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\nanimation\/tie.ins #1, from jimomura, 286 chars, Sat Mar 31 21:04:24 1990
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\nTITLE: Things Related to Animated Shows and Comics
\n This topic is for discussion of things closely related to the
\nmain subject matter of this conference. For instance, “collectables”
\nlike coffee mugs, games, live films based on comicbooks or things
\nwhich were animated originally.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #2, from jimomura, 588 chars, Sat Mar 31 21:07:55 1990
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\nTITLE: Games
\n We have a ‘games’ conference on BIX. In fact, we have an
\nexchange related to ‘games’ as well, and the ‘games’ conference
\nisn’t a part of it. And there are game related topics in many
\nother conferences. But many games are based on animated shows
\nand comicbooks. I’ve discussed them before elsewhere, but I think
\nsometimes the discussion could be better appreciated in this
\nconference. That’s how the whole idea for this topic got started.
\nI’ll probably bring some of my messages from other conferences
\nback into this conference. Probably not all of them, but some.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #3, from hmccracken, 138 chars, Sun Apr 1 11:57:27 1990
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\nTITLE: So, has anyone seen the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie yet?
\nI’m interested in knowing how good the costumes are.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #4, from tom.white, 1356 chars, Sun Apr 1 12:20:52 1990
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\nYes, I saw it Friday night. I liked it very much, enough that I wouldn’t
\nmind paying $6 a SECOND time.
\nThe costumes are well-done and well-used. The turtles all have distinct
\ncomplexions and colorations (up close — without the colored ninja
\nmasks, you couldn’t put a name to any of them). On occasion the shells
\ngive away that they are foam-rubber creations, and I thought that the
\nmouths looked too mechanical two times, but I was looking very closely
\nat the film. If you just sit back and enjoy the ride, you won’t notice
\na thing. As the four main characters who have a LOT of action, the turtle
\ncostumes are excellent.
\nSplinter is also well-done, but he doesn’t move around much so you
\nwouldn’t notice flaws anyway. He’s voiced pretty much as I’ve always
\nthought, a raspy, wisdom-laden delivery.
\nAnd the Shredder’s costume is kinda spiffy, but looks like it weighs
\n500 pounds.
\nThe story is a good adaptation of several of the original comics, with
\na few add-ins from the Marketed Cartoon Turtles and a few add-ins that
\nare new to this film. I think the script really underlines the TEENAGE
\naspect of the turtles like never before (the NINJA and MUTANT adjectives
\nhaving been solidly established in their very first issue). The turtles
\nare full of pop-culture references and sometimes don’t know when to shut up.
\nVery well done in the whole.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #5, from hmccracken, 216 chars, Tue Apr 3 18:30:37 1990
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\nThanks for the comments, Tom. BTW, according to today’s Wall Street
\nJournal, the movie broke Hunt for Red October’s youthful record
\nfor the biggest non-Summer, non-Thanksgiving opening of all
\ntime. Wow!
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #6, from jimomura, 93 chars, Tue Apr 3 18:36:34 1990
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\n I saw it. If I had money for 1 movie in my pocket, I’d certainly
\nchose it over Batman.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #7, from hmccracken, 352 chars, Tue Apr 3 18:40:58 1990
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\nI should probably check it out, then. I am not a Turtles fan, really —
\nhaven’t ever done more than flip through the early comics. But
\nI can think of at least one other movie (_Dreamchild_) that was
\nworth seeing as much for the Jim Henson Creature Shop work
\nas anything else, so _TMNT_ should be worthwhile on that
\nscore, if nothing else.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #8, from tom.white, 332 chars, Tue Apr 3 21:14:47 1990
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\nHeadline News mentioned that TMNT pulled in $25 million and change
\nin its first weekend, a “Springtime opening” record.<\/p>\n
These box-office records strike me as nonsense, since prices are
\nalways rising and number of opening theatres is never constant.
\nI’d rather know attendees\/theatres. But Hollywood just LOVES that
\ndollar sign $.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #9, from rconner, 203 chars, Wed Apr 4 03:57:09 1990
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\nAhh. But also remember that alot of ticket sales probably went to
\nkids under say 12-13ish? And there ticket prices are LOWER say in
\nthe $4 area usually (at least in my area).
\nPretty impressive.
\n-Richard<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #10, from jimomura, 342 chars, Wed Apr 4 10:05:40 1990
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\n Yeah. I went on a Tuesday for the 2nd afternoon showing (3:00 PM)
\nand there were fathers with really little kids, like 4 – 6 years old.
\nNot a show I’d necessarily think they’d want *little* kids to see.
\nAdults who worry about kids emulating behavior are going to have a
\nfit. But I’ll leave aside arguing the validity of such concerns.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #11, from jimomura, 747 chars, Mon Apr 9 20:25:06 1990
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\nTITLE: The “Macross” Game on Nintendo<\/p>\n
games\/arcade #482, from jimomura, 643 chars, Thu Mar 22 09:08:15 1990
\nComment to 481. Comment(s). <\/p>\n
And the last of the games we played was the official Macross
\ngame. This was interesting for me because I like Thexder, and I know
\nthe Macross anime very well. Also, I’ve seen pictures of the Macross
\ngame that came out for MSX. This game looks like the MSX game, but
\nwith better graphics. We didn’t get very far, but I found I liked
\nthe responsiveness in the controls. It’s really just another fairly
\nstraight forward “scrolling\/shoot-em-up” game and “dated” by today’s
\nstandards, but if I could buy it for MSX, I think I would. In fact,
\nI’d probably even buy it for the Atari ST if it was cheap.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #12, from jimomura, 1693 chars, Mon Apr 9 20:26:28 1990
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\ngames\/arcade #484, from jimomura, 1592 chars, Sat Mar 24 10:12:59 1990
\nComment to 482. Comment(s). <\/p>\n
I had another shot at the “Macross” game and I got a bit
\nfurther, and watched it a bit more closely. Here’s what I noticed:<\/p>\n
When the game starts, you are in a Valkerie in Fighter mode.
\nYou can switch to Gerwalk (Guardian) mode or Battloid mode at any
\ntime. To change modes you hit the “right” fire button (A?) and
\npush the direction pad at the same time. The direction pad is
\n“left” for Battloid, “up” for Gerwalk and “right” for Fighter.<\/p>\n
The Fighter mode makes the background screen scroll the
\nfastest, but has the least responsiveness. It is sluggish moving
\nthe Valkerie up\/down\/left\/right on the screen. Also, you can
\nonly fire in the “right” direction, so you want to stay mainly
\non the left side of the screen. Firing is with the “left” fire
\nbutton (B?). You can fire as much as you want.<\/p>\n
Battloid mode slows the background scroll, but gives you
\nfast maneuverability on the screen. When you go left in Battloid
\nmode, the whole Valkerie turns and you can fire in the left
\ndirection.<\/p>\n
I haven’t tried Gerwalk mode yet. I expect it’s inbetween.<\/p>\n
There is a “Power” bar across the top of the screen. When you
\nget hit by enemy fire, the power is depleted slowly. If you run out
\nof power, you die. If you hit an enemy Mecha (pods or fighters), I
\nthink you die regardless of the power level. I’m not entirely sure
\nabout that. If not, well, it’s close to being that way. Mainly,
\nyou don’t want to get hit by enemy Mecha. Occasionally there’s a small
\nred disc with a “P” that shows up. You must touch that disc with
\nthe Valkerie to regain power.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #13, from jimomura, 2200 chars, Mon Apr 9 20:27:59 1990
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\ngames\/arcade #485, from jimomura, 2111 chars, Sat Mar 24 10:31:29 1990
\nComment to 484. <\/p>\n
I looked for an old MSX magazine to see the screens and it looks
\nvery different from the Nintendo game. I’m fairly sure that it’s
\nessentially the same game though. The first difference is that there
\nseems to be a “cockpit” like frame along the bottom 1\/4 of the screen
\nfor the MSX version. This seems to have a “radar” screen in the middle
\nwhich probably tells you where there are enemy mecha outside the
\nregular screen, like in Defender. Also, there’s an indicator of
\nwhich mode you’re in (Fighter\/Gerwalk\/Battloid).<\/p>\n
In the Nintendo version, you start with a star background.
\nThen you enter the “battle” and you see explosions in the background
\nwhich are very similar to the explosions in the Macross TV show and
\nmovie. It’s a nice bit of detail missing in any other shoot-em-up
\nspace game I’ve ever seen. In the Robotech TV show, in one episode,
\nRich Hunter, in his fever dream is talking to Lisa Hayes and they
\nadmit that from a distance, a battle can be very beautiful
\n” . . . from a distance.” It’s an observation that brings home
\nthe irony the characters find themselves in. If you’re a Robotech\/
\nMacross fan, you always remember that moment when you see explosions
\n“blossoming” in the distance like that.<\/p>\n
Shortly after the battle starts, the Mecha attacks. I still
\nhaven’t played it that much, but my impression is that the attack
\nis mainly a fixed pattern, though the “P”ower disc didn’t seem to
\nshow up at the same point. If you want to build up points fast,
\nBattloid seems to work best, but you’ll get killed off before you
\nget far into the screens. I don’t know if there’s some point to
\nthis. Eventually you reach a green ship exterior (Breetai’s ship?)
\nand you fight along the outside for a while. Then you enter the
\nship and you’re fighting inside while the background scrolls.
\nAnd then there’s a point where the scrolling stops and you are
\nattacked by “sparkles”. These appear similar to the “sparkle”
\neffect that was left behind in the Macross when the warp drive
\ndisappeared. Unfortunately, I always get killed at this point,
\nso I don’t know what comes next.
\n\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #14, from hmccracken, 140 chars, Mon Apr 9 21:07:12 1990
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\nSpeaking of Nintendo, has anybody played the “Mickey Mousecepade” game, the
\nDuckTales game, or any other animation-related ones?
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #15, from hmccracken, 295 chars, Mon Apr 9 21:20:48 1990
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\nTITLE: The current issue of _Comics Buyer’s Guide_ has an interesting
\narticle on a new series of Baseball cards featuring Warner Bros. cartoon
\ncharacters; creation of the cards was supervised by Chuck Jones, and
\nthey apparently feature work by some (unnamed) Warner Bros. veterans.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/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,
\nthe Road Runner carts. Superman was a complete turkey — the old Atari
\n2600 game was better. Duck Tales is an enjoyable game, but the characters
\ncould be anyone; it’s a fairly standard adventure game. Three Stooges
\nis pretty nifty — the same game available on most other platforms —
\nthe animation’s a bit clumsy but the game’s a lot of fun. Road Runner’s
\na hoot the first few times, but seeing Wile E. catch the Road Runner five
\ntimes a game just doesn’t seem right. Fairly standard arcade action
\ngame, aside from its not having aliens. Another violation: At one point,
\nI steered the Road Runner so that Wile E. would fall over a cliff, but
\nthe cliff was just scenery; he didn’t fall. The Batman game is very
\ndifficult, but it has graphics that just knocked me out. I turned up
\nthe color on my TV a bit to get more of a comic book feel to the graphics
\nand it really looked great — the grimness of the movie and the garishness
\nof comics combined.<\/p>\n
Now, if there were only a game in which Ralph had to survive Josie’s
\nparish Christmas party and get away before becoming engaged…<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/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,
\nfriend, details!<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #18, from switch, 384 chars, Mon Apr 9 23:25:01 1990
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\nSpeaking of the Road Runner, have you tried the arcade game? For the short
\nwhile it was at the comic store next to my school, I used to play it as often
\nas R-Type (which is a _lot_ of money). I rather enjoyed it, although I never
\ndid try steering Wile E. off a cliff. I never bothered trying it on a home
\nsystem because I didn’t think it would live up to the arcade version.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #19, from jimomura, 1496 chars, Tue Apr 10 00:43:35 1990
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\n I eventually finished a “level” of the Macross game, so here
\nare a few more observations:<\/p>\n
First, Gerwalk mode is definitely inbetween Battloid and Fighter
\nmodes. The background seems to scroll just a bit faster than Battloid
\nmode and you have almost the maneuverability of Battloid mode, but
\nyou can only shoot to the right of the screen.<\/p>\n
Also, if you have red dots showing in the upper right hand corner
\nit means that you have “seeking missle barages” ready. To launch the
\nmissle barage you press the “select” button. The missles are very
\nreminicent of the Macross anime! They snake around in the general
\ndirection in which they are fired somewhat randomly. In fact, they
\nare almost entirely useless from what I’ve seen. They seem to miss
\nmost of the enemy on the screen. The only time to use them would be
\nif you have a very thick massing of enemy mecha to whittle down.<\/p>\n
To finish a “level”, you have to fire at the two middle rows of
\nblocks (horizontal rows). You can dodge the sparkles, but it’s easier
\nto shoot them all in Battloid mode first. There are a fixed number
\nof sparkles, so they stop once you’ve shot them all.<\/p>\n
The best usage of modes I found was to stay in fighter mode
\nwhile trying to penetrate the ship, unless there’s a Power disc
\nto pick up. At that point, Gerwalk is maneuverable enough to
\npick up the dot, but doesn’t slow you down as much as Battloid,
\nso it’s a good choice. Battloid is best used in the hold, against
\nthe sparkles.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #20, from davemackey, 241 chars, Tue Apr 10 07:04:58 1990
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\nI remember that cheesy old Superman game. I used to have that thing down.
\nGraphics primitive as hell, but loads of fun for its time. (The kids of
\nthe Nintendo generation would probably scorn and ridicule it!)
\n –D.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #21, from grekel, 633 chars, Tue Apr 10 17:23:45 1990
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\n“Mickey Mousecapade” seems to be positioned at younger folks,
\nbut it is awfully complex for anyone under 12 or so. Kinda frustrating,
\ntoo — you spend the first half of each “scene” trying to rescue Minnie,
\nand when you finally do, she attatches herself to you and slows you
\ndown the rest of the game. Otherwise, it’s yet another of those “walk-
\naround-and-shoot-everything-that-moves” games with hidden powerups
\nthat are invisible until you punch the empty space containing them. So
\nyou must spend the entire game punching any empty space that looks
\nworthy of a powerup. Not my idea of a fun game.<\/p>\n
But, of course, TINAR…
\ngreg<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #22, from davemackey, 194 chars, Tue Apr 10 18:03:51 1990
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\nTITLE: Tank McNamara…
\nby Millar and Hinds, could be the next comic-strip property to hit animation,
\nvia the Film Roman studio in a format yet to be determined.
\n –D.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/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
\nyears than I want to admit. I assume Tengen’s cart is an adaptation,
\nbut most of its fun comes from the sight gags, so I’m in little hurry to
\nstart dropping quarters…<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #24, from hkenner, 47 chars, Tue Apr 10 19:25:59 1990
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\nAnd CHEAP to animate. Tank just sits there. <\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #25, from hmccracken, 336 chars, Tue Apr 10 20:12:51 1990
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\nThe Road Runner arcade game is an excellent little timewaster that’s
\nfun to play and captures the spirit of the cartoon quite well (better,
\nin fact, than the infamous DePatie-Freleng Road Runner cartoons of
\nthe 1960s do). BTW, Warner Bros. Cartoons has one sitting in
\nits lobby, or at least did when I visited back in 1988.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #26, from hmccracken, 118 chars, Tue Apr 10 20:26:36 1990
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\nOh, no! The Jean Shepherd thread rears its ugly head again!<\/p>\n
…Say, I wonder if Jean has a twin sibling?
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #27, from hmccracken, 103 chars, Tue Apr 10 20:27:15 1990
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\nActually, if an unlikely humorist is to get his own video game, I vote
\nfor Albert Brooks…
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #28, from morganfox, 234 chars, Tue Apr 10 21:50:07 1990
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\nTITLE: er….
\nNot having seen this game, but from the TINAR, I wonder if I want 12 and under
\nchildren to play\/learn that females must be rescued and then they cling to you
\nand slow you down. Can you say Sexist? I knew you could……<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #29, from tom.white, 1637 chars, Wed Apr 11 20:00:24 1990
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\nLatest Comic Buyer’s Guide (#857, 4\/20\/90) has a headline story on a new
\nset of cards coming from Upper Deck, the newest big baseball-card publisher.
\nUD has licensed with both Warner Brothers and Major League Baseball to
\nproduce a new series titled Comic Ball. The first series will be 396 cards,
\n99 cards to a story (so when you put them in standard 9-card pages, 11 full
\npages make one readable story). Basic premise is Warner characters, in
\nbaseball uniforms (of real teams), have a story 99 panels long, and the
\npreliminary report is that, while not animated, they work quite well.
\nCreation of these cards has been greatly assisted by Chuck Jones.<\/p>\n
A review by Kit Kiefer, editor of _Baseball_Cards_, suggests that there
\nshould be minimal demand for certain cards, unlike baseball cards where
\nthe prices can fluctuate based on the week’s offense statistics. Statistical
\nanalysis says it would take buying 217 packs (12 cards\/pack) at 89c\/pack
\na total cost of some $192, to get the
\nentire set. However, card stores often make their own sets and sell them
\nfor considerably less (and no annoying duplicates), and Kiefer estimates
\n$20 for such a set when available. No plans from UD to factory package
\ncomplete sets. Kiefer also points out that each box of packs contains
\na single card-size hologram that, while not described in detail, has to be
\nseen to be believed. Intriguing.<\/p>\n
Further review by CBG co-editors Don and Maggie Thompson just sort of
\nraves over the prospect from the comic collector’s point of view.<\/p>\n
Upper Deck makes very good cards, using excellent reproduction and very stiff
\ncard stock. Hey, I’ll buy a set.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #30, from davemackey, 253 chars, Wed Apr 11 23:54:32 1990
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\nWarner Bros. held a promotion today at Shea Stadium, in fact, honoring the
\n50th birthday of Bugs Bunny. I don’t have any details on what went on but
\nI can tell you the Mets won 3-0 on the strong pitching of Frank Viola.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/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
\nwill be at the Red Sox game here in Boston Saturday, which, in a
\ndesperate attempt to sell tickets, has been named “Kids’ Opening Day.”
\nLast year Mickey and Minnie were at the Sox’ home opener.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #32, from tom.white, 57 chars, Thu Apr 12 19:09:19 1990
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\nOh come on, the Sox never have problems selling tickets.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #33, from davemackey, 293 chars, Fri Apr 13 03:18:07 1990
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\nThe Mets’ used it as part of a promotional gambit they’ve been doing last
\nseveral years called “Opening Day II.” In earlier years, they used to have
\nRodney Dangerfield throw out the first ball on the theory that the second
\ngame of the season never got any respect.
\n –D<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #34, from hmccracken, 439 chars, Sat Apr 14 01:35:35 1990
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\nTITLE: I was surprised, and sort of pleased, to happen across an
\nanimated TV ad for a line of toys based on Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s
\nold “Rat Fink” characters today. Rat Fink was a rodent ahead of
\nhis time who certainly fits in well with the current toy trend towards
\ngross and weird; it’s nice to think that Big Daddy will be profiting
\nat least a little from the fad. The animation of his characters was
\nquite respectable, too.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #35, from davemackey, 431 chars, Sat Apr 14 04:26:29 1990
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\nI had read an article a few years ago in a one-shot Rat Fink comic book that
\nRoth was still interested in giving the characters a life, despite the
\nfact that their decade (the sixties, the muscle car decade — my brother
\nhad a hopped up ’57 Chevy I wish he still had) had long since passed.
\nI think it’s nice the kids can have something to play with that their dads
\nmight be able to relate to.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #36, from richard.pini, 135 chars, Sat Apr 14 17:58:23 1990
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\nFor anyone who’s interested – and I suspect Roth would be too – he can be
\nreached at 14245 San Feliciano Avenue, La Mirada, CA 90638. <\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/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
\nfaces connotes “dry irony with raised eyebrow.”<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/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
\nface for drum rimshot?)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #39, from richard.pini, 439 chars, Sun Apr 15 21:24:34 1990
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\nDidja know there’s a machine out now (similar to those dashboard Destructor
\nboxes) that will give you a rimshot, an alarm bell, hysterical laughter,
\na beautiful cartoon boinnng!, and a sexy (boom boom ba-dum) drum riff? It’s
\ncalled the Inter-Comedy, looks like an intercom box, sits on your desk, and
\nis great! Now, if I only knew where to get one… (The one I saw belonged to
\nsomeone else and I was unable to get the information…sigh)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #40, from bcapps, 570 chars, Tue Apr 17 23:41:17 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 34.
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\nBTW, Stabur Corp., is offering limited edition Rat Fink cels, signed and
\nnumbered by Ed “Big Daddy” Roth hisself! Dey’s hand-painted wid’ ai’-bruss
\nbackgrouns! Fur only $49.95! Edition is limited to 100.<\/p>\n
Stabur Corp. 1-800-346-8940. Address is in animation\/sources.<\/p>\n
Also of note: They are offering a 395 edition run of Mort Walker’s Beetle
\nBailey “Buns” Sunday strip from January of this year, which was pulled due
\nto obvious editorial fear of _any_ form of nudity. This one’s only
\n$59.95 with a cert. of authenticity.<\/p>\n
(Reportin’ ’em as I sees them!) Bob<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #42, from jimomura, 478 chars, Sun Apr 22 19:39:48 1990
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\nTITLE: Sega Genesis, “Revenge of Shinobi”, Spiderman, Batman
\n I just watched my freind play a full game of “Revenge of Shinobi”.
\nI helped a bit in the early stages (gave him some relief time so he
\nwas sharper in the later stages of the game) and we watched the sunset
\nat the end of the game. It was interesting to see both Spiderman and
\na Batman like character making “guest appearances” in the game, as
\ndoes a Godzilla-like character. All are appropriately hard to kill.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #43, from hmccracken, 411 chars, Fri May 11 18:44:01 1990
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\nTITLE: I just received my copy of the new edition of the Whole Toon Catalog,
\nso those of you who accepted my invitation to put you on their mailing
\nlist (as well as anybody else who is on the list for other reasons) should
\nbe getting it shortly. It’s massive and excellent — a definite must for
\ncartoon fans, with hundreds of cartoon videotape and lots of other
\ninteresting and hard-to-find stuff.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #44, from bsoron, 107 chars, Fri May 11 20:33:02 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 43.
\nThere are additional comments to message 43.
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Got mine today as well; I really wish they packed a winning lottery
\nticket with each catalog *sigh*…<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #45, from dquick, 50 chars, Sat May 12 00:20:03 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 43.
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\nGot mine today as well, thanks Harry.<\/p>\n
Dave Quick<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #46, from hmccracken, 27 chars, Sat May 12 00:59:24 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 45.
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\nYou’re welcome! — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #47, from davemackey, 198 chars, Sat May 12 01:56:16 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 43.
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\nHaven’t gotten mine yet. Bad enough they’re changing our area code in this
\npart of Jersey, now the USPS has joined UPS in refusal to deliver to P.O.
\nboxes? Curiouser and curiouser……. \ud83d\ude42 —Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #48, from switch, 364 chars, Sat May 12 13:37:39 1990
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\nTITLE: Batman?
\nI just got back from a trip to the mall (grabbing the lunch I’m currently
\neating) where I saw a gaggle of children crowding about. Amidst it all
\nwas Batman and a Batmobile. I was trying to figure out what was wrong with
\nthis picture when I realized — the Batman costume was that of the movie, and
\nthe car was that from the old TV series…<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #49, from davemackey, 173 chars, Sat May 12 16:58:19 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 48.
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\nDown near where I work is the man who owns an original Batmobile. Where did you
\nsee this car, and I’ll try to determine if it’s the same dude.
\n –D.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #50, from switch, 108 chars, Sat May 12 17:30:21 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 49.
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\nFairview Shopping Center, Montreal, Quebec, Great White North (currently in
\nthe midst of bad skiing).<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #51, from dquick, 92 chars, Sat May 12 19:41:21 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 47.
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\nWhat!?!?!?!?! The people with the keys to the box won’t deliver to it?
\nSheesh.<\/p>\n
Dave Quick<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #52, from hmccracken, 301 chars, Sun May 13 09:33:17 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 48.
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\nOddly enough, I was driving through Pella, Iowa last week and saw
\nthe — well, a — Batmobile cruising down the street. After assuming
\nfor a second that Gotham City must be located somewhere near
\nPella, I realized that this Batmobile was a (quite good-looking)
\namateur job, and drove on.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #53, from bsoron, 279 chars, Sun May 13 16:59:18 1990
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\nTITLE: Little Nemo Hits the Chips<\/p>\n
According to one of the videogame magazines my brother gets, Little Nemo
\nwill become a Nintendo game later this year, traveling through Slumberland
\nto rescue its King. Don’t know many details, but I doubt its graphics will
\nrival McCay’s…<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #54, from hmccracken, 247 chars, Sun May 13 21:54:11 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 53.
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\nWinsor McCay is probably spinning in his — well he probably isn’t,
\nsince he presumably doesn’t know what a videogame is. But if he
\ndid, he would.
\n — Harry
\n(Wonder if the videogame is a tie-in with the upcoming Japanese
\nanimated feature film?)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #55, from bsoron, 287 chars, Mon May 14 23:04:59 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 54.
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Apparently, each time Nemo defeats an adversary, he can either ride
\nthe creature or take on its attributes — he can ride on a bee or
\nturn into a bee and sting other adversaries, for instance. (They
\npresumably take a bit of license and keep him alive after stinging his
\nenemies…)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #56, from hmccracken, 699 chars, Mon May 14 23:18:08 1990
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\nTITLE: I read a lot of annual reports as part of my job…
\nbut one of the few I really *enjoy* reading is the one published by the
\nWalt Disney Company. Last year’s included a pop-up Roger Rabbit;
\nthis year’s edition doesn’t have anything that spectacular, but it’s still
\na very interesting overview of the millions of things the studio is
\ndoing, with lots of good pictures. The annual is so popular that the
\none they send me was a black-and-white reprint; they had run out of
\nthe color original.<\/p>\n
You don’t need to be a stockholder or anything to get a free copy;
\njust call the studio and ask for one. I don’t have the phone number
\nhandy, but you can call Burbank information for it.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #57, from bcapps, 79 chars, Tue May 15 22:19:47 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 43.
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\nI got mine as well. Thanks Harry! Now, where are the Animato sub forms?<\/p>\n
Bob<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #59, from hmccracken, 274 chars, Tue May 15 22:50:10 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 57.
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\nThe Whole Toon Catalog has some information on subscribing to
\nAnimato; they also offer back issues (which I can also supply).
\nInformation on Animato is also available in the sources topic
\nhere in the animation conference. If you’ve got any questions,
\njust ask!
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #60, from davemackey, 226 chars, Wed May 16 06:51:09 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 59.
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\nI finally received by copy of the catalogue and was staggered by the breadth
\nof the releases therein. Will likely be placing a good-sized order for some
\nof the more obscure Warners stuff.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #61, from sharonfisher, 124 chars, Wed May 16 11:42:50 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 60.
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\nI got mine over the weekend and am attempting to figure out what I can get
\nwithout costing myself thousands of dollars. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #62, from davemackey, 194 chars, Wed May 16 18:00:52 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 61.
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\nI definitely want to get the “Uncensored Cartoons” volume, for starters, and
\nsome of the Bosko Video collections. That should just about burn my credit
\ncard up.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #63, from tom.white, 278 chars, Wed May 16 19:13:41 1990
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\nFinally got to see a few of the Comic Ball card artwork, though not the
\ncards themselves. Pure Chuck Jones stuff, gorgeous. Bugs was swinging
\na giant carrot in lieu of a bat.
\nNo idea when these may arrive, as Upper Deck is notoriously slow,
\nbut it should be worth the wait.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #64, from hmccracken, 72 chars, Wed May 16 20:18:03 1990
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\nNeat! Where’d you see it? I’ve been looking for the cards.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #65, from tom.white, 623 chars, Wed May 16 21:04:50 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 64.
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\nI wish the cards were out, but you’ll have to settle for
\nthe article in the July 1990 issue of Baseball Cards… any
\ncard store should have it, and comic stores might also carry it.
\nThere’s a quick review on p.14 with one card, Foghorn Leghorn
\nand Porky Pig in the announcer’s booth:
\nFL:”He struck out the side with _one_ pitch!”
\nPP:”It’s a muh-muh-mir-acuh-buh- It’s magnuh-muh magnuh- oh, forget it–
\n It _was_ a nice pitch.”<\/p>\n
A larger article starts on p.22 and is accompanied by four color card
\nillustrations and one B&W card.<\/p>\n
As usual, though, home plate mistakenly has the point facing the
\nfield of play. sigh.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #66, from rmunafo, 425 chars, Mon May 21 15:11:22 1990
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\nTITLE: Marvin the Martian?<\/p>\n
I got my Whole Toon Catalog, too. Thanks, Harry!<\/p>\n
There was one thing I was expecting to find in it, which I didn’t — there
\ndoesn’t seem to be a collection which includes the “Martin the Martian”
\ncartoons (2 or 3 were Bugs Bunny cartoons, 2 or 3 were Daffy Duck). Does
\nanyone know if these have been collected together on one tape? I’d really
\nlove to get them!
\n____
\n\\RM\/ Robert P. Munafo
\n \\\/<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #67, from davemackey, 412 chars, Mon May 21 17:56:56 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 66.
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\nThe answer to that, unfortunately, is no. You would have to get at least
\nthe tape with “Haredevil Hare” from MGM\/UA and the one with “Duck
\nDodgers…” from Warner Bros. to have the full extent of Marvin Martian
\ncartoons that have been released on home video. “Mad As A Mars Hare,”
\n“Hare-Way To The Stars” and “Hasty Hare” still show up on the network
\npackage from time to time.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #68, from tom.white, 540 chars, Mon May 21 18:54:32 1990
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\nLatest CBG (June 1, 1990) has a full-page ad by Upper Deck (p. 69)
\nplugging their Comic Ball cards (it doesn’t show the cards, just the
\nbox and packs, but the display is eye-catching). The other half of
\nthe ad is for their Looney Tunes “Laserchron” holographic watch.
\nApparently there is more than one model, but the one shown is of
\nDaffy’s bust, in cap, jersey, and glove, tossing a ball. You’ve
\nprobably seen these things before, at the little stands in the hallways
\nof the local mall, but the characters haven’t been available before.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #69, from jimomura, 2342 chars, Fri Jun 8 21:40:25 1990
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\nTITLE: Robotech Collectables
\n Tonight was the openning for Ad Astra 10 in Toronto and I dropped
\nin to pick up the usual handouts and get a feel for what I’m going to
\ndo for the weekend. There were 2 smallish dealer rooms, so it didn’t
\ntake long to buzz them. Nobody showed up with particularly heavy animation
\noriented stuff. Ad Astra is sort of settling into a kind of SF tunnel
\nvision. It’s very “SF maintstream”. But 1 dealer had some really
\ninteresting models and collectables. He had a large Dalek about 2 feet
\nhigh which was a prize winner. He also had the 2nd prize winner from
\nthe same contest (I forget which contest) which was a vinyl “Boomer”
\nkit from Bubblegum Crisis. He estimated 5 hours for construction
\nincluding spray painting and adding LEDs in the eyes and cutting a
\nhole in the base for batteries and circuitry. I was amazed. I’d
\nnever actually touched a blown vinyl kit before and the pieces are
\nactually hard, like styrene, when it’s done. The kit was perfectly
\nproportioned and detailed. He sprayed it a metallic blue. It was
\nabout 8″ high.<\/p>\n
He also had a solid vinyl Misa Hayase. There aren’t many pieces
\nto these kits, but this one again is perfectly formed and when painted
\nit looks very life-like. I was impressed with all these kits. He has
\na Boomer kit on sale for $80.00 (Cdn) and a Misa Hayase kit for $45.00
\n(Cdn).<\/p>\n
Anyway, I didn’t buy these. What I did buy though was a Miriya
\nSterling “Action Figure” from the Matchbox Robotech series. This is
\nthe small version of Miriya which apparently was never imported into
\nCanada. The fellow brought it in from the US. I paid $18.00 (Cdn)
\nfor it. I talked to him about it and apparently the Minmei was never
\nreally brought it. I’ve seen a picture of it and I guess they only
\nhad some samples. He paid $35.00 for a Rook Bartley recently. I’ve
\nnever seen the Rook Bartley at all. The Miriya is passable. The
\nbody looks like the Lisa Hayes body, but cast in red material and
\npainted with white, black and skin colour trim. The head looks like
\nthe Dana Sterling model with a bit of minor detail changes, and the
\nhair is, of course, green. It comes with a helmet and an assault gun.<\/p>\n
Amazing to think I just paid $18.00 for something that should
\nhave costed much less if the merchandizer had had the brains to bring
\nthem in.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #70, from jimomura, 211 chars, Mon Jun 11 13:09:59 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 69.
