantic City
for a brief while.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #259, from davemackey, 916 chars, Wed Jun 5 00:10:57 1991
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Harry, I would have to agree with you, having given the matter a little
thought.
I’m sure Disney’s taken too many critical hits in the past (“The Disney
Version” by Richard Schickel comes to mind) to want to take chances with
objective criticism of its work. Therefore, Hyperion Publishing, with
potentially expensive coffee-table books which will probably be nothing more
than glorified house organs.
But on the matter of the Charles Solomon book about Disney films never
made, it would probably be that much easier for someone to go ahead and
actually make these films, wouldn’t it? If it wasn’t good enough for Disney,
it could be good enough for Joe Zilch Productions. One would suspect Disney
wouldn’t want these skeletons out of their closet.
Still, though, I can’t wait to read the “Louie Louie” book. Did they
really sing “never ever lay her again”? đŸ˜‰
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #260, from hmccracken, 421 chars, Wed Jun 5 09:16:48 1991
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This seems as good a place as any to mention that on Monday CBS ran
what seemed to be an unsold pilot for a situation comedy about a barber,
starring John Amos. One of the cast members one Arnold Stang (voice of
Herman the Mouse, Top Cat, the Honeynut Cheerios Bee, etc.), who seems
somehow to have found the Fountain of Youth: he seems to have remained
the same age for decades. How old is that guy, anyway?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #261, from davemackey, 353 chars, Wed Jun 5 20:05:25 1991
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Stang was just a teenager when he took his first cartoon job, that of Shorty
in the “Popeye” cartoons beginning in 1942. (Typical examples: the riotous
“Happy Birthdaze” and “Moving Aweigh.”) I don’t know his official age. I did
used to have a phonograph record he once did called “Arnold Stang’s Waggish
Tales.”
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #262, from mscoville, 590 chars, Wed Jun 5 21:05:16 1991
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Having just attended the American Booksellers Convention in NYC, I was at
the Hyperion Booth and saw a mockup of the new “The Art of Walt Disney”and
it appears that it will be an excellent book. They only had a mockup and
review copies will not be available until October. Also of note, the distributors of the books is Warner Brothers Books
. As to the Charles Solomon book on the
Films that Disney didn’t make, I saw nothing even resembling that title. Any-one know who the distributor or publisher
is? If it is Hyperion, it isn’t in
the winter list of books to be published. mscoville
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animation/tie.ins #263, from davemackey, 405 chars, Thu Jun 6 01:09:44 1991
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Until they get their own sales force organized, the Hyperion books are going
to be marketed by Little, Brown (according to Variety). But I hadn’t heard
anything about Warner Books getting in on the Disney action. When you conside
that Disney and Warner are something of rivals these days (given the recent
reinforcement of WB’s involvement with the Fox Network)…
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #264, from richard.pini, 49 chars, Thu Jun 6 19:00:37 1991
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Glad you two could stop by the booth as well! đŸ™‚
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animation/tie.ins #265, from mscoville, 80 chars, Fri Jun 7 22:24:57 1991
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What is the old expression, Love or (money) makes strange bedfellows?
mscoville
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animation/tie.ins #266, from davemackey, 806 chars, Tue Jun 18 20:33:29 1991
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TITLE: Two for the bookstore
Here’s a couple of interesting books which went home with me from the
bookstore tonight…
“The Simpsons Rainy Day Fun Book” (HarperPerennial, $7.95) is a slim
collection of activities, games, puzzles and projects presided over by
everyone’s favorite orange-skinned family. Two of the projects are animation
related: a flipbook and a zoetrope.
Contemporary Books has also published the first collection of the comic
strip “Baby Blues” by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott. Priced at $7.95, the book
includes a foreword by Cathy “Cathy” Guisewite. The strip begins as Wanda and
Darryl have their baby Zoe, and follows the new parents through a variety of
situations that any new parent can easily identify with. (Not Reviews)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #267, from hmccracken, 938 chars, Sat Jun 22 22:02:41 1991
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TITLE: Saw _The Rocketeer_ today; it’s quite good. The best thing
about the movie is the art deco look that’s very well executed
throughout the film. The cast is not particularly impressive —
they’re bland and comic booky, which I suppose was the intention —
except for Timothy Dalton, who’s quite witty as British actor
Neville Sinclair. Special effects range from poor (sometimes
the Rocketeer looks like he was animated, a la the Kirk Alyn
_Superman_ movie serials) to excellent (other times he really
looks like he’s whizzing about with his rocket pack). The last
twenty minutes, involving a zeppelin, are quite exciting.
Since this is the animation conference, mention should be made
of a scene which incorporates a Nazi propaganda cartoon pastiche
created for the film. It’s very well done — the Disney feature
animation department was somehow involved with making it, but
just how is not clear from the credits.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #268, from adunkin, 127 chars, Sat Jun 22 23:58:58 1991
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The special effects were done by ILM, but they had help from Disney Animation
I believe (or so they said)..
— Alan Dunkin
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animation/tie.ins #269, from hmccracken, 1689 chars, Sun Jul 7 14:14:20 1991
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TITLE: Hyperion Books
As mentioned previously in this conference, this is Disney’s
new book publishing company. Here’s a rundown of some of
its upcoming titles:
_The Art of Mickey Mouse: Artists Interpret the World’s Favorite
Mouse_, edited by Craig Yoe: an art book in which artists including
Miltonm Glaser, Charles Schulz, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol
provide their own interperetations of Disney’s most famous character.
Introduction by John Updike (!)
_Disney’s Art of Animation: From Mickey Mouse to Beauty
and the Beast_, by Bob Thomas: The author of several
previous Disney books, including an _Art of Animation_
published in the late 1950s, provides what sounds like
a replacement for the venerable _Art of Walt Disney_
that has served as the basic Disney art book for almost
twenty years,
_Chanticleer and the Fox_, illustrated by Marc Davis: an
adaptation of the Nun’s Tale (as I recall) from _The
Canterbury Tales_, illustrated with art done decades
ago when Disney was contemplating making an animated
feature based on it. (They eventually used some of
the material in _Robin Hood_; Don Bluth’s upcoming
_Rock a Doodle_ is apparently at least vaguely based
on the material as well.)dthe/and the/
_The Steadfast Tuin Solider_: another adaptation illustrated
with artwork from the Disney archives.
_Beauty and the Beast Illustrated Classic_: an adaptation
of Disney’s upcoming animated feature.
_Beauty and the Beast Junior Novelization_: another adaptation.
Amazingly, these are all coming out in September, along
with numerous other books, including five Davy Crockett
books. For the record, most of these are actually
under the Disney Press imprint.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #270, from davemackey, 479 chars, Sat Jul 13 07:29:49 1991
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TITLE: Impel cards
There’s a new company on the trading card scene called Impel Marketing Inc.
(and if they aren’t new and I just haven’t heard of them before, my
apologies). This company is clearly positioning itself as a competitor to
Upper Deck, with its foil packs and hologram cards in some sets.
Three of the first sets available are Disney Collector Cards (210),
Minnie ‘n Me, and Marvel Universe (162 cards in second series).
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #271, from davemackey, 2202 chars, Wed Jul 31 19:06:31 1991
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TITLE: This Pee-wee thing won’t go away
The maelstrom surrounding the arrest of Paul “Pee-wee Herman” Reubens last
week in Florida shows no signs of letting up. One thinks of radio’s Uncle
Don, whose career was ruined when he allegedly signed off a broadcast
muttering “that ought to hold the little bastards” (though it has never been
proven that he did indeed say it). After you cancel the show (see messages in
boob.tube), then what?
The Disney/MGM Studios Theme Park has discontinued use of a film segment
in one of its attractions (possibly the Studio Tour?) that includes Pee-wee.
This was done out of sensitivity to guests, according to Disney.
The Toys “R” Us and Lionel Kiddie City toy store chains have pulled
all remaining Pee-wee Herman and Chairy toys off its shelves. Matchbox Toys
stopped production on these toys about 18 months ago.
Radio humorists and print gadflies continue to have a ball. A promo for
Don Imus’ show on WFAN radio in New York — which had gone hot and heavy with
Pee-wee jokes as early as Monday morning — stated that “since we consider
ourselves to be on the leading edge of radio humor, we are finally going to
get off Pee-wee.” An actor impersonating Pee-wee states that he’s perfectly
capable of getting off himself. Columnist David Hinckley in the New York
Daily News cites the general attitude towards illicit sexual activity in
Florida (including the censorship issue surrounding 2 Live Crew) as the root
of Pee’s problem. The newspaper also reports that many adult video stores in
the city have gotten many requests for the films Pee-wee was watching,
including “Tiger Shark” and “Nurse Nancy.” But it’s too early to tell what
effect this has on the video shops that rent out Pee-wee films like “…Big
Adventure” and “Big Top…” as well as episodes of his TV show and the
“Pee-wee Herman Show” cable special.
Even Peggy Charren’s had her say on the issue, saying that the whole
thing can be used as a springboard for parents to clarify some aspects of
sexuality to our confused youth. Many newspapers have given parents tips on
how best to explain why Pee-wee isn’t going to be on TV any more.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #272, from elfhive, 89 chars, Thu Aug 1 12:05:10 1991
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I thought it was Soupy Sales that was alleged to have made the “little
bastards” remark?
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animation/tie.ins #273, from hmccracken, 177 chars, Thu Aug 1 12:35:08 1991
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No, it was Uncle Don, but Soupy *did* tell the kiddies to go to
mommy’s purse and send him all the little pieces of green paper
with pictures of presidents on them…
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #274, from richard.pini, 106 chars, Thu Aug 1 20:37:58 1991
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Soupy also managed to do interesting things with finger gestures that got him
in hot water once or twice.
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animation/tie.ins #275, from elfhive, 50 chars, Fri Aug 2 17:00:14 1991
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That *is* funny. You could net a bundle that way!
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animation/tie.ins #276, from davemackey, 306 chars, Fri Aug 2 19:09:15 1991
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And if you look on that tape I mentioned over in Video.stuff (see msg #82),
you can see Soupy’s famous scene with the exotic dancer. Soupy did have some
not-kind words toward Pee-wee in recent reaction interviews, clearly a case
of the pot calling the kettle black.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #277, from davemackey, 379 chars, Fri Aug 2 19:09:28 1991
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TITLE: Coming soon from Disney records…
The soundtrack to “Beauty And The Beast” will be released in October, prior
to the movie’s release.
Also on the Disney schedule: in the vein of its previous “Sebastian”
album, there will be an all-new album from The Little Mermaid. “Songs From
The Sea” will feature the voice of Jodi Benson.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #278, from tsin, 153 chars, Sat Aug 3 22:05:49 1991
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Yes…And I for one am watching my children for signs of trauma..
And I am hiding the newspaper..!
Geeeeeeezzz….
I feel sorry for the guy, personally.
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animation/tie.ins #279, from hmccracken, 504 chars, Mon Sep 9 16:20:43 1991
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TITLE: Pee-Wee a Collectible
The Pee-Wee Herman toys that were pulled off of toystore shelves
after Mr. Herman’s arrest have apparently become collectible all
of a sudden. At the Brimfield, Mass. flea market yesterday, I
saw many, many Pee-Wee dolls and toys, mainly at outrageous
prices. These are the same toys that were being sold at fire sale
prices in the stores before the whole Florida incident; matter of
fact, they’re still being sold that way at at least one big toy
store near me…
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #280, from davemackey, 239 chars, Mon Sep 9 19:25:17 1991
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On the subject of Pee-wee, it looks like that MTV is going to be picking up
the reruns of “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” — making his surprise appearance on the
MTV Video Music Awards less of a coincidence.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #281, from davemackey, 667 chars, Fri Sep 13 21:20:54 1991
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TITLE: “33”
I seldom pick up news items from the supermarket-checkout papers, but this
item in this week’s “Star” is worth a mention because of its Disney
connection.
The building that used to house what was rumored to be Walt Disney’s
private apartment in the heart of Disneyland is now purportedly an exclusive
club called the 33 Club. Membership dues are said to be about $10,000, and it
is reportedly the only place Alcohol is served in Disneyland. The only
indication to the outside world of its existence is an engraved brass plate
reading “33” next to the entrance. Its members are said to include Michael
Jackson.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #282, from mscoville, 568 chars, Sat Sep 14 01:38:23 1991
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Subject: 33 Club at Disneyland and Disney World
According to sources the 33 Club was started by Walt as a thank you to the
original 33 participating corporate sponsors who help start his dream. I do
not believe that it is in the old apartment which Walt maintained.
Yes, it is the only area in the park where “hard liquor” is served. The yearly
fee is not $10,000, it is a lot lower than that, but I am not sure of the
exact figure.About the only correct thing that the article said was that indeed
the only indicator of its existence is the “33” address.
mscoville
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animation/tie.ins #283, from davemackey, 124 chars, Sat Sep 14 09:10:00 1991
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Thanks for the additional information, Mike, and good to see you back on the
board!
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #284, from hmccracken, 155 chars, Sat Sep 14 19:43:35 1991
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Check out BIXen LLee’s resume for a list of Disney facts and
fallacies that mentions “Club 33” and says it’s in Disneyland’s
New Orleans Square.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #285, from davemackey, 278 chars, Wed Oct 2 07:16:27 1991
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TITLE: As if you didn’t know…
…this week is the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney World, and the three
networks’ morning “news” shows are all originating from The Vacation Kingdom
or doing special features on the anniversary this week.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #286, from hmccracken, 608 chars, Fri Oct 4 21:19:52 1991
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TITLE: _Addams Family_ fans, take note
The current issue of _Cinefantastique_ magazine cover-features
_Star Trek_, but the most interesting part is a great series
of articles and sidebars on _The Addams Family_, with pieces
devoted to the upcoming feature film (which looks promising),
the 1960s TV show, the cartoons of Charles Addams, the
animated TV series of the 1970s, Thing, and even the theme
song and the obscure 1970s reunion TV-movie. It covers just
about everything you’d ever want to know about the Addamses, and
is a must-have for aficionados of the characters in any of their
guises.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #287, from davemackey, 254 chars, Sun Oct 6 10:29:57 1991
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TITLE: “Tornado Rex”
I would strongly advise Warner Bros. legal department to file suit against
Parker Bros. over this game and the animated depiction of its lead character,
Tornado Rex. It is a blatant infringement on the character The Tasmanian
Devil!
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animation/tie.ins #288, from davemackey, 487 chars, Wed Oct 9 19:18:43 1991
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TITLE: Bugs Bunny arena tour
“Time” magazine this week has a full-page ad for the “Bugs Bunny In The
Menace From Mars World Tour,” which kicks off with performances at the
newly-refurbished Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 12 and
13. Brach’s Candy is offering $2 off child’s tickets with proof of purchase
for all performances.
This is the first arena show featuring the Warner Bros. classic
characters in a number of years.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #289, from morganfox, 158 chars, Wed Oct 9 20:24:53 1991
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According to a report I saw tonight on Entertainment Tonight, “Menace from
Mars” opens tonight in (where else but….:]) the Pinis’ backyard of
Poughkeepsie!
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animation/tie.ins #290, from davemackey, 280 chars, Wed Oct 9 21:18:40 1991
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Does the article make any mention of the fact that the first part of the
“Addams Family” television theme song by Vic Mizzy is one of the most-played
selections by sports-stadium organists? (And by my ear, about half of them
get it wrong.)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #291, from hmccracken, 119 chars, Wed Oct 9 22:24:34 1991
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Nope, but it should have. Other cartoon-related themes heard at
ballparks include the Dudley Do-Right theme.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #292, from morganfox, 882 chars, Thu Oct 10 19:22:28 1991
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TITLE: Hammacher Schlemmer
Well, the Holiday catalogs are arriving by the pound in the mail and today
Hammacher Schlemmer’s offering arrived.
This year they are offering Limited Edition Cartoon Celluloids.
They are reproductions of single frame cells taken from the original pencil
sketches. They come with a cetificate of authenticity. There are two offered,
each limited to 500 editions. The first is “Look No Meat!” from the 1954
Bugs showing the first appearence of the Tasmanian Devil. From the collection of
Robert McKimson. (Hey, Santa…this is on *my* list!)
The second is “Dynamite Muscle” A classic Popeye pose from the sketch collection
of Myron Waldman. It is personally signed. on a photographic background.
The Bugs and Taz is embossed with R.McKimson’s signature and is on a Lithographic
background.
Bugs and Taz = $499.00 Popeye = $399.00
That’s all folks.
