Tuesday, July 07, 2009
coming in OCTOBER!
Looks like they have some characters pictured on the sets that are not listed in the contents yet? Also, let's hope they include people that actually worked on the cartoons in the documentaries this time around!
We have been getting alot of GREAT feedback about our 3 disc DVD collector's set from THE TALES OF THE WIZARD OF OZ $35 shipped ($36 to CANADA) PAYPAL Rickgoldsc@aol.com 
Monday, July 06, 2009
Got a sweet treat piece of art in the mail from my friends PATRICK & LESLIE OWSLEY tonight! THANKS Patrick and Leslie! Check out his commisions at www.powsley.blogspot.com 
Oh I wish I were an......
took this picture in the JEWEL parking lot today on my phone. No rings to be found.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
ARTHUR RANKIN, JR.
Arthur Rankin, Jr., creator of such holiday TV classics as RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS, THUNDERCATS and THE HOBBIT is dealing with a BURGERMEISTER MEISTERBURGER in the form of WARNER BROS. It seems that WARNER BROS. had underpaid RANKIN/BASS in various ways, including 19 years of impermissible $200,000 annual deductions from the pool of revenues from which Rankin's profit participation is paid.
"It was an accounting mistake on WARNER BROS., part, a mistake that the company's accountants readily admit, right down to the penny," said Rankin. "However, WARNER BROS. is now claiming I caught their error too late. So instead of doing the right thing and fairly compensating RANKIN/BASS for helping generate years of viewer enjoyment, not to mention an awful lot of revenue,WARNER BROS.is hiding behind the statute of limitations."
The dispute dates back to the 1980's, when WARNER BROS. acquired from RANKIN/BASS, the rights to several of the RANKIN/BASS Christmas classics and other animated properties, including the enormously popular 1980's animated television series THUNDERCATS and SILVERHAWKS. The recent WARNER BROS. home video DVD box set releases of THUNDERCATS sold over a million DVDs and they are getting ready to release SILVERHAWKS. Mr. Rankin even graciously appeared on Set #2 of THUNDERCATS in a documentary and did the same for the WARNER BROS. Deluxe DVD release of THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS (Which is also available in a new box set).
"This is obviously not the right thing to do to a creator of such wonderful programming and the rest of his staff," says Rick Goldschmidt RANKIN/BASS Historian/Biographer. "As in all RANKIN/BASS specials, writer Romeo Muller would reform the villains. This villain needs to be reformed."
"As far as I am concerned," continues Rankin, "There is no question as to what is right and what is wrong. If you take something by mistake, you put it back. You don't get to keep it. We put those kinds of ethics into our shows for children. Maybe the folks at WARNER BROS. should watch a few of them."
Mike & Pat's Old Fashioned Ice Cream in Chicago Ridge, IL
Josh and I took a long bike ride to MIKE & PAT'S OLD FASHIONED ICE CREAM in Chicago Ridge, IL today. The stand is a cool place that looks like an old fashioned train, with a conducter statue in the front. They have a wide assortment on their menu and play old fashioned carnival music outside the structure. Some of the songs I remembered from BOZO'S CIRCUS.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
CARTOON STATUES
The NEW deluxe DVD release of MAD MONSTER PARTY by LIONS GATE will feature some AWESOME MAD MONSTER PARTY statues from my collection! Tony Cipriano sculpted the BORIS statue above and we sold out of them at http://www.rankinbass.com/ TONY is one of the best sculptors I have ever had the pleasure to know. I have many statues in my large collection that Tony sculpted including MR. MAGOO, SPACE GHOST and POPEYE. Raven Hood is another AWESOME sculptor I have become friends with over the years! He sculpted the SAM THE SNOWMAN featured in my first book. AWESOME stuff!
B.T.-
My friend Bruce Timm (BATMAN/SUPERMAN ADVENTURES, BATMAN BEYOND) did this art for my first book!
Friday, July 03, 2009
RANKIN/BASS' THE BALLAD OF SMOKEY THE BEAR (1966)
SMOKEY in ANIMAGIC as he appears today! A GREAT RANKIN/BASS ANIMAGIC special to watch during a holiday weekend! RANKIN/BASS' THE BALLAD OF SMOKEY THE BEAR $20 shipped PAYPAL Rickgoldsc@aol.com 
Out in the pool...it is back in the 80's in Chicagoland
photograph by Josh Goldschmidt
Sara and Josh in my Mom's pool. She decided to reopen it after a few years...
My sister Lindsey with my Mom
Thursday, July 02, 2009
My friend Waysun "John" Tsai ran into this guy today...
That is my friend John on the right with George Lucas in the middle
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