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\n I went back yesterday and I bought a 1\/12th scale Minmei model
\nkit. It’s styrene injection moulded by Imai and comes with a Skull
\nSquadron sticker. At about $16.00 Cdn., it was all I could really
\nafford.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #71, from jimomura, 1994 chars, Tue Jun 12 01:01:17 1990
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\nTITLE: “Target Earth” on the Sega Genesis<\/p>\n
games\/arcade #622, from jimomura, 1934 chars, Tue Jun 12 00:59:24 1990<\/p>\n
Tonight I was playing these two games with a freind. “Target Earth”
\nis interesting but too hard for me. It’s essentially a walk along\/shooter
\ngame, but with the ability to backtrack. I don’t know how far you can
\nbacktrack, but it’s interesting to have more freedom in that sense
\nthan in most other similar games. The biggest annoyance is that it’s
\nnot very forgiving of getting killed. You only have a couple of “lives”
\nand when those are done, they start you from the beginning. With my
\nfreind playing, I only got to see to the 3rd level, and he’s a *excellent*
\ngames player! The third level was the most fun because it takes place
\nin space.<\/p>\n
The artwork is comparable others in the better range of this
\ntype of game. The storyline is a bit unique. It’s a war with an
\nunknown enemy and the 2nd level is actually an organized retreat!
\nIn most other games, you keep winning and beating the opposition
\nas you roll along in the storyline. In this game, the 2nd level
\nis a “win” only in the sense that you’ve escaped with your life.
\nThat’s a nice touch. Also, the 3rd level is reminiscent of the openning
\nof the “Mobile Suit Gundam” TV series when White Base has to enter
\nEarth’s atmosphere and only a small handful of defenders fight off
\nthe Zabi interception attempt. In that story, Amuro Lai almost died
\nin re-entry and the Zabi soldier he was fighting at the end was burned
\nalive in his armour. In “Target Earth”, if you enter the atmosphere
\nyou lose your “life force” level and it can kill you. It’s very well
\nhandled. You *can* dip into the atmosphere as a tactic, but only
\nas a calculated risk! Other elements of the game come from Gundam
\nor other Japanese Anime and Manga stories. In that sense I could
\nbe interesting for trivia fanatics.<\/p>\n
There’s also a broad array of weapons. But I didn’t learn all
\nof them. I hope I get to try it again.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #72, from tom.white, 441 chars, Thu Jun 14 15:10:06 1990
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\nThe latest issue of Rolling Stone has Bart Simpson on the cover, quite
\nglaringly actually, and inside, there’s an “interview” with the family
\nand another with the creators. This morning’s USA Today had the op-ed
\npage full of Simpsons stuff, a short Q&A session with Charles Solomon
\n(author of Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation, it notes) and
\nsome commentary from The People, both those who love it and those that
\ndon’t get it. <\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #73, from davemackey, 301 chars, Thu Jun 14 21:29:58 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 72.
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\nI’ve given up on trying to report every piece of Simpsons epherma out
\nthere, simply because poor Harry would have to open a new topic just
\nto handle all of it. Fortunately, he’s pushed Roseanne Barr out of the
\nlimelight somewhat since his series became ultra-popular.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #74, from hmccracken, 137 chars, Thu Jun 14 23:23:04 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 73.
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\n…And if we’re *un*lucky, the “Little Rosey” cartoon show might
\npush the Simpsons out of the spotlight. Not likely, though.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #75, from jimomura, 113 chars, Fri Jun 15 16:47:24 1990
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\nTITLE: Dick Tracy — Good?
\n Has anybody seen this movie yet? The coverage so far makes it
\nlook really good.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #76, from hmccracken, 1498 chars, Sat Jun 16 00:26:15 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 75.
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\nYup — I saw it tonight (well, yesterday, now), in an orgy of
\nmoviegoing that also included Roller Coaster Rabbit (which
\nis playing with Tracy) and Gremlins II — both of which I
\nwill comment on in separate messages.<\/p>\n
Dick Tracy is in most respects excellent — the look of the film
\nreally surpasses even all the hype. (It’s comic strippy, yes, but
\nthe backgrounds looked as much like animation backgrounds
\nas anything else.) The makeup on all the Chester Gould villains,
\ntoo, is magnificent.<\/p>\n
But what makes the movie as good as it is — and it’s certainly
\none of the best comic-strip adaptations of them all, vastly
\nsuperior to Batman — are other things, too, like brilliant
\ncasting and fine acting from everybody from Beatty to Al
\nPacino to Dick Van Dyke and Estelle Parsons. Beatty’s
\ndirection is visually very witty, while quite reverent to
\nChester Gould, comic strips, and old-timey junk culture
\nin general. I’m not that big a Sondheim fan, or a Madonna
\none, but their parts in the film’s music aren’t bad, either.<\/p>\n
If I was in a nit-picking mood, I’d complain that the pacing
\ndrags in spots during the second half, and that perhaps the
\nfilm should have saved some of its bag of tricks for longer
\nthan it does; the first twenty minutes or so are so wondrous that
\nthe spectacular stuff that follows doesn’t have *quite* the impact
\nthat it could have. But I’m not in a nit-picking mood, really.
\nI’ll save the criticism for when I see the movie again, which
\nI’ll certainly do.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #77, from hmccracken, 553 chars, Sat Jun 16 00:28:48 1990
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\nTITLE: Despite being in live action, _Gremlins II_
\ndeserves mention here for several cartoon references, ranging
\nfrom opening and closing credits written and directed by Chuck
\nJones (not particularly germaine to the movie, but cute, and it’s
\ngood to see him working) to a cameo appearance by Leonard
\nMaltin. Fred Steiner, who I believe composed the _Bullwinkle_
\ntheme, is also credited with some work on the film’s score.
\nMy viewing of the flm was preceded by a trailer for the
\nJetsons movie, by the way, which does not look very promising.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #78, from davemackey, 365 chars, Sat Jun 16 08:53:50 1990
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\nI think there were two themes, one composed by Fred Steiner and the other
\nby Frank Comstock. I have the Jay Ward Music Tape he sold out of his store,
\nand while some of the quality is subpar, it’s a pretty good listen. There’s
\nsome material on that tape which seems to be sung by Mr. Ward himself
\naccompanying himself on piano.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #79, from hmccracken, 214 chars, Sat Jun 16 10:30:26 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 78.
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\nGee, do you happen to know if the Dudley Do-Right Emporium
\nsurvived Ward’s passing. (It was run mainly by his wife,as
\nI understand it.) I plan to be in California in August, and
\nwould love to stop by.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #80, from davemackey, 242 chars, Sat Jun 16 23:14:05 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 79.
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\nLast time I was in LA was in January of 1989 (the week before I got fired)
\nand the Emporium was still there on Sunset Blvd. I hope it’s still there
\nfor the sake of those still wanting to make the pilgrimage.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #81, from hmccracken, 216 chars, Sun Jun 17 07:49:58 1990
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\nWell, I have spent a grand total of 1 (one) day in L.A., and didn’t
\nfind time to visit the Emporium then. I plan to be there a little
\nlonger this time. I’ve heard it keeps brief, erratic hours, though.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #82, from jimomura, 478 chars, Wed Jun 20 11:34:46 1990
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\nTITLE: Wagner “The Ring of Nibelungen”<\/p>\n
The following was part of the discussion about this series of
\noperas.<\/p>\n
music\/classical #406, from jimomura, 271 chars, Wed Jun 20 11:32:05 1990
\nComment to 402. <\/p>\n
Actually, while watching The Rhinegold I was thinking about
\ndoing an animated video. The trouble is avoiding Jack Kirby. He’s
\njust about copped the field. Check back the Thor series and Tales
\nof Asgard (Marvel Comics), and later in DC comics The New Gods
\nseries.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #83, from jimomura, 268 chars, Wed Jun 20 11:38:29 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 82.
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\n I was watching the end of The Rhinegold where Donner (god of
\nthunder) swings his hammer and I thought that it would have been more
\neffective if he gave it a real swing like Thor did in the comicbooks
\nand TV shows. The stage prop didn’t look heavy enough either.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #84, from jenn, 477 chars, Sun Jun 24 17:42:14 1990
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\nanimation\/coming.soon #319, from jenn, 348 chars, Sun Jun 24 17:30:52 1990
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\nYou know, I caught an episode of The Simpsons, finally. And
\nfrankly, I wasn’t THAT impressed by it. I can’t understand
\nwhat the hub-bub is about. It was the episode where Bart
\ntakes a picture of his dad dancing with a belly dancer
\nand then the picture ends up being spread all over town….<\/p>\n
Bart WAS my favorite character though. What a brat.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #85, from tshim, 536 chars, Wed Aug 1 14:40:37 1990
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\nTITLE: Bugs’s 50th Anniversary Cel-ebrations
\nSo far, there is the exhibition at the Museum of Cartoon Art in Rye,
\nNew York, and a roving museum exhibit currently in Portsmouth, VA.
\nThe former is based along the information in Adamson’s “Bugs Bunny:
\n50 Years and Only One Grey Hare,” while the latter is basically the
\ncollection of Steve Schneider, author of “That’s All Folks!: The Art
\nof Warner Bros. Animation.”<\/p>\n
Any others? (No, the birthday “bash” at Six Flags parks aren’t included.)<\/p>\n
[P.S. Did they show shorts at those things?]<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #86, from switch, 419 chars, Wed Aug 1 23:20:28 1990
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\nHere in Montreal, we’ve had a Bugs Bunny compilation (which was also
\na dedication to Mel Blanc) at the Cinematheque Quebecoise — I
\nbelieve I may have commented on that here.<\/p>\n
There was also the Comedy in Animation: Chuck Jones show at the
\nRialto, where an hour of shorts (mostly of Bugs Bunny) were shown
\ntwo nights in a row, with Chuck Jones speaking. Later in the week
\nthere was Chuck Jones’ Greatest Hits.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #87, from tshim, 122 chars, Sun Aug 5 17:23:22 1990
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\nSo if everyone here loved TMNT (I didn’t see it), why were almost all the
\nreviews not only negative, but downright surly?<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #88, from tshim, 189 chars, Sun Aug 5 17:36:31 1990
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\nWhat are all of you guys complaining about? I just sent half-a-grand
\nDoug’s way.<\/p>\n
I hope he has a good time with all the cash that people in this BIX
\nare wiring to the Whole Toon Catalog.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #89, from tshim, 34 chars, Sun Aug 5 17:48:32 1990
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\nWhat is in the Do-Right Emporium?<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #90, from davemackey, 408 chars, Mon Aug 6 22:24:12 1990
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\nThe Dudley Do-Right Emporium is on Sunset Boulevard and was a place where
\nyou could buy T-shirts, production art and other merchandise goodies of the
\nmajor Jay Ward characters. Notable for its giant statue of Bullwinkle guarding
\nthe front.
\n I think Harry mentioned that he was going to check out the post-Jay
\nstate of affairs at the Emporium on his West Coast trip.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #91, from hmccracken, 1067 chars, Fri Aug 10 19:03:58 1990
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\nThat’s right — one of my pilgrimages during my California trip was
\nto the Emporium — which is next door to the place where the Ward
\nstudio was located (but I didn’t see the studio and suppose it’s
\nbeen closed).<\/p>\n
TheThe Emporium is a very small store stocked with Jay Ward merchandise,
\nsome of which is new but much of which seems to have been in stock
\nsince, oh, 1965. The prices on cels and some other things are
\nsky-high; other stuff is more reasonable. I made my purchase of
\na Super Chicken T-shirt and some old Jay Ward press material from
\nthe Widow Ward herself, who says that the live-action Boris and
\nNatasha movie is unlikely to be released, but that Disney now
\nsays that the Bullwinkle videotapes will start being released in
\nOctober. Any folks in the area should check the store out, but
\ncall ahead — it keeps odd hours. It was very busy the ten or
\nso minutes I was there.<\/p>\n
The aforementioned Bullwinkle statue (which is actually a couple of
\nbuildings down the street), mural, and mosaic courtyard are worth
\nchecking out all by themselves.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #92, from steven_edwards, 669 chars, Sun Aug 12 21:31:34 1990
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\nTITLE: New Magazine<\/p>\n
\tAccording to the Associated Press wire, Disney is introducing a new
\nU.S. produced magazine this fall. Entited _Disney Adventures_, it’s aimed at
\nthe 7 to 14 year old set and is intended to as an adjunct to traditional
\ntelevision entertainment. The company stated that one of the goals of the
\nnew periodical is to support greater literacy among the targeted readers.<\/p>\n
\tI would guess that this is going to be some kind of “activity book”.
\nProbably more entertaining than _Weekly Reader_. I guess the upper age limit
\nsounds anout right; fourteen is about the age many boys and girls switch to
\n_Playboy_ and _Cosmopolitan_ respectively.<\/p>\n
\t— Steve<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #93, from tshim, 137 chars, Mon Aug 13 23:44:01 1990
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\nSpeaking of kiddie mags: Does anyone know the content of “Looney Tunes”
\nMagazine (put out by Time Warner in conjunction with DC Comics).<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #94, from tshim, 600 chars, Tue Aug 14 00:00:50 1990
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\nTITLE: AMC Theatres and WB Shorts
\nDoes anyone know of an AMC Theatres branch in the northwest, close to NYC?
\nI called up Warner Bros. studio (under the guise of a reporter) and got a
\ncallback (after about twenty transfers from Animation to WB proper to WB
\nmerchandising to WB sales back to animation) from a WB VP in charge of sales,
\nand he bent my ear for a good hour telling me about Box Office Bunny (which
\nwill open in the Fall).<\/p>\n
He tells me, anyway, about two theatres in Morristown, NJ. Dave (Mackey),
\nmaybe you can tell me about the drive from NYC to there. Anybody else
\nseen one of these?<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #95, from davemackey, 278 chars, Tue Aug 14 20:40:51 1990
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\n“Looney Tunes” magazine is primarily for the younger folk and has
\nactivities, strips, stories and other fictional material on the
\nLooney Tunes gang. You won’t find any doctoral dissertations on
\nthe use of Fudd as a Christ figure in there.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #96, from davemackey, 498 chars, Tue Aug 14 20:43:22 1990
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\nTom–
\n Morristown is definitely within your range, but I could suggest also
\nthe AMC Rockaway, which I believe is in that shopping mall that is
\noff the Interstate.
\n The only other AMC theatres that are in NJ are in the southwestern
\npart of the state.
\n Best way to get to Morristown from NYC would be to somehow get ahold
\nof Route 24. The AMC theatres are in the Headquarters Plaza, a shopping
\nmall inside a hotel in the redeveloped business district of town.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #97, from sharonfisher, 47 chars, Tue Aug 14 20:43:25 1990
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\n“Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. I’m being cwucified.”<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #98, from tshim, 78 chars, Tue Aug 14 23:50:54 1990
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\nThanks, Dave. One q: AMC Rockaway? As in Rockaway, Queens?
\nWhat Interstate?<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #99, from davemackey, 203 chars, Wed Aug 15 18:55:35 1990
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\nIt’s in Rockaway, NJ, and I believe it’s off I-80. A look at a road map
\nwill lead you right to it. I know of no other AMC theatres in the greater
\nNew York area, and definitely none in the five boroughs.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #100, from davemackey, 858 chars, Wed Aug 15 20:54:51 1990
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\nTITLE: Looney calendar
\nYou know summer’s soon going to end when the new year’s calendars start
\nappearing in book and gift shops. One must-buy for the Warner Bros.
\ncartoon fan (I must have bought mine by now, that is) is the Hallmark
\nLooney Tunes 1991 calendar. The calendar features reproductions of
\nartwork from the following cartoons: “Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid,”
\n“Fast and Furry-Ous,” “The Leghorn Blows At Midnight,” “Scent-imental
\nRomeo,” “Ballot Box Bunny,” “Drip-Along Daffy,” “Tree For Two,” “Beanstalk
\nBunny,” “Double Or Mutton,” “Ali Baba Bunny,” “What’s Opera, Doc?” and
\n“Hyde and Go Tweet.” Each carries a description of the cartoon written
\nby Chuck Jones. Apart from the mis-citing of the title of “Scent-imental
\nRomeo” as “Scenti-Mental Rome,” this IMHO is a nice product.
\n TINAR,
\n Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #101, from tshim, 106 chars, Thu Aug 16 00:26:13 1990
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\nOne last ambiguity: Have you (or anyone for that matter) tried out
\nan AMC Theatre? How are their prints?<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #102, from switch, 233 chars, Fri Aug 17 01:20:53 1990
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\nTITLE: This is a weird one…
\nMy sister was walking near Ste. Catherine and Bleury St. today past a
\nstrip club called “Appeel”, when she heard the strains of “How Far To
\nParadise” (from _Area 88_ Act I) blaring from within…<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #103, from davemackey, 234 chars, Fri Aug 17 18:37:57 1990
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\nYes, I have, and the one that I caught, which was “A Bear For Punishment,”
\nreally looked good. But I don’t think AMC had new prints struck, instead
\nhoping to find some really nice used ones.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #104, from tshim, 226 chars, Fri Aug 17 23:12:39 1990
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\nYes, in the “interview” I held with WB VP of sales, AMC thought many of the
\ncurrent prints to be
\n(whoops) “unfit” for showing. WB Animation buffed up a few prints, and gave
\nthe (still) many good ones over to AMC for duping.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #105, from hmccracken, 153 chars, Sat Aug 25 22:18:09 1990
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\nAccording to an article by Charles Solomon in the _Los Angeles Times_,
\nnew prints *were* struck for the AMC showings of Warner Bros. cartoons.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #106, from tshim, 24 chars, Sat Aug 25 23:31:54 1990
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\nWhich article was this?<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #107, from tshim, 103 chars, Sat Aug 25 23:36:53 1990
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\nTITLE: Talking Animals
\nIs Shamus Culhane’s out-of-print book available anywhere?<\/p>\n
Thanks for any info.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #108, from davemackey, 143 chars, Sun Aug 26 07:35:32 1990
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\nI think the Whole Toon Catalogue was selling the last of their supply
\nin their Summer 1990 catalogue.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #109, from hmccracken, 170 chars, Sun Aug 26 10:25:21 1990
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\nAn article on how “cartoons are back,” which Solomon seems to write
\nabout once every six months — it covered _Roller Coaster Rabbit_,
\n_Box Office Bunny_, etc.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #110, from hmccracken, 71 chars, Sun Aug 26 10:25:55 1990
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\nYes, and as a bonus their copies are autographed by Culhane.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/tie.ins #111, from davemackey, 278 chars, Sun Aug 26 22:41:52 1990
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\nTITLE: DC strikes again
\nDC has published the first issue of the “Tiny Toon Adventures” magazine.
\nIn the same vein as “Looney Tunes” magazine, the mag includes artwork
\nfrom the likes of John Costanza, Chad Grothkopf, Bill Wray and Mike
\nDeCarlo.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
========================== ========================== ========================== Oh well, time to solicit Xerox copies of these books again …<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Excellent book, though.<\/p>\n Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== (I’m showing my ignorance here. For me, pinball was never the same when ========================== ========================== ========================== Quassy Amusement Park on the shores of Lake Quassapog in Southbury, CT, ========================== \tIs it just me, or does it seem like everyone in this country is \t\t\t\t\tSchwab<\/p>\n ========================== I did not get to any New England amusement parks this year, but last ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== I also like the fact that they feature a lot of lesser-known Warner ========================== ========================== Do you know if he wrote them, or was he working from somebody else’s ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Can any of the Boston-area folks in this conf mention where I can ========================== ========================== ========================== Thanks — didn’t see ’em at the Picnic, but now that I know they have ========================== (a die-hard BoSox fan!) ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== \tI stopped into the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, NH this evening to \tBy the way, I’ve never seen a live pheasant around this part of New \tIs this just an isolated failure, or do the other Cartoon Corner ========================== The kids who work at Cartoon Corners get the coolest work ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== Sounds like a Haiku, don’t it? ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== \tYes folks, for the collector who just must have everything, there is \tThe Looney Tunes “good guys” make up the White pieces with Bugs as ========================== ========================== If you want a kind-of-look at some of the pieces, the set was ========================== ========================== = Argosy =<\/p>\n ========================== For $928 they jolly well *better* throw in the board free!!<\/p>\n $928 for a mass-produced chess set – What a racket!! Sigh! I’m in the wrong business, as usual! Harumph!<\/p>\n = Argosy =<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== 3\/18 8\/11 22\/31 29\/32 41\/50 45\/48 55\/70 If there are numbers not on this list that you might need, I ========================== I’m pretty sure I have some of these, Dave, and I know I need a fair ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Barbara<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== This could bring up a whole new area of litigation! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Barbara<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== \tA clear and informative writer, Steve Birnbaum’s travel guide are \t\t“HUMUNGA KOWABUNGA: These two speed slides, reported to have \tAh, yes, something for twelve year old boys of all ages. — Steve<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Bob<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Since this is the animation conference, mention should be made ========================== — Alan Dunkin<\/p>\n ========================== _The Art of Mickey Mouse: Artists Interpret the World’s Favorite _Disney’s Art of Animation: From Mickey Mouse to Beauty _The Steadfast Tuin Solider_: another adaptation illustrated _Beauty and the Beast Illustrated Classic_: an adaptation _Beauty and the Beast Junior Novelization_: another adaptation.<\/p>\n Amazingly, these are all coming out in September, along ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== This year they are offering Limited Edition Cartoon Celluloids. Bugs and Taz = $499.00 Popeye = $399.00<\/p>\n That’s all folks.<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== I see in today’s Boston Globe that Hank Azaria will be in town on Nov. 1 at OOOPPPPPS! Frank Gorshin will be at Nick’s Comedy Stop on Nov.1. Hank will ========================== ========================== ========================== Um… What part does he have on (in?) “Herman’s Head”? And on Note: Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson, plays Louise on = Argosy =<\/p>\n ========================== Yep, I’m in! I must be the Junk mail poster child or something. \ud83d\ude42 Catalogs Yes! You too can order from “The Club Scud collection and other cool stuff What’s offered, you ask…well, how about a passport case with Duke debossed This catalog is a hoot! It does have neat stuff.<\/p>\n Oh yeah, to order…call 416-331-DUKE.<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== Bob<\/p>\n ========================== The other notable change to the park is probably a temporary Disney has announced plans for a whole new area of ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== |||||Paul||||| ========================== |||||Paul||||| ========================== ========================== ========================== That “Tombstone Pizza” product placement is hilariously ========================== If you intend to see _Deceived_ (and excellent movie, IMHO), do *****SPOILER*****<\/p>\n One last chance to escape!<\/p>\n There’s a cartoon playing in the background twice during the film Emru \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== The new edition seems to have cleared up some of the mistakes, but Still, Lenburg has updated the book to include another decade’s ========================== ========================== Bob<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== Never thought it was that hard to understand (“Took a whole lot ========================== “Little Audrey says, ‘Look before you leap.’ (C) 1948 ren. 1975 Famous Music Corp.<\/p>\n And then the remainder of the theme follows with “Little Audrey says, ‘Save ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== The place is pretty neat. The most striking single feature is What’s for sale? Well, first of all, all that nifty merchandise Half or more of the store is devoted to clothing, and a large part The only problem is that prices are high — I kept contemplating If you live anywhere on the East Coast, the stoe is well worth ========================== Bob<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== I haven’t seen it in twenty years, but I recall that the live- ========================== ========================== “I’ve put time and toil into cartoons most of my life,” Barbera No word on why Joe got this honor instead of Bill Hanna. ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== The magazine’s cover is a photograph of Seatlle Mariners star ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Another excellent stocking stuffer would be the new edition of Finally, Abbeville Press has released _Disney Dons Dogtags_, a collection ========================== The new issue of _Film Comment_ has two good animation-related articles: ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== I’ve heard of (but never seen) a desk accessory for Macintosh machines ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== And to answer your question, Dave, I think that the two Berkeleys are ========================== ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== The Rocky and Bullwinkle game features all the main Jay Ward characters: ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== The watch is in the form of a large sculpted plastic Mickey bust, The watch is manufactured by a company called Sounds Fun Inc., ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== And what’s this trend in pinball towards replacing the plunger knob — Harry<\/p>\n ========================== I agree with your complaint about the plunger; in Bullwinkle it Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== peter<\/p>\n ========================== Cartoon clothing — particularly Warner Bros. clothes — seem to be on the Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== If there’s a problem with the book, it’s that the art of the Disney Still, those 1930s posters are good enough to make this book worth ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Ray Bradbury is, of course, a vocal fan of animation who has said that ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== I just wish someone would release the video. The music I could live without. ========================== TD’s music is not really designed for this kind of storytelling. Much of -Scott<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Alex Ross’s review is somewhat cool, on musical grounds rather than ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== We don’t want you beaten up by a spinach eating sailor would we ? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n LInk<\/p>\n ========================== I don’t know of many pieces of fiction about animators. There’s ========================== ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== Gahan Wilson was the Guest of Honor at the 1994 World Horror Convention in Fans of his monster\/horror cartoons for Playboy (among other things) can Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Here are the Tonys that _B&B_ is up for: If _B&B_ wins for best score over Sondheim’s _Passion_, a third of ========================== For more information, call the center at (201) 452-0006. ========================== ========================== Also new from Hyperion is _The Ultimate Disney Trivia Book 2_ ========================== ========================== Disney is everywhere here. They have their own booth, topped I can’t begin to remember all the other cartoon characters ========================== I’m not surprised that cartoons feature heavily in the new wave of video If you get a chance, stop by the 3DO booth and see what *real* FMV looks like. ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== I’m impressed by the 3DO technology, but for some reason their booth ========================== Another game was based on Itchy and Scratcy, Bart’s favorite From a graphics standpoint, the best cartoon game I saw may ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== Whenever I think of the Warner characters and amusement parks, I ========================== ========================== \t\tO.J. Is ========================== ========================== ========================== Well, _The Lion King_ is out, and it seems to have been the Then, there’s the suddent explosion of lion-related toys to be found at my ========================== They look good. They should considering they come for the cels.<\/p>\n LInk<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== Emru<\/p>\n ========================== LInk<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== Popeye is currently the mascot of a much smaller (but incomparably charming) ========================== ========================== –Dave<\/p>\n ========================== The calendar is $9.95 and is published by Hallmark; it’s much too early ========================== da********@bi*.c<\/span>om<\/span> \/ Dave Mackey<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== As always, the selection of merchandise inside the store is surprisingly ========================== In response, Barney’s owners plan to control the flow of Barney merchanside ========================== No, John Kricfalusi didn’t sit down with a copy of Microsoft Word or Excel ========================== ========================== However, when I went to the post office today to buy stamps, I ========================== This is Jones’s second foray into the world of children’s literature; ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== ========================== An unlikely fate for the star of a single, forty year old cartoon, ========================== ========================== Too bad that _Calvin and Hobbes_’s Bill Watterson is so down on — Harry<\/p>\n ========================== peter<\/p>\n ========================== Gorella blood with crushed worms coated with snail slime. remember stuffed bell peppers are really monkey heads with pureed brains. ========================== ========================== Ironic, isn’t it, that between Calvin and Hobbes and Opus, some of — Harry<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== Next thing you know, Popeye will be giving up his pipe in favor ========================== Guess Jonny is still wearing them, eh? I’m pretty sure there were greg<\/p>\n ========================== For more information, see an article in today’s _New York Times_ (which, long-time animation conference — Harry<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== ========================== Seumas<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== (This gives me a connection, however slight, with the famous mouse: Fig — Harry<\/p>\n ========================== Jones will render the characters; his long time designer, Maurice Noble, ========================== ========================== Funny how music from a 35-year-old TV cartoon is still identified ========================== For whatever that’s worth…<\/p>\n Emru<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== {^_^}<\/p>\n ========================== ========================== There are two things wrong with this picture. As we’ve discussed before, I was more worried, though, by the fact that this cel was signed I’ll give the limited-edition cel’s producers the benefit of the ========================== ========================== SPACE GHOST ON MARS. Apparently, NASA’s Mars Pathfinder team members are ========================== animation\/tie.ins #1, from jimomura, 286 chars, Sat Mar 31 21:04:24 1990 ————————– 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 … Continue reading “BIX Animation Conference: tie.ins”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1240","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1240\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nanimation\/tie.ins #112, from tshim, 51 chars, Sun Aug 26 23:39:21 1990
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\nThey’re out, which is why I posted the msg.
\nanimation\/tie.ins #113, from tshim, 154 chars, Sun Aug 26 23:48:33 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 109.
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\nWow — if possible, could you track down the date of the article
\noff the top of your head (or the newspaper) … I’m gonna try to
\nview it at the library.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #115, from tshim, 104 chars, Sun Aug 26 23:50:03 1990
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\nYeah, they’re all out-of-stock, though.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #116, from hmccracken, 408 chars, Mon Aug 27 19:26:26 1990
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\nMay 25th, 1990. It’s not all that interesting an article…
\nIt reports that AMC polled moviegoers to see what kinds of
\nenhancement they’d like to the moviegoing experience, and
\n42% wanted cartoons — the highest of any potential improvement.
\nThen it talks a bit abot _Roller Coaster Rabbit_, and ends with
\na quote from Friz Freleng about how happy he is to see his
\nfilms on the big screen again.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #117, from hmccracken, 407 chars, Sat Sep 8 22:10:40 1990
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\nTITLE: Some of you may have gotten a recent supplementary _Whole
\nToon Catalog_ which features two French Tex Avery lamps — one
\nof the Avery wolf, and one of Droopy — that have got to be seen
\nto be believed. They’re beautiful beyond words, but unfortunately
\nthey’re also well over a hundred bucks each. The supplement also
\nhas some fine looking Avery tie tacks that are more reasonably
\npriced.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #118, from davemackey, 106 chars, Sun Sep 9 00:42:28 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 117.
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\nI know how you feel. I saw the Bugs Bunny chess set and cried when I saw
\nthe price. (about $500, boo hoo)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #119, from tom.white, 336 chars, Tue Sep 11 22:32:39 1990
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\nMy local Bookstop has two copies of an immense book entitled History
\nof Disney Animation or something like that. The dust cover shows
\nPinnochio gestating from pencil sketch to finished animation.
\nList price is $85 but it’s discounted down to $45. If anyone is
\ninterested in a copy I could probably be talked into acting as middleman.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #120, from switch, 149 chars, Wed Sep 12 08:31:19 1990
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\nList is $85? US? Wow! I always used to see it here for around $60 Canuck,
\nmax. (Got mine discounted to $14.99…)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #121, from hmccracken, 255 chars, Wed Sep 12 22:10:06 1990
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\nTITLE: I’m not sure if this is the right topic for this, but…
\nthe Jack Nicholson movie _The Two Jakes_ has a scene that includes
\nthe soundtracks and a brief snippet of video from early Shamus
\nCulhane TV commercials for Muriel cigars and Ajax.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #122, from davemackey, 146 chars, Thu Sep 13 01:12:41 1990
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\nThe little elves scrubbing the sink? Fantastic! I always liked those
\nlittle elves. Why pay the elbow tax?
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #124, from hmccracken, 289 chars, Sun Sep 23 13:12:23 1990
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\nTITLE: Did you know…
\nthat there is now a Nintendo game based on _Little Nemo in Slumberland_?
\nIt’s called “Little Nemo: the DreamMaster,” and is presumably based
\non the Japanese _Nemo_ film which has not been released in this
\ncountry. I wonder what Winsor McCay would think?
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #125, from davemackey, 270 chars, Sun Sep 23 15:24:27 1990
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\nIf anything, I think he’d be pleased to see that his creation has stood
\nup after all these years when many of his contemporaries have been long
\nsince forgotten. Since I don’t have a Nintendo, I can’t really judge
\nhow the game would be.
\n –D.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #126, from hmccracken, 352 chars, Sun Sep 23 17:25:42 1990
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\nLooks like a typical Nintendo scrolling maze-type game set in several
\ndifferent dreamlands. The person who illustrated the box rendered
\nNemo in a rather Disneyesque style, but does seem to know McCay’s
\nwork. (I don’t own a Nintendo either; I’m reporting this from an
\nad on the back cover of the current issue of _Donald Duck Adventures_.)
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #127, from davemackey, 613 chars, Mon Oct 15 18:15:50 1990
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\nTITLE: All in the (Keane) Family
\nWe don’t know what compelled Bil Keane to insert a Simpsons reference
\nin one of his “Family Circus” strips last week. In the strip, one
\nof the children holds up a Simpsons coloring book and whines that his
\norange crayon has worn out.