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animation/tie.ins #293, from davemackey, 640 chars, Fri Oct 11 22:03:41 1991
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I think it says something positive about Myron Waldman (one of the better
Fleischer/Famous animators) that his work is only $100 less than that of Bob
McKimson…
However, I did a spot check of Myron Waldman’s screen credits at the
Fleischer and Famous Studios and can only come up with three Popeye cartoons
that he ever got screen credit for. “Can You Take It,” “Popeye Meets Rip Van
Winkle” and “Problem Pappy.” Waldman specialized on Screen Songs, Betty Boop,
Color Classics, Stone Age, Superman, Noveltoons, Little Lulu, and Casper
during his career at Paramount. Something to think about.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #294, from davemackey, 291 chars, Fri Oct 11 22:34:32 1991
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TITLE: Chuck muses and reminisces again
Hallmark has issued the second edition of its “Looney Tunes” calendar with
all-new graphics from Warner Bros. cartoons and all-new musings and
reminisces by Chuck Jones, who in 1992 will mark his 80th birthday.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #295, from hmccracken, 187 chars, Sun Oct 13 00:31:26 1991
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TITLE: _The Simpsons_ video game
Has anyone seen or played this Komani arcade game? I played it tonight,
and it’s fantastic — nearly as funny and well-animated as the TV show.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #296, from davemackey, 168 chars, Sun Oct 13 02:27:08 1991
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I ran into one this afternoon, but didn’t have any quarters to spare (nor the
time). But I did get a good look at the graphics.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #297, from grekel, 292 chars, Sun Oct 13 09:25:47 1991
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I recently watched four kids FINISH the Simpsons arcade game. It took
an incredible number of quarters to finally defeat Mr. Burns, who
starts the round piloting an exoskeleton, and kicking butt. Then
America’s Favorite Family walks off into the sunset, and the game
starts all over again…
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animation/tie.ins #298, from hmccracken, 218 chars, Sun Oct 13 11:39:43 1991
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I saw the “Tornado Rex” commercial today, and Rex certainly looks and
behaves a great deal like the Tasmanian Devil.Parker Bros. ought to
have licensed the rights to Taz (or maybe they tried to and failed?).
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #299, from hmccracken, 286 chars, Sun Oct 13 16:07:20 1991
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I found the game more fun to play than to watch, although the Simpsons
themselves behave way out of character. (They run around town
assaulting Mr. Burns’s henchmen for most of the game.) The best part
of the game are the little background details you can spot along
the way.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #300, from morganfox, 374 chars, Thu Oct 17 21:32:27 1991
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TITLE: Hank Azaria in Boston
I see in today’s Boston Globe that Hank Azaria will be in town on Nov. 1 at
Nick’s Comedy Stop in Saugus. Hank is the voices of several Simpsons chars
as well as being known for “Herman’s Head”. He will be the celebrity host.
OOOPPPPPS! Frank Gorshin will be at Nick’s Comedy Stop on Nov.1. Hank will
be the host tomorrow night (the 18th).
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animation/tie.ins #301, from mscoville, 490 chars, Fri Oct 18 00:19:28 1991
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TITLE: Euro Disney
Last Saturday, outside Paris, “Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant” was
unveiled. Sleeping Beauty’s castle, as we know it, will look like a French
Chateau instead of what we know the castle to look like. It seems that they
wish to blend with the countryside. Also,of note, they Disney group has added
a dragon in the castle grotto. Should anyone be interested, Euro-Disney will
open April 12, 1992. Reservations are being accepted, bring lots of francs…..mscoville
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animation/tie.ins #302, from hmccracken, 162 chars, Fri Oct 18 09:17:15 1991
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Of course, Frank Gorshin has a comics/animation tie-in as well —
being, as he was, the Riddler on _Batman_ (as well as an awfully
good impressionist).
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #303, from rcrook, 198 chars, Wed Oct 23 20:23:55 1991
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>Hank Azaria
Um… What part does he have on (in?) “Herman’s Head”? And on
“The Simpsons”?
Note: Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson, plays Louise on
“Herman’s Head” as well.
= Argosy =
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animation/tie.ins #304, from morganfox, 961 chars, Wed Oct 23 21:03:46 1991
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TITLE: Look what the mail dragged in!
Yep, I’m in! I must be the Junk mail poster child or something. đŸ™‚ Catalogs
are arriving by the ton, in that holiday blitz buying spirit. And today, the
prize arrived! _The_Great_Doonesbury_Sellout_ catalog!
Yes! You too can order from “The Club Scud collection and other cool stuff
from the New World order” catalog.
And TINAR, IMHO and all that stuff, it is a neat catalog with neat, cool
stuff.
It is all Doonesbury, in style, and philosophy. The creators’ royalities and
a part of the company’s proceeds go to named charities.
What’s offered, you ask…well, how about a passport case with Duke debossed
on the leather? Want cammy underwear, they have it! T-shirts, caps, pins,
patches, yours. Need a trench lighter from Club Scud in Kuwait city? Ya got
it.Cocktail stirrers? Dog Tags? Come on over here and let’s talk.
This catalog is a hoot! It does have neat stuff.
Oh yeah, to order…call 416-331-DUKE.
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animation/tie.ins #305, from davemackey, 557 chars, Wed Oct 23 23:26:03 1991
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You would perhaps best know Azaria as Barney, the always-drunk patron of
Moe’s tavern. We’ve mentioned before that in this role he sounds not unlike
the late Daws Butler.
I can’t say that I watch enough “Herman’s Head” to know precisely every
cast member and their function, but I have noted the presence of both Azaria
and Y. Smith.
Incidentally, Dan Castellaneta is now in a live series on Fox as well,
which is nothing new for him since he had been appearing in the cast of the
old “Tracey Ullman Show.”
–Dave
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I like all the quotes from current (and past) political figures who’ve been
Doonesbury targets. Esp. Trump’s quote — “You know, I did well in school,
but for the life of me, I can’t understand what Doonesbury is all about.”
::snicker:: Ah, life. Such a rich source of comic material. đŸ˜€
Bob
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animation/tie.ins #307, from hmccracken, 1778 chars, Thu Oct 31 09:58:46 1991
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TITLE: Last Sunday, I visited Disneyland for the first time since
1988, and two significant changes had taken place since then
which are worth mentioning here. The only major new attraction
which had opened in that time was Splash Mountain, a log flume
ride inspired by the Uncle Remus stories. As a log flume, it’s
great; as an Uncle Remus attraction it’s a little odd. Most of
the robotic audio-animatronic figures are of singing geese
(I don’t remember any geese in _Song of the South_), and there
are other bits and pieces which don’t seem to have anything to
do with Disney’s version of the Remus stories, like a big
scene set on a steamboat.
The other notable change to the park is probably a temporary
one “Afternoon Avenue” is touted as the newest of Disneyland’s
“lands,” but it’s really just a section of Fantasyland that’s
been blocked off and decorated with some decorations relating
to Disney’s afternoon animated TV programs. Two lesser Fantasyland
attractions — the Autopia and the motorboat ride — have
been turned into Chip n’ Dale and Gummi Bears rides, respectively,
by the simple means of setting up plywood cutouts relating to
those shows here and there. The area is heavily promoted elsewhere
in the park.
Disney has announced plans for a whole new area of
Disneyland that will be built on the land that now
serves as the park’s parking lot. That area is
presumably several years away from completion, but
within the current confines of the park I saw
several areas under construction, including a new
version of the Mississippi river section of the
park that seems to be inspired by the “Night on
Bald Mountain” segment of _Fantasia_. It looks like
it’ll be worth returning to the park in another three
years to see all the upcoming stuff.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #308, from hmccracken, 235 chars, Thu Oct 31 09:59:41 1991
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TITLE: One other thing about Disneyland…
if you’re going there and don’t want to wait in lines, try
to plan your trip so you’re at the park very late on a
Sunday night. After 10:30pm or so, there are no lines for
anything.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #309, from hkenner, 82 chars, Thu Oct 31 11:35:19 1991
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So a few years hence, where are all those Disneyland visitors
going to park?
–HK
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animation/tie.ins #310, from hmccracken, 266 chars, Thu Oct 31 11:51:41 1991
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BIXen Mike Scoville told me what the plans are, but I forget.
I think they had something to do with building a new lot
a short distance from the park and then shuttling visitors
in via monorail (which is what is done at the Magic Kingdom
at Disney World).
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #311, from davemackey, 48 chars, Fri Nov 1 21:55:37 1991
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Nevada.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #312, from pwirtz, 178 chars, Sun Nov 3 04:50:16 1991
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Also as a tie-in visit the Gallery above Priates. Nice posters in good mailing tubes.
If you want to pay bucks Lithos & org art for sale also.
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animation/tie.ins #313, from pwirtz, 181 chars, Sun Nov 3 04:54:01 1991
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Most of the auidio-anamantronics on splash mtn are refurbished America Sings
props. As to whats going inside of the America sings, I don’t know.
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animation/tie.ins #314, from hmccracken, 313 chars, Sun Nov 3 12:30:33 1991
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AH HAH! I was going to ask about that. I never saw “America Sings,”
but vaguely remembered that it involved singing geese. The reuse of
the geese in an attraction they’re ill-suited for sounds cheap, but
Disney says that Splash Mountain cost more to construct than all
of Disneyland did when it opened!
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #315, from davemackey, 852 chars, Mon Nov 18 04:12:30 1991
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It should be noted, in the interest of whatever, that the “Graham Place”
listed as executive producer of the “Addams Family” movie is NOT the former
Fleischer and Paramount animator. That Graham Place died about a decade ago.
If you’re constantly distracted by “product placements” in films (the
blatant use of a name brand product), I think the ad for the “Addams Family”
is possibly the first where a placement’s made it into an ad. You can’t help
but notice the giant Tombstone Pizza billboard behind the girl scout in the
lemonade-stand gag.
These two items notwithstanding, I do plan on seeing “Addams Family”
when it opens next week. In the battle royal between them and the Munsters
that occupied two years of TV prime time in the 60’s, I was always more
sympathetic toward Gomez and his brood.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #316, from hmccracken, 201 chars, Mon Nov 18 09:23:09 1991
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I’m looking forward to the movie myself.
That “Tombstone Pizza” product placement is hilariously
obvious and tacky — so much so that I wonder if it’s
intentionally out-of-place and silly.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #317, from switch, 474 chars, Sat Nov 23 00:10:20 1991
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TITLE: _Deceived_ animation tie-in
If you intend to see _Deceived_ (and excellent movie, IMHO), do
not under ANY circumstances read this!
*****SPOILER*****
One last chance to escape!
There’s a cartoon playing in the background twice during the film
— a Warner Bros. cartoon, namely “Pigs in a Polka”. Both
the wolf in that short and John Heard’s character died in the same
manner…
Emru đŸ™‚
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animation/tie.ins #318, from davemackey, 127 chars, Sat Nov 23 07:40:41 1991
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I went ahead and read the spoiler, and I now want to see this film for that
reason! đŸ˜‰
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #319, from davemackey, 279 chars, Wed Nov 27 22:03:31 1991
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TITLE: Ice ice baby
My local newspaper gave me a chuckle today, noting the local appearance of
“Disney’s America On Ice,” touring arena show featuring ice skaters. The
newspaper preferred to refer to it as “Walt Disney On Ice.” Hmmmm…..
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #320, from olson, 76 chars, Mon Dec 2 05:01:30 1991
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I love it! Our local watering hole has a drink called “Walt on the Rocks”.
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animation/tie.ins #321, from cmattern, 55 chars, Wed Dec 4 00:44:56 1991
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Shouldn’t that be “Walt *is* the Rocks”?
Chris Mattern
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animation/tie.ins #322, from davemackey, 890 chars, Fri Dec 20 14:49:38 1991
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TITLE: Christmas with Eddie G.
So what does the newly-released album “Christmas Party With Eddie G”
(Columbia 46919) have to do with animation, anyway?
For starters, some of the linking material features animation voice
talent Billy West (“the Ren and Stimpy Show”) doing his patented impression
of Larry Fine, in comedy bits which are purportedly outtakes from the famous
Three Stooges Christmas record sessions (with Moe and Curly Joe).
And among the other cuts on this album of obscure Christmas songs are
three versions of “The Merry Old Philosopher,” recorded by Eddie Lawrence, a
fixture at Paramount animation throughout the 1960’s
Eddie Gorodetsky, whose comedy writing credits have included stints with
SCTV, SNL and Letterman, culled the material on this album from one of the
world’s largest collections of Christmas music.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #323, from hmccracken, 1324 chars, Wed Jan 15 16:03:23 1992
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TITLE: Lenburg returns
Jeff Lenburg’s _Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoon Series_, a book
originally published more than ten years ago, is available in a
new edition from Facts on File. The original version of Lenburg’s
book was *swimming* with factual errors — there were easily
hundreds of mistakes throughout the book, some of them major.
While Lenburg’s attempt to list every American theatrical and
television cartoon was a noble one, you just couldn’t rely on his
information unless you already happened to know that it was accurate.
The new edition seems to have cleared up some of the mistakes, but
other ones remain. Some of the errors are just plain weird — Lenburg
gives a detailed explanation of Popeye’s origins that says he evolved
from a character named Ham Gravy, when Ham Gravy was in fact a totally
different character. Problems like that make me nervous about trusting
everything else Lenburg says, especially information that sounds new
or unusual (since I’m worried that Lenburg might wrong).
Still, Lenburg has updated the book to include another decade’s
worth of information, and has added sections on feature-length animated
films and animated TV specials. There *is* a tremendous amount of
information in the book, and if you’re a crazy cartoon completist
like me, it’s worth having.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #324, from hmccracken, 228 chars, Mon Jan 20 19:20:24 1992
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TITLE: I’ve never watched the Super Bowl in my life…
but I’ll have to this year. Nike is premiering an ad co-starring
Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, with a “Hare Joran” theme.
Sounds like something not to be missed!
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #325, from bcapps, 152 chars, Sat Jan 25 02:18:53 1992
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I’va actually seen the ad already (where was it?) I believe it was on a
news show, or somesuch. It’s really nice with some Roger Rabbit touches.
Bob
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animation/tie.ins #326, from davemackey, 495 chars, Mon Feb 24 20:50:45 1992
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TITLE: I’m a temporary, dammit
A 2-page ad in this week’s Time for Olsten Temporary Services introduces its
new concept, “The Flexible Workforce,” by illustrating alternately a squashed
Gumby to symbolize “lower overhead” and an elongated Gumby to indicate
“higher profits.” Gumby himself also appears in the ad in normal form,
properly attributed to the current rights holder, Prema Toy Co. (which of
course is` controlled by Gumby creator Art Clokey).
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #327, from davemackey, 892 chars, Sat Feb 29 15:23:29 1992
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TITLE: “Little Audrey”: the lost lyric
Though it was published two years ago, animation music buffs might want to
pick up a copy of “Television Showstoppers” (published by CPP/Belwin) to
obtain complete sheet music for “Betty Boop” (Heyman/Green), “Casper The
Friendly Ghost” (David/Livingston), “Felix The Wonderful Cat” (Sharples),
“I’m Popeye The Sailor Man” (Lerner), “It’s A Hap-Hap-Happy Day” (Neiburg/
Timberg/Sharples), “Raggedy Ann (I Love You)” (Neiburg/Fleischer/Timberg),
“Little Audrey Says” (Kaye/Sharples), “The Pink Panther” (Mancini) and “Linus
And Lucy” (Guaraldi).
The book also includes themes from many primetime shows, past and
present, complete with revealing lyrics (for example, I never knew the first
line of the break of the theme to “The Jeffersons” was “Fish don’t fry in the
kitchen, beans don’t burn on the grill”).
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #328, from cmattern, 263 chars, Sat Feb 29 22:35:32 1992
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>”Fish don’t fry in the kitchen, beans don’t burn on the grill”
Never thought it was that hard to understand (“Took a whole lot
of tryin’, just to get up that hill…”). “Gee, our old LaSalle
ran great…”–now, *that* was hard line to pin down!
Chris Mattern
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animation/tie.ins #329, from davemackey, 377 chars, Sun Mar 1 19:05:04 1992
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Hey, I forgot… the message was slugged “Little Audrey lost lyric.” So…
“Little Audrey says, ‘Look before you leap.’
But she doesn’t look cause it’s more fun
To be surprised when the leap is done.”
(C) 1948 ren. 1975 Famous Music Corp.
And then the remainder of the theme follows with “Little Audrey says, ‘Save
for a rainy day.'”
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #330, from davemackey, 202 chars, Sun Mar 1 19:05:13 1992
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Well, that one is in there, as well as the “All In The Family” closing theme
“Remembering You”… something I’ve always wanted to learn how to play on the
piano.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #331, from davemackey, 463 chars, Sat Mar 21 17:25:23 1992
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TITLE: All Annette ever sold was peanut butter…
Has anyone else noticed former “Mickey Mouse Club” co-host Mowava Pryor
doing a commercial for “Today’s Sponge” contraceptive inserts? She’s the one
who mentions the sponge is clinically tested, “and for me that’s important.”
