Lego Christmas

The Lego Nativity

The Night Before Christmas in Lego

Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer

I love stop motion animation and I used to love watching this Christmas cartoon as a kid, I haven’t seen it for a while but have to search for it this holiday season.

I also need to find Rankin Bass‘s Mad Monster Party, which I have never seen. It looks weird enough.

Santa Coke Ad

I like the way this is animated and how it retains the spirit of Haddom Sundblom’s original posters from all those years ago.

What is it with Bolt and Opera?

Just what compels Bolt to make at least one post every day with a Youtube link to some opera performance? Is it because he wants to show that he is not a Barbarian but is a part of the cultural elite. Perhaps I am a barbarian as this is the only opera I can think of that I like.

Next Media Animation on the Tea Party Express

Has Islamaphobia Swept The USA?

NMA.tv looks at the current wave of anti-Islamic sentiment sweeping across America.

Mary Blair’s Alice – Electric Tiki Design

This maquette is US$125 from here. It is really nice looking although not as nice as the art work that inspired it IMO.

1961 Bugs Bunny Model Sheet

This is currently on Ebay.

Coming November 30th

I don’t know whether to be excited about these releases or not. I still haven’t bought the Bugs Bunny Hare Extraordinaire or Daffy Duck Frustrated Fowl DVDs that were released at the start of the month (although I plan to). The contents of these two as announced on TV Shows on DVD are as follows.

• Looney Tunes Super Stars‘ Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth:
  1. All Fowled Up (Foghorn)
  2. Fox Terrier (Foghorn)
  3. A Broken Leghorn (Foghorn)
  4. Crockett Doodle Doo (Foghorn)
  5. Weasel While You Work (Foghorn)
  6. Weasel Stop (Foghorn
  7. Little Boy Boo (Foghorn)
  8. Banty Raids (Foghorn)
  9. Strangled Eggs (Foghorn)
  10. Gopher Broke (Goofy Gophers)
  11. A Mutt In A Rut (Elmer Fudd)
  12. Mouse-Placed Kitten (Misc.)
  13. Chese It The Cat (The Honey Mousers)
  14. Two Crows From Tacos (Two Crows)
  15. Crow’s Feet (Elmer Fudd)
• Looney Tunes Super Stars’ Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy:
  1. TWEETY PIE
  2. BAD OL’ PUTTY TAT
  3. ALL A-BIRRRRD
  4. CANARY ROW
  5. PUDDY TAT TWOUBLE
  6. ROOM AND BIRD
  7. TWEETY’S S.O.S.
  8. TWEET TWEET TWEETY
  9. GIFT WRAPPED
  10. AIN’T SHE TWEET
  11. SNOW BUSINESS
  12. SATAN’S WAITIN
  13. THE LAST HUNGRY CAT
  14. BIRDS ANONYMOUS
  15. TWEETY AND THE BEANSTALK

  * Unfortunately all of the Tweety & Sylvester cartoons are already available on DVD. In fact most of the disc looks just like one of the Golden Collection disc (Volume 3, disc 4?) with a couple of different cartoons thrown in.

I will probably pick up the Foghorn DVD but as I already own all of the Sylvetser and Tweety cartoons I will avoid that one like the plague. I have also heard some quite horrendous stories about the Bugs and Daffy DVDs and how it is presented in widescreen despite the cartoons not being made in that way, which has resulted in a lot of details, including characters heads, being cut off.

Taken from: http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Bugs-Bunny-Looney-Tunes-Comedy-Hour-Looney-Tunes-Super-Stars/14333#ixzz0xluzvyhF

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Why?!

What’s with the Hollywood studios trying to make so many horrible live action/CGI adaptations of old cartoons? We’ve had Garfield, Rocky & Bullwinkle, two Scooby Doo movies and two Alvin and the Chipmunks films while movies in development at the moment include the Smurfs and Yogi Bear, who have both released some awful traiers. Also starting development are Bugs Bunny, Marvin the Martian, Tom & Jerry, Hong Kong Phooey and Speedy Gonzales. Sigh! Worse still is thta the characters will all have back stories set in the ‘real world’. For example…

“Speedy’s going to be a misunderstood boy who comes from a family that works in a very meticulous setting, and he’s a little too fast for what they do,” said Anne Lopez. “He makes a mess of that. So he has to go out in the world to find what he’s good at.”

Also…

“We wanted to make sure that it was not the Speedy of the 1950s — the racist Speedy,” said the comedian’s wife Ann Lopez, who will serve alongside him as a producer. “Speedy’s going to be a misunderstood boy who comes from a family that works in a very meticulous setting, and he’s a little too fast for what they do. He makes a mess of that. So he has to go out in the world to find what he’s good at.” That path becomes clearer once Speedy befriends a gun-shy race-car driver.

BTW, who’s George Lopez… obviously some American TV guy that no one outside of the USA has heard of… Also let me guess, Sylvester will be a real cat.
Whilst…

Dan Lin, producer of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, Richard Kelly’s The Box, and Ricky Gervais’ The Side of the Truth, is developing Tom and Jerry as an “origin story” that tells how the cat and mouse meet, before they end up getting lost in Chicago and must work together to find their way home.