\n But today’s strip (10\/15\/90) is a little easier to figure out. Dolly
\nand Jeffy are watching “the Little Mermaid” and Dolly mentions that real
\nmermaids don’t talk like they do in cartoons. Keane’s son Glen was a
\ndirecting animator on the Disney film, and he was responsible for some
\nof Ariel’s best scenes.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #128, from hmccracken, 228 chars, Thu Oct 25 22:06:08 1990
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\nTITLE: I haven’t seen this, but…
\nI am told that there is a wonderful 200-page book out of music that was
\ncomposed or used by Carl Stalling in Warner Bros. cartoons. Definitely
\nsounds like something to look out for.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #129, from hmccracken, 187 chars, Sat Nov 3 22:02:44 1990
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\nDid those Upper Deck Warner Bros. cartoon cards ever get released? I
\nsaw some at an Upper Deck display at the San Diego Comics Con, but have
\nnever actually seen them for sale.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #130, from davemackey, 365 chars, Sun Nov 4 06:55:39 1990
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\nThey may have been giving them away as unannounced premiums when they
\nwere doing those ballpark promotions this past baseball season. But since
\nI couldn’t get to the New York area ones, I can’t tell you for sure.
\n If you check the ads in “Sports Collectors Digest” or some equivalent
\nyou may find people selling them there.
\n Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #131, from tom.white, 353 chars, Sun Nov 4 11:09:58 1990
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\nThe cards are called Comic Ball, and I haven’t heard a word about them
\nin months. They’re not in Texas. I’ve _heard_ that they were released
\nin New England, but that says maybe. Write to Upper Deck at
\n23705 Via Del Rio, Yorba Linda, CA 92686. My enthusiasm for the cards
\nhas waned over time. Upper Deck is notoriously slow at releasing anything.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #132, from hmccracken, 235 chars, Sun Nov 4 13:15:57 1990
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\nThanks for the address. I do hope the cards came out, because what I
\nsaw in San Diego (I haven’t seen ’em up here in New England) was very
\ngood. Perhaps they’ll wait until April to put them out, having missed
\nthis season.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #133, from tom.white, 313 chars, Mon Nov 5 00:00:27 1990
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\nAh, Harry, you reveal yourself to be a novice in the world of sportscards!
\nThe sport season has very little correlation to the release date of
\ncards — e.g., the 1991 Topps Baseball cards are slated to appear the
\nfirst week of January. So when the Comic Ball cards arrive, they’ll
\narrive for no special reason.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #134, from tom.white, 393 chars, Mon Nov 5 00:04:04 1990
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\nTITLE: 1957 Fantasia soundtrack
\nAt a collector’s show\/sale today, one dealer had a copy of the 1957
\nrelease of the Fantasia soundtrack, Stokowski’s name very prominent on
\nthe jacket. It’s a 2-record set with a 24-page libretto. I didn’t
\ninspect the vinyl, but the outer appearance was good. Asking price
\nwas $35. If anyone is interested, email me and I’ll send you the dealer’s
\naddress.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #135, from richard.pini, 435 chars, Mon Nov 5 09:20:23 1990
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\nUm, I think that’s supposed to be a 3-record set…at least the copy I have
\nis. Kind of a blue binder\/cover with bits of art all over it?
\n Reason I ask is that on all the LPs I’ve seen (the ‘soundtrack set’ and
\nthe individual LPs released by Buena Vista in individual jackets (with real
\nneat production art on the jackets), each LP holds only two ‘sections’ of
\nmusic (Bald Mtn and Ave Maria are on one side). So three’d be necessary.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #136, from steven_edwards, 323 chars, Mon Nov 5 10:27:48 1990
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\n\tDisney has now released the original soundtrack on a two volume
\ncompact disc. This is in addition to the previous two volume CD with the
\n1983 digitally mastered soundtrack. Unless one is interested in the LP album
\nspecifically, I would get either of the CD versions for the quality and
\nlongevity of the music. — Steve<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #137, from hmccracken, 265 chars, Mon Nov 5 18:10:02 1990
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\nYou’ve got me down pat — I know little about baseball cards (although
\nI am quite a baseball fan). The only card I have is a Todd Benzinger
\none given to me by a collecting friend who is aware of my enthusiasm
\nfor the former Red Soz, current Reds player.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #138, from hmccracken, 473 chars, Mon Nov 5 18:12:26 1990
\nThis is a comment to message 134.
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\nSpeaking of _Fantasia_, I heard recently that the new prints Disney
\nstruck of the film all had Stokowski’s name spelled wrong in the
\nopening credits: this was pointed out by the Maestro’s nephew at
\nthe premiere, whereupon Disney struck 500 new prints of the opening
\nreel to correct the problem. (The copy of Disney’s version of
\n_Alice in Wonderland_ I have, taped off the Disney Channel, has
\nLewis Carroll’s name spelled Carrol on the title card, incidentally.)
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #139, from richard.pini, 227 chars, Mon Nov 5 19:05:56 1990
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\nNo question there. It was my impression that the initial message had to do
\nwith a collectiable item (i.e., original LPs) rather than something to
\nlisten to. No one was happier than I when the remastered Stokowski CDs
\nappeared.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #140, from tom.white, 336 chars, Mon Nov 5 19:51:49 1990
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\nHmm, maybe it is a 3-record set, I wasn’t paying close attention.
\nI rather think the newest release of Fantasia on CD would be the
\nbetter choice, but mentioned this available 1957 edition as an item
\nof potential interest. Yeah, it’s a mostly-blue jacket.
\n If no one asks for the address by the end of the week, I’ll
\njust discard it.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #141, from davemackey, 689 chars, Thu Nov 8 07:32:30 1990
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\nTITLE: Flip out with Bart
\nThis is probably the largest, heaviest and most expensive piece of Simpsons
\nmerchandising yet. Data East has come out with a Simpsons pinball machine.
\nThe game features digitized sound of the characters, great Groeningesque
\ngraphics, and pretty nice game play. It’s in only a few arcades now, but
\nthe pinball world will get their first major glimpse as it’s the centerpiece
\nof this year’s Flip-Out, the pinball industry’s annual convention\/tournament
\nwhich is taking place this weekend in Chicago. And since this year’s factory
\ntour is Data East, it’s a safe bet that the Simpsons game will be the ones
\nbeing assembled.
\n Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #142, from davemackey, 631 chars, Sun Nov 11 09:04:23 1990
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\nAs the trail of bread crumbs from my house to the Ramada Hotel O’Hare will
\ntell you, I just got back from the Pinball Expo, and yes on both counts:
\n“The Simpsons” machine was being assembled at the Data East factory, and
\nit was the machine for the qualifying round (the machine for the finals
\nwas a never-before-seen model called Checkpoint). We learned from Data
\nEast officials that the digitized speech featured in the game was actually
\nrecorded by The Simpsons voice actors (including Nancy Cartwright as Bart
\ntelling us to “Eat my shorts,” which has already upset some arcade managers).
\n Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #143, from hmccracken, 201 chars, Sun Nov 11 11:19:35 1990
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\nSo how was the expo? Is it a trade show or a meeting of pinball
\nplayers? And what is the health of the pinball industry?
\n(If I might be allowed to ask these non-animation questions here…)
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #144, from davemackey, 421 chars, Sun Nov 11 15:27:23 1990
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\nA little of both, actually, and the industry is on an upward curve,
\nhaving been left for dead in the early 80’s due to the growth of video
\ngames. By comparison, at the AMOA (Amusement Machine Operators of America)
\ntrade show held in New Orleans a few weeks ago, few new videos were on
\ndisplay, and the four major pin manufacturers all had booths showing
\ntheir latest concoctions.
\n Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #145, from hmccracken, 583 chars, Sun Nov 11 22:31:52 1990
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\nWell, that’s good! Who are the four main manufacturers now? Williams?
\nData East? Are Midway and Gottlieb still around?<\/p>\n
\nthey started using electronic displays and sounds and so forth. I’m
\nnever (well, rarely) so happy as when I happen upon one of those
\nfourth-rate arcades (usually found at fourth-rate amusement parks)
\nwhich still has ancient, mechanical pinball machines. Those places
\ngenerally have black-and-white Atari racing video games, circa 1974,
\nas their one nod to the computer age.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #146, from davemackey, 635 chars, Mon Nov 12 00:00:43 1990
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\nWilliams is the industry leader, and the other manufacturers are Gottlieb,
\nBally (which is actually Midway, which is owned by the same people who
\nown Williams), and Data East. And the son of the founder of Gottlieb just
\nannounced he’s coming out of retirement to start his own company.
\n There haven’t been too many comic\/cartoon adaptations in pinball due
\nto the expensive nature of licensing. Gottlieb had “The Amazing Spider-Man”
\nand “The Incredible Hulk” in the early 80’s, and of course \u0001Atari had its
\n“Superman” machine.
\n And where are these fourth rate arcades? I’d like to visit them.
\n Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #147, from davemackey, 428 chars, Mon Nov 12 00:02:38 1990
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\nTITLE: I’m hunting wabbits
\nI can’t say too much about the show since it’s just beginning on the West
\nCoast, but you come away with the feeling that the creators of “Married…
\nWith Children,” Michael Moye and Ron Leavitt, watched a lot of Warner Bros.
\ncartoons growing up. The show has Al trying to dispose of a rabbit that’s
\ngotten into his garden. Moye and Leavitt wrote the episode.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #148, from tom.white, 319 chars, Mon Nov 12 01:47:29 1990
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\nStern doesn’t still make pinball? No loss, their machines were lame.<\/p>\n
\nhad a wonderful huge arcade of olde-tyme vidgames and pinballs, but heck
\nI haven’t been near there in over six years. Worth a peek though.
\nNo doubt it’s closed until summer.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #149, from ewhac, 161 chars, Mon Nov 12 05:32:29 1990
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\n> … upset some arcade managers<\/p>\n
\nturning into an intolerant hypersensitive dweeb?<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #150, from hmccracken, 1210 chars, Mon Nov 12 18:28:25 1990
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\nWe have, actually, lost many fine fourth-rate arcades in New England in the
\nlast five years or so: preservationists have not yet turned their
\nattention to this problem, sad to say. Paragon Park was a wonderful place
\nwith many old-timey arcades; it was torn down to make room for a condo
\ndevelopment (named, as such interlopers always are, after the thing that
\nwas torn down to make room for it). The condo development has since gone
\nbankrupt. Benson’s Wild Animal Farm in New Hampshire is another place
\nwith a good arcade that closed several years ago (although — speaking
\nof animation, as we do here — before it closed it took on Terry Toons
\nas its theme and was festooned with some other the obscurest cartoon
\ncharacters you’ve ever seen).<\/p>\n
\ntime I checked, Canobie Lake Park had some nice old machines. And there
\nis an entire seaside amusements area in New Hampshire, the name of
\nwhich slips my mind (Hampden or Hampton beach?), which seems barely
\nchanged from what it must have looked like in 1934. I haven’t been there
\nin about five years, so it’s possible the wrecking ball has destroyed
\nthat wonderful place as well.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #151, from davemackey, 124 chars, Tue Nov 13 07:23:38 1990
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\n> took on Terrytoons as its theme
\n Oil Can Harry Land? Dinkyville? Heckle & Jeckle’s Shooting Gallery?
\nThe mind boggles.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #152, from hmccracken, 394 chars, Tue Nov 13 07:57:41 1990
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\nIt was even more obscure than that! They had Possible Possum and
\nAstro-Nut snack bars, a Terry Bears gift shop, a Lariat Sam shooting
\ngallery…Sourpuss roamed the park greeting visitors…Sad Cat appeared
\non trashbins. This was all in 1986 or so! Very strange, and it only
\nlasted one year. (They also had a beautiful, gigantic mobile statue of
\nMighty Mouse riding an elephant.)
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #153, from davemackey, 136 chars, Tue Nov 13 23:35:25 1990
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\nAnd did that wizened old man taking tickets happen to wear a name badge
\nthat said “Bill Weiss”?
\n Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #154, from davemackey, 423 chars, Thu Nov 15 07:56:10 1990
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\nThe book in question is called “The Great Looney Tunes Collection,” compiled
\nby Jeff Sultanof, and is composed (pardon the pun) of the original sheet music
\nfor most of the familiar melodies corrupted by Stalling for use in Warner
\nBros. cartoons. It is available in the new Whole Toon Catalogue, which should
\nbe gracing mailboxes across the land any day now, and the price is $16.95.
\n Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #155, from hmccracken, 313 chars, Thu Nov 15 18:11:43 1990
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\nThat reminds me of an earlier book of Warner’s sheet music that had
\noriginal and obscure songs about Warner characters with lyrics by
\nWarner storyman Warren Foster. Does anybody have this? I saw it once
\nat a music store when I had no money on me, and when I returned to
\npurchase it it had been sold.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #156, from davemackey, 358 chars, Fri Nov 16 07:20:23 1990
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\nThere are some old sheet music things associated with the studio, some of
\nwhich were written by Warren Foster and Tedd Pierce. I believe both men
\nwere members of ASCAP. Some of these were illustrated somewhere in “That’s
\nAll Folks.” I think if you look around antique and sheet music stores,
\nyou can find this stuff.
\n Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #157, from davemackey, 829 chars, Sun Dec 9 00:30:06 1990
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\nTITLE: F-P Movie Viewer
\nI found an old Fisher-Price Movie Viewer at a flea market. For
\nthe uninitiated, this is a toy that looks like a movie camera and
\nwhen you hold it up to your eyes, you get to see a movie instead
\nof making one. The removable cartridge has an Super 8 loop of
\nfilm.
\n What appears to have been the film that came with the toy is
\na heavily edited print of “Lonesome Ghosts,” a 1937 Disney
\ncartoon; I once cannibalized a cartridge and mounted the film
\non a reel just for the hell of it. From my youth I remember
\nhaving a cartridge which I believe was Bugs Bunny in “Big Top
\nBunny.”
\n Does anyone have any further information on which other
\nfilms (particularly Warner Bros. product as that is my area of
\nmost rabid interest) were available for this or similar toys?
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #158, from hmccracken, 907 chars, Sun Dec 9 01:25:32 1990
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\nBack in the days before video, I had one of those viewers and tons
\nof cartoons for it which I watched endlessly. The cartoons are
\nheavily edited, both by cutting out lots of material and (I recall)
\nby not using every frame. There were dozens of tapes available —
\nclips from most of the significant Disney features, _The Brave
\nLittle Tailor_, _Good Scouts_ (starring Donald Duck), _Mickey’s
\nTrailer_, _Goofy’s Glider_, _Roman Legion-hare_, _Zipping
\nAlong_, at least one Tweety and Sylvester cartoon, and others
\nI’m forgetting right now. There were also live-action cartridges,
\nincluding a whole line of Sesame Street ones. Oh, and quite a
\nfew Charlie Brown ones, too. It was definitely a very popular toy,
\nbut presumably video killed it. Come to think of it, viewers of all
\nsorts — Give-A-Show Projectors, View Masters, etc. — used to be
\nvery popular toys and are practically extinct now.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #159, from aturn, 79 chars, Fri Dec 21 16:19:32 1990
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\n\tI suppose it’s just you turning into an intolerant hypersensitive
\ndweeb (-:<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #160, from aturn, 844 chars, Fri Dec 21 16:33:07 1990
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\n\tThe Comic Ball cards are finally out, at least in the Boston area!
\nGot a pack at my comic shop this noon, and they are every bit as gorgeous
\nas you could hope for. (I hadn’t seen any of the pre-release artwork, and
\nknow nothing about sports cards, so had no notion of Upper Deck’s rep in
\nthe card area)
\n\tWhen I walked into the shop, the guy behind the counter happened to
\nbe on the phone with the distributor, pleading for 10 or 12 boxed sets,
\nwhich he knew he could sell immediately.
\n\tMost of the ones in the pack I got feature Bugs or Daffy, but I also
\ngot Charlie Dog, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, Marvin Martian, Road Runner, and
\nTweety, as well as one with a Looney Tunes All-Stars logo featuring many
\nof the characters.
\n\tWho these are going to appeal to other than a small hard-core
\ncrossover crowd I don’t know, though.
\n\tBut I like ’em!<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #161, from hmccracken, 319 chars, Fri Dec 21 18:57:37 1990
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\nWell, they’ll appeal to *me*, and a lot of other comics fans, I’ll wager.
\nChuck Jones’s association with them should give them a lot o f appeeal to
\ndiscriminating animation fans. Whether baseball fans will care, I wonder.
\nI told my one baseball card-collecting friend about them, and he was
\nnot interested.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #162, from aturn, 479 chars, Fri Dec 21 22:20:26 1990
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\n\tBy the way, I went to another comics shop in the evening. In the
\nplace I mentioned in message #160, they were selling for a buck a pack. They
\nwere a buck and a quarter in the second place.
\n\tStupidly enough, I bought a pack there anyway, figuring to minimize
\nthe chances of getting duplicates. Not only did I pay a quarter more, but
\nthere were only 11 cards in the pack instead of the twelve there should’ve
\nbeen. Serves me right for getting caught up in the thing, I guess.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #163, from hmccracken, 367 chars, Thu Dec 27 18:30:47 1990
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\nI don’t know if anyone has mentioned here that Upper Deck has another
\nWarner Bros.-related product on the market: holographic cartoon wrist
\nwatches of Bugs, Daffy, Tweety, and others. They are fairly attractive
\n(at least as attractive as a cheap hologram can be), and cost about
\n$11.00 at the QuikTrip convenience store I saw them at in Des Moines, Iowa.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #165, from hmccracken, 399 chars, Sun Jan 6 22:48:51 1991
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\nI made my first stop at a comics store in a while today and picked up
\nsome of those Upper Deck comic ball cards. They’re quite nice —
\nthe holographic ones, especially, are great. Did Chuck Jones actually
\ndraw all of these? The artwork is erratic.<\/p>\n
\ncharacters — the Three Bears, the Mighty Angelo, Charlie Dog
\net al.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #166, from hkenner, 82 chars, Sun Jan 6 23:24:51 1991
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\nThe baseball cards? Yes, he drew them. I’m not sure how far his heart
\nwas in it.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #167, from hmccracken, 437 chars, Mon Jan 7 17:35:17 1991
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\nThat’s interesting. For fans, a set of cards drawn by Chuck Jones is a real
\ntreat. To the great unwashed that doesn’t know who the man is, they may
\nlook a bit strange — they’re definitely “Chuck Jones late period” in style,
\nrather than adhering precisely to official model sheets. I didn’t notice
\nany credit to him on the cards or packaging.<\/p>\n
\nmaterial?
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #168, from hkenner, 46 chars, Mon Jan 7 19:56:43 1991
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\n>>…if he wrote them …
\nAlas, I’ve no idea.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #169, from hmccracken, 90 chars, Mon Jan 7 22:02:50 1991
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\nI think he probably didn’t — at least they don’t sound especially Jonesesque.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #170, from davemackey, 203 chars, Mon Jan 7 23:56:28 1991
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\nIt sounds like Jones characters predominate, if you mention the
\nThree Bears, Charlie Dog and The M.A. Are any of the creations of
\nthe other directors represented?
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #171, from hmccracken, 144 chars, Tue Jan 8 00:41:38 1991
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\nYes, Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety, etc. are also present. But the obscure
\ncharacters are mostly Jones ones, at least on the cards I have.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #172, from hmccracken, 350 chars, Sat Jan 12 22:07:38 1991
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\nJust read an article on these Looney Tunes baseball cards in
\n_Comics Buyer’s Guide_ that reports that Jones was somehow involved
\nin writing the cards, along with others, and that he did 800
\ndrawings for them. It also notes that Bugs Bunny is a LA Dodger
\n(logical), Wile E. Coyote is a Chicago Cub, and the Tasmanian
\nDevil is an Oakland A.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #173, from aturn, 109 chars, Sun Jan 13 00:42:28 1991
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\n\tRoad Runner is a New York Yankee, and Daffy Duck is a Seattle
\nMariner, and Sylvester is a Baltimore Oriole.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #174, from bsoron, 105 chars, Sun Jan 13 14:31:06 1991
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\nfind these baseball cards? Thanks.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #175, from hmccracken, 196 chars, Sun Jan 13 18:05:18 1991
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\nI got mine at the New England Comics store in Quincy, where they
\nwere a buck a pack (suggested retail is seventy-nine cents).
\nPresumably they’re available at NEC’s other stores as well.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #176, from aturn, 161 chars, Mon Jan 14 10:19:52 1991
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\n\tWell, Bob, they have ’em over at Million-Year Picnic in Cambridge,
\nand they have ’em over at Comically Speaking in Arlington. At least they
\ndid last I looked.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #177, from bsoron, 109 chars, Mon Jan 14 11:47:12 1991
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\n’em, I’ll ask next time I’m there.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #178, from rcrook, 73 chars, Mon Jan 14 22:02:33 1991
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\n Any Red Sox? (Porky pig, mebbe?)<\/p>\n
\n = Argosy =<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #179, from rjenks, 59 chars, Sun Jan 27 03:59:10 1991
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\nSounds like Daffy got a raw deal playing for the Mariners.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #180, from aturn, 445 chars, Sun Jan 27 09:01:19 1991
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\n\tNo, Porky is a former Atlanta Brave who now works the broadcast
\nbooth in tandem with Foghorn Leghorn.
\n\tHaven’t noticed any Red Sox, yet.
\n\tAlso, Sam and Ralph are a New York Met and a Cincannati Red.
\n\tBy the way, I finally got one of the much-touted holograms,
\n(in this case, Wile E. Coyote on the mounds for the Cubs), and the
\ndepth of field is incredible! This product continues to live up to
\nits billing, IMHO, and this continues to be NAR.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #181, from davemackey, 296 chars, Sun Jan 27 21:43:19 1991
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\nPorky, of course, still hasn’t been elected to the Hall of Fame,
\nand he’s only got a few years of eligibility left. Apparently,
\nthe fact that he stutters overshadows anything he’s done on the
\nfield, including over 7000 strikeouts and seventeen no hitters.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #182, from davemackey, 472 chars, Fri Feb 1 21:15:19 1991
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\nPorky in the broadcast booth? Nothing new for him. In 1940,
\nFriz Freleng cast him in the role of a radio sportscaster in
\na black-and-white Looney Tune, “Porky’s Baseball Broadcast.”
\n It bears mentioning that in this and other films, the radio
\nmicrophones are often labeled KFWB. These call letters represent
\nan actual Los Angeles radio station, and I wonder if Warner Bros.
\nhad a financial interest in the station at one point.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #183, from hmccracken, 95 chars, Fri Feb 1 21:20:04 1991
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\nOne would think so — we can figure out what the WB stood for, but
\nhow about the F?
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #184, from aturn, 108 chars, Sat Feb 2 23:16:27 1991
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\n\tWere there, perchance, *four* or *five* Warner Brothers? Or perhaps
\nthe “F” was some sort of expletive…<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #185, from davemackey, 412 chars, Thu Feb 21 22:30:15 1991
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\nI’ve just been informed that KFWB is owned by Group W, which is
\nthe present-day incarnation of Westinghouse Broadcasting, which
\npossibly accounts for the WB. I think it just caught Warner
\nBros.’ animators’ fancies that there were radio call letters that
\nsuited their purposes.
\n By my reckoning, the earliest WB cartoon bearing a KFWB mike
\nis “Toy Town Hall,” in 1936.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #186, from davemackey, 572 chars, Mon Feb 25 19:06:44 1991
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\nIt’s taken me this long to actually get some of the Comic Ball
\ncards, but I’ll try a few packs now that I have a few bucks in
\nmy pocket after a few draining weeks financially. The Wawa stores
\naround here sell them for 69c a pack. By comparison, I was in a
\nbaseball card store today, and they were already asking 99c a
\npack.
\n I checked out Toys “R” Us to see if I could get a better
\nprice, and I couldn’t find them anywhere in an otherwise
\noverloaded baseball card display. (They did have the regular
\nUpper Deck cards, though.)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #187, from hmccracken, 138 chars, Tue Feb 26 19:42:09 1991
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\nThe Little Peach (Massachusetts equivalent of Wawa) has Comic Ball
\ncards at 75c a pack, beating the comics shops by a quarter.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #188, from sje, 1268 chars, Tue Feb 26 21:19:09 1991
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\nTITLE: Sad Times for a Cartoon Corner Franchise<\/p>\n
\nget a quick kilometer’s worth of walking and storefront viewing. One of the
\nover one hundred stores that had been there for the past several years was
\nthe Nashua branch of the Cartoon Corner chain. This store had various clothes,
\ntoys, trinkets, video, and a cel ordering service; but all was emptied out
\nearlier today. No explanation other than a short note taped to the inside
\nof the locked glass door that said something about “an unexpected vacancy”.
\nThis is really a shame because the store featured items related to all the
\nmajor animation sources; I had purchased a few things myself in times gone by.
\nThis will probably mean even more business for the Disney Store located in
\nthe same mall only a hundred meters to the north on the same level. Of course,
\nno non-Disney items for sale there.<\/p>\n
\nHampshire. A more accurate name for the shopping center would have been
\n“Landfill Lane Mall”.<\/p>\n
\nstores have problems also? It would be a real shame to lose a source of
\nanimation-related merchandise. — Steve<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #189, from hmccracken, 769 chars, Tue Feb 26 22:21:51 1991
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\nNext time you’re in Massachusetts, Steve, you can pop by the
\nBurlington Mall; there is a Cartoon Corner location there. It’s
\nalso just a short walk down the mall from a Disney Store site.
\n(At least the store was there last time I checked.) Cartoon Corner,
\nas a corporate entity, is definitely still in business; I spoke to
\nsomeone yesterday who had been to their corporate HQ (which
\nis located in Woburn about a mile from where I work) recently.<\/p>\n
\nclothes I’ve ever seen — polo shirts and jackets with
\n“Cartoon Historian” emblazoned on them. I’ve often contemplated
\n1) asking if they are available for sale, or 2) seeking a job at
\na CC just for the sake of getting my hands on one of the jackets.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #190, from switch, 53 chars, Tue Feb 26 22:43:13 1991
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\nCould you post the address in \/sources, Harry?<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #191, from hmccracken, 154 chars, Tue Feb 26 23:10:33 1991
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\nI’ll try to find it — at the moment the best I can do is:
\n Cartoon Corner
\n About a mile from where Harry works
\n Woburn, MA 0180-something.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #192, from davemackey, 162 chars, Wed Feb 27 00:46:58 1991
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\nCartoon Corner? Why aren’t there any keen stores like this in my
\nneck of the woods? You New Englanders have all the luck.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #193, from davemackey, 281 chars, Wed Feb 27 00:47:39 1991
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\n Actually, it’s more like this
\n Cartoon Corner
\n Somewhere in the Northeast
\n Over the river and through the woods
\n Third Stone From The Sun
\n Somewhere Dave would like to be
\n Earth<\/p>\n
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #194, from mscoville, 505 chars, Thu Feb 28 20:16:33 1991
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\nCartoon Corner…
\nDear Harry et al,
\nIf you want the t-shirt you had better hurry as they will be closing up shop
\nin the near future. The present business which is a corporate store set-up is
\nchanging its business operation and becoming a franchise set up. The present
\nstores will be closing, except for the Bridgewater store in New Jersey. They
\nwill be opening up stores as part of the franchise in Scottsdale, AZ and
\nColumbus, OH. The new stores will continue with the name of Cartoon Corner.
\nmscoville<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #195, from hmccracken, 131 chars, Thu Feb 28 20:38:08 1991
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\nI will have to scoot down to the Burlington location and try to take
\nadvantage of any closeout sales they may be having.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #196, from hmccracken, 374 chars, Fri Mar 1 19:00:18 1991
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\nThis just in: the Burlington Cartoon Corner is shuttered. As of just
\ntoday, maybe: they seem to have left so quickly that there was a note
\non their door addressed to mall management saying that they would call
\non Monday to explain the sudden vacancy. I am told that the partners
\nin the chain had business disagreements recently and dissolved their
\npartnership.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #197, from davemackey, 105 chars, Fri Mar 1 19:05:19 1991
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\nBridgewater Commons? Now I have something to do with my weekend!
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #198, from hmccracken, 498 chars, Sun Mar 3 21:49:47 1991
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\nTITLE: The new edition of the Warner Bros. Collection catalog is
\nout and can probably be had by calling them at 1-800-223-6524.
\nAt least half of the merchandise displayed relates to Warner Bros.
\ncartoons, including a goodly amount of _Tiny Toon Adventures_
\nstuff. There’s some nice stuff, although a lot of it is very, very
\nexpensive. I can’t tell you how many times something in the
\ncatalog caught my eye, only to turn out to be three or four hundred
\ndollars when I checked the price.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #199, from morganfox, 344 chars, Mon Mar 4 19:21:59 1991
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\nTITLE: Love to eat those little mousies!
\nYes, folks step right up, and you too can have Mickey Mouse waffles for
\nbreakfast! Just hand over $50.00 and you can own a waffle iron that makes
\nSmiling Mickey Face waffles. The maker is Vitantonio. The $49.99 price tag is
\na special purchase item listed in a Jorden Marsh circular. The price may vary.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #200, from richard.pini, 30 chars, Mon Mar 4 19:53:09 1991
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\nCheap at half the price… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #201, from davemackey, 323 chars, Mon Mar 4 23:04:57 1991
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\nThat’s sort of like those bread presses. You mash the bread
\nagainst them and it makes an impression of Mickey on the toast.
\nI’ve always found those things to be quaint in a Midwestern sort
\nof way, but can’t imagine anyone east of the ol’ Missippi River
\nto get the least bit excited.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #202, from davemackey, 1060 chars, Mon Mar 4 23:05:53 1991
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\nI was able to confirm the continued existence of the New Jersey
\nlocation of Cartoon Corner this past weekend; it’s in the
\nBridgewater Commons, at the intersection of routes 22, 202 and
\n206. There seemed to be a good sized crowd in there — and one of
\nthe things I noticed was a “Rocky and Bullwinkle” videocassette
\ndisplay stand with no tapes to sell! But they appeared to have a
\nhealthy stock of stuffed animals, other tapes, T-shirts and
\nanimation artwork on display. They had T-shirts on which had the
\nslogan “For the kid in all of us” on the back, I guess it was too
\nwarm to wear the “Animation Historian” jackets of which you
\nspeak.
\n I would guess that most of the Cartoon Corner inventory
\n(specifically the animation art, which is probably not kept on
\npremises anyway for security reasons) would be liquidated through
\nthe Bridgewater store, but probably not at closeout prices.
\n Incidentally, the Corner in Bridgewater Commons is just a
\nshort escalator ride away from — you guessed it! — a Disney
\nStore.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #203, from sje, 336 chars, Tue Mar 5 19:23:13 1991
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\n\tOn a final note about the Cartoon Corner chain, up until a week before
\nits untimely demise, the Nashua branch had a colorful advertisement for
\npropective franchise operators placed prominently in the storefront window.
\nIt said something to the effect of a sure and steady profit stream (for the
\nkid in all of us, of course). — Steve<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #204, from sje, 1293 chars, Tue Mar 5 19:37:21 1991
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\nTITLE: Looney Tunes Chess Set<\/p>\n
\nnow a handpainted figurine chess set featuring the traditional Looney Tunes
\ncharacters. Offered by the Franklin Mint (also known as “Acme Mass Produced
\nRare Collectable Trinket Company”), this set is advertised in the April 1991
\nissue of _Chess Life_ published by the United States Chess Federation. Other
\nchess sets offered by the Franklin Mint in past issues include themes on
\n_Star Trek_, classical mythology (“The Chess Set of the Gods” [sic]), and the
\nAmerican Civil War. Perhaps a Bush\/Saddam set is in the works.<\/p>\n
\nKing, Daffy as Queen, and the Roadrunner as a Knight. Black pieces include
\nYosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, and the Coyote. Prices are US$29 per piece plus
\nsales tax (for you with the misfortune to live in such states) for a total
\nof $928 for the complete set. They will throw in a board for no additional
\ncharge. I would be quite surprised if the material and labor cost is more
\nthan 10% of the purchase price. As a big fan of both chess and animation,
\nI just can’t see how anyone would touch this when there are plenty of other
\nnifty items that could be bought for a fraction of the price. — Steve<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #205, from davemackey, 328 chars, Tue Mar 5 21:47:27 1991
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\nStop! You’re breaking my heart. I learned chess back when Bobby
\nFischer was duelling with Boris Spassky in Iceland, but have
\nsince forgotten it. A set like this would make me brush up on my
\nNimzo-Indian Defense for sure. But at almost a thousand bucks, I
\ncan’t afford to bite the carrot.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #206, from bsoron, 156 chars, Tue Mar 5 22:37:24 1991
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\nadvertised in TV Guide a week or two ago. I was interested ’til
\nI did the math, myself…<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #207, from hmccracken, 221 chars, Tue Mar 5 22:55:19 1991
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\nThe chess set is a fantastic idea, but I find the execution (based on the
\nglimpse I got in the Warner Bros. catalog) unexciting enough that
\nI’m not *that* sad that I don’t have the thousand bucks to shell
\nout.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #208, from rcrook, 113 chars, Wed Mar 6 18:55:48 1991
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\nOle P.T. Barnum was right! (“There’s a sucker born every minute,
\nand two more to take his money!”)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #209, from rcrook, 354 chars, Sat Mar 9 10:46:28 1991
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\n>… a total of $928 for the complete set. They will throw in a
\nboard for no additional cost.<\/p>\n
\n(For a hand-carved wood or custom-made set, I’d believe a price
\nlike that.)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #210, from davemackey, 1610 chars, Wed Mar 13 01:12:25 1991
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\nTITLE: WB’s short-lived restaurant chain
\nIt’s amazing when memories come back to haunt you. I had
\nforgotten until recently that there was a time in my life that
\nWarner Bros. was actually writing my paychecks. This is a
\ncombination remembrance and horror story. Bear with me here.