Or for that matter, current Mouseketeer Keri Russell leading off a
commercial for Oil Of Olay cooing, “Some promises should never be broken”?
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #332, from davemackey, 586 chars, Tue Mar 31 19:32:21 1992
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TITLE: Ownership change for Disney-owned LA station
The Walt Disney Company and Pinelands have purchased substantial interests in
each other’s flagship television stations, serving the Los Angeles and New
York City markets, respectively.
KCAL-TV (licensed to Norwalk, CA) and WWOR-TV (licensed to Secaucus, NJ)
are now under the same banner. Among other ramifications, this now means that
Howard Stern (whose syndicated television show is produced at WWOR-TV) is now
somewhat indirectly part of the Disney family.
Don’t tell Walt… đŸ˜‰
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #333, from hmccracken, 1985 chars, Wed Apr 15 17:25:14 1992
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TITLE: Warner Bros. Studio Store
I happened to be driving from Boston to Philadelphia last Saturday,
and I took the opportunity to stop at the new Warner Bros. Studio
Store at the Danbury Fair mall in Danbury, CT. The store is one of
just a handful of Warner stores; the flagship is located at the
Beverly Center mall in Beverly Hills.
The place is pretty neat. The most striking single feature is
a series of large sculptural replicas of scenes from Warner
cartoons, which is actually located outside the store itself.
They’re very well done, and there are more terrifici-looking
statues of Warner characters inside the store.
What’s for sale? Well, first of all, all that nifty merchandise
from the Warner Bros. catalog is here. There’s also a lot of
stuff that *isn’t* in the catalog, including some very stylish
designer clothing with a Warner cartoon theme. At least 75% of
the products for sale are specifically cartoon related; another
5% or so relates to DC Comics superheroes, and the rest are
live-action themed (Bogart posters and the like) or simply sport
the Warner logo.
Half or more of the store is devoted to clothing, and a large part
of one wall is given over to animation cels — mainly limited-editions
and recent production cels. There are also many stuffed animals,
kitchen products, clocks, a selection of books, and many miscellaneous
products.
The only problem is that prices are high — I kept contemplating
buying something, only to find out that it cost two or three
hundred dollars. But I did pick up wonderful Michigan J. Frog
and Daffy Duck shirts and a Petunia Pig potholder, and I’m sure
I’ll be back for more clothing, since most of it is very handsome.
I may even work up the nerve to blow $28 on a Bugs Bunny necktie.
If you live anywhere on the East Coast, the stoe is well worth
making a special effort to get to. (The mall also has a Disney
Store.) The Danbury Fair is located right off route 84; it’s
gigantic and easy to spot.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #334, from bcapps, 279 chars, Sat Apr 18 00:50:33 1992
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I guess I should comment (somewhat belatedly) that there is also a Warner’s
store in Fair Oaks Mall, Fairfax, VA right off of I-66 and US-50. They
also took a cue from the Disney stores and have a large projection screen
in the back showing clips from WB films and shorts.
Bob
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animation/tie.ins #335, from davemackey, 185 chars, Mon May 11 18:48:13 1992
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TITLE: An Old Ronald joins the enemy camp
Anyone else notice former Ronald McDonald Willard Scott now selling Breakfast
Buddies for Burger King?
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #336, from hmccracken, 21 chars, Tue May 12 09:40:16 1992
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That Bozo!
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #337, from davemackey, 956 chars, Wed May 27 19:23:19 1992
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TITLE: Desperately Seeking “Dennis”…
John Hughes is on the lookout for a 5- to 7-year-old boy to portray Dennis
The Menace in an upcoming feature film to begin shooting this summer.
The public has been invited to send videotapes of any interested kids to
“Dennis The Menace,” Warner Bros., 4000 Warner Blvd,. Burbank, CA 91522
between June 1 and June 10. The lucky youngster chosen will play opposite
Walter Matthau as next-door neighbor Mr. Wilson.
Though “Dennis” is best-renowned as a live-action TV series of the 50’s
which starred Jay North in the title role, there were a few animated specials
produced by DePatie-Freleng and Marvel Productions a number of years ago,
a live-action pilot shortly thereafter, and most recently a DIC-produced
cartoon series (still being syndicated by DFS Program Exchange as part of its
“Evergreens” package) with Phil Hartman as the voice of “Good Ol’ Mr.
Wilson.”
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #338, from hmccracken, 913 chars, Thu May 28 09:52:00 1992
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Thanks for giving the address, Dave. BIXen with sons of the right age
are strongly urged to send photos; heck, if you have a daughter of the
right age, send her picture. Actually, I think I’ll enter myself.
I’m a few years too old, and my hair is the wrong color, but if
I comb my hair over my eyes and wear overalls, I should be able
to work up a likeness….
I haven’t seen it in twenty years, but I recall that the live-
action TV series _Curiosity Shop_ (produced by Chuck Jones) once had
an animated segment featuring Dennis that was easily
the best of all the attempts to animate the character. And don’t
forget his two greatest multimedia gigs — the Dennis comic books
(which were quite popular from the 1950s until the late 1970s or
early 1980s); and his time-honored place on Dairy Queen cups
and dishes (where he has appared for as long as I can remember —
since the early 1970s at least).
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #339, from davemackey, 474 chars, Thu May 28 22:10:36 1992
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I remember the Chuck Jones Dennis now that you mention it.
Frankly, I am not looking forward to Dennis a la Hughes. My faith in
John Hughes has gone down. I will always remember him as king of the
Sensitive Teen Comedy which invariably starred Molly Ringwald. Now he’s
turned into a purveyor of films whose key comedic moments appear to be
children screaming at the top of their lungs (“Home Alone” and “Curly Sue”
for example).
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #340, from hmccracken, 774 chars, Thu May 28 23:24:31 1992
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TITLE: H-B Draws Joe Barbera’s Blood
This is a strange one. A press release from Hanna-Barbera has passed
this desk announcing that from now on all H-B animation art sold to
the public will include a seal of authenticity that incorporates
Joe Barbera’s DNA, “providing an indispuitable and individually
identifiable proof of ownership and authenticity.” Apparently,
H-B art purchasers can take their art to any H-B site for verification.
“I’ve put time and toil into cartoons most of my life,” Barbera
cheerfully notes in the release, “Now they want my blood as well.”
(The press release isn’t too clear on the subject, but apparently
the DNA incorporation process involved drawing some of Joe’s blood.)
No word on why Joe got this honor instead of Bill Hanna.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #341, from switch, 77 chars, Fri May 29 00:17:17 1992
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Easy. Bill has the sweat and tears, which don’t have the DNA
imprint.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #342, from davemackey, 319 chars, Fri May 29 22:01:14 1992
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TITLE: Flipbook alert…
If you like collecting books with flipbooks in the margins, here’s one you
may want to add to your collection: the margins of Rita Rudner’s new book
“Naked Beneath My Clothes” feature a sequence of drawings of the comedienne
diving into a pool of water.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #343, from davemackey, 434 chars, Sun May 31 15:34:10 1992
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TITLE: Cartoon Corner: That’s All, Folks?
A visit to the Bridgewater Commons mall in central New Jersey, site of what
had been the sole remaining store of the Cartoon Corner chain, reveals that
the store is no more, and in its place a Nordic Track showroom.
The move must have been made fairly recently, since the mall directories
still list Cartoon Corner as the tenant in that position.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #344, from hmccracken, 169 chars, Sun May 31 17:51:55 1992
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I think I’ve heard that one of the founders of the Cartoon Corner chain
is now involved in running the East Coast branches of the Warner
Bros. Studios Stores.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #345, from hmccracken, 62 chars, Sun Jun 21 04:01:00 1992
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TITLE: Batman Returns
Anyone seen it yet? Comments?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #346, from davemackey, 374 chars, Thu Jul 2 05:56:43 1992
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TITLE: Local color in beer commercial
Bud Light recently filmed some beer commercials in and around the New York
City area; one which was done in Hoboken features some patrons of one of our
local watering holes exclaiming (and misquoting) “HOBOKEN? I’M DYIN’!”
As we all know, the exact line was “HOBOKEN? OOH, I’M DYIN’ AGAIN!”
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #347, from davemackey, 298 chars, Thu Jul 2 19:01:25 1992
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Think about this… they could lift the DNA out of the artwork, and once the
technology becomes available, you can clone your own Joe Barbera… running
off to some network with the storyboards to the latest “Scooby Doo” revival
under some arm, no doubt. đŸ˜‰
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #348, from hmccracken, 702 chars, Sun Jul 12 20:47:52 1992
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TITLE: Jones in _Baseball Hobby News_
The current issue of _Baseball Hobby News_, a tabloid for card
collectors, has an article on the Comic Ball cards, those very
successful trading cards that combine photos of baseball players
with artwork of Warner Bros. cartoon characters. The article says
that the artwork is produced by “Dover Boys Studios,” an organization
apparently operated by Chuck Jones (who did the artwork for the first
set of cards, and supervised the art for the other two sets). A
football-themed set is planned for release later this year.
The magazine’s cover is a photograph of Seatlle Mariners star
Ken Griffey Jr., embellished by a Chuck Jones drawing of Bugs Bunny.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #349, from davemackey, 318 chars, Sun Jul 19 15:44:36 1992
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I understand that the set includes not only Ken Griffey Jr. but also his dad
Ken Griffey Sr. and the one-handed pitcher Jim Abbott. I saw some packs at
the airport but decided against buying them for the moment… maybe
eventually, but I still have Comic Ball 2 to catch up on.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #350, from davemackey, 308 chars, Tue Aug 18 09:53:55 1992
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TITLE: Found: One Menace
Six-year-old Mason Gamble of Chicago has been cast as “Dennis The Menace” in
John Hughes’ feature-film production of the Hank Ketcham comic strip, which
is being directed by Nick Castle. Hughes held a nationwide open call to find
his Menace.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #351, from elfhive, 73 chars, Wed Aug 19 20:02:48 1992
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I understand Walter Matthau is working in that film. Must be Mr. Wilson?
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animation/tie.ins #352, from davemackey, 62 chars, Thu Aug 20 05:51:52 1992
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Yes, that is correct.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #353, from davemackey, 206 chars, Thu Aug 20 14:06:08 1992
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TITLE: Bugs and Michael calendar available
Daydream Graphics and Nike have made available the “Hare Jordan”
16 month calendar. It should be available in bookstores now.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #354, from davemackey, 1355 chars, Thu Aug 20 21:36:20 1992
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TITLE: animation/radio
Sounds strange, but there’s been a lot of animation/related stuff popping up
on the radio lately, here in the New York area. Perhaps these commercials
have been running in your area, too…
A Commercial for Continental Airlines illustrates the many places you
can fly by playing various music. When they say you can fly to Europe, you
hear an accordion theme that’s familiar to fans of “The Ren And Stimpy Show”.
At the end of the spot, the announcer tells us to hurry because these fares
go fast — and we hear the same piece of music, grotesquely sped up.
Lincoln-Mercury has been using veteran Hanna-Barbera voice talent John
Stephenson to so straight reads on their spots for the Tri-State dealers.
Stephenson is perhaps best known as the voice of Mr. Slate, Fred Flintstone’s
boss.
Gary Owens has a commercial running for something or other, I forget
which, in which he’s playing an announcer who’s being told to emphasize low
prices by making his voice lower and lower.
And a commercial for New York Lottery “Take Five” has the indefatigable
Jackson Beck, sounding chipper and energetic, then settling into his growly
mode for the tag at the end: “You’re gonna love the odds!” (Beck, by the way,
recently resumed his work on Thompson’s Water Seal television spots.)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #355, from davemackey, 760 chars, Mon Aug 24 19:23:12 1992
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TITLE: Making a long wait shorter…
I hadn’t been to Six Flags Great Adventure in at least five years, so I
decided to go yesterday to see what the place is like. Not all that much of
it has changed… many buildings and rides look exactly the same as they did
when I first visited the park way back in 1978.
But perhaps the most noteworthy change was the purchase of Six Flags a
few years ago by Time Warner (it had been previously owned by Bally), which
enabled the use of the Looney Tunes characters as park mascots.
The most welcome addition to the park: video monitors in the waiting
queue of the more popular rides. Commercials, music videos and (yes!) Warner
Bros. cartoons are broadcast continuously.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #356, from davemackey, 310 chars, Sat Sep 5 13:17:29 1992
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Oh, I found another one for animation/radio: the current Coors “talking can”
commercial features an announcer reading endless contest disclaimers to point
out how hard some other contests are to win… the announcer is played by
former “Mighty Mouse” voice Beau Weaver.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #357, from davemackey, 559 chars, Sun Sep 20 01:16:56 1992
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TITLE: Not much besides the cover
Apart from the exhaustive cover story on “Batman: The Animated Series” (which
is largely an interview with series producer Alan Burnett), and an interview
with “Simpsons” voice actress Yeardley Smith, there really isn’t anything
much in the way of animation-related material in the latest Comics Scene,
usually a cornucopia.
I hadn’t bought CS in a while and got a severe case of sticker shock
when the clerk at Waldenbooks asked me to fork over $4.50 for it! That’s
almost five dollars!
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #358, from switch, 73 chars, Sun Sep 20 11:27:36 1992
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It has the word “Comics” on the cover; ergo, it must be expensive.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #359, from hmccracken, 358 chars, Mon Sep 28 23:45:26 1992
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TITLE: Disney Book Goes Paperback
Bob Thomas’s _Disney’s Art of Animation_ has been issued in paperback
by Hyperion Press (a division of The Walt Disney Company). If you
passed up the expensive hardcover edition last year, this $19.95
edition is worth picking up: it’s a decent history of Disney animation
all the way up to _Beauty and the Beast_.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #360, from davemackey, 316 chars, Tue Sep 29 21:53:02 1992
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TITLE: Two voice actors; also water conservationists
Actor Michael Bell and actress Melanie Chartoff (both have been known to
appear in cartoons) have a patent pending on a method to recycle discarded
bath/shower water for use in the toilet. The system is in use at Chartoff’s
house.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #361, from davemackey, 591 chars, Sat Oct 3 01:22:07 1992
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TITLE: A different sort of animation art auction…
I’ve seen “The Price Is Right” give away various types of gallery artwork
including serigraphs and lithographs, but never an animation cel. Well,
today, one of the one-bid items (the game that determines who gets to go on
stage and play another game) was the Hanna-Barbera limited edition “Western
Jamboree,” a rather large multi-character piece which was described by
announcer Rod Roddy as an “animated animation gel”. (?) The bids the
contestants gave were nowhere near the actual retail price of $1700.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #362, from hmccracken, 212 chars, Mon Oct 5 20:10:50 1992
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In a related area, I happened to flip by the Home Shopping Club
yesterday, and saw that they were selling cels from Filmation’s
old _Flash Gordon_ series for (I think) seventy or eighty dollars
apiece.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #363, from davemackey, 419 chars, Mon Oct 19 19:05:45 1992
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TITLE: Taz NFL watches
Just saw a spot on ESPN for Tasmanian Devil NFL watches. They cost $39.95
each, they come in all 28 team logos, and you can call 1-800-544-1000 if you
want to order.
(You could probably also get something like this at the Warner Bros.
Studio Store… a new one of which is opening in a few weeks at the
Freehold Raceway Mall on US 9 in Freehold, New Jersey.)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #364, from sharonfisher, 113 chars, Thu Oct 22 18:03:26 1992
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TITLE: Disney
I got a Disney merchandise catalog yesterday, which includes
figures from the forthcoming Aladdin.
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animation/tie.ins #365, from davemackey, 444 chars, Sun Oct 25 20:35:03 1992
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Two more, continuing our string of animation/radio commercial sightings…
both are from “SNL” types who are also frequent guest voices on “The
Simpsons.”
Cook’s Champagne has just resurrected Jon Lovitz’ liar character (“Yeah,
that’s the ticket”) for a new campaign, while Bell Atlantic Business To
Business Yellow Pages has a series of spots all done by Phil Hartman in which
he plays various characters.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #366, from hmccracken, 1013 chars, Sun Nov 8 10:08:06 1992
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TITLE: Book News
On December 1st, Hyperion Press (Disney’s book-publishing arm) will
release _Aladdin_ and _Beauty and the Beast_ flip-books. These are
nifty, double-animation ones: when you flip from one direction, you
see the full-color version of the scene, and fromn the other direction,
you get the black-and-white animation drawings of the same scene. These
are priced at $3.95 and would make excellent stocking stuffers.
Another excellent stocking stuffer would be the new edition of
_Treasures of Walt Disney’s Animation Art_. If you’ve seen the
original version, you know it was an enormous hardcover book; this
reprint is a softcover that’s roughly the dimensions of a postcard.
