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Archive for June, 2010
Here are some UPA cartoons that have been uploaded to Youtube and Daily Motion. I wish that Sony and Classic Media would just organise to get these out onto DVD. When Magoo Flew Gerald McBoing Boing Symphony The Unicorn In The Garden The Magic Fluke Hotsy Footsy Punchy De Leon Ragtime Bear
You know you lived in Australia (especially Melbourne) in the 80s when you can remember… Tuckerbag… Wobbies World …in QLD they may have Dreamworld, Sea World and Movie World but in Melbourne we had this. How sad! The Cadbury ad with the Professor putting the egg in the bottle… Ovalteenies… Franco Cozzo… The Gobbledock… Mmmm [...]
Here’s an Aussie animated commercial for Fanta that played in the cinemas in the early 70s. I can’t pinpoint the exact date this was made but it does feature John Farnham and the animation does seem to be more than inspired by Yellow Submarine which was made in 1968. Obviously the execs were trippin’ when [...]
A while ago I wrote about the Freddo The Frog cartoon that was shown on the old Tarax Show in the early 60s and how this was our first ever made for TV animation program. I wondered why we haven’t done so much to preserve this piece of our history and why fragments of the [...]
An interesting ad for Cadbury’s from the earliest days of Australian TV. The ad presents a few talking points that I can see. Did we all really speak like the voice over guy in the ad does? Is there a reason he’s trying to sound so British? Was our animation industry really so awful back [...]
Batman may have the greatest rogues gallery in all of comicdom but there are also a few duds too. The Eraser comes to mind as does Crazy Quilt and the Ten Eyed Man, but I think Kiteman takes the cake. I wonder whether there is a Kiteman origin story.
Over at the official Big M flavoured milk website they are running a competition to bring back one of their long forgotten flavours. Currently Eggflip is narrowly beating both Honeycomb and Blue Heaven whist my two favourite blasts from the past, Jaffa and Choc Berry are a long way behind. I’m actually surprised that Eggflip [...]
Making my recent posts on the Six Million Dollar Man action figures and the Evel Knievel action figure got me thinking about how much better toys were when I was a kid to the ones that are being sold today. Really how many kids really want an Edward Cullen Barbie Pink Edition doll? (It’s not [...]
Is pretty good commercial, no… No it ain’t. From the people who brough you this.