\n My local mall had opened a new restaurant called “Gizmos”
\nwhich was a Warner Bros. enterprise. It used the Looney Tunes
\ncharacters as mascots. The bartenders and arcade changeboys
\n(which I started out as) wore lab coats; drinks were served from
\nlaboratory beakers, and the whole place looked like a factory —
\nI half expected Charlie Chaplin to come in brandishing two
\nwrenches.
\n One Saturday, they wanted Bugs Bunny to meet the kids in the
\nmall. Guess who had to wear the Bugs suit. If I were a little
\nkid, I’d sure be scared of a Bugs who not only talked, but could
\ntell you the intrinsic stylistic differences between Jones,
\nFreleng and McKimson. (I since learned that these costumed
\nmascots generally don’t speak. They never sent me out in the suit
\nagain.)
\n My tenure was brief there; they took me out of the arcade,
\nwhich I was qualified for, and had me making pizzas on the food
\nline, which I wasn’t qualified for. One Sunday I worked sixteen
\nhours without a break. I threw in the towel shortly thereafter.
\n I think Warner Bros. eventually sold their interest in the
\nrestaurant, and the place was renamed Gadgets. I could never
\nbring myself to eat there again.
\n I’m wondering if there were other Gizmos, and where. This
\none was in Ocean Township, NJ, about 1982.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #211, from hmccracken, 298 chars, Wed Mar 13 21:53:14 1991
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\nI remember reading about Gadgets back around 1982; an early issue of
\n_Animato_ even mentioned them briefly. As I recall they had talking
\nWarner Bros. character robots ala Chuck E. Cheese, with voices by
\nMel Blanc. There was also a chain of Bullwinkle restaurants in
\nmuch the same vein.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #212, from davemackey, 516 chars, Thu Mar 14 19:06:41 1991
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\nI don’t think we ever got to the talking robot stage. We did have
\nsome funny looking mechanized contraptions on the walls, some of
\nwhich actually worked. And one of the local radio stations once
\ndid a remote from the restaurant, and one of the participants was
\na guy named Jim Hunter who’s now a sportscaster for the CBS Radio
\nNetwork.
\n We had three different types of pizza: “First Gear,” “Second
\nGear,” and “Third Gear.” Reminded me about that old song, “Little
\nHonda.”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #213, from davemackey, 750 chars, Wed Mar 20 20:57:27 1991
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\nTITLE: Do you remember this oldie but goodie
\nThere was a song in the 1960’s called “Yogi” by the Ivy Three. It
\nwas based on the Yogi Bear character and used an approximation of
\nthe voice.
\n The Ivy Three were students at Adelphi University on Long
\nIsland. Doing Yogi impressions does pay off: group member Charlie
\nKoppelman is now the head of SBK Records.
\n Outside of that, Pat Boone’s “Speedy Gonzales” (which
\nwasn’t released domestically as a single but did feature Mel
\nBlanc), and “Alley-Oop” recorded by a number of groups in the
\nearly 60’s, let’s see if we can come up with some more
\nanimation or comics-related hit records (rather than album
\ntracks: “Sgt. Rock” by XTC isn’t going to count here).
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #214, from hmccracken, 169 chars, Wed Mar 20 21:07:36 1991
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\nDidn’t someone do an “I Tawt I Taw a Putty Tat” record that was fairly
\npopular? “The Woody Woodpecker Song” comes to mind as a hit animation-
\nrelated record. — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #215, from davemackey, 281 chars, Thu Mar 21 03:38:28 1991
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\n“…Putty Tat” was probably one of those jobs that Blanc did for
\nCapitol Records, and yes! “Woody Woodpecker” by Kay Kyser and his
\norchestra, with Harry Babbit and Gloria “Nelly” Wood on vocals,
\nwhich led the hit parade for many many weeks.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #216, from aturn, 120 chars, Thu Mar 21 08:35:36 1991
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\n\t“Snoopy and the Red Baron”, by I forget who.
\n\tThe same well-known group also did a Christmas version of the same
\nsong.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #217, from richard.pini, 77 chars, Thu Mar 21 09:51:06 1991
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\nI think the group was named the Royal Guardsmen, sort of a bubble-gum group.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #218, from davemackey, 195 chars, Thu Mar 21 21:03:46 1991
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\nYou’re absolutely right! The Christmas version was called
\n“Snoopy’s Christmas.” It ended with the Red Baron wishing Snoopy
\n“Merry Christmas, mein friend!”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #219, from hmccracken, 47 chars, Thu Mar 21 21:03:51 1991
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\nDo all of the Archies’ songs count?
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #220, from switch, 122 chars, Fri Mar 22 13:54:05 1991
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\nI wonder if I still have that record anywhere? I used to listen
\nto it incessantly every holiday season as a child.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #221, from davemackey, 836 chars, Fri Mar 22 18:43:29 1991
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\nYes, and if you want to be broad, so do Josie and The Pussycats
\n(no pun intended). But what I was aiming for was songs about
\ncartoon characters, not by cartoon characters.
\n The Archies had the advantage of top-flight studio musicians
\nand the production genius of Don Kirschner and Ron Dante. I
\nthink Len Barry and Andy Kim, both of whom had chart hits, had
\nlesser roles in the Archie sound.
\n Unfortunately, the animation never quite matched the
\ncharacters (thanks, Filmation). I think if someone took the
\nclassic Archie style quite literally, especially as executed by
\nDan DeCarlo in his prime, and used the type of script that Frank
\nDoyle has consistently done well for 40 years, an animated Archie
\ncould be done good for a change (I regarded “The New Archies”
\nas an aberration myself).
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #222, from grekel, 426 chars, Sat Mar 23 16:49:11 1991
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\nI have the “Red Baron” song as a cut on an ancient K-Tel “Goofy Greats”
\nalbum — cut 1, side 1. Also contains “Alley Oop by the Hollywood Argyles,
\nand the one-shot “Mah-na-mah-na” by Piero Umiliani…
\nThe funniest thing about the album today is the flyer packed inside with
\na comprehensive listing of all the “current” K-Tel collections, as well
\nas those nifty “record selectors” that flip thru your collection automatically!<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #223, from davemackey, 87 chars, Sat Mar 23 19:20:53 1991
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\nCan I fit my CD’s into one of those things? \ud83d\ude09
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #224, from davemackey, 923 chars, Sat Mar 23 22:15:10 1991
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\nTITLE: Looney Tunes Comic Ball Cards Needed
\nA plea for help, if there’s anyone else out there who is
\nSERIOUSLY collecting the “Looney Tunes” Comic Ball Cards released
\nby Upper Deck.
\n I have a shoebox full of duplicates for trade for the
\nfollowing card numbers:<\/p>\n
\n 93\/108 99\/102 113\/122 119\/121 131\/140 146\/161 164\/179
\n 169\/172 184\/193 188\/191 201\/216 206\/209 220\/229 239\/248
\n 253\/268 273\/288 277\/280 291\/306 296\/299 311\/320 315\/318
\n 329\/338 344\/359 349\/352 362\/377 367\/370 381\/396 386\/389
\n 399\/414 418\/427 423\/426 441\/444 455\/464 470\/485 474\/483
\n 488\/503 494\/497 508\/517 512\/515 526\/535 541\/556 546\/555
\n 559\/574 560\/575 565\/568 579\/594 584\/587<\/p>\n
\nprobably have duplicates. Please send BIX mail to me and we will
\narrange shipping details. Thank you!
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #225, from bsoron, 356 chars, Sun Mar 24 00:18:35 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 224.
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\nnumber of them. Let me spend some time with the stack o’ dupes and get
\nback to you in Bixmail tomorrow. (Until recently, I’d amassed maybe a
\nhundred cards with only two or three duplicates — then the dam broke.
\nThursday I bought two packs and of the 24 cards, I already had *12*.)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #226, from davemackey, 1593 chars, Sun Mar 31 21:41:21 1991
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\nTITLE: Bugs Bunny comes to the arcades
\nIt may be a little too late, but you can now check your local
\namusement arcades for a pinball salute to Bugs Bunny’s 50th
\nbirthday.
\n Bally\/Midway has released “Bugs Bunny’s Birthday Ball,” a
\nnew pinball machine featuring the Warner Bros. characters. It
\nseems a little easier than your average pin to give the kids a
\nchance at something a little less complicated. Completing LOONEY
\nTUNES targets lights million-point shots, and there’s a random
\nshot for 50 million points.
\n Python Anghelo, a Bally staff artist, executed the artwork
\non the backflash, playfield and cabinet (we suspect he may have
\nhad some help and guidance from animator Bob Kirk). Digitized
\nsound includes both the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies themes,
\n“This Is It,” various sound effects including Trombone Gobble,
\nand the voices of Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Taz Boy, Yosemite Sam,
\nTweety, Sylvester, Pepe LePew, Foggy, and Speedy Gonzales, all
\nprovided by Jeff Bergman.
\n Besides the usual thank yous and acknowledgements (including
\none for Dan Romanelli, head of Licensing Corporation Of America,
\nTime\/Warner’s licensing arm), there is a special thanks card
\non the front of the machine honoring (in this order) Chuck Jones,
\nFriz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Mel
\nBlanc, and all of the Warner Bros. animators who have given the
\nworld so much laughter over the years.
\n This is not going to be the last cartoon tie-in pinball; we
\ncan expect a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” machine from Data
\nEast in a few months.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #227, from davemackey, 806 chars, Sun Apr 7 09:41:28 1991
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\nTITLE: Promotion of “Disney Afternoon” hits parks
\nThe Walt Disney Company is turning to its theme parks to grab
\nviewers for its two-hour “Disney Afternoon” animation block.
\n Afternoon Avenue, featuring the characters from all four of
\nthe series, will be open at Disneyland in Anaheim, Ca. through
\nNovember 1991. Though no firm figures are available, Disneyland’s
\npromotional budget for the attraction approaches what the park
\nspent on promotion of Mickey Mouse’s 60th birthday.
\n Orlando’s Walt Disney World is getting into the act on a
\nlesser scale by using the characters as part of Star Land.
\n Buena Vista prices the total marketing push for “Disney
\nAfternoon,” encompassing the park attraction as well as various
\npromotional tie-ins, at $100 million.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #228, from davemackey, 398 chars, Wed May 8 18:08:28 1991
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\nTITLE: Betty Boop’s got everything and the Kitchen Sink
\nKitchen Sink Press is issuing two metal signs featuring Betty Boop.
\n The signs, priced at $20, were designed by Leslie Cabarga, the most
\nrenowned Betty Boop artist of present times (not to mention author of “The
\nFleischer Story). One has an anti-smoking message, the other advertises a
\nLove Meter.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #229, from davemackey, 845 chars, Mon May 13 19:07:37 1991
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\nTITLE: Cartoon voices in commercials
\nThree of the great animation voices have been featured in some new radio
\nspots that have begun airing in the New York area (and possibly
\nelsewhere) within the past week.
\n First, Gary Owens has a bit part as a newscaster in a commercial for
\nBell Atlantic Corp., for a spot reminding central New Jersey that its area
\ncode is now 908. (Gary just recently celebrated a birthday, I think his 55th.
\nHappy birthday, Gary.)
\n Secondly, Lorenzo Music has a key role in a spot for AAA\/American
\nExpress Traveler’s Checks.
\n And third, a new series of Amoco commercials with Jackson Beck once
\nagain doing the voice of the car engine trying to convince his owner to tank
\nup with Amoco Ultimate gasoline. (In one, Beck actually sounds like King
\nLeonardo…. confound it!)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #230, from davemackey, 391 chars, Tue May 14 19:07:56 1991
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\nTITLE: Fox up in arms…
\nTwentieth Century Fox Film Corp. is none too pleased about the latest
\nunauthorized use of Bart Simpson.
\n A group of neo-Nazis called White Aryan Resistance have adopted Bart as
\ntheir t-shirt mascot, wearing a Nazi armband and saying “Pure Nazi, Dude!”
\nThe shirt is for sale through their telephone hotline and newsletter.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #231, from bferg, 138 chars, Wed May 15 11:01:22 1991
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\nHA! Have to *borrow*\/*steal* another’s idea…not too creative!
\nI assume that they would be reprimanded, sued, or whatever!<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #233, from hmccracken, 76 chars, Wed May 15 11:13:59 1991
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\nThank you for not providing us with the toll-free number, Dave…
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #234, from davemackey, 131 chars, Wed May 15 19:54:08 1991
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\nWell, Fox is considering legal action. And I always thought Bart was orange,
\nnot white. \ud83d\ude09
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #235, from davemackey, 319 chars, Wed May 15 19:54:20 1991
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\nSure, Harry, it’s 555-NAZI…. have fun finding which number corresponds to
\nZ. \ud83d\ude09
\n That’s one collector’s item I’d rather not have. And I hope my posting
\nof this item has not been construed by anyone as an endorsement of the group
\nand their beliefs, as it is certainly not.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #236, from bferg, 95 chars, Wed May 15 20:46:06 1991
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\n“Bart was orange, not white.”<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #237, from hmccracken, 98 chars, Wed May 15 21:16:59 1991
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\nOr, as we say in BIX parlance, TINAEORT.
\n(This is not an endorsement of racist trash.)
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #238, from switch, 33 chars, Thu May 16 08:07:53 1991
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\nCould you pronounce that?<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #239, from rcrook, 28 chars, Sat May 18 11:24:38 1991
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\n“TIN-ay-ort”
\n{
\n = Argosy =<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #240, from davemackey, 355 chars, Sat May 18 20:56:26 1991
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\nTITLE: Legitimate Simpsons Merchandising
\nBart Simpson will now wish you a happy birthday. This is similar to the
\nVIP-BUGS phone service and is probably marketed by the same people. You pay
\nabout $9, let them know the recipient, and that person will receive a
\npersonal recorded phone call from the Bart-Man himself.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #241, from sje, 1139 chars, Sun May 19 12:47:31 1991
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\nTITLE: An Unusual Item in Birnbaum’s _1991 Offical Walt Disney World Guide_<\/p>\n
\nalways useful for the vacation planner and sometimes reveal things that
\nwould otherwise be unnoticed by the casual tourist. From page 181:<\/p>\n
\n\tbeen carved into the landscape by the historic earthquake, will send
\n\tguests zooming thorugh caves at speeds of 30 miles per hour. The
\n\t214-foot slides offer a 51-foot drop, and the view from the top is a
\n\tlittle scary. But it’s over before you know it, and once wary guests
\n\thurry back for another try. Disney Imagineers, when doing their
\n\tresearch for the park, discovered that large crowds tend to gather
\n\twhere speed slides exist at other parks, to watch women wearing
\n\tbikinis lose their bathing suit tops on the way down. Ever
\n\tconsiderate, the Imagineers built a grandstand so that the voyeurs
\n\tin the crowd have a place to sit. Modest maidens beware! A one-piece
\n\tsuit is far safer than a skimpy 2-piece.”<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #242, from davemackey, 219 chars, Sun May 19 20:11:32 1991
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\nThat attraction, of course, is at the Typhoon Lagoon water park on the Disney
\ngrounds. I will definitely tuck that away for my next visit, probably late
\nsummer. Thanks, Steve! \ud83d\ude09
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #243, from davemackey, 537 chars, Mon May 20 18:27:07 1991
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\nTITLE: Orlando featured in Time
\nDinosaur Gertie’s Ice Cream Parlor is prominently featured on the cover of
\nthis week’s Time Magazine, as the cover feature is Orlando, home of Disney
\nWorld, Sea World, Universal Studios, and countless other attractions. (The
\nice cream parlor is on the grounds of the Disney\/MGM Studios, for the
\nuninitiated.)
\n The article describes how tourism has affected the community: one
\nvisitor says it’s now like “Norman Rockwell’s America or Dennis The Menace on
\nacid.”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #244, from davemackey, 883 chars, Mon May 20 22:15:53 1991
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\nTITLE: Surprise in the mail
\nThe Adventurers Club, headquartered on Pleasure Island at the Walt Disney
\nWorld Resort, has sent out the first issue of its newsletter, “Adventurers
\nAlmanac” to its Associate and Presidential members. (Since the Club, along
\nwith the entire Pleasure Island, has a much larger history than just the past
\nfew years of its renewed existence, it’s actually the first issue of Vol. 54
\nof its newsletter.)
\n This is possibly the first time a Park attraction has attempted
\nout-of-park participation by its patronage; letters and submissions are
\nencouraged to be sent to the cast of the Club, only a fraction of whom I met
\nat the meeting I attended. Do any of the other Park sympathizers here (and I
\nknow who you are) know of any precedent for the Adventurers Club mailing,
\nwith an attraction maintaining a mailing list?
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #245, from hmccracken, 164 chars, Tue May 21 09:09:34 1991
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\nHow did they get your name? I haven’t heard boo from WDW since I went in
\n1989, and I stayed on the grounds, so they presumably have my name and
\naddress.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #246, from davemackey, 456 chars, Tue May 21 20:26:02 1991
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\nWhen I joined the Adventurers Club with an associate membership (five dollars
\ngets you a pin and a “free” drink from Nash the bartender), they made me fill
\nout a card with my name and address on it, and one of the cast members said
\nthey were going to be starting up a newsletter and the first issue should be
\nin the mail within three weeks. Which it certainly was. I wonder how many
\nwent out with the first mailing.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #247, from morganfox, 168 chars, Tue May 21 20:49:32 1991
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\nOK, so I am uninformed or naive or something [don’t say, crawled out from
\nunder a rock] but what is The Adventurers Club? “Cast members”? In other
\nwords…”Say what?”<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #248, from bcapps, 118 chars, Tue May 21 21:26:44 1991
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\nWell, Cast Members is Disney-speak for employees, kinda like Associates
\nin other businesses. I dunno about TAC.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #249, from sje, 97 chars, Tue May 21 21:48:02 1991
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\n\tAlso, Disney’s main interview\/recruiting site in Florida is called
\n“Casting Central”. — Steve<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #250, from hmccracken, 158 chars, Tue May 21 22:00:18 1991
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\nThe Adventurers’ Club is one of the Disney-style nightclubs
\nat Pleasure Island, a complex of clubs that tries to bring
\nnightlife to Disney World.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #251, from davemackey, 876 chars, Tue May 21 23:31:08 1991
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\nOkay, backtracking. The Adventurers Club is one of the little taverns on
\nPleasure Island, only this one is set up like the headquarters of a group of
\nhunters, mountain climbers, and other adventurers. There are lots of
\nartifacts on the walls, some Audio-Animatronic. Besides the bartenders (all
\nof whom are called Nash), there is a regular cast of characters who put on
\nskits and provide various forms of entertainment, a different event every ten
\nminutes throughout the evening. It’s like being in the middle of a live show.
\nThe cast interacts quite well with the guests, and hecklers (yes, hecklers!)
\nare taken aside by the more conventional cast members working the attraction
\nand told to cool it. It’s one of the more unique things in the Disney
\nVacation Kingdom and something I regret not discovering earlier.. it was lots
\nof fun.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #252, from davemackey, 449 chars, Fri May 24 20:00:35 1991
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\nTITLE: Here’s a surprise for my fellow NJ BIXen!
\n“Bugs Bunny On Broadway” — on the Parkway!
\n The Garden State Arts Center will be presenting the famous stage show
\nfeaturing George Daugherty and the Warner Bros. Symphony Orchestra on Sunday,
\nJuly 21.
\n Tickets will go on sale at the Arts Center box office on Monday, June 3.
\nThe Arts Center is in Holmdel, NJ, at Exit 116 of the Garden State Parkway.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #253, from richard.pini, 616 chars, Sun May 26 13:46:15 1991
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\n Three months later, I found (at the Stormville flea market, a very good one
\nthat happens 5-6 times a year from May to October or so) a fellow selling
\nthe complete set of cards (or what I assume is complete; it’s in 3 albums,
\nand has something around 600 ‘sides’ of art) for $40. On a per-card basis
\nthis may be good, bad, or indifferent, but *I* was happy not to have to
\nslog through umpty packs of cards looking for the missing ones! He also had
\nsome of the holo cards for $3.50 each; I passed on them. They are cute, but
\ndon’t do a thing for me. Maybe if he still has them next time and I can get
\na good deal…<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #254, from davemackey, 217 chars, Sun May 26 20:19:30 1991
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\nThere is a total of 297 of the Comic Ball Cards, which translates into 594
\ndifferent “storyboard drawings.” (Baseball cards have traditionally been
\nreleased in “series” of 99.)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #255, from davemackey, 320 chars, Tue May 28 18:20:17 1991
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\nTITLE: Bugs Bunny world tour
\nNow this is not “Bugs Bunny On Broadway.” This is something different. Warner
\nBros. is going to be mounting the first live-on-stage Bugs Bunny arena show
\nin many years, with a premiere set for sometime in October at Madison Square
\nGarden in New York.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #256, from davemackey, 1028 chars, Sun Jun 2 00:57:01 1991
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\nTITLE: Disney launches book publishing arm
\nThe newest of the Disney enterprises is Hyperion Books. Among the first
\nofferings will be a number of potentially interesting animation books,
\nincluding “The Disney That Never Was,” a book by Charles Solomon about Disney
\nfilms which were never completed, as well as “Disney’s Art Of Animation From
\nMickey Mouse To Beauty & The Beast,” and “The Art Of Mickey Mouse: Artists
\nInterpret The World’s Favorite Mouse.” The latter two books are due this
\ncoming Fall.
\n A smattering of other planned titles include a book by Dave Marsh about
\nthe song “Louie Louie”; a biography of Rick Nelson to be written by Philip
\nBashe, who co-authored Mel Blanc’s autobiography; a 50th-anniversary tribute
\nto “Casablanca” by Aljean Harmetz; and “Between Thought And Expression:
\nSelected Lyrics Of Lou Reed.”
\n The book line, named for the street on which Walt Disney had his first
\nanimation studio in Hollywood, will initially be distributed by Little,
\nBrown.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #257, from hmccracken, 405 chars, Sun Jun 2 12:15:38 1991
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\nI think it’s *terrible* that Disney is publishing its own books
\non its own animation (unless they continue to license others
\nto publish Disney animation books, which seems unlikely).
\nIt’ll be surprising in the extreme if such books contain
\nanything sharply critical of Walt or his films — I suspect
\nthey’ll end up reading like printed versions of all those
\ntoothless Disney animation specials.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #258, from davemackey, 769 chars, Wed Jun 5 00:10:36 1991
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\nTITLE: Is that’s what’s troubling you, Bunky?
\nHe’s back, folks: the most recent radio commercials for Rolaids feature Eddie
\nLawrence reprising his Old Philosopher character.
\n During the 1960’s, Eddie Lawrence was employed by the Paramount cartoon
\nstudio, where he provided voices for characters like Jeepers and Creepers and
\nthe later Swifty and Shorty, and wrote many of their stories, too. (“Cartoon
\nKablooey” is a good place to see lots of these over and over again until
\nthey can get some new ones to run instead of the same old ones. \ud83d\ude09 He’s been
\ndoing his Old Philosopher character for many commercials ever since, with the
\ncharacter even becoming the mascot for the Claridge Casino in Atlantic City
\nfor a brief while.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #259, from davemackey, 916 chars, Wed Jun 5 00:10:57 1991
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\nHarry, I would have to agree with you, having given the matter a little
\nthought.
\n I’m sure Disney’s taken too many critical hits in the past (“The Disney
\nVersion” by Richard Schickel comes to mind) to want to take chances with
\nobjective criticism of its work. Therefore, Hyperion Publishing, with
\npotentially expensive coffee-table books which will probably be nothing more
\nthan glorified house organs.
\n But on the matter of the Charles Solomon book about Disney films never
\nmade, it would probably be that much easier for someone to go ahead and
\nactually make these films, wouldn’t it? If it wasn’t good enough for Disney,
\nit could be good enough for Joe Zilch Productions. One would suspect Disney
\nwouldn’t want these skeletons out of their closet.
\n Still, though, I can’t wait to read the “Louie Louie” book. Did they
\nreally sing “never ever lay her again”? \ud83d\ude09
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #260, from hmccracken, 421 chars, Wed Jun 5 09:16:48 1991
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\nThis seems as good a place as any to mention that on Monday CBS ran
\nwhat seemed to be an unsold pilot for a situation comedy about a barber,
\nstarring John Amos. One of the cast members one Arnold Stang (voice of
\nHerman the Mouse, Top Cat, the Honeynut Cheerios Bee, etc.), who seems
\nsomehow to have found the Fountain of Youth: he seems to have remained
\nthe same age for decades. How old is that guy, anyway?
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #261, from davemackey, 353 chars, Wed Jun 5 20:05:25 1991
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\nStang was just a teenager when he took his first cartoon job, that of Shorty
\nin the “Popeye” cartoons beginning in 1942. (Typical examples: the riotous
\n“Happy Birthdaze” and “Moving Aweigh.”) I don’t know his official age. I did
\nused to have a phonograph record he once did called “Arnold Stang’s Waggish
\nTales.”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #262, from mscoville, 590 chars, Wed Jun 5 21:05:16 1991
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\nHaving just attended the American Booksellers Convention in NYC, I was at
\nthe Hyperion Booth and saw a mockup of the new “The Art of Walt Disney”and
\nit appears that it will be an excellent book. They only had a mockup and
\nreview copies will not be available until October. Also of note, the distributors of the books is Warner Brothers Books
\n. As to the Charles Solomon book on the
\nFilms that Disney didn’t make, I saw nothing even resembling that title. Any-one know who the distributor or publisher
\nis? If it is Hyperion, it isn’t in
\nthe winter list of books to be published. mscoville<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #263, from davemackey, 405 chars, Thu Jun 6 01:09:44 1991
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\nUntil they get their own sales force organized, the Hyperion books are going
\nto be marketed by Little, Brown (according to Variety). But I hadn’t heard
\nanything about Warner Books getting in on the Disney action. When you conside
\nthat Disney and Warner are something of rivals these days (given the recent
\nreinforcement of WB’s involvement with the Fox Network)…
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #264, from richard.pini, 49 chars, Thu Jun 6 19:00:37 1991
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\nGlad you two could stop by the booth as well! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #265, from mscoville, 80 chars, Fri Jun 7 22:24:57 1991
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\nWhat is the old expression, Love or (money) makes strange bedfellows?
\nmscoville<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #266, from davemackey, 806 chars, Tue Jun 18 20:33:29 1991
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\nTITLE: Two for the bookstore
\nHere’s a couple of interesting books which went home with me from the
\nbookstore tonight…
\n “The Simpsons Rainy Day Fun Book” (HarperPerennial, $7.95) is a slim
\ncollection of activities, games, puzzles and projects presided over by
\neveryone’s favorite orange-skinned family. Two of the projects are animation
\nrelated: a flipbook and a zoetrope.
\n Contemporary Books has also published the first collection of the comic
\nstrip “Baby Blues” by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott. Priced at $7.95, the book
\nincludes a foreword by Cathy “Cathy” Guisewite. The strip begins as Wanda and
\nDarryl have their baby Zoe, and follows the new parents through a variety of
\nsituations that any new parent can easily identify with. (Not Reviews)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #267, from hmccracken, 938 chars, Sat Jun 22 22:02:41 1991
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\nTITLE: Saw _The Rocketeer_ today; it’s quite good. The best thing
\nabout the movie is the art deco look that’s very well executed
\nthroughout the film. The cast is not particularly impressive —
\nthey’re bland and comic booky, which I suppose was the intention —
\nexcept for Timothy Dalton, who’s quite witty as British actor
\nNeville Sinclair. Special effects range from poor (sometimes
\nthe Rocketeer looks like he was animated, a la the Kirk Alyn
\n_Superman_ movie serials) to excellent (other times he really
\nlooks like he’s whizzing about with his rocket pack). The last
\ntwenty minutes, involving a zeppelin, are quite exciting.<\/p>\n
\nof a scene which incorporates a Nazi propaganda cartoon pastiche
\ncreated for the film. It’s very well done — the Disney feature
\nanimation department was somehow involved with making it, but
\njust how is not clear from the credits.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #268, from adunkin, 127 chars, Sat Jun 22 23:58:58 1991
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\nThe special effects were done by ILM, but they had help from Disney Animation
\nI believe (or so they said)..<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #269, from hmccracken, 1689 chars, Sun Jul 7 14:14:20 1991
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\nTITLE: Hyperion Books
\nAs mentioned previously in this conference, this is Disney’s
\nnew book publishing company. Here’s a rundown of some of
\nits upcoming titles:<\/p>\n
\nMouse_, edited by Craig Yoe: an art book in which artists including
\nMiltonm Glaser, Charles Schulz, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol
\nprovide their own interpe\bretations of Disney’s most famous character.
\nIntroduction by John Updike (!)<\/p>\n
\nand the Beast_, by Bob Thomas: The author of several
\nprevious Disney books, including an _Art of Animation_
\npublished in the late 1950s, provides what sounds like
\na replacement for the venerable _Art of Walt Disney_
\nthat has served as the basic Disney art book for almost
\ntwenty years,
\n_Chanticleer and the Fox_, illustrated by Marc Davis: an
\nadaptation of the Nun’s Tale (as I recall) from _The
\nCanterbury Tales_, illustrated with art done decades
\nago when Disney was contemplating making an animated
\nfeature based on it. (They eventually used some of
\nthe material in _Robin Hood_; Don Bluth’s upcoming
\n_Rock a Doodle_ is apparently at least vaguely based
\non the material as well.)dthe\/and the\/<\/p>\n
\nwith artwork from the Disney archives.<\/p>\n
\nof Disney’s upcoming animated feature.<\/p>\n
\nwith numerous other books, including five Davy Crockett
\nbooks. For the record, most of these are actually
\nunder the Disney Press imprint.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #270, from davemackey, 479 chars, Sat Jul 13 07:29:49 1991
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\nTITLE: Impel cards
\nThere’s a new company on the trading card scene called Impel Marketing Inc.
\n(and if they aren’t new and I just haven’t heard of them before, my
\napologies). This company is clearly positioning itself as a competitor to
\nUpper Deck, with its foil packs and hologram cards in some sets.
\n Three of the first sets available are Disney Collector Cards (210),
\nMinnie ‘n Me, and Marvel Universe (162 cards in second series).
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #271, from davemackey, 2202 chars, Wed Jul 31 19:06:31 1991
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\nTITLE: This Pee-wee thing won’t go away
\nThe maelstrom surrounding the arrest of Paul “Pee-wee Herman” Reubens last
\nweek in Florida shows no signs of letting up. One thinks of radio’s Uncle
\nDon, whose career was ruined when he allegedly signed off a broadcast
\nmuttering “that ought to hold the little bastards” (though it has never been
\nproven that he did indeed say it). After you cancel the show (see messages in
\nboob.tube), then what?
\n The Disney\/MGM Studios Theme Park has discontinued use of a film segment
\nin one of its attractions (possibly the Studio Tour?) that includes Pee-wee.
\nThis was done out of sensitivity to guests, according to Disney.
\n The Toys “R” Us and Lionel Kiddie City toy store chains have pulled
\nall remaining Pee-wee Herman and Chairy toys off its shelves. Matchbox Toys
\nstopped production on these toys about 18 months ago.