In any size, it’s a fine collection of original Disney art from the
1920s through _The Black Cauldron_.
Finally, Abbeville Press has released _Disney Dons Dogtags_, a collection
of reproductions of WWII military insignias designed by the Disney
studio, with an introduction by Disney archivist David R. Smith.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #367, from hmccracken, 501 chars, Sun Nov 8 10:10:31 1992
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TITLE: Magazine Alert
The current issue of _Nose_, a sort of San Francisco-based _Spy_ clone
has an article on the commercialization of _Ren and Stimpy_. It was
written before John Kricfalusi was ousted, but certainly predicts the
circumstances that led to that happening.
The new issue of _Film Comment_ has two good animation-related articles:
a profile of Carl Stalling that covers his musical work at both Disney
and Warner Bros., and an interesting piece on Disney’s silent cartoons.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #368, from davemackey, 311 chars, Sun Nov 15 23:10:01 1992
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TITLE: “Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a Special out of my hat!”
News from the Pinball Expo ’92 just concluded in Chicago: Data East, who two
years ago put out a machine commemorating The Simpsons, will be releasing its
“Rocky And Bullwinkle” pinball machine at the end of this year.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #369, from davemackey, 168 chars, Tue Nov 24 20:28:18 1992
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Follow up to Hughes’ “Dennis The Menace”: he’s said to be in pre-production
on his next project, a live-action adaptation of “Peanuts.”
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #370, from hmccracken, 94 chars, Tue Nov 24 21:57:21 1992
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I’m surprised that Charles Schulz would permit that, unless he’s writing
the script.
– Harry
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animation/tie.ins #371, from hmccracken, 885 chars, Sat Nov 28 21:22:42 1992
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TITLE: When in Las Vegas…
animation fans should go directly to Ceasars Palace, bypass the
slot machines and blackjack tables, and go directly to the Warner
Bros. store that’s located in the “Forum Shops,” right outside
the entrance to the casino. The store’s stock is typical of the
excellent selection of the other Warner stores: a nifty array
of clothings, books and collectibles of many sorts, about 90%
of which are inspired by the classic Warner Bros. cartoons.
Two things make the Las Vegas location special: the storefront
has a Roman theme, with gladiator-clad figures of Bugs, Daffy and
other characters standing guard above the door; and the window
has a statuary recreation of a scene from Chuck Jones’ _What’s
Opera, Doc?_, with Bugs and Elmer, that’s absolutely perfect in
every way. It’s worth the effort to go to the store just to see
that window display.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #372, from sharonfisher, 79 chars, Sun Nov 29 12:41:05 1992
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San Francisco just had such a shop open, and apparently it was wildly
popular.
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animation/tie.ins #373, from hmccracken, 63 chars, Sun Nov 29 12:43:19 1992
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Boston doesn’t have a Warner Bros. store yet. *sigh*
– Harry
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animation/tie.ins #374, from davemackey, 229 chars, Sun Nov 29 14:01:54 1992
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I think if you wait, you will have one soon enough. The Warner Bros. Studio
Stores are growing at quite a rate. Six months ago we had none in New Jersey,
and now we have at least two, maybe three.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #375, from switch, 196 chars, Sun Nov 29 18:02:50 1992
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It would be nice if we had one in Montreal… but we do have three
stores within a 30-minute walk from my place where I can get assorted
cartoon clothing, so I suppose I shouldn’t complain.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #376, from davemackey, 400 chars, Tue Dec 1 09:40:41 1992
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TITLE: Calling all clowns!
USA Today reports that Larry Harmon is on the lookout for new Bozos.
If you think you have the right stuff, then send your ding-dong-dandy
resumes, photos and audition videotapes to Bozo Auditions, Larry Harmon
Pictures Corp., 7080 Hollywood Blvd. #202, Hollywood, CA 90028. There
have been so far 203 authorized Bozo performers.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #377, from davemackey, 502 chars, Wed Dec 2 20:58:04 1992
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TITLE: Cleaned-up C+C
It seems that the songwriting team of Clivelles and Cole, of C+C Music
Factory fame, has had their work laundered by those looking out for the
welfare of Bart Simpson. They wrote some tunes for the forthcoming record
album “The Simpsons Yellow Album” including one in which Bart assumes the
posture of a homeboy with a real bad attitude. The Simpsons folks made some
extreme changes to the lyrics, taking out whatever bite the song may have
had…
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #378, from davemackey, 574 chars, Wed Dec 9 19:12:38 1992
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TITLE: Toon sounds for your PC
(This is not a review) Microsoft has released a “SoundBits” Sound Clip
Collection featuring 50 sound effect and dialogue sequences from
Hanna-Barbera Productions. When used with Windows 3.1 and a sound card (both
required), your computer can now have Fred Flintstone scream “WILMAAAA!” or
“Yabba Dabba Doo!”, or play an authentic H-B sound effect when you perform
certain functions in the Windows environment. Retails for $40, and I already
have mine. Now all I need is Windows 3.1 and a sound card… ::grin::
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #379, from hmccracken, 314 chars, Wed Dec 9 23:32:41 1992
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Sounds neat! But the cartoon-related program I want to see is a
Warner Bros. cartoon screen blanker. I suggested that very idea
— which will make a mint for whoever snaps it up — to Berkeley
Systems, the folks behind After Dark. They were polite but explained
that such licenses are very expensive.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #380, from ianl, 228 chars, Wed Dec 9 23:36:00 1992
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I’ve heard of (but never seen) a desk accessory for Macintosh machines
that monitors the keyboard and mouse, and if you sit idle for too long,
a window pops open, and Bullwinkle says sarcastic things about your
productivity.
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animation/tie.ins #381, from hmccracken, 193 chars, Thu Dec 10 09:44:44 1992
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I believe that’s The Talking Moose, from Baseline. The moose isn’t
Bullwinkle, but he looks like a close relative (actually, he looks
more like Mr. Moose of Captain Kangaroo fame).
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #382, from hmccracken, 395 chars, Sat Dec 12 18:59:25 1992
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The first trailer for John Hughes’ big-screen, live-action _Dennis the
Menace_ is in theatres, and it’s funny (although it’s a slapsticky
affair that, combined with a tousle-headed Dennis who looks suspiciously
like a slightly younger Macaulay Culkin, makes you wonder if this film
will be an unofficial _Home Alone III_). Looks like Walter Matthau will
make a dandy Mr. Wilson, too.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #383, from davemackey, 615 chars, Sat Dec 26 05:31:26 1992
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There is now an Energizer Bunny screen saver for Windows, that also makes
surprise appearances during your other programs.
I also got for Christmas something called “Soundclips” which features
dialogue and music from “2001”. So now when I make a goof in Windows, I get
to hear Hal admonishing me by name! “Sorry, Dave.” đŸ˜‰
I should have the Hanna-Barbera sounds up and running, since I got
Windows 3.1 as a Christmas gift and should be getting a Soundblaster later
today.
By the way, Harry, is Berkeley Systems the same company as Berkeley
Softworks (makers of Geos)?
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #384, from hmccracken, 700 chars, Mon Dec 28 13:42:39 1992
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I have the Energizer Bunny screen saver up and running, and it’s pretty
cute. While I need to leave it running for awhile before I decide if
I really *want* what amounts to a battery ad popping up whenever I leave
my keyboard for a few minutes, the graphics and animation are well done.
I like it better than the Star Trek saver, which I also have.
And to answer your question, Dave, I think that the two Berkeleys are
unrelated companies (and I think I remember reading that the one behind
Geos has changed its name to GeoWorks or something similar). Berkeley
Systems traffics primarily in screen savers, programs for the visually
impaired, and a Macintosh utility called Stepping Out.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #385, from davemackey, 186 chars, Mon Dec 28 20:34:46 1992
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Well, there’s Berkeley Softworks, and Berkeley Systems. That would cause some
confusion. So one of them should change its name to Berkeley Breathed… đŸ˜‰
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #386, from switch, 142 chars, Tue Jan 5 22:02:21 1993
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GeoWorks is the name of the program, which is essentially an outgrowth
of GEOS; the company’s changed their name to Berkeley Softworks.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #387, from davemackey, 464 chars, Wed Jan 27 14:03:38 1993
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TITLE: Hey, Mr. Bass Man….
Check out the March 1993 issue of “Bass Player” magazine for an article about
Ray Brown. Who he? Ray Brown is one of the jazz world’s bass legends, but
he also has on his resume time spent in the little jazz combo that played on
the DePatie-Freleng cartoon series “The Ant And The Aardvark.” (Others in the
all-star group included the late drummer Shelly Manne and guitar virtuoso
Tommy Tedesco.)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #388, from davemackey, 262 chars, Sat Feb 13 05:12:15 1993
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The “Rocky And Bullwinkle” pinball machine will be making its public debut
this weekend at the PAPA tournament in New York City. And soon in an arcade
near you. Perhaps I can coerce my brother to do a writeup of the machine…
đŸ˜‰
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #389, from davemackey, 253 chars, Sat Feb 13 05:12:23 1993
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More recently, John Stephenson has been prominently heard as the businessman
who dreams what life would be like if he had a Hewlett-Packard plain-paper
fax machine. (and of course, he played Slate in “I Yabba-Dabba-Do!”)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #390, from davemackey, 1102 chars, Sun Feb 14 23:05:04 1993
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TITLE: “Rocky And Bullwinkle”: The Pinball Machine
Now, here’s my brother Bob, resident pinball expert, to give his opinions on
the Rocky and Bullwinkle pinball machine. Take it, Bobby.
The Rocky and Bullwinkle game features all the main Jay Ward characters:
R&B, Dudley, Nell, Horse, Aesop and Son, Peabody, Sherman, Boris and Natasha,
and even the metal munching mice.
Throughout the game’s audio program are sampled phrases from the show
such as “And now here’s something we hope you’ll really like!” One problem is
that none of the represented voice artists get any credit on the game
(They’re all there, including William Conrad as the breathless narrator.) The
dot-matrix animations during the game replicate show openings and closings,
including the daisies. Also, the backglass features Bull attempting to pull
a rabbit out of a hat–one of the recurring game modes. The game is
dedicated to the memory of Jay Ward, and Ward’s widow and daughters worked
very closely to assure the game’s authenticity. Look for it at an arcade
near you this spring.
–Bob
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animation/tie.ins #391, from hmccracken, 181 chars, Sun Feb 14 23:07:28 1993
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Thank you, Bob! I’ll have to check out the local arcades for this one.
(CNN, by the way, carried a report on the pinball event which showed
the Bullwinkle game briefly.)
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #392, from davemackey, 228 chars, Fri Feb 19 19:16:20 1993
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TITLE: Pepsi plays a toon tune
Joining the Incredible Crash Dummies on the list of commercials that plunder
cartoon scores: Pepsi, one of whose current spots uses the Dudley Do-Right
theme music.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #393, from davemackey, 392 chars, Tue Mar 2 00:08:44 1993
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TITLE: Only Disney would do this
The Walt Disney Company has been awarded a franchise in the National Hockey
League, and the Anaheim-based team will begin play next season.
And guess what they’re naming the team? You guessed it… the Mighty
Ducks, after last year’s movie of the same name.
Just remember, hockey fans… it all started with a mouse.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #394, from hmccracken, 108 chars, Tue Mar 2 00:16:52 1993
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So what self-respecting pro hockey player is going to sign up for a team
called the Mighty Ducks?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #395, from elfhive, 159 chars, Sat Mar 6 14:50:54 1993
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Well if they are a graduate of Virginia Tech they probably wouldn’t
think twice about it, Harry. The football team there is called
“The Fighting Gobblers” đŸ™‚
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animation/tie.ins #396, from davemackey, 647 chars, Thu Mar 11 19:06:24 1993
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TITLE: “Pez” in the paper
It isn’t every day that a newspaper publishes a front-page story about Pez
candy, but The Wall Street Journal did today, illustrated with engravings of
Pez dispensers in the shape of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck.
The article noted that the Pez company has no interest in the
collectors’ market, refuses to answer inquiries about Pez history, and
doesn’t appear at Pez festivals. But it did note lots of Pez lore, including
recent television appearances, yet leaving out the most notable recent
homage: “Remote Control” featured a giant Pez dispenser with the head of Bob
Eubanks on it.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #397, from hmccracken, 301 chars, Thu Mar 11 20:57:03 1993
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Gee, I’ll have to check that out. Pez figures in a silly stunt which,
strangely enough, I’ve found to be a good ice breaker at parties: approach
a stranger, stare thoughtfully at his or her neck, ask them to lift his or her
head back, then sigh and exclaim, “Damn! No Pez!”
— Harryeir/his or her/
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animation/tie.ins #398, from davemackey, 203 chars, Mon Mar 29 22:17:37 1993
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TITLE: Suspicious Sounding Music Dept.
Anyone else see this commercial for UPS that sounds like it has a pale
imitation of Raymond Scott’s “Powerhouse” on the soundtrack?
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #399, from davemackey, 313 chars, Mon Mar 29 22:56:26 1993
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TITLE: I’ve heard this song before
A short 10-second ad for Kenneth Cole shoe store in New York City uses
the famous music from the television commercial for cat litter from
the first episode of “The Ren And Stimpy Show” … otherwise known as
the theme from “Truth Or Consequences.”
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #400, from hmccracken, 1122 chars, Fri Apr 2 13:09:01 1993
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TITLE: The Ultimate Mickey Mouse Watch
Go into almost any store that sells wristwatches, and you’ll find
a dizzying array of Mickey Mouse watches, the most expensive of
which cost hundreds of dollars. But I just got what has got to
be the ultimate Mickey timepiece, and it only cost $19.98.
The watch is in the form of a large sculpted plastic Mickey bust,
with his head and folded arms. Cradled between his chim and his
wrists is an LCD panel with the time. So far, so good. But when
you squeeze Mickey’s hands — HE OPENS HIS MOUTH AND TELLS YOU
THE TIME! The synchronization job is perfect, and his patter
varies — sometimes he laughs, sometimes he exclaims “Gosh!” and
so forth. And he sounds like Mickey, not a robotic equivalent.
The watch is manufactured by a company called Sounds Fun Inc.,
and bears a copyright date of 1991, so they’ve been around for
awhile. I don’t know if the twenty bucks I paid was the original
price or a markdown, but in either case it’s certainly the wisest
purchase I’ve made in a long time, and an unbeatable conversation
piece — no pun intended — for the price.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #401, from hmccracken, 331 chars, Fri Apr 2 13:15:48 1993
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…And one warning for anyone who buys one of these things: be careful
about the alarm feature. When it goes off, a LOUD, telephone-like
ringing sound alternates with Mickey announcing the time until
you turn it off. If you think having an *ordinary* alarm go off in
public is embarassing, wait until you try this one!
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #402, from davemackey, 339 chars, Thu Apr 15 23:46:13 1993
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TITLE: Meet the author…
Norton Juster, author of “The Phantom Tollbooth,” will be appearing at Book
Center on Rt. 35 in Middletown, New Jersey on Saturday, April 24 from
2:30-4:30. This book, as well as an earlier book of his called “The Dot And
The Line,” were both adapted for animation by Chuck Jones.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #403, from hmccracken, 109 chars, Fri Apr 16 10:26:39 1993
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…So what has Norton been up to during the twenty-odd years since those
two books were published?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #404, from davemackey, 415 chars, Sat Apr 17 08:22:37 1993
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I have no idea. If I’m there on April 24, I will definitely ask him. Actually
this appearance is in support of the recent re-printing of “Phantom
Tollbooth,” which is now in what is called its “Thirtysomething” edition.
“The Dot And The Line” was put back into print a few years ago as well (a
message to that effect still exists somewhere here on BIX, perhaps in the
/main section)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #405, from hmccracken, 338 chars, Sun Apr 25 22:07:03 1993
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TITLE: The new issue of _Cinefantastique_ magazine…
has a cover story (actually, about ten of them) on _Ren and Stimpy_
that tells you just about everything you could ever want to know
about the series, including the topics of stories that haven’t
aired yet and maybe never will. Definitely must reading for _R&S_
followers.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #406, from davemackey, 875 chars, Mon May 3 00:57:05 1993
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I picked up the Cinefantastique and found the “Ren And Stimpy” coverage a bit
one-sided (all articles seemed to be the work of a single writer), but
excellent nonetheless. Apparently, I missed the “Monkey See, Monkey Don’t”
episode, but have caught all the others.
I like some of the ideas and concepts for partly completed episodes, and
hope that Games Productions can salvage them in such a away that John K.’s
concepts aren’t mangled too badly.
The behind-the-scenes photographs reminded me in a perverse way of the
two sets of Warner Bros. artist publicity pictures that crop up in some of
the books about the studio, one done in the mid-40’s and the other in the
mid-50’s. The sight of Jim Smith, Eddie Fitzgerald and other series artists
looking like refugees from a meeting of Junior Achievement circa 1965 is just
priceless.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #407, from hmccracken, 249 chars, Mon May 3 10:42:01 1993
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Nickelodeon has decided not to continue its disagreement with John K.
in the press, so it’s not cooperating with magazine articles that discuss
the issue nowadays. That may explain the almost entirely pro-Spumco
slant of the CFQ article.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #408, from hmccracken, 700 chars, Sat May 8 22:33:22 1993
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I just played $1.00’s worth of the Bullwinkle pinball machine (marking
my first return to my favorite arcade of my high school days in
umpteen years), and I have to concur with Bob. The game is
beautifully done, with excellent artwork full of references to specific
Bullwinkle episodes. The one problem is that you’re tempted to focus
your attention on the fancy digital display (with mini-animations of
Ward characters) and take it off the playfield.
And what’s this trend in pinball towards replacing the plunger knob
with an electronic button? First they take away the mechanical scoreboard
and bells, now this. Before long, there’ll be no tactile pleasure
left to the game at all.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #409, from switch, 449 chars, Sun May 9 13:46:30 1993
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Yes, the animation is distracting. But that’s why it’s more fun
to play two-player games, because you can alternate between playing
and watching.
I agree with your complaint about the plunger; in Bullwinkle it
could easily have been mechanical. For a game like Star Wars, I
can see using just a button (you’re firing at a TIE fighter when
you’re launching the ball), but it would be nice to have that
“classic” plunger feel for Bullwinkle.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #410, from hmccracken, 632 chars, Sat Jun 19 17:50:40 1993
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TITLE: _Wild Cartoon Kingdom_…
is the name of a new magazine about animation that’s now on the stands.
A sister publication to _Film Threat_, the magazine is devoted mainly
to yet another exhaustive article on _Ren and Stimpy_ (which is pretty
good). The issue also has an article on _Batman: The Animated Series_,
another on Streamline Pictures’ animated efforts, and assorted other
short pieces. It’s quite superficial and has a wearying wiseguy attitude
(like _Threat_), but it’s certainly worth a look. The publisher, btw,
is the infamous Larry Flynt, who has a bizarrely diverse line of
publications these days.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #411, from switch, 368 chars, Sat Jun 19 19:35:04 1993
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You liked the R&S article? I couldn’t stand it. Chris Gore proved
in FT that he’s a Kricfalusi admirer, but this magazine raised
my eyebrows. While Nickelodeon may have been in the wrong, Kricfalusi
is _not_ the second coming of Christ, and he didn’t singlehandedly
revolutionize cartoons. Nor does merely being an “outlaw” cartoon
necessarily make it good.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #412, from hmccracken, 233 chars, Sat Jun 19 23:27:27 1993
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Oh, I agree: it’s a very slanted and superficial article. The art is nice,
though. Also, Nickelodeon has chosen not to discuss the controversy in
public — one reason why their side is under-represented in such articles.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #413, from hmccracken, 152 chars, Sun Jun 20 23:26:26 1993
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Update on the _Ren and Stimpy_ article in _Wild Cartoon Kingdom_; I’ve been
told that the author of the article was actually John K. himself.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #414, from switch, 30 chars, Mon Jun 21 00:44:10 1993
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Hmmmmn. Interesting…
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #415, from davemackey, 738 chars, Fri Jun 25 19:20:28 1993
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TITLE: Scott outtake?
Does anyone know (before I get Irwin Chusid on the phone) what that last
little piece of music is at the end of “The Music Of Raymond Scott: Reckless
Nights And Turkish Twilights”? It’s a brief outtake that ends with the band
cracking up. It’s the same melody that plays under the opening titles of
“Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century”.
I highly recommend you seek out this fine collection of Raymond Scott
and regret not doing so sooner. You can pick out the qualities in Scott’s
original music that Carl Stalling seized upon to make the soundtracks of his
cartoons memorable. The technicial quality of the cuts belies their age; they
sound like they were recorded yesterday.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #416, from davemackey, 515 chars, Thu Jul 8 12:52:22 1993
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TITLE: Call this “The Treg Brown Project”
Sound Ideas is now selling to the broadcast trade “The Warner Bros. Sound
Effects Library,” featuring over 1500 of the cartoon sound effects you
grew up with, including some recent sound effects creations by Emmy-winner
Russell Brower (of “TTA” and “B:TAS”) as well as all those Treg Brown
classics. For more information, call (416)-886-5000, or write Sound
Ideas, 105 W. Beaver Creek Road, Suite 4, Richmond Hill, ON L4B 1C6.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #417, from davemackey, 124 chars, Thu Jul 8 12:52:57 1993
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No question left unanswered: I found out on my own that it’s “Egyptian
Barn Dance.” –Dave
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animation/tie.ins #418, from hmccracken, 324 chars, Sat Jul 17 20:53:30 1993
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This is as good a place as any to mention that I saw a CD of music from
Tex Avery cartoons at Tower Records today. While the cover features the
Avery Wolf and Little Red, the Scott Bradley scores are from 50s cartoons
like _Cellbound_ and _Three Little Pups_. I didn’t pick it up (but probably
will eventually).
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #419, from hmccracken, 555 chars, Mon Aug 2 18:07:42 1993
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TITLE: Local Martian Makes Good
If you’ve spent any time inside a shopping mall with many clothing
stores lately, you may already have noticed a rather unusual development
in cartoon-related merchandising: Marvin Martian (the star of a handful
of Chuck Jones Warner Bros. cartoons, as well as a recent ad for Nikes)
has become an extremely popular T-shirt character. I’ve seen what seems
like dozens of pieces of clothing with a Marvin motif all of a sudden.
They’re not just in the stores, either — I’ve spotted them on people
all over town.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #420, from davemackey, 309 chars, Tue Aug 3 22:00:34 1993
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TITLE: More Enquirer Droppings…
This week’s “National Enquirer” has a story about Dennis Ketcham, living a
low-class life in a trailer park somewhere, having been all but forgotten by
his richer, more famous father, Hank Ketcham. Yes. It’s the “Real Life Dennis
The Menace”!
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #421, from peabo, 200 chars, Wed Aug 4 01:06:37 1993
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A similar story (at least from its description) appeared in the local Boston
weekly paper last week. It describes Hank as being a distant father among
other things I have forgotten this week.
peter
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animation/tie.ins #422, from switch, 408 chars, Thu Aug 5 21:02:40 1993
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Yup. I sported my new Marvin t-shirt just the other day, and there are
one or two that I want really really badly, though I think just about all
are nice.
Cartoon clothing — particularly Warner Bros. clothes — seem to be on the
rise. Where I used to be pretty much the only person on the street with a
Marvin t-shirt or a Bugs cap last summer, now I see a neat cartoon shirt at
least twice a day.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #423, from hmccracken, 80 chars, Fri Aug 6 00:04:06 1993
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We had a visitor at the office yesterday with a nifty Marvin necktie.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #424, from davemackey, 421 chars, Wed Aug 18 23:21:39 1993
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TITLE: Otherwise known as Stu Pickles…
…perhaps Jack Riley’s latest voiceover role could become even more famous
than the “Rugrats” dad. He plays PC Modem, computer expert, in the radio
commercials for the CompUSA chain. (The ads also feature Thom Sharp as the
narrator and Fred Willard as a salesman.) The voices of Riley and Sharp even
appear on some multimedia demos in the stores.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #425, from hmccracken, 228 chars, Thu Aug 19 09:42:17 1993
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I’ll have to check out those PC Modem multimedia demos. Riley has
been voicing PC for quite awhile, and the radio (and sometimes TV)
ads are often quite funny. Riley, Sharp, and Willard are all
excellent performers.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #426, from davemackey, 1099 chars, Tue Sep 7 19:09:32 1993
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TITLE: Animated music for young folk
This season’s productions of The Little Orchestra Society in New York City
will include a “cosmic sound rendition” of Norton Juster’s “The Phantom
Tollbooth,” Dom DeLuise performing Prokofiev’s “Peter And The Wolf” (which
Disney adapted for a cartoon once), and for smaller audiences, “Music Tells A
Story” which includes Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals” (Daffy:
“San-sans!” Bugs: “Sahn-sahn!”) and “Tubby The Tuba And The Big Brass,” based
on the character created by Paul Tripp and George Kleinsinger.
More information on these concerts for children can be had by writing to
the Little Orchestra Society, 220 West 42nd Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY
10036.
The Little Orchestra, under the musical direction of Dino Anagnost, has
a compact disc out on MusicMasters records which includes the DeLuise
performance of “Peter And The Wolf,” and Carol Channing telling the story of
“Gerald McBoing Boing”, with words by Dr. Seuss and music by Gail Kubik, who
also wrote the music score for the original UPA cartoon.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #427, from hmccracken, 1522 chars, Thu Oct 14 09:46:03 1993
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TITLE: _The Disney Poster: The Animated Classics from Mickey Mouse to Aladdin_…
is the name of a big new art book ($35) from Hyperion, Disney’s publishing
arm. While there are some introductory text pages by Jim Fanning,
most of the book is devoted to full-color reproductions (mostly full-page)
of posters for Disney animated films. The book has sections on the
Silly Symphonies, Mickey Mouse cartoons, Donald Duck cartoons, Pluto
cartoons, Goofy cartoons, and feature-length films.
If there’s a problem with the book, it’s that the art of the Disney
poster — to my eye, anyhow — started out at a high level and has
been steadily declining ever since. Many of the Silly Symphony and
Mickey Mouse posters from the 1930s that begin the book are wonderful.
(I wish the book included some of Disney’s 1920s posters, too.) But
the 1940s Pluto, Donald and Goofy posters are mainly really unattractive,
with inaccurate renderings of the characters and bizarre color choices
(like making Donald Duck’s beak green). The same is true of the feature-
film section that ends the book: the early posters are quite nice, but
who needs two full pages devoted to those slick-but-souless posters
for _Beauty and the Beast? (The feature section is far from all-
inclusive — many films from the fifties and sixties aren’t represented.)
Still, those 1930s posters are good enough to make this book worth
taking a look at. And if you’re into the later posters more than
I am, your opinion of it may be higher than mine.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #428, from hmccracken, 460 chars, Thu Oct 14 09:48:19 1993
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TITLE: The latest issue of _Animato, the Animation Fan’s Magazine_
is out, with a lengthy cover story on _Batman: the Animated Series_.
There are also features on _Eek the Cat_, a review of _Jurassic Park_,
and lots of other stuff, including a rather unique section in which
several well-known alternative cartoonists — Steve Bissette, Jim
Woodring, Wayno, Mark Martin, and others — present comic-strip reviews
of a series of 1930s cartoon videos.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #429, from hmccracken, 435 chars, Thu Oct 14 19:14:26 1993
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TITLE: Disney Does Hockey
The current issue of _Business Week_ has an interesting article on
The Mighty Ducks, the new NHL franchise owned by the Disney
organization. They will be doing lots of cross-promotion with
other projects — the film of the same name will be released on
video to coincide with the start of the season, for instance.
And of course, they’re going to try and merchandise the heck out
of the team logo.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #430, from davemackey, 711 chars, Sun Oct 24 16:28:25 1993
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TITLE: What TV Guide does not want you to know about “seaQuest DSV”
TV Guide’s current issue has an article about the new Steven
Spielberg-produced underwater saga “seaQuest DSV” in its current issue. The
article has a sidebar which purports to be an interview with Darwin, the
show’s talking dolphin. The article states that some dolphins can’t really
talk and it’s just “some human” doing Darwin’s voice off camera.
Were TV Guide a little more forthcoming about this, they would have
noted that the “some human” doing the voice of Darwin is none other than the
prolific and omnipresent Frank Welker, star of hundreds of animated cartoons
and almost as many feature films.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #431, from davemackey, 541 chars, Sun Oct 24 16:28:36 1993
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TITLE: Ray Bradbury plants a tree for October 31
The Hanna-Barbera animated special “The Halloween Tree” is based on a novella
by Ray Bradbury. He notes that the idea for the special goes way back to the
middle 1960’s, when he was having a discussion with longtime friend Chuck
Jones, who noted that children dress up for Halloween year after year and
they don’t understand the true traditions of the holiday. Bradbury narrates
the special, which will be appearing on local stations (check time and
channel).
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #432, from hmccracken, 351 chars, Sun Oct 24 21:40:51 1993
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I think that originally, Chuck Jones planned to make _The Christmas Tree_.
I’ll wait to see what H-B has done before commenting further, but I do
wonder what Jones would have done with the story.
Ray Bradbury is, of course, a vocal fan of animation who has said that
_Pinocchio_ and _Snow White_ rank among the very finest films ever made.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #433, from davemackey, 494 chars, Tue Oct 26 11:02:53 1993
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TITLE: New York City Mayor David Dinkins will cut the ribbon to the new Warner
Bros. Studio Store, which will be at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, tomorrow.
The store is three stories big and features a full-size Batmobile suspended
from the ceiling and an elevator powered by Superman.
The New York store will act as the flagship store for the growing chain,
whose merchandise overwhelmingly features the beloved Looney Tunes cartoon
characters. –Dave
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animation/tie.ins #434, from davemackey, 125 chars, Tue Oct 26 11:03:37 1993
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How’d this message wind up in tie.ins? This should have been in boob.tube
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #435, from hmccracken, 222 chars, Tue Oct 26 11:31:30 1993
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…and the rapidly-growing Warner store chain also has a new branch
in the new Prudential Center mall in Boston. This is the third
Boston-area location; stores opened in Burlington and Peabody in
recent months.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #436, from davemackey, 259 chars, Thu Nov 18 22:36:00 1993
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TITLE: “Hare Jordan” was just the beginning…
The National Basketball Association and Warner Bros. have announced a new
arrangement to co-license NBA team logos and Looney Tunes characters to
various manufacturers of apparel.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #437, from davemackey, 443 chars, Thu Nov 18 22:36:18 1993
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TITLE: UPS goes toony
UPS has begun running a rather entertaining 60-second radio commercial in
major markets to promote its Saturday office pickup service. What connection
does this have to animation? Well, the commercial is set against a constant
backdrop of cartoon-type music and sound effects, implying that you can kick
back and watch SatAM cartoons while UPS takes care of your business’ shipping
needs.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #438, from davemackey, 196 chars, Mon Nov 22 19:03:52 1993
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TITLE: New toon tunes
Coming to your CD player or cassette real soon: new albums from Ren And
Stimpy (a Christmas album), Beavis and Butt-head, and the Animaniacs.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #439, from elfhive, 347 chars, Mon Nov 22 23:39:58 1993
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TITLE: Nightmare Before Christmas
I have been enjoying the CD soundtrack and I am curious about the fact
that it features a longer introductory monologue and a closing monologue
by Patrick Stewart. These are not the same in the film and a different
narrator was used in the intro (there was no close). Anyone know the
reason for this discrepancy?
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animation/tie.ins #440, from davemackey, 1279 chars, Wed Dec 1 00:04:37 1993
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TITLE: Animation for the blind?
There have been records based on toons before, but I don’t think I’ve
heard two as good as “Ren And Stimpy: You Eediot!” and “Steven Spielberg
Presents Animaniacs.”
“R&S” is more garage-band in style, with small combos comprised of
Spumco/Games artists playing funky tunes and some favorites from the
show, re-recorded for your listening pleasure.
“Animaniacs” is almost non-stop patter and humor from the three
central characters (played to the hilt by Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell and
Tress MacNeille) with outstanding full orchestral arrangements by Richard
Stone, who is one of the best cartoon musicians working today. Clever
lyrics — don’t tell the kids they might learn about planets or stae
capitals by listening to this album, because they might not want to listen.
(Incidentally, besides the Ren And Stimpy album, there are about
two other albums out now that play on the “Abbey Road” motif. There’s
“Sesame Road”, which has some of the fun and funky tunes the show’s
done over the years, and “Paul Is Live”, a new in-concert collection
from McCartney, cavorting along the same stretch of road that he didn’t
quite keep in step on along with the other Beatles in the late 1960’s.)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #441, from switch, 167 chars, Tue Dec 7 12:45:42 1993
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TITLE: Something interesting…
…that popped up on the Internet. Apparently, Elektra will be releasing the
soundtrack to _Heavy Metal_ on CD early next year.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #442, from davemackey, 229 chars, Wed Dec 8 11:31:37 1993
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TITLE: Pre WB-TV WB TV
The shop-at-home channel QVC will present items from The Warner Bros.