\n Radio humorists and print gadflies continue to have a ball. A promo for
\nDon Imus’ show on WFAN radio in New York — which had gone hot and heavy with
\nPee-wee jokes as early as Monday morning — stated that “since we consider
\nourselves to be on the leading edge of radio humor, we are finally going to
\nget off Pee-wee.” An actor impersonating Pee-wee states that he’s perfectly
\ncapable of getting off himself. Columnist David Hinckley in the New York
\nDaily News cites the general attitude towards illicit sexual activity in
\nFlorida (including the censorship issue surrounding 2 Live Crew) as the root
\nof Pee’s problem. The newspaper also reports that many adult video stores in
\nthe city have gotten many requests for the films Pee-wee was watching,
\nincluding “Tiger Shark” and “Nurse Nancy.” But it’s too early to tell what
\neffect this has on the video shops that rent out Pee-wee films like “…Big
\nAdventure” and “Big Top…” as well as episodes of his TV show and the
\n“Pee-wee Herman Show” cable special.
\n Even Peggy Charren’s had her say on the issue, saying that the whole
\nthing can be used as a springboard for parents to clarify some aspects of
\nsexuality to our confused youth. Many newspapers have given parents tips on
\nhow best to explain why Pee-wee isn’t going to be on TV any more.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #272, from elfhive, 89 chars, Thu Aug 1 12:05:10 1991
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\nI thought it was Soupy Sales that was alleged to have made the “little
\nbastards” remark?<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #273, from hmccracken, 177 chars, Thu Aug 1 12:35:08 1991
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\nNo, it was Uncle Don, but Soupy *did* tell the kiddies to go to
\nmommy’s purse and send him all the little pieces of green paper
\nwith pictures of presidents on them…
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #274, from richard.pini, 106 chars, Thu Aug 1 20:37:58 1991
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\nSoupy also managed to do interesting things with finger gestures that got him
\nin hot water once or twice.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #275, from elfhive, 50 chars, Fri Aug 2 17:00:14 1991
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\nThat *is* funny. You could net a bundle that way!<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #276, from davemackey, 306 chars, Fri Aug 2 19:09:15 1991
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\nAnd if you look on that tape I mentioned over in Video.stuff (see msg #82),
\nyou can see Soupy’s famous scene with the exotic dancer. Soupy did have some
\nnot-kind words toward Pee-wee in recent reaction interviews, clearly a case
\nof the pot calling the kettle black.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #277, from davemackey, 379 chars, Fri Aug 2 19:09:28 1991
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\nTITLE: Coming soon from Disney records…
\nThe soundtrack to “Beauty And The Beast” will be released in October, prior
\nto the movie’s release.
\n Also on the Disney schedule: in the vein of its previous “Sebastian”
\nalbum, there will be an all-new album from The Little Mermaid. “Songs From
\nThe Sea” will feature the voice of Jodi Benson.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #278, from tsin, 153 chars, Sat Aug 3 22:05:49 1991
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\nYes…And I for one am watching my children for signs of trauma..
\nAnd I am hiding the newspaper..!
\nGeeeeeeezzz….
\nI feel sorry for the guy, personally.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #279, from hmccracken, 504 chars, Mon Sep 9 16:20:43 1991
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\nTITLE: Pee-Wee a Collectible
\nThe Pee-Wee Herman toys that were pulled off of toystore shelves
\nafter Mr. Herman’s arrest have apparently become collectible all
\nof a sudden. At the Brimfield, Mass. flea market yesterday, I
\nsaw many, many Pee-Wee dolls and toys, mainly at outrageous
\nprices. These are the same toys that were being sold at fire sale
\nprices in the stores before the whole Florida incident; matter of
\nfact, they’re still being sold that way at at least one big toy
\nstore near me…
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #280, from davemackey, 239 chars, Mon Sep 9 19:25:17 1991
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\nOn the subject of Pee-wee, it looks like that MTV is going to be picking up
\nthe reruns of “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” — making his surprise appearance on the
\nMTV Video Music Awards less of a coincidence.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #281, from davemackey, 667 chars, Fri Sep 13 21:20:54 1991
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\nTITLE: “33”
\nI seldom pick up news items from the supermarket-checkout papers, but this
\nitem in this week’s “Star” is worth a mention because of its Disney
\nconnection.
\n The building that used to house what was rumored to be Walt Disney’s
\nprivate apartment in the heart of Disneyland is now purportedly an exclusive
\nclub called the 33 Club. Membership dues are said to be about $10,000, and it
\nis reportedly the only place Alcohol is served in Disneyland. The only
\nindication to the outside world of its existence is an engraved brass plate
\nreading “33” next to the entrance. Its members are said to include Michael
\nJackson.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #282, from mscoville, 568 chars, Sat Sep 14 01:38:23 1991
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\nSubject: 33 Club at Disneyland and Disney World
\nAccording to sources the 33 Club was started by Walt as a thank you to the
\noriginal 33 participating corporate sponsors who help start his dream. I do
\nnot believe that it is in the old apartment which Walt maintained.
\nYes, it is the only area in the park where “hard liquor” is served. The yearly
\nfee is not $10,000, it is a lot lower than that, but I am not sure of the
\nexact figure.About the only correct thing that the article said was that indeed
\nthe only indicator of its existence is the “33” address.
\nmscoville<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #283, from davemackey, 124 chars, Sat Sep 14 09:10:00 1991
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\nThanks for the additional information, Mike, and good to see you back on the
\nboard!
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #284, from hmccracken, 155 chars, Sat Sep 14 19:43:35 1991
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\nCheck out BIXen LLee’s resume for a list of Disney facts and
\nfallacies that mentions “Club 33” and says it’s in Disneyland’s
\nNew Orleans Square.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #285, from davemackey, 278 chars, Wed Oct 2 07:16:27 1991
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\nTITLE: As if you didn’t know…
\n…this week is the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney World, and the three
\nnetworks’ morning “news” shows are all originating from The Vacation Kingdom
\nor doing special features on the anniversary this week.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #286, from hmccracken, 608 chars, Fri Oct 4 21:19:52 1991
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\nTITLE: _Addams Family_ fans, take note
\nThe current issue of _Cinefantastique_ magazine cover-features
\n_Star Trek_, but the most interesting part is a great series
\nof articles and sidebars on _The Addams Family_, with pieces
\ndevoted to the upcoming feature film (which looks promising),
\nthe 1960s TV show, the cartoons of Charles Addams, the
\nanimated TV series of the 1970s, Thing, and even the theme
\nsong and the obscure 1970s reunion TV-movie. It covers just
\nabout everything you’d ever want to know about the Addamses, and
\nis a must-have for aficionados of the characters in any of their
\nguises.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #287, from davemackey, 254 chars, Sun Oct 6 10:29:57 1991
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\nTITLE: “Tornado Rex”
\nI would strongly advise Warner Bros. legal department to file suit against
\nParker Bros. over this game and the animated depiction of its lead character,
\nTornado Rex. It is a blatant infringement on the character The Tasmanian
\nDevil!<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #288, from davemackey, 487 chars, Wed Oct 9 19:18:43 1991
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\nTITLE: Bugs Bunny arena tour
\n“Time” magazine this week has a full-page ad for the “Bugs Bunny In The
\nMenace From Mars World Tour,” which kicks off with performances at the
\nnewly-refurbished Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 12 and
\n13. Brach’s Candy is offering $2 off child’s tickets with proof of purchase
\nfor all performances.
\n This is the first arena show featuring the Warner Bros. classic
\ncharacters in a number of years.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #289, from morganfox, 158 chars, Wed Oct 9 20:24:53 1991
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\nAccording to a report I saw tonight on Entertainment Tonight, “Menace from
\nMars” opens tonight in (where else but….:]) the Pinis’ backyard of
\nPoughkeepsie!<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #290, from davemackey, 280 chars, Wed Oct 9 21:18:40 1991
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\nDoes the article make any mention of the fact that the first part of the
\n“Addams Family” television theme song by Vic Mizzy is one of the most-played
\nselections by sports-stadium organists? (And by my ear, about half of them
\nget it wrong.)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #291, from hmccracken, 119 chars, Wed Oct 9 22:24:34 1991
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\nNope, but it should have. Other cartoon-related themes heard at
\nballparks include the Dudley Do-Right theme.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #292, from morganfox, 882 chars, Thu Oct 10 19:22:28 1991
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\nTITLE: Hammacher Schlemmer
\nWell, the Holiday catalogs are arriving by the pound in the mail and today
\nHammacher Schlemmer’s offering arrived.<\/p>\n
\nThey are reproductions of single frame cells taken from the original pencil
\nsketches. They come with a cetificate of authenticity. There are two offered,
\neach limited to 500 editions. The first is “Look No Meat!” from the 1954
\nBugs showing the first appearence of the Tasmanian Devil. From the collection of
\nRobert McKimson. (Hey, Santa…this is on *my* list!)
\nThe second is “Dynamite Muscle” A classic Popeye pose from the sketch collection
\nof Myron Waldman. It is personally signed. on a photographic background.
\nThe Bugs and Taz is embossed with R.McKimson’s signature and is on a Lithographic
\nbackground.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #293, from davemackey, 640 chars, Fri Oct 11 22:03:41 1991
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\nI think it says something positive about Myron Waldman (one of the better
\nFleischer\/Famous animators) that his work is only $100 less than that of Bob
\nMcKimson…
\n However, I did a spot check of Myron Waldman’s screen credits at the
\nFleischer and Famous Studios and can only come up with three Popeye cartoons
\nthat he ever got screen credit for. “Can You Take It,” “Popeye Meets Rip Van
\nWinkle” and “Problem Pappy.” Waldman specialized on Screen Songs, Betty Boop,
\nColor Classics, Stone Age, Superman, Noveltoons, Little Lulu, and Casper
\nduring his career at Paramount. Something to think about.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #294, from davemackey, 291 chars, Fri Oct 11 22:34:32 1991
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\nTITLE: Chuck muses and reminisces again
\nHallmark has issued the second edition of its “Looney Tunes” calendar with
\nall-new graphics from Warner Bros. cartoons and all-new musings and
\nreminisces by Chuck Jones, who in 1992 will mark his 80th birthday.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #295, from hmccracken, 187 chars, Sun Oct 13 00:31:26 1991
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\nTITLE: _The Simpsons_ video game
\nHas anyone seen or played this Komani arcade game? I played it tonight,
\nand it’s fantastic — nearly as funny and well-animated as the TV show.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #296, from davemackey, 168 chars, Sun Oct 13 02:27:08 1991
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\nI ran into one this afternoon, but didn’t have any quarters to spare (nor the
\ntime). But I did get a good look at the graphics.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #297, from grekel, 292 chars, Sun Oct 13 09:25:47 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 295.
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\nI recently watched four kids FINISH the Simpsons arcade game. It took
\nan incredible number of quarters to finally defeat Mr. Burns, who
\nstarts the round piloting an exoskeleton, and kicking butt. Then
\nAmerica’s Favorite Family walks off into the sunset, and the game
\nstarts all over again…<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #298, from hmccracken, 218 chars, Sun Oct 13 11:39:43 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 287.
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\nI saw the “Tornado Rex” commercial today, and Rex certainly looks and
\nbehaves a great deal like the Tasmanian Devil.Parker Bros. ought to
\nhave licensed the rights to Taz (or maybe they tried to and failed?).
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #299, from hmccracken, 286 chars, Sun Oct 13 16:07:20 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 297.
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\nI found the game more fun to play than to watch, although the Simpsons
\nthemselves behave way out of character. (They run around town
\nassaulting Mr. Burns’s henchmen for most of the game.) The best part
\nof the game are the little background details you can spot along
\nthe way.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #300, from morganfox, 374 chars, Thu Oct 17 21:32:27 1991
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\nTITLE: Hank Azaria in Boston<\/p>\n
\nNick’s Comedy Stop in Saugus. Hank is the voices of several Simpsons chars
\nas well as being known for “Herman’s Head”. He will be the celebrity host.<\/p>\n
\nbe the host tomorrow night (the 18th).<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #301, from mscoville, 490 chars, Fri Oct 18 00:19:28 1991
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\nTITLE: Euro Disney
\nLast Saturday, outside Paris, “Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant” was
\nunveiled. Sleeping Beauty’s castle, as we know it, will look like a French
\nChateau instead of what we know the castle to look like. It seems that they
\nwish to blend with the countryside. Also,of note, they Disney group has added
\na dragon in the castle grotto. Should anyone be interested, Euro-Disney will
\nopen April 12, 1992. Reservations are being accepted, bring lots of francs…..mscoville<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #302, from hmccracken, 162 chars, Fri Oct 18 09:17:15 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 300.
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\nOf course, Frank Gorshin has a comics\/animation tie-in as well —
\nbeing, as he was, the Riddler on _Batman_ (as well as an awfully
\ngood impressionist).
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #303, from rcrook, 198 chars, Wed Oct 23 20:23:55 1991
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\n>Hank Azaria<\/p>\n
\n“The Simpsons”?<\/p>\n
\n“Herman’s Head” as well.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #304, from morganfox, 961 chars, Wed Oct 23 21:03:46 1991
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\nTITLE: Look what the mail dragged in!<\/p>\n
\nare arriving by the ton, in that holiday blitz buying spirit. And today, the
\nprize arrived! _The_Great_Doonesbury_Sellout_ catalog!<\/p>\n
\nfrom the New World order” catalog.
\nAnd TINAR, IMHO and all that stuff, it is a neat catalog with neat, cool
\nstuff.
\nIt is all Doonesbury, in style, and philosophy. The creators’ royalities and
\na part of the company’s proceeds go to named charities.<\/p>\n
\non the leather? Want cammy underwear, they have it! T-shirts, caps, pins,
\npatches, yours. Need a trench lighter from Club Scud in Kuwait city? Ya got
\nit.Cocktail stirrers? Dog Tags? Come on over here and let’s talk. <\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #305, from davemackey, 557 chars, Wed Oct 23 23:26:03 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 303.
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\nYou would perhaps best know Azaria as Barney, the always-drunk patron of
\nMoe’s tavern. We’ve mentioned before that in this role he sounds not unlike
\nthe late Daws Butler.
\n I can’t say that I watch enough “Herman’s Head” to know precisely every
\ncast member and their function, but I have noted the presence of both Azaria
\nand Y. Smith.
\n Incidentally, Dan Castellaneta is now in a live series on Fox as well,
\nwhich is nothing new for him since he had been appearing in the cast of the
\nold “Tracey Ullman Show.”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #306, from bcapps, 298 chars, Thu Oct 24 01:32:05 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 304.
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\nI like all the quotes from current (and past) political figures who’ve been
\nDoonesbury targets. Esp. Trump’s quote — “You know, I did well in school,
\nbut for the life of me, I can’t understand what Doonesbury is all about.”
\n::snicker:: Ah, life. Such a rich source of comic material. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #307, from hmccracken, 1778 chars, Thu Oct 31 09:58:46 1991
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\nTITLE: Last Sunday, I visited Disneyland for the first time since
\n1988, and two significant changes had taken place since then
\nwhich are worth mentioning here. The only major new attraction
\nwhich had opened in that time was Splash Mountain, a log flume
\nride inspired by the Uncle Remus stories. As a log flume, it’s
\ngreat; as an Uncle Remus attraction it’s a little odd. Most of
\nthe robotic audio-animatronic figures are of singing geese
\n(I don’t remember any geese in _Song of the South_), and there
\nare other bits and pieces which don’t seem to have anything to
\ndo with Disney’s version of the Remus stories, like a big
\nscene set on a steamboat.<\/p>\n
\none “Afternoon Avenue” is touted as the newest of Disneyland’s
\n“lands,” but it’s really just a section of Fantasyland that’s
\nbeen blocked off and decorated with some decorations relating
\nto Disney’s afternoon animated TV programs. Two lesser Fantasyland
\nattractions — the Autopia and the motorboat ride — have
\nbeen turned into Chip n’ Dale and Gummi Bears rides, respectively,
\nby the simple means of setting up plywood cutouts relating to
\nthose shows here and there. The area is heavily promoted elsewhere
\nin the park.<\/p>\n
\nDisneyland that will be built on the land that now
\nserves as the park’s parking lot. That area is
\npresumably several years away from completion, but
\nwithin the current confines of the park I saw
\nseveral areas under construction, including a new
\nversion of the Mississippi river section of the
\npark that seems to be inspired by the “Night on
\nBald Mountain” segment of _Fantasia_. It looks like
\nit’ll be worth returning to the park in another three
\nyears to see all the upcoming stuff.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #308, from hmccracken, 235 chars, Thu Oct 31 09:59:41 1991
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\nTITLE: One other thing about Disneyland…
\nif you’re going there and don’t want to wait in lines, try
\nto plan your trip so you’re at the park very late on a
\nSunday night. After 10:30pm or so, there are no lines for
\nanything.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #309, from hkenner, 82 chars, Thu Oct 31 11:35:19 1991
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\nSo a few years hence, where are all those Disneyland visitors
\ngoing to park?
\n–HK<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #310, from hmccracken, 266 chars, Thu Oct 31 11:51:41 1991
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\nBIXen Mike Scoville told me what the plans are, but I forget.
\nI think they had something to do with building a new lot
\na short distance from the park and then shuttling visitors
\nin via monorail (which is what is done at the Magic Kingdom
\nat Disney World).
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #311, from davemackey, 48 chars, Fri Nov 1 21:55:37 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 309.
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\nNevada.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #312, from pwirtz, 178 chars, Sun Nov 3 04:50:16 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 308.
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\nAlso as a tie-in visit the Gallery above Priates. Nice posters in good mailing tubes.
\nIf you want to pay bucks Lithos & org art for sale also. <\/p>\n
\n{Using BixWin}<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #313, from pwirtz, 181 chars, Sun Nov 3 04:54:01 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 307.
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\nMost of the auidio-anamantronics on splash mtn are refurbished America Sings
\nprops. As to whats going inside of the America sings, I don’t know. <\/p>\n
\n{Using BixWin}<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #314, from hmccracken, 313 chars, Sun Nov 3 12:30:33 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 313.
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\nAH HAH! I was going to ask about that. I never saw “America Sings,”
\nbut vaguely remembered that it involved singing geese. The reuse of
\nthe geese in an attraction they’re ill-suited for sounds cheap, but
\nDisney says that Splash Mountain cost more to construct than all
\nof Disneyland did when it opened!
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #315, from davemackey, 852 chars, Mon Nov 18 04:12:30 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 286.
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\nIt should be noted, in the interest of whatever, that the “Graham Place”
\nlisted as executive producer of the “Addams Family” movie is NOT the former
\nFleischer and Paramount animator. That Graham Place died about a decade ago.
\n If you’re constantly distracted by “product placements” in films (the
\nblatant use of a name brand product), I think the ad for the “Addams Family”
\nis possibly the first where a placement’s made it into an ad. You can’t help
\nbut notice the giant Tombstone Pizza billboard behind the girl scout in the
\nlemonade-stand gag.
\n These two items notwithstanding, I do plan on seeing “Addams Family”
\nwhen it opens next week. In the battle royal between them and the Munsters
\nthat occupied two years of TV prime time in the 60’s, I was always more
\nsympathetic toward Gomez and his brood.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #316, from hmccracken, 201 chars, Mon Nov 18 09:23:09 1991
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\nI’m looking forward to the movie myself.<\/p>\n
\nobvious and tacky — so much so that I wonder if it’s
\nintentionally out-of-place and silly.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #317, from switch, 474 chars, Sat Nov 23 00:10:20 1991
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\nTITLE: _Deceived_ animation tie-in<\/p>\n
\nnot under ANY circumstances read this!<\/p>\n
\n— a Warner Bros. cartoon, namely “Pigs in a Polka”. Both
\nthe wolf in that short and John Heard’s character died in the same
\nmanner…<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #318, from davemackey, 127 chars, Sat Nov 23 07:40:41 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 317.
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\nI went ahead and read the spoiler, and I now want to see this film for that
\nreason! \ud83d\ude09
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #319, from davemackey, 279 chars, Wed Nov 27 22:03:31 1991
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\nTITLE: Ice ice baby
\nMy local newspaper gave me a chuckle today, noting the local appearance of
\n“Disney’s America On Ice,” touring arena show featuring ice skaters. The
\nnewspaper preferred to refer to it as “Walt Disney On Ice.” Hmmmm…..
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #320, from olson, 76 chars, Mon Dec 2 05:01:30 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 319.
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\nI love it! Our local watering hole has a drink called “Walt on the Rocks”.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #321, from cmattern, 55 chars, Wed Dec 4 00:44:56 1991
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\nShouldn’t that be “Walt *is* the Rocks”?
\nChris Mattern<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #322, from davemackey, 890 chars, Fri Dec 20 14:49:38 1991
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\nTITLE: Christmas with Eddie G.
\nSo what does the newly-released album “Christmas Party With Eddie G”
\n(Columbia 46919) have to do with animation, anyway?
\n For starters, some of the linking material features animation voice
\ntalent Billy West (“the Ren and Stimpy Show”) doing his patented impression
\nof Larry Fine, in comedy bits which are purportedly outtakes from the famous
\nThree Stooges Christmas record sessions (with Moe and Curly Joe).
\n And among the other cuts on this album of obscure Christmas songs are
\nthree versions of “The Merry Old Philosopher,” recorded by Eddie Lawrence, a
\nfixture at Paramount animation throughout the 1960’s
\n Eddie Gorodetsky, whose comedy writing credits have included stints with
\nSCTV, SNL and Letterman, culled the material on this album from one of the
\nworld’s largest collections of Christmas music.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #323, from hmccracken, 1324 chars, Wed Jan 15 16:03:23 1992
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\nTITLE: Lenburg returns
\nJeff Lenburg’s _Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoon Series_, a book
\noriginally published more than ten years ago, is available in a
\nnew edition from Facts on File. The original version of Lenburg’s
\nbook was *swimming* with factual errors — there were easily
\nhundreds of mistakes throughout the book, some of them major.
\nWhile Lenburg’s attempt to list every American theatrical and
\ntelevision cartoon was a noble one, you just couldn’t rely on his
\ninformation unless you already happened to know that it was accurate.<\/p>\n
\nother ones remain. Some of the errors are just plain weird — Lenburg
\ngives a detailed explanation of Popeye’s origins that says he evolved
\nfrom a character named Ham Gravy, when Ham Gravy was in fact a totally
\ndifferent character. Problems like that make me nervous about trusting
\neverything else Lenburg says, especially information that sounds new
\nor unusual (since I’m worried that Lenburg might wrong).<\/p>\n
\nworth of information, and has added sections on feature-length animated
\nfilms and animated TV specials. There *is* a tremendous amount of
\ninformation in the book, and if you’re a crazy cartoon completist
\nlike me, it’s worth having.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #324, from hmccracken, 228 chars, Mon Jan 20 19:20:24 1992
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\nTITLE: I’ve never watched the Super Bowl in my life…
\nbut I’ll have to this year. Nike is premiering an ad co-starring
\nMichael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, with a “Hare Joran” theme.
\nSounds like something not to be missed!
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #325, from bcapps, 152 chars, Sat Jan 25 02:18:53 1992
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\nI’va actually seen the ad already (where was it?) I believe it was on a
\nnews show, or somesuch. It’s really nice with some Roger Rabbit touches.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #326, from davemackey, 495 chars, Mon Feb 24 20:50:45 1992
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\nTITLE: I’m a temporary, dammit
\nA 2-page ad in this week’s Time for Olsten Temporary Services introduces its
\nnew concept, “The Flexible Workforce,” by illustrating alternately a squashed
\nGumby to symbolize “lower overhead” and an elongated Gumby to indicate
\n“higher profits.” Gumby himself also appears in the ad in normal form,
\nproperly attributed to the current rights holder, Prema Toy Co. (which of
\ncourse is` controlled by Gumby creator Art Clokey).
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #327, from davemackey, 892 chars, Sat Feb 29 15:23:29 1992
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\nTITLE: “Little Audrey”: the lost lyric
\nThough it was published two years ago, animation music buffs might want to
\npick up a copy of “Television Showstoppers” (published by CPP\/Belwin) to
\nobtain complete sheet music for “Betty Boop” (Heyman\/Green), “Casper The
\nFriendly Ghost” (David\/Livingston), “Felix The Wonderful Cat” (Sharples),
\n“I’m Popeye The Sailor Man” (Lerner), “It’s A Hap-Hap-Happy Day” (Neiburg\/
\nTimberg\/Sharples), “Raggedy Ann (I Love You)” (Neiburg\/Fleischer\/Timberg),
\n“Little Audrey Says” (Kaye\/Sharples), “The Pink Panther” (Mancini) and “Linus
\nAnd Lucy” (Guaraldi).
\n The book also includes themes from many primetime shows, past and
\npresent, complete with revealing lyrics (for example, I never knew the first
\nline of the break of the theme to “The Jeffersons” was “Fish don’t fry in the
\nkitchen, beans don’t burn on the grill”).
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #328, from cmattern, 263 chars, Sat Feb 29 22:35:32 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 327.
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\n >”Fish don’t fry in the kitchen, beans don’t burn on the grill”<\/p>\n
\nof tryin’, just to get up that hill…”). “Gee, our old LaSalle
\nran great…”–now, *that* was hard line to pin down!
\nChris Mattern<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #329, from davemackey, 377 chars, Sun Mar 1 19:05:04 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 327.
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\nHey, I forgot… the message was slugged “Little Audrey lost lyric.” So…<\/p>\n
\nBut she doesn’t look cause it’s more fun
\nTo be surprised when the leap is done.”<\/p>\n
\nfor a rainy day.'”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #330, from davemackey, 202 chars, Sun Mar 1 19:05:13 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 328.
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\nWell, that one is in there, as well as the “All In The Family” closing theme
\n“Remembering You”… something I’ve always wanted to learn how to play on the
\npiano.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #331, from davemackey, 463 chars, Sat Mar 21 17:25:23 1992
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\nTITLE: All Annette ever sold was peanut butter…
\nHas anyone else noticed former “Mickey Mouse Club” co-host Mowava Pryor
\ndoing a commercial for “Today’s Sponge” contraceptive inserts? She’s the one
\nwho mentions the sponge is clinically tested, “and for me that’s important.”
\n Or for that matter, current Mouseketeer Keri Russell leading off a
\ncommercial for Oil Of Olay cooing, “Some promises should never be broken”?
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #332, from davemackey, 586 chars, Tue Mar 31 19:32:21 1992
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\nTITLE: Ownership change for Disney-owned LA station
\nThe Walt Disney Company and Pinelands have purchased substantial interests in
\neach other’s flagship television stations, serving the Los Angeles and New
\nYork City markets, respectively.
\n KCAL-TV (licensed to Norwalk, CA) and WWOR-TV (licensed to Secaucus, NJ)
\nare now under the same banner. Among other ramifications, this now means that
\nHoward Stern (whose syndicated television show is produced at WWOR-TV) is now
\nsomewhat indirectly part of the Disney family.
\n Don’t tell Walt… \ud83d\ude09
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #333, from hmccracken, 1985 chars, Wed Apr 15 17:25:14 1992
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\nTITLE: Warner Bros. Studio Store
\nI happened to be driving from Boston to Philadelphia last Saturday,
\nand I took the opportunity to stop at the new Warner Bros. Studio
\nStore at the Danbury Fair mall in Danbury, CT. The store is one of
\njust a handful of Warner stores; the flagship is located at the
\nBeverly Center mall in Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n
\na series of large sculptural replicas of scenes from Warner
\ncartoons, which is actually located outside the store itself.
\nThey’re very well done, and there are more terrifici-looking
\nstatues of Warner characters inside the store.<\/p>\n
\nfrom the Warner Bros. catalog is here. There’s also a lot of
\nstuff that *isn’t* in the catalog, including some very stylish
\ndesigner clothing with a Warner cartoon theme. At least 75% of
\nthe products for sale are specifically cartoon related; another
\n5% or so relates to DC Comics superheroes, and the rest are
\nlive-action themed (Bogart posters and the like) or simply sport
\nthe Warner logo.<\/p>\n
\nof one wall is given over to animation cels — mainly limited-editions
\nand recent production cels. There are also many stuffed animals,
\nkitchen products, clocks, a selection of books, and many miscellaneous
\nproducts. <\/p>\n
\nbuying something, only to find out that it cost two or three
\nhundred dollars. But I did pick up wonderful Michigan J. Frog
\nand Daffy Duck shirts and a Petunia Pig potholder, and I’m sure
\nI’ll be back for more clothing, since most of it is very handsome.
\nI may even work up the nerve to blow $28 on a Bugs Bunny necktie.<\/p>\n
\nmaking a special effort to get to. (The mall also has a Disney
\nStore.) The Danbury Fair is located right off route 84; it’s
\ngigantic and easy to spot.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #334, from bcapps, 279 chars, Sat Apr 18 00:50:33 1992
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\nI guess I should comment (somewhat belatedly) that there is also a Warner’s
\nstore in Fair Oaks Mall, Fairfax, VA right off of I-66 and US-50. They
\nalso took a cue from the Disney stores and have a large projection screen
\nin the back showing clips from WB films and shorts.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #335, from davemackey, 185 chars, Mon May 11 18:48:13 1992
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\nTITLE: An Old Ronald joins the enemy camp
\nAnyone else notice former Ronald McDonald Willard Scott now selling Breakfast
\nBuddies for Burger King?
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #336, from hmccracken, 21 chars, Tue May 12 09:40:16 1992
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\nThat Bozo!
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #337, from davemackey, 956 chars, Wed May 27 19:23:19 1992
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\nTITLE: Desperately Seeking “Dennis”…
\nJohn Hughes is on the lookout for a 5- to 7-year-old boy to portray Dennis
\nThe Menace in an upcoming feature film to begin shooting this summer.
\n The public has been invited to send videotapes of any interested kids to
\n“Dennis The Menace,” Warner Bros., 4000 Warner Blvd,. Burbank, CA 91522
\nbetween June 1 and June 10. The lucky youngster chosen will play opposite
\nWalter Matthau as next-door neighbor Mr. Wilson.
\n Though “Dennis” is best-renowned as a live-action TV series of the 50’s
\nwhich starred Jay North in the title role, there were a few animated specials
\nproduced by DePatie-Freleng and Marvel Productions a number of years ago,
\na live-action pilot shortly thereafter, and most recently a DIC-produced
\ncartoon series (still being syndicated by DFS Program Exchange as part of its
\n“Evergreens” package) with Phil Hartman as the voice of “Good Ol’ Mr.
\nWilson.”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #338, from hmccracken, 913 chars, Thu May 28 09:52:00 1992
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\nThanks for giving the address, Dave. BIXen with sons of the right age
\nare strongly urged to send photos; heck, if you have a daughter of the
\nright age, send her picture. Actually, I think I’ll enter myself.
\nI’m a few years too old, and my hair is the wrong color, but if
\nI comb my hair over my eyes and wear overalls, I should be able
\nto work up a likeness….<\/p>\n
\naction TV series _Curiosity Shop_ (produced by Chuck Jones) once had
\nan animated segment featuring Dennis that was easily
\nthe best of all the attempts to animate the character. And don’t
\nforget his two greatest multimedia gigs — the Dennis comic books
\n(which were quite popular from the 1950s until the late 1970s or
\nearly 1980s); and his time-honored place on Dairy Queen cups
\nand dishes (where he has appared for as long as I can remember —
\nsince the early 1970s at least).
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #339, from davemackey, 474 chars, Thu May 28 22:10:36 1992
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\nI remember the Chuck Jones Dennis now that you mention it.
\n Frankly, I am not looking forward to Dennis a la Hughes. My faith in
\nJohn Hughes has gone down. I will always remember him as king of the
\nSensitive Teen Comedy which invariably starred Molly Ringwald. Now he’s
\nturned into a purveyor of films whose key comedic moments appear to be
\nchildren screaming at the top of their lungs (“Home Alone” and “Curly Sue”
\nfor example).
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #340, from hmccracken, 774 chars, Thu May 28 23:24:31 1992
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\nTITLE: H-B Draws Joe Barbera’s Blood
\nThis is a strange one. A press release from Hanna-Barbera has passed
\nthis desk announcing that from now on all H-B animation art sold to
\nthe public will include a seal of authenticity that incorporates
\nJoe Barbera’s DNA, “providing an indispuitable and individually
\nidentifiable proof of ownership and authenticity.” Apparently,
\nH-B art purchasers can take their art to any H-B site for verification.<\/p>\n
\ncheerfully notes in the release, “Now they want my blood as well.”