Studio Store in the first of several planned presentations this Saturday
at 1 p.m. Eastern time. –Dave
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animation/tie.ins #443, from davemackey, 182 chars, Thu Dec 9 21:15:30 1993
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TITLE: How rich can you get?
Try $8 million. That’s what Macaulay Culkin is earning for playing “Richie
Rich” in a live action movie for Warner Bros.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #444, from hmccracken, 72 chars, Thu Dec 9 23:05:37 1993
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Pocket change. The real Richie gets that in allowance a week.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #445, from ianl, 233 chars, Sun Dec 12 13:08:08 1993
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I just wish someone would release the video. The music I could live without.
(I still think Tangerine Dream should have done the music for that movie,
instead of the handful of awful pop-rock/psuedo-heavy-metal bands they got.)
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animation/tie.ins #446, from srider, 459 chars, Sun Dec 12 19:39:49 1993
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>Tangerine Dream should have done the music
TD’s music is not really designed for this kind of storytelling. Much of
the music in HM is well-suited–of course the music I am referring to are
Leonard Bernstein’s score and the Steely Dan stuff. (I wish I could get the
Bernstein music on CD; my vinyl has been worn out for a while now). I did
like the Blue Oyster Cult and Devo tunes; the rest I would have replaced with
Rush and Pink Floyd. đŸ™‚
-Scott
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animation/tie.ins #447, from davemackey, 289 chars, Tue Dec 14 10:10:43 1993
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TITLE: Obituary: Joseph Fowler
Rear Admiral Joseph W. Fowler died December 3, age 99. He was the oldest
living retiree of the Walt Disney Company; he helped build both Disneyland
and Walt Disney World, bringing both projects to fruition on schedule.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #448, from hmccracken, 325 chars, Tue Dec 14 10:18:36 1993
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Let it be said that Admiral Fowler was in good health up until the end, or
near enough, and continued to grant interviews to Disney scholars in
the 1990s. “Helped to build Disneyland and Walt Disney World” understates
his contribution — he was, I believe, in charge of both of these massive
construction projects.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #449, from davemackey, 533 chars, Wed Dec 15 16:26:29 1993
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TITLE: The selling of “Mask Of…”
QVC Network will tonight air a special presentation on “Batman: Mask Of
The Phantasm.” The merchandise special will feature Kevin Conroy and
Mark Hamill, voices of Batman and The Joker respectively. The special airs
at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
One QVC host, whose name I don’t quite know, seems to know his
animation lore: he intelligently compared “Batman: The Animated Series”
to the “Superman” cartoons of the Fleischer Brothers some fifty years ago.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #450, from davemackey, 295 chars, Tue Jan 4 19:42:28 1994
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TITLE: Well, she’s had plenty of practice
If that scion of journalistic integrity, “The Star”, is to be believed, you
could soon be seeing Shannen Doherty on the big screen playing — who else —
Veronica in a planned feature film based on the Archie characters.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #451, from hmccracken, 88 chars, Tue Jan 4 20:33:51 1994
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Gee, I wonder who else they’ll cast. John Cusack would make a great
Jughead.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #452, from davemackey, 409 chars, Wed Jan 5 10:08:06 1994
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I don’t know if this is the same project that’s been floated about for the
last several years which would have starred Corey Haim. I think he’s a wee bit
too old to play Archie. (In the intervening years, he’s taken on some more
decidedly adult roles, such as in “Oh What A Night,” in which he is infatuated
with, and eventually makes love to, a fortysomething married woman.)
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #453, from hmccracken, 582 chars, Wed Jan 12 12:26:15 1994
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TITLE: “It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Symphony!”
…So reads the headline to the _New York Times’_ review today of
“Metropolis Symphony,” a musical piece in five movements, each
inspired by a characters and situations from the Superman comic
books. (The work is by Michael Daugherty and was performed by
the Baltimore Symphony at Carnegie Hall.)
Alex Ross’s review is somewhat cool, on musical grounds rather than
on a comic-book superhero. The movements include “Lex,” inspired by
Superman’s arch enemy Luthor, and “Mxyzptlk,” inspired by the elf-like
Mr. Mxyzptlk.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #454, from robairmackey, 317 chars, Mon Jan 17 23:50:03 1994
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What? You mean that show that’s on Wednesday nights at 8PM on FOX
–isn’t– Archie and Friends? I couldn’t tell.
–Bob
(P.S. For those of you who still read Archie, May 1994 will be the
premiere issue of “Reggie’s Revenge,” his first title in 12 years.)
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animation/tie.ins #455, from davemackey, 464 chars, Tue Jan 25 19:05:36 1994
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TITLE: Check out “Doll World”
The February 1994 issue of “Doll World” magazine is full of information on
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, including biographical information on their
creator, Johnny Gruelle, and a survey of what various Ann/Andy dolls are
worth.
R.A. and R.A. starred in a number of animation-related projects,
including Richard Williams’ feature film which spotlighted the work of many
premier animation artists.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #456, from davemackey, 598 chars, Wed Jan 26 11:56:18 1994
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TITLE: New Passengers on The Big Red Boat
Previously, the commercials for The Big Red Boat would mention
that one of the destinations was Walt Disney World. A new radio
spot doesn’t even mention Disney World, sidestepping gracefully
by mentioning the destination as “an Orlando theme park vacation.”
Reason? The cruise ship has decided to tie into the Looney
Tunes characters, with on-ship appearances by Bugs and Co., and
Bugs and Yosemite Sam — both voiced by Greg Burson — are in the
new radio commercials, which also feature Gary Owens as narrator.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #457, from hmccracken, 308 chars, Wed Jan 26 17:21:22 1994
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Premiere’s newspaper ads for the Big Red Boat still mention Disney, but
the focus on on the Warners’ characters. Cartoon fans who are tempted
to sail the seven seas with their Looney Tunes buddies should note
that the Warner characters won’t begin appearing on-board the boat
(boats?) until April.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #458, from linkster, 161 chars, Wed Jan 26 21:39:40 1994
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Careful Harry, sailors get a bit tetchy when you call their ships boats.
We don’t want you beaten up by a spinach eating sailor would we ? đŸ™‚
LInk
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animation/tie.ins #459, from hmccracken, 791 chars, Tue Feb 1 20:40:51 1994
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TITLE: Winsor a Clef?
The current _New Yorker_ has a favorable review of _Little Kingdoms_
(Poseidon, $21), a collection of three novellas by Steven Millhauser.
One of the novellas is “The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne,”
the title character of which is a New York-based newspaper cartoonist
and pioneering animator in the 1920s. Sounds like he might be based
on Winsor McCay — but I’m going to track down the book and find out
for sure.
I don’t know of many pieces of fiction about animators. There’s
_The Rat Factory_, a novel about an unpleasant, Walt Disney-like
cartoon producer — which was supposedly written by a former
Disney artist under a pseudonym. Veteran animator Shamus Culhane
has spoken of writing a fictionalized book based on his work
in animation, too.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #460, from hkenner, 143 chars, Tue Feb 1 22:31:53 1994
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The prior New Yorker mentioned animation occasionally, as it
were on the interval of a burp. The current NY simply foregrounds
the burp.
–HK
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animation/tie.ins #461, from switch, 117 chars, Wed Feb 2 18:19:45 1994
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Then there’s Rick Veitch’s MAXIMORTAL, with his particularly twisted take on
Siegel & Shuster and Walt Disney.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #462, from hmccracken, 263 chars, Tue Mar 8 11:12:33 1994
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TITLE: This week’s issue of _New York_…
has an article on Disney’s new Broadway musical version of _Beauty
and the Beast_ (a topic that I don’t remember being discussed here
before, although it’s much commented-on in rec.arts.disney on
the Internet).
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #463, from switch, 349 chars, Tue Mar 15 12:31:47 1994
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TITLE: Gahan Wilson tees
No, not golf.
Gahan Wilson was the Guest of Honor at the 1994 World Horror Convention in
Phoenix last weekend, and he did his first t-shirt art for the con, of which
only 400 t-shirts were made.
Fans of his monster/horror cartoons for Playboy (among other things) can
BIXmail Jean Goddin (jgoddin) for more details.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #464, from hmccracken, 243 chars, Thu Mar 31 21:49:04 1994
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TITLE: See long.messages/160…
for a look at the recent three-CD tribute to Disney music. I wrote
this piece for an upcoming issue of Emru’s _FPS_ fanzine which will
focus on music and animation. When can we expect to see it, Emru?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #465, from switch, 169 chars, Thu Mar 31 22:21:00 1994
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Much to my surprise, I seem to have almost finished the next issue; after
school’s over, I’ll be devoting more time to it, so it should be out around
early June.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #466, from davemackey, 284 chars, Tue Apr 5 15:23:48 1994
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TITLE: What’s up on another online service
It’s been announced that America Online, competitor to BIX, has opened
a Cartoon Network area on its system, and will host a live conference with
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera on April 7 at 8 p.m.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #467, from robairmackey, 1193 chars, Tue Apr 5 22:10:19 1994
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TITLE: Achtung, Doc…
Now that Disney has tried and (some say) failed to establish a European
theme park presence, it’s Warner Brothers’ turn.
It was announced in Dusseldorf, Germany that there would be a new
Warner Bros. park to be built near Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia. The
park would not be similar to any of the Six Flags parks in America but to
Australia’s Warner’s Movie World.
After doing research on Euro Disney crowds (many would drive up to
5 hours to get to the park, stay all day, and then drive home), the Warner
people have decided not to make it a full-blown vacation resort. In eliminatin
the hotels and golf courses of Euro Disney, Warner will hope to save 90%
of Euro Disney’s initial costs.
The park will have a Police Academy ride, and Warner’s is negotiating
for a license that would provide a “Das Boot” ride. Naturally, the classic
Warner’s cartoon characters would have a major presence inside the park,
with a themed area all their own.
Ticket prices per day are projected to be equivalent to $16-$18.
Ground will be broken in spring 1995 with no opening date announced.
–Robair
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animation/tie.ins #468, from hmccracken, 387 chars, Sat Apr 23 12:12:00 1994
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TITLE: Animation 1, Broadway 0
Today’s _New York Times_ has an entertaining article that compares
the current Broadway version of _Beauty and the Beast_ to Disney’s
animated original. In almost every detail, the cartoon comes off
better, and the author advises that buying a video of the film
is a wiser — and cheaper — alternative to investing in tickets
to the stage show.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #469, from davemackey, 214 chars, Sun Apr 24 08:39:32 1994
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Dennis Cunningham, reviewing “Beauty And The Beast” as theatre critic for
WCBS-TV in New York, noted that you could buy THREE copies of the video for
the price of an orchestra seat!
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #470, from robairmackey, 183 chars, Sun Apr 24 22:46:31 1994
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Disney will probably find a way to put a Broadway show on moratorium. Maybe
in the future Disney’s musicals will be based on stuff that isn’t available
on videocassette concurrently.
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animation/tie.ins #471, from hmccracken, 354 chars, Mon May 2 00:48:37 1994
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TITLE: See this week’s _Time_ magazine…
for an excellent article by Richard Corliss on the Disney Stores,
Warner Bros. Studio Stores, and other movie/cartoon-inspired
retailers. It reports that MGM is planning a similar venture,
and even mentions the grand-daddy of them all: Jay Ward’s
Dudley Do-Right Emporium on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #472, from davemackey, 512 chars, Wed May 4 23:55:36 1994
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TITLE: Second show for Castellaneta?
There’s talk that Dan Castellaneta, voice of Homer Simpson, may be starring
with George Wendt in a new television series for Disney, which would be a
sitcom very loosely based on the National Public Radio program “Car Talk.”
Dan and George would play Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, who in real
life spend two hours each Sunday taking calls from listeners and giving
sometimes amusing but always useful advice on automotive maintenance.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #473, from hmccracken, 300 chars, Thu May 5 21:41:22 1994
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TITLE: Woodpecker-Flavored Chocolate
You can now buy special Nestle Crunch bars which are embossed
with a design featuring none other than Walter Lantz’s
Woody Woodpecker. The bars are part of a line of Universal
Studios-themed bars, including Back to the Future, King Kong,
and others.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #474, from hmccracken, 973 chars, Tue May 17 21:28:19 1994
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TITLE: ASondheim vs. Disney
Broadway’s Tony awards were announced yesterday, and come awards
night it looks like we’ll all have to decide whether we’re
Disney fans or Sondheim fans. The recently-opened theatrical
adaptation of Disney’s _Beauty and the Beast_ got nine
nominations, one short of the number given to Sondheim’s
_Passion_. (The revival of _She Loves Me_ got 9 nominations
as well, apparently to everyone’s surprise.)
Here are the Tonys that _B&B_ is up for:
Best Musical
Leading Actor in a Musical (Terrence Mann)
Leading Actress in a Musical (Susan Egan)
Featured Actor in a Musical (Gary Beach)
Direction of a Musical (Robert Jess Roth)
Book of a Musical (Linda Woolverton)
Original Musical Score (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, and Tim Rice)
Costume Design (Ann Hould-Ward)
Lighting Design (Natasha Katz)
If _B&B_ wins for best score over Sondheim’s _Passion_, a third of
the award will be posthumous, since Howard Ashman died several
years ago.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #475, from hmccracken, 516 chars, Fri May 27 09:47:19 1994
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TITLE: Got What it Takes to be a Superhero?
…You can find out if you’re anywhere near Jersey City, New Jersey. The
Liberty Science Center there is hosting “Super Heroes, A High-Tech
Adventure” until September 5th. The kid-oriented science show features
such interactive exhibits as a Wonder Woman one (in which you deflect
ping-pong balls off your wrists, much as WW does to bullets) and a
Spider-Man one (in which you can crawl around a web).
For more information, call the center at (201) 452-0006.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #476, from davemackey, 359 chars, Mon Jun 13 12:16:11 1994
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TITLE: “Beauty” no beauty with Tony
In a snub some see as the legitimate theatre’s negative reaction to
the relative outsider Disney, “Beauty And The Beast” won only one Tony
award last evening, that for Best Costume Design. Most of the Tonys that
“B&TB” lost went to the dark Stephen Sondheim musical “Passion.”
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #477, from hmccracken, 604 chars, Tue Jun 14 08:46:53 1994
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TITLE: Read About the King
Disney’s Hyperion Press will soon be releasing _The Art of the
Lion King_, a $60 hardcover book that looks at the production
of the upcoming animated feature. The book is by Christopher
Finch, best known as the author of _The Art of Walt Disney_,
the big art book (still in print) which started the series
of lavish animation art books that continues to this day.
Also new from Hyperion is _The Ultimate Disney Trivia Book 2_
(which sounds like an oxymoron of some sort), by Disney
archivist Dave Smith and Kevin Neary of the Disney Stores.
It’s a $14.95 paperback.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #478, from davemackey, 675 chars, Tue Jun 21 22:18:16 1994
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TITLE: All we need is for someone to make the Foodarackacycle
Cellular One, a major cell-phone provider in the New York Metropolitan Area,
is touting its new voice-recognition dialing service in a radio commercial
that draws parallels between it and an unnamed cartoon show about the future
we used to watch as kids. Sound effects on the commercial include various
space cars and George Jetson’s doorbell; the music backing the spot is
evocative of, but not an exact rendition of, the “Jetsons” theme music. But
there are enough hooks and references in the spot that strongly indicate that
“The Jetsons” is the cartoon series being discussed.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #479, from hmccracken, 1656 chars, Fri Jun 24 23:12:08 1994
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TITLE: A Cartoon Fan at CES
Here I am at CES in Chicago, and while that abbreviation
stands for Consumer Electronics Show, from what’s going on
here you might think it meant Cartoon Entertainment Show.
The floor of the show is crammed with cartoon-related products —
mainly video games and computer games, but also everything
from a Windows utility called the Flintstones Cuckoo Clock
(which I’m now the proud owner of a copy of; stay tuned for a
review) to a mouse pad shaped like Betty Boop’s head.
Disney is everywhere here. They have their own booth, topped
by a giant rotating Mickey Mouse and stuffed with demos of
games based on The Lion King, The Jungle Book, Beauty and the
Beast, and other Disney films. They’re also previewing a nifty
Mickey Mouse game in which Mickey runs around from scene to
scene within his own history. (Which sounds confusing, but it’s
great — they digitized artwork from films like Steamboat Willie
to ge the look just right.) Disney-related products were also
present at several other booths, and Disney CEO Jeff Katzenberg
attended the show.
I can’t begin to remember all the other cartoon characters
represented, but here are some of them: The flintstones,
Rocko’s Modern Life, Popeye, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures,
Mighty Max, Batman, the Looney Tunes characters, The Simpsons,
Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy, and many others.