\n(The press release isn’t too clear on the subject, but apparently
\nthe DNA incorporation process involved drawing some of Joe’s blood.)<\/p>\n
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #341, from switch, 77 chars, Fri May 29 00:17:17 1992
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\nEasy. Bill has the sweat and tears, which don’t have the DNA
\nimprint.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #342, from davemackey, 319 chars, Fri May 29 22:01:14 1992
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\nTITLE: Flipbook alert…
\nIf you like collecting books with flipbooks in the margins, here’s one you
\nmay want to add to your collection: the margins of Rita Rudner’s new book
\n“Naked Beneath My Clothes” feature a sequence of drawings of the comedienne
\ndiving into a pool of water.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #343, from davemackey, 434 chars, Sun May 31 15:34:10 1992
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\nTITLE: Cartoon Corner: That’s All, Folks?
\nA visit to the Bridgewater Commons mall in central New Jersey, site of what
\nhad been the sole remaining store of the Cartoon Corner chain, reveals that
\nthe store is no more, and in its place a Nordic Track showroom.
\n The move must have been made fairly recently, since the mall directories
\nstill list Cartoon Corner as the tenant in that position.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #344, from hmccracken, 169 chars, Sun May 31 17:51:55 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 343.
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\nI think I’ve heard that one of the founders of the Cartoon Corner chain
\nis now involved in running the East Coast branches of the Warner
\nBros. Studios Stores.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #345, from hmccracken, 62 chars, Sun Jun 21 04:01:00 1992
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\nTITLE: Batman Returns
\nAnyone seen it yet? Comments?
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #346, from davemackey, 374 chars, Thu Jul 2 05:56:43 1992
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\nTITLE: Local color in beer commercial
\nBud Light recently filmed some beer commercials in and around the New York
\nCity area; one which was done in Hoboken features some patrons of one of our
\nlocal watering holes exclaiming (and misquoting) “HOBOKEN? I’M DYIN’!”
\n As we all know, the exact line was “HOBOKEN? OOH, I’M DYIN’ AGAIN!”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #347, from davemackey, 298 chars, Thu Jul 2 19:01:25 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 340.
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\nThink about this… they could lift the DNA out of the artwork, and once the
\ntechnology becomes available, you can clone your own Joe Barbera… running
\noff to some network with the storyboards to the latest “Scooby Doo” revival
\nunder some arm, no doubt. \ud83d\ude09
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #348, from hmccracken, 702 chars, Sun Jul 12 20:47:52 1992
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\nTITLE: Jones in _Baseball Hobby News_
\nThe current issue of _Baseball Hobby News_, a tabloid for card
\ncollectors, has an article on the Comic Ball cards, those very
\nsuccessful trading cards that combine photos of baseball players
\nwith artwork of Warner Bros. cartoon characters. The article says
\nthat the artwork is produced by “Dover Boys Studios,” an organization
\napparently operated by Chuck Jones (who did the artwork for the first
\nset of cards, and supervised the art for the other two sets). A
\nfootball-themed set is planned for release later this year.<\/p>\n
\nKen Griffey Jr., embellished by a Chuck Jones drawing of Bugs Bunny.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #349, from davemackey, 318 chars, Sun Jul 19 15:44:36 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 348.
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\nI understand that the set includes not only Ken Griffey Jr. but also his dad
\nKen Griffey Sr. and the one-handed pitcher Jim Abbott. I saw some packs at
\nthe airport but decided against buying them for the moment… maybe
\neventually, but I still have Comic Ball 2 to catch up on.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #350, from davemackey, 308 chars, Tue Aug 18 09:53:55 1992
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\nTITLE: Found: One Menace
\nSix-year-old Mason Gamble of Chicago has been cast as “Dennis The Menace” in
\nJohn Hughes’ feature-film production of the Hank Ketcham comic strip, which
\nis being directed by Nick Castle. Hughes held a nationwide open call to find
\nhis Menace.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #351, from elfhive, 73 chars, Wed Aug 19 20:02:48 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 350.
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\nI understand Walter Matthau is working in that film. Must be Mr. Wilson?<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #352, from davemackey, 62 chars, Thu Aug 20 05:51:52 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 351.
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\nYes, that is correct.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #353, from davemackey, 206 chars, Thu Aug 20 14:06:08 1992
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\nTITLE: Bugs and Michael calendar available
\nDaydream Graphics and Nike have made available the “Hare Jordan”
\n16 month calendar. It should be available in bookstores now.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #354, from davemackey, 1355 chars, Thu Aug 20 21:36:20 1992
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\nTITLE: animation\/radio
\nSounds strange, but there’s been a lot of animation\/related stuff popping up
\non the radio lately, here in the New York area. Perhaps these commercials
\nhave been running in your area, too…
\n A Commercial for Continental Airlines illustrates the many places you
\ncan fly by playing various music. When they say you can fly to Europe, you
\nhear an accordion theme that’s familiar to fans of “The Ren And Stimpy Show”.
\nAt the end of the spot, the announcer tells us to hurry because these fares
\ngo fast — and we hear the same piece of music, grotesquely sped up.
\n Lincoln-Mercury has been using veteran Hanna-Barbera voice talent John
\nStephenson to so straight reads on their spots for the Tri-State dealers.
\nStephenson is perhaps best known as the voice of Mr. Slate, Fred Flintstone’s
\nboss.
\n Gary Owens has a commercial running for something or other, I forget
\nwhich, in which he’s playing an announcer who’s being told to emphasize low
\nprices by making his voice lower and lower.
\n And a commercial for New York Lottery “Take Five” has the indefatigable
\nJackson Beck, sounding chipper and energetic, then settling into his growly
\nmode for the tag at the end: “You’re gonna love the odds!” (Beck, by the way,
\nrecently resumed his work on Thompson’s Water Seal television spots.)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #355, from davemackey, 760 chars, Mon Aug 24 19:23:12 1992
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\nTITLE: Making a long wait shorter…
\nI hadn’t been to Six Flags Great Adventure in at least five years, so I
\ndecided to go yesterday to see what the place is like. Not all that much of
\nit has changed… many buildings and rides look exactly the same as they did
\nwhen I first visited the park way back in 1978.
\n But perhaps the most noteworthy change was the purchase of Six Flags a
\nfew years ago by Time Warner (it had been previously owned by Bally), which
\nenabled the use of the Looney Tunes characters as park mascots.
\n The most welcome addition to the park: video monitors in the waiting
\nqueue of the more popular rides. Commercials, music videos and (yes!) Warner
\nBros. cartoons are broadcast continuously.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #356, from davemackey, 310 chars, Sat Sep 5 13:17:29 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 354.
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\nOh, I found another one for animation\/radio: the current Coors “talking can”
\ncommercial features an announcer reading endless contest disclaimers to point
\nout how hard some other contests are to win… the announcer is played by
\nformer “Mighty Mouse” voice Beau Weaver.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #357, from davemackey, 559 chars, Sun Sep 20 01:16:56 1992
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\nTITLE: Not much besides the cover
\nApart from the exhaustive cover story on “Batman: The Animated Series” (which
\nis largely an interview with series producer Alan Burnett), and an interview
\nwith “Simpsons” voice actress Yeardley Smith, there really isn’t anything
\nmuch in the way of animation-related material in the latest Comics Scene,
\nusually a cornucopia.
\n I hadn’t bought CS in a while and got a severe case of sticker shock
\nwhen the clerk at Waldenbooks asked me to fork over $4.50 for it! That’s
\nalmost five dollars!
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #358, from switch, 73 chars, Sun Sep 20 11:27:36 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 357.
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\nIt has the word “Comics” on the cover; ergo, it must be expensive.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #359, from hmccracken, 358 chars, Mon Sep 28 23:45:26 1992
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\nTITLE: Disney Book Goes Paperback
\nBob Thomas’s _Disney’s Art of Animation_ has been issued in paperback
\nby Hyperion Press (a division of The Walt Disney Company). If you
\npassed up the expensive hardcover edition last year, this $19.95
\nedition is worth picking up: it’s a decent history of Disney animation
\nall the way up to _Beauty and the Beast_.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #360, from davemackey, 316 chars, Tue Sep 29 21:53:02 1992
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\nTITLE: Two voice actors; also water conservationists
\nActor Michael Bell and actress Melanie Chartoff (both have been known to
\nappear in cartoons) have a patent pending on a method to recycle discarded
\nbath\/shower water for use in the toilet. The system is in use at Chartoff’s
\nhouse.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #361, from davemackey, 591 chars, Sat Oct 3 01:22:07 1992
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\nTITLE: A different sort of animation art auction…
\nI’ve seen “The Price Is Right” give away various types of gallery artwork
\nincluding serigraphs and lithographs, but never an animation cel. Well,
\ntoday, one of the one-bid items (the game that determines who gets to go on
\nstage and play another game) was the Hanna-Barbera limited edition “Western
\nJamboree,” a rather large multi-character piece which was described by
\nannouncer Rod Roddy as an “animated animation gel”. (?) The bids the
\ncontestants gave were nowhere near the actual retail price of $1700.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #362, from hmccracken, 212 chars, Mon Oct 5 20:10:50 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 361.
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\nIn a related area, I happened to flip by the Home Shopping Club
\nyesterday, and saw that they were selling cels from Filmation’s
\nold _Flash Gordon_ series for (I think) seventy or eighty dollars
\napiece.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #363, from davemackey, 419 chars, Mon Oct 19 19:05:45 1992
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\nTITLE: Taz NFL watches
\nJust saw a spot on ESPN for Tasmanian Devil NFL watches. They cost $39.95
\neach, they come in all 28 team logos, and you can call 1-800-544-1000 if you
\nwant to order.
\n (You could probably also get something like this at the Warner Bros.
\nStudio Store… a new one of which is opening in a few weeks at the
\nFreehold Raceway Mall on US 9 in Freehold, New Jersey.)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #364, from sharonfisher, 113 chars, Thu Oct 22 18:03:26 1992
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\nTITLE: Disney
\nI got a Disney merchandise catalog yesterday, which includes
\nfigures from the forthcoming Aladdin.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #365, from davemackey, 444 chars, Sun Oct 25 20:35:03 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 356.
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\nTwo more, continuing our string of animation\/radio commercial sightings…
\nboth are from “SNL” types who are also frequent guest voices on “The
\nSimpsons.”
\n Cook’s Champagne has just resurrected Jon Lovitz’ liar character (“Yeah,
\nthat’s the ticket”) for a new campaign, while Bell Atlantic Business To
\nBusiness Yellow Pages has a series of spots all done by Phil Hartman in which
\nhe plays various characters.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #366, from hmccracken, 1013 chars, Sun Nov 8 10:08:06 1992
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\nTITLE: Book News
\nOn December 1st, Hyperion Press (Disney’s book-publishing arm) will
\nrelease _Aladdin_ and _Beauty and the Beast_ flip-books. These are
\nnifty, double-animation ones: when you flip from one direction, you
\nsee the full-color version of the scene, and fromn the other direction,
\nyou get the black-and-white animation drawings of the same scene. These
\nare priced at $3.95 and would make excellent stocking stuffers.<\/p>\n
\n_Treasures of Walt Disney’s Animation Art_. If you’ve seen the
\noriginal version, you know it was an enormous hardcover book; this
\nreprint is a softcover that’s roughly the dimensions of a postcard.
\nIn any size, it’s a fine collection of original Disney art from the
\n1920s through _The Black Cauldron_.<\/p>\n
\nof reproductions of WWII military insignias designed by the Disney
\nstudio, with an introduction by Disney archivist David R. Smith.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #367, from hmccracken, 501 chars, Sun Nov 8 10:10:31 1992
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\nTITLE: Magazine Alert
\nThe current issue of _Nose_, a sort of San Francisco-based _Spy_ clone
\nhas an article on the commercialization of _Ren and Stimpy_. It was
\nwritten before John Kricfalusi was ousted, but certainly predicts the
\ncircumstances that led to that happening.<\/p>\n
\na profile of Carl Stalling that covers his musical work at both Disney
\nand Warner Bros., and an interesting piece on Disney’s silent cartoons.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #368, from davemackey, 311 chars, Sun Nov 15 23:10:01 1992
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\nTITLE: “Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a Special out of my hat!”
\nNews from the Pinball Expo ’92 just concluded in Chicago: Data East, who two
\nyears ago put out a machine commemorating The Simpsons, will be releasing its
\n“Rocky And Bullwinkle” pinball machine at the end of this year.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #369, from davemackey, 168 chars, Tue Nov 24 20:28:18 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 350.
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\nFollow up to Hughes’ “Dennis The Menace”: he’s said to be in pre-production
\non his next project, a live-action adaptation of “Peanuts.”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #370, from hmccracken, 94 chars, Tue Nov 24 21:57:21 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 369.
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\nI’m surprised that Charles Schulz would permit that, unless he’s writing
\nthe script.
\n – Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #371, from hmccracken, 885 chars, Sat Nov 28 21:22:42 1992
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: When in Las Vegas…
\nanimation fans should go directly to Ceasars Palace, bypass the
\nslot machines and blackjack tables, and go directly to the Warner
\nBros. store that’s located in the “Forum Shops,” right outside
\nthe entrance to the casino. The store’s stock is typical of the
\nexcellent selection of the other Warner stores: a nifty array
\nof clothings, books and collectibles of many sorts, about 90%
\nof which are inspired by the classic Warner Bros. cartoons.
\nTwo things make the Las Vegas location special: the storefront
\nhas a Roman theme, with gladiator-clad figures of Bugs, Daffy and
\nother characters standing guard above the door; and the window
\nhas a statuary recreation of a scene from Chuck Jones’ _What’s
\nOpera, Doc?_, with Bugs and Elmer, that’s absolutely perfect in
\nevery way. It’s worth the effort to go to the store just to see
\nthat window display.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #372, from sharonfisher, 79 chars, Sun Nov 29 12:41:05 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 371.
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\nSan Francisco just had such a shop open, and apparently it was wildly
\npopular.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #373, from hmccracken, 63 chars, Sun Nov 29 12:43:19 1992
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\nBoston doesn’t have a Warner Bros. store yet. *sigh*
\n – Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #374, from davemackey, 229 chars, Sun Nov 29 14:01:54 1992
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\nI think if you wait, you will have one soon enough. The Warner Bros. Studio
\nStores are growing at quite a rate. Six months ago we had none in New Jersey,
\nand now we have at least two, maybe three.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #375, from switch, 196 chars, Sun Nov 29 18:02:50 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 374.
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\nIt would be nice if we had one in Montreal… but we do have three
\nstores within a 30-minute walk from my place where I can get assorted
\ncartoon clothing, so I suppose I shouldn’t complain.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #376, from davemackey, 400 chars, Tue Dec 1 09:40:41 1992
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\nTITLE: Calling all clowns!
\nUSA Today reports that Larry Harmon is on the lookout for new Bozos.
\nIf you think you have the right stuff, then send your ding-dong-dandy
\nresumes, photos and audition videotapes to Bozo Auditions, Larry Harmon
\nPictures Corp., 7080 Hollywood Blvd. #202, Hollywood, CA 90028. There
\nhave been so far 203 authorized Bozo performers.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #377, from davemackey, 502 chars, Wed Dec 2 20:58:04 1992
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\nTITLE: Cleaned-up C+C
\nIt seems that the songwriting team of Clivelles and Cole, of C+C Music
\nFactory fame, has had their work laundered by those looking out for the
\nwelfare of Bart Simpson. They wrote some tunes for the forthcoming record
\nalbum “The Simpsons Yellow Album” including one in which Bart assumes the
\nposture of a homeboy with a real bad attitude. The Simpsons folks made some
\nextreme changes to the lyrics, taking out whatever bite the song may have
\nhad…
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #378, from davemackey, 574 chars, Wed Dec 9 19:12:38 1992
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\nTITLE: Toon sounds for your PC
\n(This is not a review) Microsoft has released a “SoundBits” Sound Clip
\nCollection featuring 50 sound effect and dialogue sequences from
\nHanna-Barbera Productions. When used with Windows 3.1 and a sound card (both
\nrequired), your computer can now have Fred Flintstone scream “WILMAAAA!” or
\n“Yabba Dabba Doo!”, or play an authentic H-B sound effect when you perform
\ncertain functions in the Windows environment. Retails for $40, and I already
\nhave mine. Now all I need is Windows 3.1 and a sound card… ::grin::
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #379, from hmccracken, 314 chars, Wed Dec 9 23:32:41 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 378.
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\nSounds neat! But the cartoon-related program I want to see is a
\nWarner Bros. cartoon screen blanker. I suggested that very idea
\n— which will make a mint for whoever snaps it up — to Berkeley
\nSystems, the folks behind After Dark. They were polite but explained
\nthat such licenses are very expensive.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #380, from ianl, 228 chars, Wed Dec 9 23:36:00 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 379.
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\nthat monitors the keyboard and mouse, and if you sit idle for too long,
\na window pops open, and Bullwinkle says sarcastic things about your
\nproductivity.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #381, from hmccracken, 193 chars, Thu Dec 10 09:44:44 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 380.
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\nI believe that’s The Talking Moose, from Baseline. The moose isn’t
\nBullwinkle, but he looks like a close relative (actually, he looks
\nmore like Mr. Moose of Captain Kangaroo fame).
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #382, from hmccracken, 395 chars, Sat Dec 12 18:59:25 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 350.
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\nThe first trailer for John Hughes’ big-screen, live-action _Dennis the
\nMenace_ is in theatres, and it’s funny (although it’s a slapsticky
\naffair that, combined with a tousle-headed Dennis who looks suspiciously
\nlike a slightly younger Macaulay Culkin, makes you wonder if this film
\nwill be an unofficial _Home Alone III_). Looks like Walter Matthau will
\nmake a dandy Mr. Wilson, too.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #383, from davemackey, 615 chars, Sat Dec 26 05:31:26 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 381.
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\nThere is now an Energizer Bunny screen saver for Windows, that also makes
\nsurprise appearances during your other programs.
\n I also got for Christmas something called “Soundclips” which features
\ndialogue and music from “2001”. So now when I make a goof in Windows, I get
\nto hear Hal admonishing me by name! “Sorry, Dave.” \ud83d\ude09
\n I should have the Hanna-Barbera sounds up and running, since I got
\nWindows 3.1 as a Christmas gift and should be getting a Soundblaster later
\ntoday.
\n By the way, Harry, is Berkeley Systems the same company as Berkeley
\nSoftworks (makers of Geos)?
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #384, from hmccracken, 700 chars, Mon Dec 28 13:42:39 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 383.
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\nI have the Energizer Bunny screen saver up and running, and it’s pretty
\ncute. While I need to leave it running for awhile before I decide if
\nI really *want* what amounts to a battery ad popping up whenever I leave
\nmy keyboard for a few minutes, the graphics and animation are well done.
\nI like it better than the Star Trek saver, which I also have.<\/p>\n
\nunrelated companies (and I think I remember reading that the one behind
\nGeos has changed its name to GeoWorks or something similar). Berkeley
\nSystems traffics primarily in screen savers, programs for the visually
\nimpaired, and a Macintosh utility called Stepping Out.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #385, from davemackey, 186 chars, Mon Dec 28 20:34:46 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 384.
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\nWell, there’s Berkeley Softworks, and Berkeley Systems. That would cause some
\nconfusion. So one of them should change its name to Berkeley Breathed… \ud83d\ude09
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #386, from switch, 142 chars, Tue Jan 5 22:02:21 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 384.
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\nGeoWorks is the name of the program, which is essentially an outgrowth
\nof GEOS; the company’s changed their name to Berkeley Softworks.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #387, from davemackey, 464 chars, Wed Jan 27 14:03:38 1993
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\nTITLE: Hey, Mr. Bass Man….
\nCheck out the March 1993 issue of “Bass Player” magazine for an article about
\nRay Brown. Who he? Ray Brown is one of the jazz world’s bass legends, but
\nhe also has on his resume time spent in the little jazz combo that played on
\nthe DePatie-Freleng cartoon series “The Ant And The Aardvark.” (Others in the
\nall-star group included the late drummer Shelly Manne and guitar virtuoso
\nTommy Tedesco.)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #388, from davemackey, 262 chars, Sat Feb 13 05:12:15 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 368.
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\nThe “Rocky And Bullwinkle” pinball machine will be making its public debut
\nthis weekend at the PAPA tournament in New York City. And soon in an arcade
\nnear you. Perhaps I can coerce my brother to do a writeup of the machine…
\n\ud83d\ude09
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #389, from davemackey, 253 chars, Sat Feb 13 05:12:23 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 354.
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\nMore recently, John Stephenson has been prominently heard as the businessman
\nwho dreams what life would be like if he had a Hewlett-Packard plain-paper
\nfax machine. (and of course, he played Slate in “I Yabba-Dabba-Do!”)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #390, from davemackey, 1102 chars, Sun Feb 14 23:05:04 1993
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\nTITLE: “Rocky And Bullwinkle”: The Pinball Machine
\nNow, here’s my brother Bob, resident pinball expert, to give his opinions on
\nthe Rocky and Bullwinkle pinball machine. Take it, Bobby.<\/p>\n
\nR&B, Dudley, Nell, Horse, Aesop and Son, Peabody, Sherman, Boris and Natasha,
\nand even the metal munching mice.
\n Throughout the game’s audio program are sampled phrases from the show
\nsuch as “And now here’s something we hope you’ll really like!” One problem is
\nthat none of the represented voice artists get any credit on the game
\n(They’re all there, including William Conrad as the breathless narrator.) The
\ndot-matrix animations during the game replicate show openings and closings,
\nincluding the daisies. Also, the backglass features Bull attempting to pull
\na rabbit out of a hat–one of the recurring game modes. The game is
\ndedicated to the memory of Jay Ward, and Ward’s widow and daughters worked
\nvery closely to assure the game’s authenticity. Look for it at an arcade
\nnear you this spring.
\n –Bob<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #391, from hmccracken, 181 chars, Sun Feb 14 23:07:28 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 390.
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\nThank you, Bob! I’ll have to check out the local arcades for this one.
\n(CNN, by the way, carried a report on the pinball event which showed
\nthe Bullwinkle game briefly.)
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #392, from davemackey, 228 chars, Fri Feb 19 19:16:20 1993
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\nTITLE: Pepsi plays a toon tune
\nJoining the Incredible Crash Dummies on the list of commercials that plunder
\ncartoon scores: Pepsi, one of whose current spots uses the Dudley Do-Right
\ntheme music.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #393, from davemackey, 392 chars, Tue Mar 2 00:08:44 1993
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\nTITLE: Only Disney would do this
\nThe Walt Disney Company has been awarded a franchise in the National Hockey
\nLeague, and the Anaheim-based team will begin play next season.
\n And guess what they’re naming the team? You guessed it… the Mighty
\nDucks, after last year’s movie of the same name.
\n Just remember, hockey fans… it all started with a mouse.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #394, from hmccracken, 108 chars, Tue Mar 2 00:16:52 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 393.
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\nSo what self-respecting pro hockey player is going to sign up for a team
\ncalled the Mighty Ducks?
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #395, from elfhive, 159 chars, Sat Mar 6 14:50:54 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 394.
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\nWell if they are a graduate of Virginia Tech they probably wouldn’t
\nthink twice about it, Harry. The football team there is called
\n“The Fighting Gobblers” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #396, from davemackey, 647 chars, Thu Mar 11 19:06:24 1993
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\nTITLE: “Pez” in the paper
\nIt isn’t every day that a newspaper publishes a front-page story about Pez
\ncandy, but The Wall Street Journal did today, illustrated with engravings of
\nPez dispensers in the shape of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck.
\n The article noted that the Pez company has no interest in the
\ncollectors’ market, refuses to answer inquiries about Pez history, and
\ndoesn’t appear at Pez festivals. But it did note lots of Pez lore, including
\nrecent television appearances, yet leaving out the most notable recent
\nhomage: “Remote Control” featured a giant Pez dispenser with the head of Bob
\nEubanks on it.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #397, from hmccracken, 301 chars, Thu Mar 11 20:57:03 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 396.
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\nGee, I’ll have to check that out. Pez figures in a silly stunt which,
\nstrangely enough, I’ve found to be a good ice breaker at parties: approach
\na stranger, stare thoughtfully at his or her neck, ask them to lift his or her
\nhead back, then sigh and exclaim, “Damn! No Pez!”
\n — Harryeir\/his or her\/<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #398, from davemackey, 203 chars, Mon Mar 29 22:17:37 1993
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\nTITLE: Suspicious Sounding Music Dept.
\nAnyone else see this commercial for UPS that sounds like it has a pale
\nimitation of Raymond Scott’s “Powerhouse” on the soundtrack?
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #399, from davemackey, 313 chars, Mon Mar 29 22:56:26 1993
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\nTITLE: I’ve heard this song before
\nA short 10-second ad for Kenneth Cole shoe store in New York City uses
\nthe famous music from the television commercial for cat litter from
\nthe first episode of “The Ren And Stimpy Show” … otherwise known as
\nthe theme from “Truth Or Consequences.”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #400, from hmccracken, 1122 chars, Fri Apr 2 13:09:01 1993
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\nTITLE: The Ultimate Mickey Mouse Watch
\nGo into almost any store that sells wristwatches, and you’ll find
\na dizzying array of Mickey Mouse watches, the most expensive of
\nwhich cost hundreds of dollars. But I just got what has got to
\nbe the ultimate Mickey timepiece, and it only cost $19.98.<\/p>\n
\nwith his head and folded arms. Cradled between his chim and his
\nwrists is an LCD panel with the time. So far, so good. But when
\nyou squeeze Mickey’s hands — HE OPENS HIS MOUTH AND TELLS YOU
\nTHE TIME! The synchronization job is perfect, and his patter
\nvaries — sometimes he laughs, sometimes he exclaims “Gosh!” and
\nso forth. And he sounds like Mickey, not a robotic equivalent.<\/p>\n
\nand bears a copyright date of 1991, so they’ve been around for
\nawhile. I don’t know if the twenty bucks I paid was the original
\nprice or a markdown, but in either case it’s certainly the wisest
\npurchase I’ve made in a long time, and an unbeatable conversation
\npiece — no pun intended — for the price.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #401, from hmccracken, 331 chars, Fri Apr 2 13:15:48 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 400.
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\n…And one warning for anyone who buys one of these things: be careful
\nabout the alarm feature. When it goes off, a LOUD, telephone-like
\nringing sound alternates with Mickey announcing the time until
\nyou turn it off. If you think having an *ordinary* alarm go off in
\npublic is embarassing, wait until you try this one!
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #402, from davemackey, 339 chars, Thu Apr 15 23:46:13 1993
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\nTITLE: Meet the author…
\nNorton Juster, author of “The Phantom Tollbooth,” will be appearing at Book
\nCenter on Rt. 35 in Middletown, New Jersey on Saturday, April 24 from
\n2:30-4:30. This book, as well as an earlier book of his called “The Dot And
\nThe Line,” were both adapted for animation by Chuck Jones.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #403, from hmccracken, 109 chars, Fri Apr 16 10:26:39 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 402.
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\n…So what has Norton been up to during the twenty-odd years since those
\ntwo books were published?
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #404, from davemackey, 415 chars, Sat Apr 17 08:22:37 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 403.
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\nI have no idea. If I’m there on April 24, I will definitely ask him. Actually
\nthis appearance is in support of the recent re-printing of “Phantom
\nTollbooth,” which is now in what is called its “Thirtysomething” edition.
\n“The Dot And The Line” was put back into print a few years ago as well (a
\nmessage to that effect still exists somewhere here on BIX, perhaps in the
\n\/main section)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #405, from hmccracken, 338 chars, Sun Apr 25 22:07:03 1993
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\nTITLE: The new issue of _Cinefantastique_ magazine…
\nhas a cover story (actually, about ten of them) on _Ren and Stimpy_
\nthat tells you just about everything you could ever want to know
\nabout the series, including the topics of stories that haven’t
\naired yet and maybe never will. Definitely must reading for _R&S_
\nfollowers.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #406, from davemackey, 875 chars, Mon May 3 00:57:05 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 405.
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\nI picked up the Cinefantastique and found the “Ren And Stimpy” coverage a bit
\none-sided (all articles seemed to be the work of a single writer), but
\nexcellent nonetheless. Apparently, I missed the “Monkey See, Monkey Don’t”
\nepisode, but have caught all the others.
\n I like some of the ideas and concepts for partly completed episodes, and
\nhope that Games Productions can salvage them in such a away that John K.’s
\nconcepts aren’t mangled too badly.
\n The behind-the-scenes photographs reminded me in a perverse way of the
\ntwo sets of Warner Bros. artist publicity pictures that crop up in some of
\nthe books about the studio, one done in the mid-40’s and the other in the
\nmid-50’s. The sight of Jim Smith, Eddie Fitzgerald and other series artists
\nlooking like refugees from a meeting of Junior Achievement circa 1965 is just
\npriceless.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #407, from hmccracken, 249 chars, Mon May 3 10:42:01 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 406.
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\nNickelodeon has decided not to continue its disagreement with John K.
\nin the press, so it’s not cooperating with magazine articles that discuss
\nthe issue nowadays. That may explain the almost entirely pro-Spumco
\nslant of the CFQ article.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #408, from hmccracken, 700 chars, Sat May 8 22:33:22 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 390.
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\nI just played $1.00’s worth of the Bullwinkle pinball machine (marking
\nmy first return to my favorite arcade of my high school days in
\numpteen years), and I have to concur with Bob. The game is
\nbeautifully done, with excellent artwork full of references to specific
\nBullwinkle episodes. The one problem is that you’re tempted to focus
\nyour attention on the fancy digital display (with mini-animations of
\nWard characters) and take it off the playfield.<\/p>\n
\nwith an electronic button? First they take away the mechanical scoreboard
\nand bells, now this. Before long, there’ll be no tactile pleasure
\nleft to the game at all.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #409, from switch, 449 chars, Sun May 9 13:46:30 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 408.
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\nYes, the animation is distracting. But that’s why it’s more fun
\nto play two-player games, because you can alternate between playing
\nand watching.<\/p>\n
\ncould easily have been mechanical. For a game like Star Wars, I
\ncan see using just a button (you’re firing at a TIE fighter when
\nyou’re launching the ball), but it would be nice to have that
\n“classic” plunger feel for Bullwinkle.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #410, from hmccracken, 632 chars, Sat Jun 19 17:50:40 1993
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: _Wild Cartoon Kingdom_…
\nis the name of a new magazine about animation that’s now on the stands.
\nA sister publication to _Film Threat_, the magazine is devoted mainly
\nto yet another exhaustive article on _Ren and Stimpy_ (which is pretty
\ngood). The issue also has an article on _Batman: The Animated Series_,
\nanother on Streamline Pictures’ animated efforts, and assorted other
\nshort pieces. It’s quite superficial and has a wearying wiseguy attitude
\n(like _Threat_), but it’s certainly worth a look. The publisher, btw,
\nis the infamous Larry Flynt, who has a bizarrely diverse line of
\npublications these days.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #411, from switch, 368 chars, Sat Jun 19 19:35:04 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 410.
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\nYou liked the R&S article? I couldn’t stand it. Chris Gore proved
\nin FT that he’s a Kricfalusi admirer, but this magazine raised
\nmy eyebrows. While Nickelodeon may have been in the wrong, Kricfalusi
\nis _not_ the second coming of Christ, and he didn’t singlehandedly
\nrevolutionize cartoons. Nor does merely being an “outlaw” cartoon
\nnecessarily make it good.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #412, from hmccracken, 233 chars, Sat Jun 19 23:27:27 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 411.
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\nOh, I agree: it’s a very slanted and superficial article. The art is nice,
\nthough. Also, Nickelodeon has chosen not to discuss the controversy in
\npublic — one reason why their side is under-represented in such articles.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #413, from hmccracken, 152 chars, Sun Jun 20 23:26:26 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 412.
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\nUpdate on the _Ren and Stimpy_ article in _Wild Cartoon Kingdom_; I’ve been
\ntold that the author of the article was actually John K. himself.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #414, from switch, 30 chars, Mon Jun 21 00:44:10 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 413.
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\nHmmmmn. Interesting…<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #415, from davemackey, 738 chars, Fri Jun 25 19:20:28 1993
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Scott outtake?
\nDoes anyone know (before I get Irwin Chusid on the phone) what that last
\nlittle piece of music is at the end of “The Music Of Raymond Scott: Reckless
\nNights And Turkish Twilights”? It’s a brief outtake that ends with the band
\ncracking up. It’s the same melody that plays under the opening titles of
\n“Duck Dodgers In The 24-1\/2th Century”.
\n I highly recommend you seek out this fine collection of Raymond Scott
\nand regret not doing so sooner. You can pick out the qualities in Scott’s
\noriginal music that Carl Stalling seized upon to make the soundtracks of his
\ncartoons memorable. The technicial quality of the cuts belies their age; they
\nsound like they were recorded yesterday.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #416, from davemackey, 515 chars, Thu Jul 8 12:52:22 1993
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\nTITLE: Call this “The Treg Brown Project”
\nSound Ideas is now selling to the broadcast trade “The Warner Bros. Sound
\nEffects Library,” featuring over 1500 of the cartoon sound effects you
\ngrew up with, including some recent sound effects creations by Emmy-winner
\nRussell Brower (of “TTA” and “B:TAS”) as well as all those Treg Brown
\nclassics. For more information, call (416)-886-5000, or write Sound
\nIdeas, 105 W. Beaver Creek Road, Suite 4, Richmond Hill, ON L4B 1C6.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #417, from davemackey, 124 chars, Thu Jul 8 12:52:57 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 415.
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\nNo question left unanswered: I found out on my own that it’s “Egyptian
\nBarn Dance.” –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #418, from hmccracken, 324 chars, Sat Jul 17 20:53:30 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 417.
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\nThis is as good a place as any to mention that I saw a CD of music from
\nTex Avery cartoons at Tower Records today. While the cover features the
\nAvery Wolf and Little Red, the Scott Bradley scores are from 50s cartoons
\nlike _Cellbound_ and _Three Little Pups_. I didn’t pick it up (but probably
\nwill eventually).
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #419, from hmccracken, 555 chars, Mon Aug 2 18:07:42 1993
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\nTITLE: Local Martian Makes Good
\nIf you’ve spent any time inside a shopping mall with many clothing
\nstores lately, you may already have noticed a rather unusual development
\nin cartoon-related merchandising: Marvin Martian (the star of a handful
\nof Chuck Jones Warner Bros. cartoons, as well as a recent ad for Nikes)
\nhas become an extremely popular T-shirt character. I’ve seen what seems
\nlike dozens of pieces of clothing with a Marvin motif all of a sudden.
\nThey’re not just in the stores, either — I’ve spotted them on people
\nall over town.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #420, from davemackey, 309 chars, Tue Aug 3 22:00:34 1993
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\nTITLE: More Enquirer Droppings…
\nThis week’s “National Enquirer” has a story about Dennis Ketcham, living a
\nlow-class life in a trailer park somewhere, having been all but forgotten by
\nhis richer, more famous father, Hank Ketcham. Yes. It’s the “Real Life Dennis
\nThe Menace”!
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #421, from peabo, 200 chars, Wed Aug 4 01:06:37 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 420.
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\nA similar story (at least from its description) appeared in the local Boston
\nweekly paper last week. It describes Hank as being a distant father among
\nother things I have forgotten this week.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #422, from switch, 408 chars, Thu Aug 5 21:02:40 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 419.
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\nYup. I sported my new Marvin t-shirt just the other day, and there are
\none or two that I want really really badly, though I think just about all
\nare nice.<\/p>\n
\nrise. Where I used to be pretty much the only person on the street with a
\nMarvin t-shirt or a Bugs cap last summer, now I see a neat cartoon shirt at
\nleast twice a day.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #423, from hmccracken, 80 chars, Fri Aug 6 00:04:06 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 422.
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\nWe had a visitor at the office yesterday with a nifty Marvin necktie.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #424, from davemackey, 421 chars, Wed Aug 18 23:21:39 1993
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\nTITLE: Otherwise known as Stu Pickles…
\n…perhaps Jack Riley’s latest voiceover role could become even more famous
\nthan the “Rugrats” dad. He plays PC Modem, computer expert, in the radio
\ncommercials for the CompUSA chain. (The ads also feature Thom Sharp as the
\nnarrator and Fred Willard as a salesman.) The voices of Riley and Sharp even
\nappear on some multimedia demos in the stores.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #425, from hmccracken, 228 chars, Thu Aug 19 09:42:17 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 424.
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\nI’ll have to check out those PC Modem multimedia demos. Riley has
\nbeen voicing PC for quite awhile, and the radio (and sometimes TV)
\nads are often quite funny. Riley, Sharp, and Willard are all
\nexcellent performers.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #426, from davemackey, 1099 chars, Tue Sep 7 19:09:32 1993
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\nTITLE: Animated music for young folk
\nThis season’s productions of The Little Orchestra Society in New York City
\nwill include a “cosmic sound rendition” of Norton Juster’s “The Phantom
\nTollbooth,” Dom DeLuise performing Prokofiev’s “Peter And The Wolf” (which
\nDisney adapted for a cartoon once), and for smaller audiences, “Music Tells A
\nStory” which includes Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals” (Daffy:
\n“San-sans!” Bugs: “Sahn-sahn!”) and “Tubby The Tuba And The Big Brass,” based
\non the character created by Paul Tripp and George Kleinsinger.
\n More information on these concerts for children can be had by writing to
\nthe Little Orchestra Society, 220 West 42nd Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY
\n10036.
\n The Little Orchestra, under the musical direction of Dino Anagnost, has
\na compact disc out on MusicMasters records which includes the DeLuise
\nperformance of “Peter And The Wolf,” and Carol Channing telling the story of
\n“Gerald McBoing Boing”, with words by Dr. Seuss and music by Gail Kubik, who
\nalso wrote the music score for the original UPA cartoon.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #427, from hmccracken, 1522 chars, Thu Oct 14 09:46:03 1993
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\nTITLE: _The Disney Poster: The Animated Classics from Mickey Mouse to Aladdin_…
\nis the name of a big new art book ($35) from Hyperion, Disney’s publishing
\narm. While there are some introductory text pages by Jim Fanning,
\nmost of the book is devoted to full-color reproductions (mostly full-page)
\nof posters for Disney animated films. The book has sections on the
\nSilly Symphonies, Mickey Mouse cartoons, Donald Duck cartoons, Pluto
\ncartoons, Goofy cartoons, and feature-length films.<\/p>\n
\nposter — to my eye, anyhow — started out at a high level and has
\nbeen steadily declining ever since. Many of the Silly Symphony and
\nMickey Mouse posters from the 1930s that begin the book are wonderful.
\n(I wish the book included some of Disney’s 1920s posters, too.) But
\nthe 1940s Pluto, Donald and Goofy posters are mainly really unattractive,
\nwith inaccurate renderings of the characters and bizarre color choices
\n(like making Donald Duck’s beak green). The same is true of the feature-
\nfilm section that ends the book: the early posters are quite nice, but
\nwho needs two full pages devoted to those slick-but-souless posters
\nfor _Beauty and the Beast? (The feature section is far from all-
\ninclusive — many films from the fifties and sixties aren’t represented.)<\/p>\n
\ntaking a look at. And if you’re into the later posters more than
\nI am, your opinion of it may be higher than mine.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #428, from hmccracken, 460 chars, Thu Oct 14 09:48:19 1993
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\nTITLE: The latest issue of _Animato, the Animation Fan’s Magazine_
\nis out, with a lengthy cover story on _Batman: the Animated Series_.
\nThere are also features on _Eek the Cat_, a review of _Jurassic Park_,
\nand lots of other stuff, including a rather unique section in which
\nseveral well-known alternative cartoonists — Steve Bissette, Jim
\nWoodring, Wayno, Mark Martin, and others — present comic-strip reviews
\nof a series of 1930s cartoon videos.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #429, from hmccracken, 435 chars, Thu Oct 14 19:14:26 1993
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\nTITLE: Disney Does Hockey
\nThe current issue of _Business Week_ has an interesting article on
\nThe Mighty Ducks, the new NHL franchise owned by the Disney
\norganization. They will be doing lots of cross-promotion with
\nother projects — the film of the same name will be released on
\nvideo to coincide with the start of the season, for instance.
\nAnd of course, they’re going to try and merchandise the heck out
\nof the team logo.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #430, from davemackey, 711 chars, Sun Oct 24 16:28:25 1993
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\nTITLE: What TV Guide does not want you to know about “seaQuest DSV”
\nTV Guide’s current issue has an article about the new Steven
\nSpielberg-produced underwater saga “seaQuest DSV” in its current issue. The
\narticle has a sidebar which purports to be an interview with Darwin, the
\nshow’s talking dolphin. The article states that some dolphins can’t really
\ntalk and it’s just “some human” doing Darwin’s voice off camera.
\n Were TV Guide a little more forthcoming about this, they would have
\nnoted that the “some human” doing the voice of Darwin is none other than the
\nprolific and omnipresent Frank Welker, star of hundreds of animated cartoons
\nand almost as many feature films.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #431, from davemackey, 541 chars, Sun Oct 24 16:28:36 1993
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\nTITLE: Ray Bradbury plants a tree for October 31
\nThe Hanna-Barbera animated special “The Halloween Tree” is based on a novella
\nby Ray Bradbury. He notes that the idea for the special goes way back to the
\nmiddle 1960’s, when he was having a discussion with longtime friend Chuck
\nJones, who noted that children dress up for Halloween year after year and
\nthey don’t understand the true traditions of the holiday. Bradbury narrates
\nthe special, which will be appearing on local stations (check time and
\nchannel).
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #432, from hmccracken, 351 chars, Sun Oct 24 21:40:51 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 431.
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\nI think that originally, Chuck Jones planned to make _The Christmas Tree_.
\nI’ll wait to see what H-B has done before commenting further, but I do
\nwonder what Jones would have done with the story.<\/p>\n
\n_Pinocchio_ and _Snow White_ rank among the very finest films ever made.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #433, from davemackey, 494 chars, Tue Oct 26 11:02:53 1993
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\nTITLE: New York City Mayor David Dinkins will cut the ribbon to the new Warner
\nBros. Studio Store, which will be at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, tomorrow.
\nThe store is three stories big and features a full-size Batmobile suspended
\nfrom the ceiling and an elevator powered by Superman.
\n The New York store will act as the flagship store for the growing chain,
\nwhose merchandise overwhelmingly features the beloved Looney Tunes cartoon
\ncharacters. –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #434, from davemackey, 125 chars, Tue Oct 26 11:03:37 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 431.
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\nHow’d this message wind up in tie.ins? This should have been in boob.tube
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #435, from hmccracken, 222 chars, Tue Oct 26 11:31:30 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 433.
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\n…and the rapidly-growing Warner store chain also has a new branch
\nin the new Prudential Center mall in Boston. This is the third
\nBoston-area location; stores opened in Burlington and Peabody in
\nrecent months.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #436, from davemackey, 259 chars, Thu Nov 18 22:36:00 1993
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\nTITLE: “Hare Jordan” was just the beginning…
\nThe National Basketball Association and Warner Bros. have announced a new
\narrangement to co-license NBA team logos and Looney Tunes characters to
\nvarious manufacturers of apparel.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #437, from davemackey, 443 chars, Thu Nov 18 22:36:18 1993
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\nTITLE: UPS goes toony
\nUPS has begun running a rather entertaining 60-second radio commercial in
\nmajor markets to promote its Saturday office pickup service. What connection
\ndoes this have to animation? Well, the commercial is set against a constant
\nbackdrop of cartoon-type music and sound effects, implying that you can kick
\nback and watch SatAM cartoons while UPS takes care of your business’ shipping
\nneeds.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #438, from davemackey, 196 chars, Mon Nov 22 19:03:52 1993
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\nTITLE: New toon tunes
\nComing to your CD player or cassette real soon: new albums from Ren And
\nStimpy (a Christmas album), Beavis and Butt-head, and the Animaniacs.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #439, from elfhive, 347 chars, Mon Nov 22 23:39:58 1993
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\nTITLE: Nightmare Before Christmas
\nI have been enjoying the CD soundtrack and I am curious about the fact
\nthat it features a longer introductory monologue and a closing monologue
\nby Patrick Stewart. These are not the same in the film and a different
\nnarrator was used in the intro (there was no close). Anyone know the
\nreason for this discrepancy?<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #440, from davemackey, 1279 chars, Wed Dec 1 00:04:37 1993
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\nTITLE: Animation for the blind?
\nThere have been records based on toons before, but I don’t think I’ve
\nheard two as good as “Ren And Stimpy: You Eediot!” and “Steven Spielberg
\nPresents Animaniacs.”
\n “R&S” is more garage-band in style, with small combos comprised of
\nSpumco\/Games artists playing funky tunes and some favorites from the
\nshow, re-recorded for your listening pleasure.
\n “Animaniacs” is almost non-stop patter and humor from the three
\ncentral characters (played to the hilt by Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell and
\nTress MacNeille) with outstanding full orchestral arrangements by Richard
\nStone, who is one of the best cartoon musicians working today. Clever
\nlyrics — don’t tell the kids they might learn about planets or stae
\ncapitals by listening to this album, because they might not want to listen.
\n (Incidentally, besides the Ren And Stimpy album, there are about
\ntwo other albums out now that play on the “Abbey Road” motif. There’s
\n“Sesame Road”, which has some of the fun and funky tunes the show’s
\ndone over the years, and “Paul Is Live”, a new in-concert collection
\nfrom McCartney, cavorting along the same stretch of road that he didn’t
\nquite keep in step on along with the other Beatles in the late 1960’s.)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #441, from switch, 167 chars, Tue Dec 7 12:45:42 1993
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\nTITLE: Something interesting…
\n…that popped up on the Internet. Apparently, Elektra will be releasing the
\nsoundtrack to _Heavy Metal_ on CD early next year.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #442, from davemackey, 229 chars, Wed Dec 8 11:31:37 1993
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\nTITLE: Pre WB-TV WB TV
\nThe shop-at-home channel QVC will present items from The Warner Bros.
\nStudio Store in the first of several planned presentations this Saturday
\nat 1 p.m. Eastern time. –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #443, from davemackey, 182 chars, Thu Dec 9 21:15:30 1993
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\nTITLE: How rich can you get?
\nTry $8 million. That’s what Macaulay Culkin is earning for playing “Richie
\nRich” in a live action movie for Warner Bros.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #444, from hmccracken, 72 chars, Thu Dec 9 23:05:37 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 443.
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\nPocket change. The real Richie gets that in allowance a week.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #445, from ianl, 233 chars, Sun Dec 12 13:08:08 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 441.
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\n(I still think Tangerine Dream should have done the music for that movie,
\ninstead of the handful of awful pop-rock\/psuedo-heavy-metal bands they got.)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #446, from srider, 459 chars, Sun Dec 12 19:39:49 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 445.
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\n>Tangerine Dream should have done the music<\/p>\n
\nthe music in HM is well-suited–of course the music I am referring to are
\nLeonard Bernstein’s score and the Steely Dan stuff. (I wish I could get the
\nBernstein music on CD; my vinyl has been worn out for a while now). I did
\nlike the Blue Oyster Cult and Devo tunes; the rest I would have replaced with
\nRush and Pink Floyd. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #447, from davemackey, 289 chars, Tue Dec 14 10:10:43 1993
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\nTITLE: Obituary: Joseph Fowler
\nRear Admiral Joseph W. Fowler died December 3, age 99. He was the oldest
\nliving retiree of the Walt Disney Company; he helped build both Disneyland
\nand Walt Disney World, bringing both projects to fruition on schedule.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #448, from hmccracken, 325 chars, Tue Dec 14 10:18:36 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 447.
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\nLet it be said that Admiral Fowler was in good health up until the end, or
\nnear enough, and continued to grant interviews to Disney scholars in
\nthe 1990s. “Helped to build Disneyland and Walt Disney World” understates
\nhis contribution — he was, I believe, in charge of both of these massive
\nconstruction projects.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #449, from davemackey, 533 chars, Wed Dec 15 16:26:29 1993
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\nTITLE: The selling of “Mask Of…”
\nQVC Network will tonight air a special presentation on “Batman: Mask Of
\nThe Phantasm.” The merchandise special will feature Kevin Conroy and
\nMark Hamill, voices of Batman and The Joker respectively. The special airs
\nat 8 p.m. Eastern time.
\n One QVC host, whose name I don’t quite know, seems to know his
\nanimation lore: he intelligently compared “Batman: The Animated Series”
\nto the “Superman” cartoons of the Fleischer Brothers some fifty years ago.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #450, from davemackey, 295 chars, Tue Jan 4 19:42:28 1994
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\nTITLE: Well, she’s had plenty of practice
\nIf that scion of journalistic integrity, “The Star”, is to be believed, you
\ncould soon be seeing Shannen Doherty on the big screen playing — who else —
\nVeronica in a planned feature film based on the Archie characters.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #451, from hmccracken, 88 chars, Tue Jan 4 20:33:51 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 450.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nGee, I wonder who else they’ll cast. John Cusack would make a great
\nJughead.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #452, from davemackey, 409 chars, Wed Jan 5 10:08:06 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 451.
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\nI don’t know if this is the same project that’s been floated about for the
\nlast several years which would have starred Corey Haim. I think he’s a wee bit
\ntoo old to play Archie. (In the intervening years, he’s taken on some more
\ndecidedly adult roles, such as in “Oh What A Night,” in which he is infatuated
\nwith, and eventually makes love to, a fortysomething married woman.)
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #453, from hmccracken, 582 chars, Wed Jan 12 12:26:15 1994
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\nTITLE: “It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Symphony!”
\n…So reads the headline to the _New York Times’_ review today of
\n“Metropolis Symphony,” a musical piece in five movements, each
\ninspired by a characters and situations from the Superman comic
\nbooks. (The work is by Michael Daugherty and was performed by
\nthe Baltimore Symphony at Carnegie Hall.)<\/p>\n
\non a comic-book superhero. The movements include “Lex,” inspired by
\nSuperman’s arch enemy Luthor, and “Mxyzptlk,” inspired by the elf-like
\nMr. Mxyzptlk.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #454, from robairmackey, 317 chars, Mon Jan 17 23:50:03 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 450.
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\nWhat? You mean that show that’s on Wednesday nights at 8PM on FOX
\n–isn’t– Archie and Friends? I couldn’t tell.
\n –Bob
\n (P.S. For those of you who still read Archie, May 1994 will be the
\npremiere issue of “Reggie’s Revenge,” his first title in 12 years.)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #455, from davemackey, 464 chars, Tue Jan 25 19:05:36 1994
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\nTITLE: Check out “Doll World”
\nThe February 1994 issue of “Doll World” magazine is full of information on
\nRaggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, including biographical information on their
\ncreator, Johnny Gruelle, and a survey of what various Ann\/Andy dolls are
\nworth.
\n R.A. and R.A. starred in a number of animation-related projects,
\nincluding Richard Williams’ feature film which spotlighted the work of many
\npremier animation artists.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #456, from davemackey, 598 chars, Wed Jan 26 11:56:18 1994
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\nTITLE: New Passengers on The Big Red Boat
\nPreviously, the commercials for The Big Red Boat would mention
\nthat one of the destinations was Walt Disney World. A new radio
\nspot doesn’t even mention Disney World, sidestepping gracefully
\nby mentioning the destination as “an Orlando theme park vacation.”
\n Reason? The cruise ship has decided to tie into the Looney
\nTunes characters, with on-ship appearances by Bugs and Co., and
\nBugs and Yosemite Sam — both voiced by Greg Burson — are in the
\nnew radio commercials, which also feature Gary Owens as narrator.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #457, from hmccracken, 308 chars, Wed Jan 26 17:21:22 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 456.
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\nPremiere’s newspaper ads for the Big Red Boat still mention Disney, but
\nthe focus on on the Warners’ characters. Cartoon fans who are tempted
\nto sail the seven seas with their Looney Tunes buddies should note
\nthat the Warner characters won’t begin appearing on-board the boat
\n(boats?) until April.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #458, from linkster, 161 chars, Wed Jan 26 21:39:40 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 457.
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\nCareful Harry, sailors get a bit tetchy when you call their ships boats.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #459, from hmccracken, 791 chars, Tue Feb 1 20:40:51 1994
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\nTITLE: Winsor a Clef?
\nThe current _New Yorker_ has a favorable review of _Little Kingdoms_
\n(Poseidon, $21), a collection of three novellas by Steven Millhauser.
\nOne of the novellas is “The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne,”
\nthe title character of which is a New York-based newspaper cartoonist
\nand pioneering animator in the 1920s. Sounds like he might be based
\non Winsor McCay — but I’m going to track down the book and find out
\nfor sure.<\/p>\n
\n_The Rat Factory_, a novel about an unpleasant, Walt Disney-like
\ncartoon producer — which was supposedly written by a former
\nDisney artist under a pseudonym. Veteran animator Shamus Culhane
\nhas spoken of writing a fictionalized book based on his work
\nin animation, too.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #460, from hkenner, 143 chars, Tue Feb 1 22:31:53 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 459.
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\nThe prior New Yorker mentioned animation occasionally, as it
\nwere on the interval of a burp. The current NY simply foregrounds
\nthe burp.
\n–HK<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #461, from switch, 117 chars, Wed Feb 2 18:19:45 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 459.
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\nThen there’s Rick Veitch’s MAXIMORTAL, with his particularly twisted take on
\nSiegel & Shuster and Walt Disney.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #462, from hmccracken, 263 chars, Tue Mar 8 11:12:33 1994
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\nTITLE: This week’s issue of _New York_…
\nhas an article on Disney’s new Broadway musical version of _Beauty
\nand the Beast_ (a topic that I don’t remember being discussed here
\nbefore, although it’s much commented-on in rec.arts.disney on
\nthe Internet).
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #463, from switch, 349 chars, Tue Mar 15 12:31:47 1994
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\nTITLE: Gahan Wilson tees
\nNo, not golf.<\/p>\n
\nPhoenix last weekend, and he did his first t-shirt art for the con, of which
\nonly 400 t-shirts were made.<\/p>\n
\nBIXmail Jean Goddin (jgoddin) for more details.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #464, from hmccracken, 243 chars, Thu Mar 31 21:49:04 1994
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\nTITLE: See long.messages\/160…
\nfor a look at the recent three-CD tribute to Disney music. I wrote
\nthis piece for an upcoming issue of Emru’s _FPS_ fanzine which will
\nfocus on music and animation. When can we expect to see it, Emru?
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #465, from switch, 169 chars, Thu Mar 31 22:21:00 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 464.
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\nMuch to my surprise, I seem to have almost finished the next issue; after
\nschool’s over, I’ll be devoting more time to it, so it should be out around
\nearly June.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #466, from davemackey, 284 chars, Tue Apr 5 15:23:48 1994
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\nTITLE: What’s up on another online service
\nIt’s been announced that America Online, competitor to BIX, has opened
\na Cartoon Network area on its system, and will host a live conference with
\nBill Hanna and Joe Barbera on April 7 at 8 p.m.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #467, from robairmackey, 1193 chars, Tue Apr 5 22:10:19 1994
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\nTITLE: Achtung, Doc…
\n Now that Disney has tried and (some say) failed to establish a European
\ntheme park presence, it’s Warner Brothers’ turn.
\n It was announced in Dusseldorf, Germany that there would be a new
\nWarner Bros. park to be built near Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia. The
\npark would not be similar to any of the Six Flags parks in America but to
\nAustralia’s Warner’s Movie World.
\n After doing research on Euro Disney crowds (many would drive up to
\n5 hours to get to the park, stay all day, and then drive home), the Warner
\npeople have decided not to make it a full-blown vacation resort. In eliminatin
\nthe hotels and golf courses of Euro Disney, Warner will hope to save 90%
\nof Euro Disney’s initial costs.
\n The park will have a Police Academy ride, and Warner’s is negotiating
\nfor a license that would provide a “Das Boot” ride. Naturally, the classic
\nWarner’s cartoon characters would have a major presence inside the park,
\nwith a themed area all their own.
\n Ticket prices per day are projected to be equivalent to $16-$18.
\nGround will be broken in spring 1995 with no opening date announced.
\n –Robair<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #468, from hmccracken, 387 chars, Sat Apr 23 12:12:00 1994
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\nTITLE: Animation 1, Broadway 0
\nToday’s _New York Times_ has an entertaining article that compares
\nthe current Broadway version of _Beauty and the Beast_ to Disney’s
\nanimated original. In almost every detail, the cartoon comes off
\nbetter, and the author advises that buying a video of the film
\nis a wiser — and cheaper — alternative to investing in tickets
\nto the stage show.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #469, from davemackey, 214 chars, Sun Apr 24 08:39:32 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 468.
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\nDennis Cunningham, reviewing “Beauty And The Beast” as theatre critic for
\nWCBS-TV in New York, noted that you could buy THREE copies of the video for
\nthe price of an orchestra seat!
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #470, from robairmackey, 183 chars, Sun Apr 24 22:46:31 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 469.
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\nDisney will probably find a way to put a Broadway show on moratorium. Maybe
\nin the future Disney’s musicals will be based on stuff that isn’t available
\non videocassette concurrently.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #471, from hmccracken, 354 chars, Mon May 2 00:48:37 1994
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\nTITLE: See this week’s _Time_ magazine…
\nfor an excellent article by Richard Corliss on the Disney Stores,
\nWarner Bros. Studio Stores, and other movie\/cartoon-inspired
\nretailers. It reports that MGM is planning a similar venture,
\nand even mentions the grand-daddy of them all: Jay Ward’s
\nDudley Do-Right Emporium on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #472, from davemackey, 512 chars, Wed May 4 23:55:36 1994
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\nTITLE: Second show for Castellaneta?
\nThere’s talk that Dan Castellaneta, voice of Homer Simpson, may be starring
\nwith George Wendt in a new television series for Disney, which would be a
\nsitcom very loosely based on the National Public Radio program “Car Talk.”
\nDan and George would play Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, who in real
\nlife spend two hours each Sunday taking calls from listeners and giving
\nsometimes amusing but always useful advice on automotive maintenance.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #473, from hmccracken, 300 chars, Thu May 5 21:41:22 1994
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\nTITLE: Woodpecker-Flavored Chocolate
\nYou can now buy special Nestle Crunch bars which are embossed
\nwith a design featuring none other than Walter Lantz’s
\nWoody Woodpecker. The bars are part of a line of Universal
\nStudios-themed bars, including Back to the Future, King Kong,
\nand others.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #474, from hmccracken, 973 chars, Tue May 17 21:28:19 1994
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\nTITLE: ASondheim vs. Disney
\nBroadway’s Tony awards were announced yesterday, and come awards
\nnight it looks like we’ll all have to decide whether we’re
\nDisney fans or Sondheim fans. The recently-opened theatrical
\nadaptation of Disney’s _Beauty and the Beast_ got nine
\nnominations, one short of the number given to Sondheim’s
\n_Passion_. (The revival of _She Loves Me_ got 9 nominations
\nas well, apparently to everyone’s surprise.)<\/p>\n
\nBest Musical
\nLeading Actor in a Musical (Terrence Mann)
\nLeading Actress in a Musical (Susan Egan)
\nFeatured Actor in a Musical (Gary Beach)
\nDirection of a Musical (Robert Jess Roth)
\nBook of a Musical (Linda Woolverton)
\nOriginal Musical Score (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, and Tim Rice)
\nCostume Design (Ann Hould-Ward)
\nLighting Design (Natasha Katz)<\/p>\n
\nthe award will be posthumous, since Howard Ashman died several
\nyears ago.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #475, from hmccracken, 516 chars, Fri May 27 09:47:19 1994
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\nTITLE: Got What it Takes to be a Superhero?
\n…You can find out if you’re anywhere near Jersey City, New Jersey. The
\nLiberty Science Center there is hosting “Super Heroes, A High-Tech
\nAdventure” until September 5th. The kid-oriented science show features
\nsuch interactive exhibits as a Wonder Woman one (in which you deflect
\nping-pong balls off your wrists, much as WW does to bullets) and a
\nSpider-Man one (in which you can crawl around a web). <\/p>\n
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #476, from davemackey, 359 chars, Mon Jun 13 12:16:11 1994
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\nTITLE: “Beauty” no beauty with Tony
\nIn a snub some see as the legitimate theatre’s negative reaction to
\nthe relative outsider Disney, “Beauty And The Beast” won only one Tony
\naward last evening, that for Best Costume Design. Most of the Tonys that
\n“B&TB” lost went to the dark Stephen Sondheim musical “Passion.”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #477, from hmccracken, 604 chars, Tue Jun 14 08:46:53 1994
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\nTITLE: Read About the King
\nDisney’s Hyperion Press will soon be releasing _The Art of the
\nLion King_, a $60 hardcover book that looks at the production
\nof the upcoming animated feature. The book is by Christopher
\nFinch, best known as the author of _The Art of Walt Disney_,
\nthe big art book (still in print) which started the series
\nof lavish animation art books that continues to this day.<\/p>\n
\n(which sounds like an oxymoron of some sort), by Disney
\narchivist Dave Smith and Kevin Neary of the Disney Stores.
\nIt’s a $14.95 paperback.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #478, from davemackey, 675 chars, Tue Jun 21 22:18:16 1994
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\nTITLE: All we need is for someone to make the Foodarackacycle
\nCellular One, a major cell-phone provider in the New York Metropolitan Area,
\nis touting its new voice-recognition dialing service in a radio commercial
\nthat draws parallels between it and an unnamed cartoon show about the future
\nwe used to watch as kids. Sound effects on the commercial include various
\nspace cars and George Jetson’s doorbell; the music backing the spot is
\nevocative of, but not an exact rendition of, the “Jetsons” theme music. But
\nthere are enough hooks and references in the spot that strongly indicate that
\n“The Jetsons” is the cartoon series being discussed.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #479, from hmccracken, 1656 chars, Fri Jun 24 23:12:08 1994
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\nTITLE: A Cartoon Fan at CES
\nHere I am at CES in Chicago, and while that abbreviation
\nstands for Consumer Electronics Show, from what’s going on
\nhere you might think it meant Cartoon Entertainment Show.
\nThe floor of the show is crammed with cartoon-related products —
\nmainly video games and computer games, but also everything
\nfrom a Windows utility called the Flintstones Cuckoo Clock
\n(which I’m now the proud owner of a copy of; stay tuned for a
\nreview) to a mouse pad shaped like Betty Boop’s head.<\/p>\n
\nby a giant rotating Mickey Mouse and stuffed with demos of
\ngames based on The Lion King, The Jungle Book, Beauty and the
\nBeast, and other Disney films. They’re also previewing a nifty
\nMickey Mouse game in which Mickey runs around from scene to
\nscene within his own history. (Which sounds confusing, but it’s
\ngreat — they digitized artwork from films like Steamboat Willie
\nto ge the look just right.) Disney-related products were also
\npresent at several other booths, and Disney CEO Jeff Katzenberg
\nattended the show.<\/p>\n
\nrepresented, but here are some of them: The flintstones,
\nRocko’s Modern Life, Popeye, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures,
\nMighty Max, Batman, the Looney Tunes characters, The Simpsons,
\nBeavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy, and many others.
\nNot everything is exciting — there are a lot of very ordinary
\ngames based on cartoons — but as an animation history fan,
\nit’s neat to see that the next wave of entertainment technology
\nis drawing on inspiration from animation of thirty, forty, and
\nfifty years ago.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #480, from ianl, 315 chars, Sat Jun 25 16:12:53 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 479.
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\ngames. They can give you the feel of full-motion video without the color
\ndepth overhead needed to do live-source FMV. <\/p>\n
\n(Yeah, yeah, it’s a shameless plug.)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #481, from switch, 206 chars, Thu Jun 30 10:00:29 1994
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\nTITLE: The Trouble With Harry
\nNo, not our illustrious co-moderator, but the movie directed by Alfred
\nHitchcock. I saw this just a few days ago, and a credit caught my eye:
\n“Music by Raymond Scott.”<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #482, from hmccracken, 227 chars, Thu Jun 30 14:44:21 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 481.
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\nThat’s interesting! Was the music recognizably Scott’s? I saw the
\nmovie, but years ago before I knew who he was. I remember it mainly
\nfor its very early appearances by Shirley Maclaine and Jerry
\n(the Beaver) Mathers.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #483, from hmccracken, 894 chars, Thu Jun 30 14:48:41 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 480.