Not everything is exciting — there are a lot of very ordinary
games based on cartoons — but as an animation history fan,
it’s neat to see that the next wave of entertainment technology
is drawing on inspiration from animation of thirty, forty, and
fifty years ago.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #480, from ianl, 315 chars, Sat Jun 25 16:12:53 1994
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I’m not surprised that cartoons feature heavily in the new wave of video
games. They can give you the feel of full-motion video without the color
depth overhead needed to do live-source FMV.
If you get a chance, stop by the 3DO booth and see what *real* FMV looks like.
(Yeah, yeah, it’s a shameless plug.)
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animation/tie.ins #481, from switch, 206 chars, Thu Jun 30 10:00:29 1994
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TITLE: The Trouble With Harry
No, not our illustrious co-moderator, but the movie directed by Alfred
Hitchcock. I saw this just a few days ago, and a credit caught my eye:
“Music by Raymond Scott.”
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #482, from hmccracken, 227 chars, Thu Jun 30 14:44:21 1994
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That’s interesting! Was the music recognizably Scott’s? I saw the
movie, but years ago before I knew who he was. I remember it mainly
for its very early appearances by Shirley Maclaine and Jerry
(the Beaver) Mathers.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #483, from hmccracken, 894 chars, Thu Jun 30 14:48:41 1994
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Well, after having gone back to the show to Saturday for the primary
purpose of playing games, I’m less optimistic than I probably sounded
in my earlier message. Computer-game graphics are getting better and
better, but in something like 75% of the games I played, the gameplay
was identical to games of a decade ago. You control a little figure
who jumps around on platforms, leaping over villainous characters
, throwing things, and picking up objects for bonus points. It’s
as if the storylines and humor of theatrical cartoons hadn’t changed
at all between 1925 and 1935.
I’m impressed by the 3DO technology, but for some reason their booth
was in a really rotten location at CES. They were in a desolate wing
devoted to things like videotape rewinders and wireless speakers, while
all the real videogame action was happening in a different hall that
was a ten minute walk away.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #484, from hmccracken, 911 chars, Thu Jun 30 14:53:00 1994
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TITLE: Some more new cartoon videogames
I can’t remember either the platform or the publisher, but I saw
several Simpsons-related games at CES. My favorite was “Virtual
Bart,” which includes several different Bart Simpson games; the
one you play at any given time is determined by a Wheel of Fortune-
type pointer. The games include a Jurassic Park-like one with
a raptor who looks like Bart, and one in which Bart’s a baby.
Another game was based on Itchy and Scratcy, Bart’s favorite
cartoon show. But while the characters are incredibly violent
when they appear on _The Simpsons_, they’re rather docile in
the game as far as I could tell. Good graphics, though.
From a graphics standpoint, the best cartoon game I saw may
have been a Tweety and Sylvester one. The designers clearly
spent a lot of time studying 1950s Friz Freleng cartoons, and’
the game looks just like a vintage Tweety cartoon.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #485, from switch, 111 chars, Thu Jun 30 18:51:35 1994
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The music is kind of quirky at times; it could go either way. Maybe a call
to Irwin Chusid is in order.
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #486, from davemackey, 1666 chars, Sun Jul 3 09:10:56 1994
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Two years later, Dave returns to Six Flags Great Adventure, the New
York/Philadelphia area theme park co-owned by Time Warner (It’s actually in
Jackson, NJ, on route 537 near the interchange with Interstate 195.)
It seems that the park has been tightened up, with specific distinct
themed areas. There’s now a Looney Tunes Land for the little fry, a Movie
Town that features the Batman-related rides and the HBO Commisary (complete
with posters for various HBO original films like “Barbarians At The Gate”),
Frontier Adventure (home of the Log Flume), and even the Main Street section,
which you encounter the minute you enter the park.
This smacks of a measured, deliberate attempt to imitate Disney’s park
layout. But the park is now firmly established as the home of the Warner
Bros. characters. When Great Adventure first opened in the early 1970’s, the
Looney Tunes gang was holding court at a similar theme park, now defunct,
called Warner Bros. Jungle Habitat, in West Milford, NJ.
I didn’t get to go on it, but this year’s big new attraction is The
Right Stuff Mach I Adventure. I did ride through the Safari for the first
time in over a decade, and it really hasn’t changed all that much, except for
the introduction of some rare white tigers for the new season.
Say what you will about Six Flags Great Adventure, but any way you look
at it, it’s a pricey day. It now costs adults $33 to get into the park, with
kids being charged $23. And the concessions and food are extremely expensive.
Lunch for our party of four topped out at about $25. And even the smallest
food kiosks gladly accept credit cards.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #487, from hmccracken, 474 chars, Sun Jul 3 22:39:29 1994
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I’ve never been to a Six Flags, but I did pass near two on my recent
driving trip: the one you mention, and one in Gurnee Mills, Illinois
(which is across the street from one humongous shopping mall).
Whenever I think of the Warner characters and amusement parks, I
always think of Playland in Rye, N.Y., where the characters made
their home in the late 1970s or so. They were preceded by Richie
Rich and Casper, who strolled around the park a few years earlier.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #488, from robairmackey, 326 chars, Sun Jul 3 23:47:15 1994
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Considering that Disney is around $37 now, and there’s extensive
couponing program with Burger King and Coca-Cola, on a weekday you can
see it for half price. (Did you see the Beach Boys or the B-52’s?)
Yeah, most weekends you can see musical acts people won’t pay to see
unless they can ride bumper cars as well…
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animation/tie.ins #489, from hkenner, 111 chars, Mon Jul 4 15:10:30 1994
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Spotted in the Dublin airport yesterday, a T-shirt:
O.J. Is
INNOCENT. …
BART
DID IT
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animation/tie.ins #490, from hmccracken, 138 chars, Tue Jul 5 13:12:44 1994
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Good grief! I didn’t know that anyone in Ireland cared enough
about O.J. or Bart to make such a t-shirt a marketable commodity.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #491, from hkenner, 115 chars, Tue Jul 5 18:15:38 1994
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The man in that T-shirt was definitely Irish. You have to remember
that things like C-span are world-wide.
–HK
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animation/tie.ins #492, from hmccracken, 1176 chars, Thu Jul 14 18:26:53 1994
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TITLE: Which King is it, Anyway?
In the past, we’re reported cases here of several companies
who have tried to jump on the bandwagon of a Disney cartoon
by releasing unauthorized, quasi-legal products to coincide
with the release of a new Disney feature. Most notably,
Goodtimes Home Video has released videos of _Beauty and the
Beast_ and _Aladdin_ that have nothing to do with Disney…
though they sure look like Disney products upon first glance.
Well, _The Lion King_ is out, and it seems to have been the
inspiration for an unusually large number of products of this
sort. First of all, Sony, which I would have thought was above
this kind of thing, has released a video called _The Jungle King_
in Disney-like packaging; the illustration and logo make it look
like a combination of Disney’s _The Jungle Book_ and _The Lion
King_, just as the title suggests.
Then, there’s the suddent explosion of lion-related toys to be found at my
local CVS drugstore. One of them is marked _The Jungle King_, although it
doesn’t seem to be related to the Sony tape. Another has no identification
at all — it’s simply a toy figure of a lion, wearing an oversized crown.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #493, from linkster, 481 chars, Tue Jul 26 22:13:05 1994
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TITLE: Akira Trading Cards
Yep, they’re doing a set of them. I bought a prototype/preview set of 10
cards. One has a prism background, so it’s safe to say the chase cards will
probably be similiar. I’m not sure when the actual 100 card set will be
coming out as it was solicited for this month and the prototype set was
solicited for May, if I remember correctly. (They’re late anyhow)
They look good. They should considering they come for the cels.
LInk
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animation/tie.ins #494, from dgh, 101 chars, Sat Jul 30 03:20:52 1994
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Don’t you think they should finish the comic book first? I certainly do.
,
|) /\ \/ | +)
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animation/tie.ins #495, from switch, 232 chars, Sat Jul 30 08:41:45 1994
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Part of the problem with _Akira_ has been Otomo. Way back when he finally
finished the fifth volume, but didn’t like the ending. So he went back and
reworked it. Hence the absurd delay. I don’t know what’s going on now…
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #496, from linkster, 298 chars, Sat Jul 30 10:46:50 1994
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I’ve only seen the anime and haven’t read the magna. Too expensive at this
time for someone just discovering Akira a couple months ago. The cards are
based on the movie not the comic so as far as the public in the US is concerned
it’s finished (?) (general public that is)
LInk
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animation/tie.ins #497, from davemackey, 419 chars, Wed Aug 17 20:56:19 1994
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TITLE: Mickey’s in da house
What “Mickey Mouse Disco” did for the music of the 70’s, the Walt Disney
Company is threatening to do again with its newest compilation, “Mickey
Unrapped.”
It’s a collection of rap music inspired by various Disney characters.
Among the artists on the album is the group Tag Team, who contribute a
knockoff version of their big hit “Whoomp! There It Is”.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #498, from robairmackey, 69 chars, Thu Aug 18 22:43:58 1994
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“GAWRSH! There it is!
“GAWRSH! There it is!
“GAWRSH! There it is…”
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animation/tie.ins #499, from davemackey, 898 chars, Fri Aug 19 12:30:00 1994
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TITLE: Put on your pink tap shoes…
Macy’s will stage its annual “Tap-O-Mania” on Sunday, August 21, beginning at
noon, and this year it will tie into the 30th anniversary of “The Pink
Panther” (and also the 88th birthday of its creator, Friz Freleng, which is
on August 21). Last year the event attracted 6,196 tap dancers, breaking the
previous year’s record.
If you’re in the New York area and want to be a part of the celebration,
just show up at Macy’s Herald Square in New York City that morning to
register. If you can’t tap dance, they’ll teach you a basic time step.
All tappers will be entered into a drawing, prizes of which include CD
players, tickets to the Broadway show “Crazy For You”, and a Pink Panther
prize package which includes a limited edition animation cel signed by
Friz Freleng. Every tapper gets a T-shirt and hat.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #500, from davemackey, 537 chars, Thu Sep 8 06:56:18 1994
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TITLE: WB Artists on tour
According to a news report on E!, Warner Bros. Animation has
commissioned a set of limited edition art prints of the Looney
Tunes gang and is sending two artists on a tour of its studio
stores to promote it.
Both artists, assistant animator Harry Sabin and background
artist Alan Bodner, have been working on contemporary Warner
Bros. cartoons for years. The duo are to embark on a tour of the
Warner Bros. Studio Stores this weekend, where the prints will
be sold.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #501, from hmccracken, 499 chars, Sun Sep 11 00:08:01 1994
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TITLE: Popeye’s Park
Universal Studios has announced plans for Islands of Adventure, an additional
theme park to join its Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida in
1999. Why is it worth mentioning here, five years in advance? Because E.C.
Segar’s Popeye (who will be 70 by the time the park opens) will appear at
the park, along with other Segar characters.
Popeye is currently the mascot of a much smaller (but incomparably charming)
amusement park: the Santa Cruz Boardwalk.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #502, from davemackey, 411 chars, Sat Sep 17 08:18:32 1994
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TITLE: Ralph gets “Crazy”
Ralph Bakshi turns live-action filmmaker with his entry in Showtime’s “Rebel
Highway” series, “The Cool And The Crazy.” It stars Alicia Silverstone, the
young star of “The Crush” as a bored housewife who has an affair with a guy
from the wrong side of the tracks. It airs this Friday at 10 p.m. and next
Thursday at 8 p.m.,, but check your local times.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #503, from davemackey, 501 chars, Sat Oct 1 23:54:24 1994
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TITLE: Scrappy’s a doll
The November 1994 issue of “Doll Reader” includes a small,
one-page article about a doll produced in the mid-1930’s
of the Columbia cartoon character Scrappy.
The article makes brief mention of Scrappy’s
cartoon career — misidentifying the first cartoon of the
character as “Help Wanted” (it’s “Yelp Wanted”), though
mentioning producer Charles Mintz and creator Sid Marcus
in connection with the animated series.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #504, from hmccracken, 693 chars, Sun Oct 2 19:04:57 1994
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TITLE: Celebrate ’95 With Bugs and Gang
I’m usually not a big fan of cartoon-character calendars, but the 1995
_Looney Tunes_ calendar is a cut above average. Each month is illustrated
with a slick and attractive color recreation of a scene from a classic
Warner Bros. cartoon, each is which is accompanied by comments by
Warners expert Jerry Beck. (Beck, who is prominently credited on the
calendar’s cover, is rapidly becoming the country’s most prominent
cartoon historian.)
The calendar is $9.95 and is published by Hallmark; it’s much too early
to be buying next year’s calendar, but I plan to pick this one up at
a more reasonable date (like January 15th of next year or so).
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #505, from davemackey, 385 chars, Sun Oct 2 21:28:18 1994
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It’s funny. My brother was over here bringing over some of my animation-
related library of books, magazines and films, and I came across
Hallmark’s 1991 Looney Tunes calendar, which had “reminisces and
musings by Chuck Jones”. I have to call Jerry tomorrow on some other
business; I’ll certainly congratulate him on his recognition.
da********@bi*.com / Dave Mackey
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animation/tie.ins #506, from davemackey, 83 chars, Tue Oct 4 18:59:47 1994
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It’s more on the order of “Whoomp! There It Went.”
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #507, from hmccracken, 576 chars, Tue Oct 18 20:19:57 1994
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TITLE: Warner Bros. Stores Sprouting Everywhere
A year ago, the Boston area had no Warner Bros. Studio Stores. As of this
month, we have four, thanks to the new one at the recently-reopened
Natick Mall. It’s got a nifty New England fisherman theme, and outside
the store there’s a giant model of several Warner characters on a lobster
boat.
As always, the selection of merchandise inside the store is surprisingly
appealing (much more so than the stuff at arch-rival the Disney Store).
I especially like the new goldfish bowl in the shape of Marvin Martian’s
dog.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #508, from hmccracken, 976 chars, Fri Oct 21 00:20:26 1994
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TITLE: Good News for Anyone Over the Age of Three
Today’s (well, yesterday’s) _New York Times_ has an interesting article on
the merchandising of Barney the Dinosaur. It seems that Barney product sales
are way off, and the theory is that oversaturation is to blame. Little kids
aren’t any less fond of the genial reptile, but it’s their parents who purchase
toys — and there’s no doubt that grown-ups are sick and tired of Barney.
In response, Barney’s owners plan to control the flow of Barney merchanside
more carefully, following the strategy used by the folks who control the
Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. The article also discusses how Twentieth Century
Fox managed to revive the fortunes of _The Simpsons_ after the Bart Simpson
fad ended; through carefully managing what properties feature Matt
Groening’s creations, they’ve been able to turn them into a $250 million/year
business, and hope to keep America interested in the characters for years to
come.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #509, from hmccracken, 575 chars, Fri Oct 21 21:44:32 1994
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TITLE: Bill Gates, Cartoon Fan?
Well, I don’t really know if billionaire Bill of Microsoft is into
cartoons, but if you look in the new issue of _PC World_ (and,
undoubtedly, other computer magazines), you’ll see an ad for Microsoft
Office which uses large pictures of Ren and Stimpy, and seems to claim
that their success is all due somehow to Microsoft Office.
No, John Kricfalusi didn’t sit down with a copy of Microsoft Word or Excel
when he created Ren and Stimpy — but apparently Nickelodeon’s business
development manager is a user of Microsoft software.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #510, from robairmackey, 326 chars, Fri Oct 21 22:20:25 1994
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That was probably the idea behind Baby Bop, and the White Ranger, and
whatever they add to the mixes of the respective shows to make your
old playsets obsolete. We had a major chain basically blow out all
their old Barney merchandise at 70% off! Bad news: If you paint a
Barney alarm clock white, it still looks like Barney.
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animation/tie.ins #511, from hmccracken, 671 chars, Wed Oct 26 13:30:26 1994
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TITLE: Send a Thurbergram Today
Despite lobbying by cartoon fans, the U.S. Postal Service has never
shown much interest in paying tribute to the world of comic art.
Just about the only time they’ve nodded in our direction was when
they released a Walt Disney stamp shortly after his death.
However, when I went to the post office today to buy stamps, I
got a sheet of James Thurber ones. (It’s a portrait of Thurber,
rather than an example of one of cartoons — which I would have
preferred.) I suspect that it was his prose rather than his work
as a cartoonist that earned him this honor, but it’s a nice salute
to a great American comic artist in any event.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #512, from hmccracken, 475 chars, Mon Nov 28 23:37:26 1994
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TITLE: Chuck Jones’s Second Book for Kids
_Chuck Jones’ Peter and the Wolf_ — recently discussed here in its
CD-ROM version — is now available as a children’s book. It’s based
on Prokofiev’s classic musical piece, of course, and heavily illustrated
with drawings by Jones that have been colored like animation cels.