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\nWell, after having gone back to the show to Saturday for the primary
\npurpose of playing games, I’m less optimistic than I probably sounded
\nin my earlier message. Computer-game graphics are getting better and
\nbetter, but in something like 75% of the games I played, the gameplay
\nwas identical to games of a decade ago. You control a little figure
\nwho jumps around on platforms, leaping over villainous characters
\n, throwing things, and picking up objects for bonus points. It’s
\nas if the storylines and humor of theatrical cartoons hadn’t changed
\nat all between 1925 and 1935.<\/p>\n
\nwas in a really rotten location at CES. They were in a desolate wing
\ndevoted to things like videotape rewinders and wireless speakers, while
\nall the real videogame action was happening in a different hall that
\nwas a ten minute walk away.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #484, from hmccracken, 911 chars, Thu Jun 30 14:53:00 1994
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\nTITLE: Some more new cartoon videogames
\nI can’t remember either the platform or the publisher, but I saw
\nseveral Simpsons-related games at CES. My favorite was “Virtual
\nBart,” which includes several different Bart Simpson games; the
\none you play at any given time is determined by a Wheel of Fortune-
\ntype pointer. The games include a Jurassic Park-like one with
\na raptor who looks like Bart, and one in which Bart’s a baby.<\/p>\n
\ncartoon show. But while the characters are incredibly violent
\nwhen they appear on _The Simpsons_, they’re rather docile in
\nthe game as far as I could tell. Good graphics, though.<\/p>\n
\nhave been a Tweety and Sylvester one. The designers clearly
\nspent a lot of time studying 1950s Friz Freleng cartoons, and’
\nthe game looks just like a vintage Tweety cartoon.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #485, from switch, 111 chars, Thu Jun 30 18:51:35 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 482.
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\nThe music is kind of quirky at times; it could go either way. Maybe a call
\nto Irwin Chusid is in order.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #486, from davemackey, 1666 chars, Sun Jul 3 09:10:56 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 355.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTwo years later, Dave returns to Six Flags Great Adventure, the New
\nYork\/Philadelphia area theme park co-owned by Time Warner (It’s actually in
\nJackson, NJ, on route 537 near the interchange with Interstate 195.)
\n It seems that the park has been tightened up, with specific distinct
\nthemed areas. There’s now a Looney Tunes Land for the little fry, a Movie
\nTown that features the Batman-related rides and the HBO Commisary (complete
\nwith posters for various HBO original films like “Barbarians At The Gate”),
\nFrontier Adventure (home of the Log Flume), and even the Main Street section,
\nwhich you encounter the minute you enter the park.
\n This smacks of a measured, deliberate attempt to imitate Disney’s park
\nlayout. But the park is now firmly established as the home of the Warner
\nBros. characters. When Great Adventure first opened in the early 1970’s, the
\nLooney Tunes gang was holding court at a similar theme park, now defunct,
\ncalled Warner Bros. Jungle Habitat, in West Milford, NJ.
\n I didn’t get to go on it, but this year’s big new attraction is The
\nRight Stuff Mach I Adventure. I did ride through the Safari for the first
\ntime in over a decade, and it really hasn’t changed all that much, except for
\nthe introduction of some rare white tigers for the new season.
\n Say what you will about Six Flags Great Adventure, but any way you look
\nat it, it’s a pricey day. It now costs adults $33 to get into the park, with
\nkids being charged $23. And the concessions and food are extremely expensive.
\nLunch for our party of four topped out at about $25. And even the smallest
\nfood kiosks gladly accept credit cards.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #487, from hmccracken, 474 chars, Sun Jul 3 22:39:29 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 486.
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\nI’ve never been to a Six Flags, but I did pass near two on my recent
\ndriving trip: the one you mention, and one in Gurnee Mills, Illinois
\n(which is across the street from one humongous shopping mall).<\/p>\n
\nalways think of Playland in Rye, N.Y., where the characters made
\ntheir home in the late 1970s or so. They were preceded by Richie
\nRich and Casper, who strolled around the park a few years earlier.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #488, from robairmackey, 326 chars, Sun Jul 3 23:47:15 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 486.
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\n Considering that Disney is around $37 now, and there’s extensive
\ncouponing program with Burger King and Coca-Cola, on a weekday you can
\nsee it for half price. (Did you see the Beach Boys or the B-52’s?)
\n Yeah, most weekends you can see musical acts people won’t pay to see
\nunless they can ride bumper cars as well…<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #489, from hkenner, 111 chars, Mon Jul 4 15:10:30 1994
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\nSpotted in the Dublin airport yesterday, a T-shirt:<\/p>\n
\n INNOCENT. …
\n BART
\n DID IT<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #490, from hmccracken, 138 chars, Tue Jul 5 13:12:44 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 489.
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\nGood grief! I didn’t know that anyone in Ireland cared enough
\nabout O.J. or Bart to make such a t-shirt a marketable commodity.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #491, from hkenner, 115 chars, Tue Jul 5 18:15:38 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 490.
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\nThe man in that T-shirt was definitely Irish. You have to remember
\nthat things like C-span are world-wide.
\n–HK<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #492, from hmccracken, 1176 chars, Thu Jul 14 18:26:53 1994
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\nTITLE: Which King is it, Anyway?
\nIn the past, we’re reported cases here of several companies
\nwho have tried to jump on the bandwagon of a Disney cartoon
\nby releasing unauthorized, quasi-legal products to coincide
\nwith the release of a new Disney feature. Most notably,
\nGoodtimes Home Video has released videos of _Beauty and the
\nBeast_ and _Aladdin_ that have nothing to do with Disney…
\nthough they sure look like Disney products upon first glance.<\/p>\n
\ninspiration for an unusually large number of products of this
\nsort. First of all, Sony, which I would have thought was above
\nthis kind of thing, has released a video called _The Jungle King_
\nin Disney-like packaging; the illustration and logo make it look
\nlike a combination of Disney’s _The Jungle Book_ and _The Lion
\nKing_, just as the title suggests.<\/p>\n
\nlocal CVS drugstore. One of them is marked _The Jungle King_, although it
\ndoesn’t seem to be related to the Sony tape. Another has no identification
\nat all — it’s simply a toy figure of a lion, wearing an oversized crown.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #493, from linkster, 481 chars, Tue Jul 26 22:13:05 1994
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Akira Trading Cards
\nYep, they’re doing a set of them. I bought a prototype\/preview set of 10
\ncards. One has a prism background, so it’s safe to say the chase cards will
\nprobably be similiar. I’m not sure when the actual 100 card set will be
\ncoming out as it was solicited for this month and the prototype set was
\nsolicited for May, if I remember correctly. (They’re late anyhow)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #494, from dgh, 101 chars, Sat Jul 30 03:20:52 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 493.
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\nDon’t you think they should finish the comic book first? I certainly do.
\n ,
\n |) \/\\ \\\/ | +)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #495, from switch, 232 chars, Sat Jul 30 08:41:45 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 494.
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\nPart of the problem with _Akira_ has been Otomo. Way back when he finally
\nfinished the fifth volume, but didn’t like the ending. So he went back and
\nreworked it. Hence the absurd delay. I don’t know what’s going on now…<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #496, from linkster, 298 chars, Sat Jul 30 10:46:50 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 494.
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\nI’ve only seen the anime and haven’t read the magna. Too expensive at this
\ntime for someone just discovering Akira a couple months ago. The cards are
\nbased on the movie not the comic so as far as the public in the US is concerned
\nit’s finished (?) (general public that is)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #497, from davemackey, 419 chars, Wed Aug 17 20:56:19 1994
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\nTITLE: Mickey’s in da house
\nWhat “Mickey Mouse Disco” did for the music of the 70’s, the Walt Disney
\nCompany is threatening to do again with its newest compilation, “Mickey
\nUnrapped.”
\n It’s a collection of rap music inspired by various Disney characters.
\nAmong the artists on the album is the group Tag Team, who contribute a
\nknockoff version of their big hit “Whoomp! There It Is”.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #498, from robairmackey, 69 chars, Thu Aug 18 22:43:58 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 497.
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\n“GAWRSH! There it is!
\n“GAWRSH! There it is!
\n“GAWRSH! There it is…”<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #499, from davemackey, 898 chars, Fri Aug 19 12:30:00 1994
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\nTITLE: Put on your pink tap shoes…
\nMacy’s will stage its annual “Tap-O-Mania” on Sunday, August 21, beginning at
\nnoon, and this year it will tie into the 30th anniversary of “The Pink
\nPanther” (and also the 88th birthday of its creator, Friz Freleng, which is
\non August 21). Last year the event attracted 6,196 tap dancers, breaking the
\nprevious year’s record.
\n If you’re in the New York area and want to be a part of the celebration,
\njust show up at Macy’s Herald Square in New York City that morning to
\nregister. If you can’t tap dance, they’ll teach you a basic time step.
\nAll tappers will be entered into a drawing, prizes of which include CD
\nplayers, tickets to the Broadway show “Crazy For You”, and a Pink Panther
\nprize package which includes a limited edition animation cel signed by
\nFriz Freleng. Every tapper gets a T-shirt and hat.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #500, from davemackey, 537 chars, Thu Sep 8 06:56:18 1994
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\nTITLE: WB Artists on tour
\nAccording to a news report on E!, Warner Bros. Animation has
\ncommissioned a set of limited edition art prints of the Looney
\nTunes gang and is sending two artists on a tour of its studio
\nstores to promote it.
\n Both artists, assistant animator Harry Sabin and background
\nartist Alan Bodner, have been working on contemporary Warner
\nBros. cartoons for years. The duo are to embark on a tour of the
\nWarner Bros. Studio Stores this weekend, where the prints will
\nbe sold.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #501, from hmccracken, 499 chars, Sun Sep 11 00:08:01 1994
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\nTITLE: Popeye’s Park
\nUniversal Studios has announced plans for Islands of Adventure, an additional
\ntheme park to join its Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida in
\n1999. Why is it worth mentioning here, five years in advance? Because E.C.
\nSegar’s Popeye (who will be 70 by the time the park opens) will appear at
\nthe park, along with other Segar characters. <\/p>\n
\namusement park: the Santa Cruz Boardwalk.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #502, from davemackey, 411 chars, Sat Sep 17 08:18:32 1994
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\nTITLE: Ralph gets “Crazy”
\nRalph Bakshi turns live-action filmmaker with his entry in Showtime’s “Rebel
\nHighway” series, “The Cool And The Crazy.” It stars Alicia Silverstone, the
\nyoung star of “The Crush” as a bored housewife who has an affair with a guy
\nfrom the wrong side of the tracks. It airs this Friday at 10 p.m. and next
\nThursday at 8 p.m.,, but check your local times.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #503, from davemackey, 501 chars, Sat Oct 1 23:54:24 1994
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\nTITLE: Scrappy’s a doll
\nThe November 1994 issue of “Doll Reader” includes a small,
\none-page article about a doll produced in the mid-1930’s
\nof the Columbia cartoon character Scrappy.
\n The article makes brief mention of Scrappy’s
\ncartoon career — misidentifying the first cartoon of the
\ncharacter as “Help Wanted” (it’s “Yelp Wanted”), though
\nmentioning producer Charles Mintz and creator Sid Marcus
\nin connection with the animated series.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #504, from hmccracken, 693 chars, Sun Oct 2 19:04:57 1994
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Celebrate ’95 With Bugs and Gang
\nI’m usually not a big fan of cartoon-character calendars, but the 1995
\n_Looney Tunes_ calendar is a cut above average. Each month is illustrated
\nwith a slick and attractive color recreation of a scene from a classic
\nWarner Bros. cartoon, each is which is accompanied by comments by
\nWarners expert Jerry Beck. (Beck, who is prominently credited on the
\ncalendar’s cover, is rapidly becoming the country’s most prominent
\ncartoon historian.)<\/p>\n
\nto be buying next year’s calendar, but I plan to pick this one up at
\na more reasonable date (like January 15th of next year or so).
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #505, from davemackey, 385 chars, Sun Oct 2 21:28:18 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 504.
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\nIt’s funny. My brother was over here bringing over some of my animation-
\nrelated library of books, magazines and films, and I came across
\nHallmark’s 1991 Looney Tunes calendar, which had “reminisces and
\nmusings by Chuck Jones”. I have to call Jerry tomorrow on some other
\nbusiness; I’ll certainly congratulate him on his recognition.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #506, from davemackey, 83 chars, Tue Oct 4 18:59:47 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 498.
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\nIt’s more on the order of “Whoomp! There It Went.”
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #507, from hmccracken, 576 chars, Tue Oct 18 20:19:57 1994
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\nTITLE: Warner Bros. Stores Sprouting Everywhere
\nA year ago, the Boston area had no Warner Bros. Studio Stores. As of this
\nmonth, we have four, thanks to the new one at the recently-reopened
\nNatick Mall. It’s got a nifty New England fisherman theme, and outside
\nthe store there’s a giant model of several Warner characters on a lobster
\nboat.<\/p>\n
\nappealing (much more so than the stuff at arch-rival the Disney Store).
\nI especially like the new goldfish bowl in the shape of Marvin Martian’s
\ndog.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #508, from hmccracken, 976 chars, Fri Oct 21 00:20:26 1994
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\nTITLE: Good News for Anyone Over the Age of Three
\nToday’s (well, yesterday’s) _New York Times_ has an interesting article on
\nthe merchandising of Barney the Dinosaur. It seems that Barney product sales
\nare way off, and the theory is that oversaturation is to blame. Little kids
\naren’t any less fond of the genial reptile, but it’s their parents who purchase
\ntoys — and there’s no doubt that grown-ups are sick and tired of Barney.<\/p>\n
\nmore carefully, following the strategy used by the folks who control the
\nMighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. The article also discusses how Twentieth Century
\nFox managed to revive the fortunes of _The Simpsons_ after the Bart Simpson
\nfad ended; through carefully managing what properties feature Matt
\nGroening’s creations, they’ve been able to turn them into a $250 million\/year
\nbusiness, and hope to keep America interested in the characters for years to
\ncome.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #509, from hmccracken, 575 chars, Fri Oct 21 21:44:32 1994
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\nTITLE: Bill Gates, Cartoon Fan?
\nWell, I don’t really know if billionaire Bill of Microsoft is into
\ncartoons, but if you look in the new issue of _PC World_ (and,
\nundoubtedly, other computer magazines), you’ll see an ad for Microsoft
\nOffice which uses large pictures of Ren and Stimpy, and seems to claim
\nthat their success is all due somehow to Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n
\nwhen he created Ren and Stimpy — but apparently Nickelodeon’s business
\ndevelopment manager is a user of Microsoft software.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #510, from robairmackey, 326 chars, Fri Oct 21 22:20:25 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 508.
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\nThat was probably the idea behind Baby Bop, and the White Ranger, and
\nwhatever they add to the mixes of the respective shows to make your
\nold playsets obsolete. We had a major chain basically blow out all
\ntheir old Barney merchandise at 70% off! Bad news: If you paint a
\nBarney alarm clock white, it still looks like Barney.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #511, from hmccracken, 671 chars, Wed Oct 26 13:30:26 1994
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\nTITLE: Send a Thurbergram Today
\nDespite lobbying by cartoon fans, the U.S. Postal Service has never
\nshown much interest in paying tribute to the world of comic art.
\nJust about the only time they’ve nodded in our direction was when
\nthey released a Walt Disney stamp shortly after his death.<\/p>\n
\ngot a sheet of James Thurber ones. (It’s a portrait of Thurber,
\nrather than an example of one of cartoons — which I would have
\npreferred.) I suspect that it was his prose rather than his work
\nas a cartoonist that earned him this honor, but it’s a nice salute
\nto a great American comic artist in any event.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #512, from hmccracken, 475 chars, Mon Nov 28 23:37:26 1994
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\nTITLE: Chuck Jones’s Second Book for Kids
\n_Chuck Jones’ Peter and the Wolf_ — recently discussed here in its
\nCD-ROM version — is now available as a children’s book. It’s based
\non Prokofiev’s classic musical piece, of course, and heavily illustrated
\nwith drawings by Jones that have been colored like animation cels.<\/p>\n
\nhe published a book called _William the Backwards Skunk_ in the
\nmid-1980s.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #513, from hmccracken, 510 chars, Tue Nov 29 22:11:51 1994
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\nTITLE: More Books
\nIt must be getting near Christmas; the bookstores are full of lavish new books
\non animation, comics, and related topics. Among them are _Disneyana_, a
\nbook on classic Disney collectibles (similar to the 1974 book of that title,
\nbut all-new); _Still Weird_, a collection of more than 450 macabre cartoons
\nby Gahan Wilson; and a paperback edition of Jerry Beck’s _I Tawt I Taw a
\nPuddy Tat_, which contains everything you’d ever want to know about
\nWarner Bros.’ Tweety and Sylvester.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #514, from hmccracken, 323 chars, Thu Dec 29 17:53:35 1994
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\nTITLE: You’re a Good Man, Wynton Marsalis
\nThis just in: jazz great Wynton Marsalis will soon be recording an album
\nof music from Charles Schulz’s Charlie Brown TV specials. For the first
\nten or fifteen years, these shows featured superb scores by Vince Girauldi;
\nthey’ve never been the same since he passed away.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #515, from robairmackey, 1313 chars, Mon Jan 9 22:24:43 1995
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\nTITLE: Sproing, Boing, Bam, Splat: Rhino’s new CD
\nRhino records finally released the first volume of “Hanna Barbera Cartoon
\nSound FX” on compact disc only (wise move, Rhino: sound effect cassettes
\nare a bitch).
\n The CD contains 97 distinct tracks including two different head shakes
\n(de-do-dedee-do-dedee-do and pingitty-pingitty-ping), the familiar Jetson
\nspace capsule taking off and landing, my personal favorite Waheep and Poof,
\nand some absolute comic sound effect classics: “KABONG!”, “Scrambling Feet”,
\nZabork (from the Jetsons), and Gazoo’s two noises.
\n The disc also contains birthday and get-well messages, as well as
\nanswering machine messages, from Fred Flintstone (Henry Corden), Snagglepuss
\n(Earl Kress), Snooper (Earl Kress) and Blabber (Earl Kress), Wally Gator
\n(Earl Kress), Quick Draw McGraw (Earl Kress–notice a nasty trend here?),
\nand Hokey Wolf (Earl–aw, you know.) My gripe is Kress has the inflections and
\nbasic personality traits down for each character, but he doesn’t quite get
\nthe actual voice on target from the Daws Butler ideal.
\n For the real deal, the actual item, the Professional H-B SFX Library,
\ncontact Sound Ideas, 105 Beaver Creek Road, Suite 4, Richmond Hill, ON,
\nL4B 1C6 CANADA. Last I checked, about six years ago, it was $150–it may
\nhave gone up in price.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #516, from hmccracken, 350 chars, Sat Jan 28 09:55:26 1995
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\nTITLE: H-B by Mail
\nThere may not be a nationwide chain of Hanna-Barbera stores (yet),
\nbut you can shop for merchandise featuring Yogi Bear, the Flintstones,
\nand other H-B characters from the comfort of your own home.
\nDial 1-800-822-YOGI and you can purchase items from the large selection
\nof H-B products sold at Universal Studios Florida.
\n — Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #517, from davemackey, 379 chars, Sun Feb 12 08:21:41 1995
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\nTITLE: John Seely: the album?
\nI’ve heard reports that Rhino Records is going to release a compact
\ndisc compilation of the music of John Seely Associates sometime this
\nspring.
\n John Seely Associates provided stock music for a number of
\ncartoon production companies including Art Clokey, Hanna-Barbera,
\nSam Singer, and Warner Bros.
\n –Dave<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #518, from hmccracken, 581 chars, Thu Feb 23 09:48:20 1995
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\nTITLE: Hirschfeld Goes Daffy
\nAl Hirschfeld, the legendary Broadway caricaturist, has created
\na series of five limited-edition prints which star Bugs Bunny,
\nDaffy Duck, and other Warner Bros. cartoon characters in
\ntheatrical settings. I’d like to think that Hirschfeld is a huge
\nLooney Tunes fan and felt an uncontrollable artistic urge to
\ndraw these, but somehow I don’t think so. (He did, however, once
\nwrite an excellent appreciation of Disney’s _Snow White_).
\nIn any event, I’ve scene reproductions of a couple of the prints,
\nand they’re better than you might expect.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #519, from hmccracken, 419 chars, Mon Apr 17 02:33:30 1995
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\nTITLE: Does artificial sweetener cause bad vision?
\nMr. Magoo, a favorite cartoon character who hasn’t been around
\nmuch lately, is back — in a TV commercial for NutraSweet, the
\nsugar substitute. The commercial, which combined cartoon footage
\nwith live action, is nicely animated, but Magoo doesn’t sound
\nquite right. It’s a shame that Jim Backus, Magoo’s original
\nvoice, isn’t around anymore to play the role.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #520, from hmccracken, 516 chars, Tue Jan 16 00:11:47 1996
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\nTITLE: No Wonder He Looks So Youthful, So Radiant
\nSeen while channel surfining last night: Chuck Jones’s Michigan
\nJ. Frog singing about the virtues of Oil of Olay, the Mysterious
\nBeauty Fluid. Presumably it was a tie-in with the WB TV network,
\nfor which Michigan J. serves as mascot. (The Boston affiliate
\nhas a huge Michigan J. Frog billboard overlooking the Southeast
\nExpressway.)<\/p>\n
\neven if it is one of the finest comedy films ever made.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #521, from hmccracken, 537 chars, Fri Feb 2 21:30:16 1996
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\nTITLE: Cop Commercials
\nChester Gould’s Dick Tracy has been trading on his fame in two
\nadvertisements lately. In an ad I’ve seen in the Boston subway
\n(it may also appear in other forms), it is said that Maxwell
\nHouse Coffee will be around for as long as Tracy is chasing
\ncrooks in the funny papers. And just now, I saw a live-action
\nTV ad in which an actor (not Warren Beatty) portrays Tracy.
\nThe product here is the Franklin Bookman, a pocket-sized
\ncomputer. Naturally, the device is likened to the famous
\ntwo-way wrist radio.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #522, from hmccracken, 519 chars, Thu Mar 14 22:06:24 1996
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\nTITLE: Ben and Garry
\nGarry Trudeau’s _Doonesbury_ has just accomplished something unique for
\na comic strip: It has inspired a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor.
\nLook for Doonesberry — I don’t know what its ingredients are — at
\na Ben and Jerry’s retailer near you. (The lid features portraits of
\nMike and Mark from the strip.)<\/p>\n
\nmerchandising. I think that B&J could come up with something wonderful
\nif they were able to use the name Hobbesicle.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #523, from peabo, 34 chars, Fri Mar 15 00:05:30 1996
\nThis is a comment to message 522.
\nThere are additional comments to message 522.
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\nNot to mention Calvinilla.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #524, from pwirtz, 377 chars, Mon Mar 18 10:55:21 1996
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\nRe: Ben and Garry
\n> I think that B&J could come up with something wonderful
\n>if they were able to use the name Hobbesicle.<\/p>\n
\nCalivn would love it!<\/p>\n
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\nSCOUG (Southern Calif OS\/2 Users Group)
\nhttp:\/\/www.kaiwan.com\/~rwhite\/scoug.html<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #525, from hmccracken, 390 chars, Sun Mar 24 01:04:38 1996
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\nTITLE: I’ll Gladly Pay You Tuesday…
\nfor a bagel today. Look for Wimpy’s appearance in a new TV commercial.
\nNaturally, it’s for a hamburger-related product — chesseburger-flavored
\nBagel Bites. For some reason I’m not sure of, Wimpy is animated in
\nblack-and-white. It’s a clever commercial. Perhaps they can introduce
\na spinach-flavored variant and make a sequal starring Popeye.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #526, from hmccracken, 404 chars, Wed Apr 3 00:06:53 1996
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\nTITLE: Old Cartoon Characters Don’t Die…
\n…they just go on to be models in Gap adds. Or at least that’s true
\nfor Berke Breathed’s Opus, who appears in a new ad for the Gap —
\nsurely the first comic strip character to promote fashionable
\nclothing.<\/p>\n
\nour most popular comic strip characters have retired from the
\nfunny pages?<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #527, from hmccracken, 433 chars, Tue Apr 9 22:31:37 1996
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\nTITLE: Does anyone have a spare $5250?
\nThat’s the price of a new limited-edition set of replica cels from great
\nTom and Jerry cartoons, including _Puss Gets the Boot_ (their first),
\n_Yankee Doodle Mouse_, _The Cat Concerto_, and five others. They’re
\nall signed by both Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, the box set is limited
\nto 100 sets, and animation historian Mark Kausler served as a consultant
\nto help ensure their accuracy.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #528, from hmccracken, 521 chars, Wed May 22 22:19:17 1996
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\nTITLE: Everything’s for sale these days…
\nAn interesting article in today’s _Wall Street Journal_ reports on
\nTed Turner’s current efforts to merchandise those films and TV
\nshows, animated and otherwise, for which he owns the rights.
\nOne thing he tried to do, albeit unsuccessfully: get Nike to pay
\nhim in order to have Jonny Quest wear Nike sneakers in the
\nupcoming series of new _Jonny Quest_ cartoons.<\/p>\n
\nof smoking Marlboros or Lucky Strikes…
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #529, from grekel, 350 chars, Thu May 23 14:08:26 1996
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\nThis’ll date me…
\nI remember very vividly going to buy a pair of PF Flyers sneakers because
\nI got a Jonny Quest Decoder Ring FREE with the shoes! Cool ring, too –
\ndecoder, magnifier, signalling mirror, secret compartment…<\/p>\n
\nanimated commercials with JQ hawking PF Flyers…<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #530, from hmccracken, 595 chars, Fri May 24 12:12:26 1996
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\nTITLE: It Had to Happen
\nMcDonalds, the nation’s biggest fast-food company, and Disney, our biggest producer of whatever the
\nentertainment equivalent of fast food is (fast entertainment?), have signed a ten-year contract to
\ncollaborate on merchandising their respective enterprises. Look for Disney-themed ad campaigns at
\nMcDonalds and signs of McDonalds in the Disney theme parks.<\/p>\n
\nmembers may be interested to know, spells the name of a certain Disney film as _101 Dalmations_).<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #531, from hkenner, 81 chars, Fri May 24 13:20:52 1996
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\nThe New York Times has a long history of wobbling on Dalmatians\/Dalmations.
\n–HK<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #532, from hmccracken, 366 chars, Fri May 24 14:35:44 1996
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\nI guess it’s true that what Turner is doing is nothing new. I’ve heard
\nthat in the 1960s, Hanna-Barbera had a deal with the Welch’s people
\nwhich involved the Flintstones extolling the virtues of Welch’s
\nGrape Juice *within episodes of _The Flintstones_, not in commercials*.
\nThese mentiones appear to have been edited out of syndication prints
\nof the show.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #533, from sfmcnally, 109 chars, Fri May 24 18:06:25 1996
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\nThe report I heard on ABC news said that Disney previously had a similar
\nagreement with Burger King.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #534, from grekel, 178 chars, Sat May 25 12:08:50 1996
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\nInteresting, re. Flintstones and Welch’s…
\nI also recall drinking out of Welch’s grape jelly jars that had Flintstone
\ncharacters screened on them. Didn’t know about the juice!<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #535, from hmccracken, 664 chars, Sun May 26 18:46:42 1996
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\nActually, animators taking cash to insert commercial references into their
\nfilms goes back a long, long way. Fleischer made an entertaining sing-a-long
\ncartoon called _In My Merry Oldsmobile_ — it was financed, of course, by
\nGeneral Motors. And Nabisco paid for a Mickey Mouse cartoon in the late
\n1930s that was the equal of any other made during that period for
\nanimation and humor. The only difference was, the climax involved Mickey
\nmaking a pitch for Oreos, Saltines, and his favorite, Fig Newtons.<\/p>\n
\nNewtons are named after Newton, Massachusetts, where I lived for 17 years.)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #536, from hmccracken, 656 chars, Tue Aug 27 21:29:59 1996
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\nTITLE: Happy Birthday, Mr. Grinch!
\nBelieve it or not, 1996 marks the 30th anniversary of Chuck Jones’s
\nclassic TV adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_.
\nTo mark the event, Jones’s company is creating a limited-edition cel,
\nthe copies of which will be auctioned off in October in a benefit for
\nthe Motion Picture Retirement Home.<\/p>\n
\nwill do the background. Jones, Noble, and Thurl Ravenscroft, who sang
\nall the songs in the TV special, will autograph the piece. I was fortunate
\nenough to visit Noble last Saturday, and saw his sketches — they look
\ngreat!
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #537, from hmccracken, 372 chars, Thu Sep 12 10:42:45 1996
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\nTITLE: Discount Animation Cels
\nI see from an ad in the _New York Times_ that the Circle Gallery, the
\nlarge nationwide chain of art galleries that sells a lot of cartoon-
\nrelated stuff, has gone bankrupt and is liquidating its stock.
\nThe ad is for the Manhattan location, on Broadway, and specifically
\nsays that Chuck Jones limited editions are available cheaply.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #538, from hmccracken, 359 chars, Tue Oct 29 22:20:53 1996
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\nTITLE: Another online service…
\nwhich shall remain nameless (hint: its initials are AOL) is
\nusing the _Jetsons_ theme music in its new TV commercials.
\nApparently, the idea is that you can bring your family into the
\nfuture by logging into this particular service.<\/p>\n
\nwith the future…
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #539, from switch, 256 chars, Thu Nov 7 22:09:41 1996
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\nI did an unscientific poll with about a dozen acquaintances who aren’t
\npartricularly animation fans; all of them agreed that the music was
\n“futuristic”, but none readily identified it with The Jetsons until I told
\nthem.<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #540, from dgh, 153 chars, Fri Nov 8 23:52:38 1996
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\nWhat did those poor people do when they were growing up? (Didn’t EVERYBODY
\ngrow up watching the Jetsons and the Flintstones?)
\n ,
\n |) \/\\ \\\/ | +)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #541, from jdow, 384 chars, Fri Feb 7 22:40:28 1997
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\nThinking of Jetsons…. Next time you are in LA near LAX take the time to
\nmake a reservation at the flying saucer. Er, that’s the nickname of the
\nrestaraunt inside the airport. It has been redone inside by Disney folks.
\nIt is an SF theme as seen in the 50s, very “Jetsonesque” I hear. Every
\ntable is complete with its own Lava Lamp. (Ever seen 50 lava lamps all in
\none place?)<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #542, from jgoddin, 26 chars, Fri Feb 7 23:48:06 1997
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\nThe mind boggles……. <\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #543, from hmccracken, 1372 chars, Sun Feb 23 20:55:21 1997
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\nTITLE: Beware of limited-edition animation cels
\nWhile walking down Boston’s Newbury Street this afternoon, I stopped
\nin at an art gallery that specializes in animation. I saw there a
\ncel of Bosko, the early-1930s Warner Bros. character, that was
\nidentified as being a limited-edition cel signed by Harman
\nand Ising. (Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising were the producers who
\ncreated Bosko.)<\/p>\n
\nlimited-edition cels — ie, ones produced to be sold, not to be used
\nin animated films — are LESS limited than real production cels.
\nEach production cel is unique, but limited-edition cels number in
\nthe hundreds or thousands of identical pieces.<\/p>\n
\nby Harman and Ising. Hugh Harman died about fifteen years ago,
\nlong before the boom in limited-edition cels. Rudy Ising has
\nalso been dead for several years. Then I looked carefully at
\nthe signatures — they read “M. Harman” and “C. Ising.”<\/p>\n
\ndoubt and assume that M. Harman and C. Ising are relatives of
\nHugh and Rudy — possibly widows or children. In any event,
\nthe lesson is to be very careful about signed limited-edition
\ncels. They’re not all that limited, and they may not be signed
\nby the people you’d expect them to be.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #544, from hmccracken, 428 chars, Fri May 9 22:27:42 1997
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\nTITLE: Wimpy
\nJ. Wellington Wimpy is now doing ads for Burger King, apparently
\nreusing old TV animation. On one hand, I can’t think of anyone
\nmore appropriate to tout burgers than Wimpy, but on the other hand,
\nthe guy is such a hamburger fiend that I’m not sure his endorsement
\nis worth anything. I mean, Wimpy would eat just about *any*
\nburger, especially if it’s one that he could gladly pay you Tuesday
\nto eat today.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
\nanimation\/tie.ins #545, from switch, 781 chars, Sun Sep 14 13:52:22 1997
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\nTITLE: Life Imitates Art
\nAn excerpt from the latest Animation Flash newsletter has something I
\nthought people here would find interesting…<\/p>\n
\nreal cartoon fans. They have just named a few more space rocks after
\nCartoon Network\/Hanna-Barbera characters. Inspired after an interview with
\nMars Pathfinder project leader Matthew Golombek on the TV series, “Space
\nGhost Coast to Coast,” the team named four Mars rocks, “Space Ghost,”
\n“Zorak,” “Moltar,” and “Brak.” This strange sort of cartoon character fame
\nis shared with Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Scooby Doo, Casper, Calvin & Hobbes and
\nother stars who have also had Mars rocks named after them. Images of the
\nrocks can be seen online at http:\/\/mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"