This is Jones’s second foray into the world of children’s literature;
he published a book called _William the Backwards Skunk_ in the
mid-1980s.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #513, from hmccracken, 510 chars, Tue Nov 29 22:11:51 1994
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TITLE: More Books
It must be getting near Christmas; the bookstores are full of lavish new books
on animation, comics, and related topics. Among them are _Disneyana_, a
book on classic Disney collectibles (similar to the 1974 book of that title,
but all-new); _Still Weird_, a collection of more than 450 macabre cartoons
by Gahan Wilson; and a paperback edition of Jerry Beck’s _I Tawt I Taw a
Puddy Tat_, which contains everything you’d ever want to know about
Warner Bros.’ Tweety and Sylvester.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #514, from hmccracken, 323 chars, Thu Dec 29 17:53:35 1994
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TITLE: You’re a Good Man, Wynton Marsalis
This just in: jazz great Wynton Marsalis will soon be recording an album
of music from Charles Schulz’s Charlie Brown TV specials. For the first
ten or fifteen years, these shows featured superb scores by Vince Girauldi;
they’ve never been the same since he passed away.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #515, from robairmackey, 1313 chars, Mon Jan 9 22:24:43 1995
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TITLE: Sproing, Boing, Bam, Splat: Rhino’s new CD
Rhino records finally released the first volume of “Hanna Barbera Cartoon
Sound FX” on compact disc only (wise move, Rhino: sound effect cassettes
are a bitch).
The CD contains 97 distinct tracks including two different head shakes
(de-do-dedee-do-dedee-do and pingitty-pingitty-ping), the familiar Jetson
space capsule taking off and landing, my personal favorite Waheep and Poof,
and some absolute comic sound effect classics: “KABONG!”, “Scrambling Feet”,
Zabork (from the Jetsons), and Gazoo’s two noises.
The disc also contains birthday and get-well messages, as well as
answering machine messages, from Fred Flintstone (Henry Corden), Snagglepuss
(Earl Kress), Snooper (Earl Kress) and Blabber (Earl Kress), Wally Gator
(Earl Kress), Quick Draw McGraw (Earl Kress–notice a nasty trend here?),
and Hokey Wolf (Earl–aw, you know.) My gripe is Kress has the inflections and
basic personality traits down for each character, but he doesn’t quite get
the actual voice on target from the Daws Butler ideal.
For the real deal, the actual item, the Professional H-B SFX Library,
contact Sound Ideas, 105 Beaver Creek Road, Suite 4, Richmond Hill, ON,
L4B 1C6 CANADA. Last I checked, about six years ago, it was $150–it may
have gone up in price.
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animation/tie.ins #516, from hmccracken, 350 chars, Sat Jan 28 09:55:26 1995
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TITLE: H-B by Mail
There may not be a nationwide chain of Hanna-Barbera stores (yet),
but you can shop for merchandise featuring Yogi Bear, the Flintstones,
and other H-B characters from the comfort of your own home.
Dial 1-800-822-YOGI and you can purchase items from the large selection
of H-B products sold at Universal Studios Florida.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #517, from davemackey, 379 chars, Sun Feb 12 08:21:41 1995
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TITLE: John Seely: the album?
I’ve heard reports that Rhino Records is going to release a compact
disc compilation of the music of John Seely Associates sometime this
spring.
John Seely Associates provided stock music for a number of
cartoon production companies including Art Clokey, Hanna-Barbera,
Sam Singer, and Warner Bros.
–Dave
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animation/tie.ins #518, from hmccracken, 581 chars, Thu Feb 23 09:48:20 1995
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TITLE: Hirschfeld Goes Daffy
Al Hirschfeld, the legendary Broadway caricaturist, has created
a series of five limited-edition prints which star Bugs Bunny,
Daffy Duck, and other Warner Bros. cartoon characters in
theatrical settings. I’d like to think that Hirschfeld is a huge
Looney Tunes fan and felt an uncontrollable artistic urge to
draw these, but somehow I don’t think so. (He did, however, once
write an excellent appreciation of Disney’s _Snow White_).
In any event, I’ve scene reproductions of a couple of the prints,
and they’re better than you might expect.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #519, from hmccracken, 419 chars, Mon Apr 17 02:33:30 1995
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TITLE: Does artificial sweetener cause bad vision?
Mr. Magoo, a favorite cartoon character who hasn’t been around
much lately, is back — in a TV commercial for NutraSweet, the
sugar substitute. The commercial, which combined cartoon footage
with live action, is nicely animated, but Magoo doesn’t sound
quite right. It’s a shame that Jim Backus, Magoo’s original
voice, isn’t around anymore to play the role.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #520, from hmccracken, 516 chars, Tue Jan 16 00:11:47 1996
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TITLE: No Wonder He Looks So Youthful, So Radiant
Seen while channel surfining last night: Chuck Jones’s Michigan
J. Frog singing about the virtues of Oil of Olay, the Mysterious
Beauty Fluid. Presumably it was a tie-in with the WB TV network,
for which Michigan J. serves as mascot. (The Boston affiliate
has a huge Michigan J. Frog billboard overlooking the Southeast
Expressway.)
An unlikely fate for the star of a single, forty year old cartoon,
even if it is one of the finest comedy films ever made.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #521, from hmccracken, 537 chars, Fri Feb 2 21:30:16 1996
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TITLE: Cop Commercials
Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy has been trading on his fame in two
advertisements lately. In an ad I’ve seen in the Boston subway
(it may also appear in other forms), it is said that Maxwell
House Coffee will be around for as long as Tracy is chasing
crooks in the funny papers. And just now, I saw a live-action
TV ad in which an actor (not Warren Beatty) portrays Tracy.
The product here is the Franklin Bookman, a pocket-sized
computer. Naturally, the device is likened to the famous
two-way wrist radio.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #522, from hmccracken, 519 chars, Thu Mar 14 22:06:24 1996
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TITLE: Ben and Garry
Garry Trudeau’s _Doonesbury_ has just accomplished something unique for
a comic strip: It has inspired a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor.
Look for Doonesberry — I don’t know what its ingredients are — at
a Ben and Jerry’s retailer near you. (The lid features portraits of
Mike and Mark from the strip.)
Too bad that _Calvin and Hobbes_’s Bill Watterson is so down on
merchandising. I think that B&J could come up with something wonderful
if they were able to use the name Hobbesicle.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #523, from peabo, 34 chars, Fri Mar 15 00:05:30 1996
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Not to mention Calvinilla.
peter
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animation/tie.ins #524, from pwirtz, 377 chars, Mon Mar 18 10:55:21 1996
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Re: Ben and Garry
> I think that B&J could come up with something wonderful
>if they were able to use the name Hobbesicle.
Gorella blood with crushed worms coated with snail slime.
Calivn would love it!
remember stuffed bell peppers are really monkey heads with pureed brains.
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animation/tie.ins #525, from hmccracken, 390 chars, Sun Mar 24 01:04:38 1996
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TITLE: I’ll Gladly Pay You Tuesday…
for a bagel today. Look for Wimpy’s appearance in a new TV commercial.
Naturally, it’s for a hamburger-related product — chesseburger-flavored
Bagel Bites. For some reason I’m not sure of, Wimpy is animated in
black-and-white. It’s a clever commercial. Perhaps they can introduce
a spinach-flavored variant and make a sequal starring Popeye.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #526, from hmccracken, 404 chars, Wed Apr 3 00:06:53 1996
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TITLE: Old Cartoon Characters Don’t Die…
…they just go on to be models in Gap adds. Or at least that’s true
for Berke Breathed’s Opus, who appears in a new ad for the Gap —
surely the first comic strip character to promote fashionable
clothing.
Ironic, isn’t it, that between Calvin and Hobbes and Opus, some of
our most popular comic strip characters have retired from the
funny pages?
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #527, from hmccracken, 433 chars, Tue Apr 9 22:31:37 1996
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TITLE: Does anyone have a spare $5250?
That’s the price of a new limited-edition set of replica cels from great
Tom and Jerry cartoons, including _Puss Gets the Boot_ (their first),
_Yankee Doodle Mouse_, _The Cat Concerto_, and five others. They’re
all signed by both Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, the box set is limited
to 100 sets, and animation historian Mark Kausler served as a consultant
to help ensure their accuracy.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #528, from hmccracken, 521 chars, Wed May 22 22:19:17 1996
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TITLE: Everything’s for sale these days…
An interesting article in today’s _Wall Street Journal_ reports on
Ted Turner’s current efforts to merchandise those films and TV
shows, animated and otherwise, for which he owns the rights.
One thing he tried to do, albeit unsuccessfully: get Nike to pay
him in order to have Jonny Quest wear Nike sneakers in the
upcoming series of new _Jonny Quest_ cartoons.
Next thing you know, Popeye will be giving up his pipe in favor
of smoking Marlboros or Lucky Strikes…
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #529, from grekel, 350 chars, Thu May 23 14:08:26 1996
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This’ll date me…
I remember very vividly going to buy a pair of PF Flyers sneakers because
I got a Jonny Quest Decoder Ring FREE with the shoes! Cool ring, too –
decoder, magnifier, signalling mirror, secret compartment…
Guess Jonny is still wearing them, eh? I’m pretty sure there were
animated commercials with JQ hawking PF Flyers…
greg
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animation/tie.ins #530, from hmccracken, 595 chars, Fri May 24 12:12:26 1996
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TITLE: It Had to Happen
McDonalds, the nation’s biggest fast-food company, and Disney, our biggest producer of whatever the
entertainment equivalent of fast food is (fast entertainment?), have signed a ten-year contract to
collaborate on merchandising their respective enterprises. Look for Disney-themed ad campaigns at
McDonalds and signs of McDonalds in the Disney theme parks.
For more information, see an article in today’s _New York Times_ (which, long-time animation conference
members may be interested to know, spells the name of a certain Disney film as _101 Dalmations_).
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #531, from hkenner, 81 chars, Fri May 24 13:20:52 1996
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The New York Times has a long history of wobbling on Dalmatians/Dalmations.
–HK
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animation/tie.ins #532, from hmccracken, 366 chars, Fri May 24 14:35:44 1996
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I guess it’s true that what Turner is doing is nothing new. I’ve heard
that in the 1960s, Hanna-Barbera had a deal with the Welch’s people
which involved the Flintstones extolling the virtues of Welch’s
Grape Juice *within episodes of _The Flintstones_, not in commercials*.
These mentiones appear to have been edited out of syndication prints
of the show.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #533, from sfmcnally, 109 chars, Fri May 24 18:06:25 1996
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The report I heard on ABC news said that Disney previously had a similar
agreement with Burger King.
Seumas
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animation/tie.ins #534, from grekel, 178 chars, Sat May 25 12:08:50 1996
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Interesting, re. Flintstones and Welch’s…
I also recall drinking out of Welch’s grape jelly jars that had Flintstone
characters screened on them. Didn’t know about the juice!
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animation/tie.ins #535, from hmccracken, 664 chars, Sun May 26 18:46:42 1996
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Actually, animators taking cash to insert commercial references into their
films goes back a long, long way. Fleischer made an entertaining sing-a-long
cartoon called _In My Merry Oldsmobile_ — it was financed, of course, by
General Motors. And Nabisco paid for a Mickey Mouse cartoon in the late
1930s that was the equal of any other made during that period for
animation and humor. The only difference was, the climax involved Mickey
making a pitch for Oreos, Saltines, and his favorite, Fig Newtons.
(This gives me a connection, however slight, with the famous mouse: Fig
Newtons are named after Newton, Massachusetts, where I lived for 17 years.)
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #536, from hmccracken, 656 chars, Tue Aug 27 21:29:59 1996
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TITLE: Happy Birthday, Mr. Grinch!
Believe it or not, 1996 marks the 30th anniversary of Chuck Jones’s
classic TV adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_.
To mark the event, Jones’s company is creating a limited-edition cel,
the copies of which will be auctioned off in October in a benefit for
the Motion Picture Retirement Home.
Jones will render the characters; his long time designer, Maurice Noble,
will do the background. Jones, Noble, and Thurl Ravenscroft, who sang
all the songs in the TV special, will autograph the piece. I was fortunate
enough to visit Noble last Saturday, and saw his sketches — they look
great!
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #537, from hmccracken, 372 chars, Thu Sep 12 10:42:45 1996
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TITLE: Discount Animation Cels
I see from an ad in the _New York Times_ that the Circle Gallery, the
large nationwide chain of art galleries that sells a lot of cartoon-
related stuff, has gone bankrupt and is liquidating its stock.
The ad is for the Manhattan location, on Broadway, and specifically
says that Chuck Jones limited editions are available cheaply.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #538, from hmccracken, 359 chars, Tue Oct 29 22:20:53 1996
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TITLE: Another online service…
which shall remain nameless (hint: its initials are AOL) is
using the _Jetsons_ theme music in its new TV commercials.
Apparently, the idea is that you can bring your family into the
future by logging into this particular service.
Funny how music from a 35-year-old TV cartoon is still identified
with the future…
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #539, from switch, 256 chars, Thu Nov 7 22:09:41 1996
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I did an unscientific poll with about a dozen acquaintances who aren’t
partricularly animation fans; all of them agreed that the music was
“futuristic”, but none readily identified it with The Jetsons until I told
them.
For whatever that’s worth…
Emru
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animation/tie.ins #540, from dgh, 153 chars, Fri Nov 8 23:52:38 1996
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What did those poor people do when they were growing up? (Didn’t EVERYBODY
grow up watching the Jetsons and the Flintstones?)
,
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animation/tie.ins #541, from jdow, 384 chars, Fri Feb 7 22:40:28 1997
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Thinking of Jetsons…. Next time you are in LA near LAX take the time to
make a reservation at the flying saucer. Er, that’s the nickname of the
restaraunt inside the airport. It has been redone inside by Disney folks.
It is an SF theme as seen in the 50s, very “Jetsonesque” I hear. Every
table is complete with its own Lava Lamp. (Ever seen 50 lava lamps all in
one place?)
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animation/tie.ins #542, from jgoddin, 26 chars, Fri Feb 7 23:48:06 1997
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The mind boggles…….
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animation/tie.ins #543, from hmccracken, 1372 chars, Sun Feb 23 20:55:21 1997
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TITLE: Beware of limited-edition animation cels
While walking down Boston’s Newbury Street this afternoon, I stopped
in at an art gallery that specializes in animation. I saw there a
cel of Bosko, the early-1930s Warner Bros. character, that was
identified as being a limited-edition cel signed by Harman
and Ising. (Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising were the producers who
created Bosko.)
There are two things wrong with this picture. As we’ve discussed before,
limited-edition cels — ie, ones produced to be sold, not to be used
in animated films — are LESS limited than real production cels.
Each production cel is unique, but limited-edition cels number in
the hundreds or thousands of identical pieces.
I was more worried, though, by the fact that this cel was signed
by Harman and Ising. Hugh Harman died about fifteen years ago,
long before the boom in limited-edition cels. Rudy Ising has
also been dead for several years. Then I looked carefully at
the signatures — they read “M. Harman” and “C. Ising.”
I’ll give the limited-edition cel’s producers the benefit of the
doubt and assume that M. Harman and C. Ising are relatives of
Hugh and Rudy — possibly widows or children. In any event,
the lesson is to be very careful about signed limited-edition
cels. They’re not all that limited, and they may not be signed
by the people you’d expect them to be.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #544, from hmccracken, 428 chars, Fri May 9 22:27:42 1997
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TITLE: Wimpy
J. Wellington Wimpy is now doing ads for Burger King, apparently
reusing old TV animation. On one hand, I can’t think of anyone
more appropriate to tout burgers than Wimpy, but on the other hand,
the guy is such a hamburger fiend that I’m not sure his endorsement
is worth anything. I mean, Wimpy would eat just about *any*
burger, especially if it’s one that he could gladly pay you Tuesday
to eat today.
— Harry
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animation/tie.ins #545, from switch, 781 chars, Sun Sep 14 13:52:22 1997
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TITLE: Life Imitates Art
An excerpt from the latest Animation Flash newsletter has something I
thought people here would find interesting…
SPACE GHOST ON MARS. Apparently, NASA’s Mars Pathfinder team members are
real cartoon fans. They have just named a few more space rocks after
Cartoon Network/Hanna-Barbera characters. Inspired after an interview with
Mars Pathfinder project leader Matthew Golombek on the TV series, “Space
Ghost Coast to Coast,” the team named four Mars rocks, “Space Ghost,”
“Zorak,” “Moltar,” and “Brak.” This strange sort of cartoon character fame
is shared with Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Scooby Doo, Casper, Calvin & Hobbes and
other stars who have also had Mars rocks named after them. Images of the
rocks can be seen online at http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov