MILTON DVD set

Watched some of the MILTON THE MONSTER DVD set, that came out earlier this year, today. There is a RANKIN/BASS connection...My late friend BOB McFADDEN did all of the voices. He did mucho work for RANKIN/BASS over the years. The cover art on the DVD set is scary...so I replaced it with this GREAT vintage comic book cover. Nice to have this at HALLOWEEN time!

EBAY

I have some cool HOLIDAY stuff up on EBAY right now under seller ANIMAGIC1 and MISERBROS. If you don't see what you are looking for, e-mail me: Rickgoldsc@aol.com THANKS!

HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS at www.timeandspacetoys.com

These are VERY nice McFarlane figure sets and now they are part of www.timeandspacetoys.com SALE-O-WEEN sale! CHUCK JONES Produced this wonderful special that is well remembered by RANKIN/BASS fans!

RANKIN/BASS RUDOLPH DVD edition 2000

Many RANKIN/BASS fans ask me which edition of the RUDOLPH DVD should I buy? Here is the cover of the one you want to get and it is from the year 2000. You would think they would add more content to subsequent releases BUT they have actually taken content off in the latest releases of the classic RANKIN/BASS TV Special! For this release, which properly had the RANKIN/BASS name on the front cover, I assisted with the extra content, restoral and the cover image is directly from me. ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. appears with a lengthy introduction and I supplied all of the pictures used in the introduction of people that actually worked on the special. I am starting to hear a buzz that CLASSIC MEDIA wants to do a RANKIN/BASS Documentary for a Christmas 2008 box set and restore the name RANKIN/BASS to the covers. This is a no brainer in my opinion. People want extra content that relates to the classic TV special...not a bad CGI video from the latest pop fad singing group. If you are going to do this thing...do it right or don't do it at all!

NEW FROSTY DVD missing some things....

While the cover is improved, it is still missing the RANKIN/BASS name on it! It also appears to be missing other content that was on the 2001 edition including the introduction by ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. !

JACK DAVIS art

This cool JACK DAVIS art was sent over by our friend Rick!

Patrick Owsley does the art for the NEW DVD release of FROSTY THE SNOWMAN

Check Patrick's LINK on the side of the page!

RANKIN/BASS VARIETY AD from my first book

Artwork by PAUL COKER, JR. from THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO

THE STARVING ARTISTS play BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC

It appears we will be performing LIVE at BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC in Schaumburg, IL Saturday night November 10th at 6pm. We will have plenty of CDs on hand for the event. This will be a full band performance. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Our Annual visit to BENGTSON'S PUMPKIN FARM

We had an INDIAN SUMMER all the way up to October 10th in Chicago, so we took advantage of it. http://www.pumpkinfarm.com/

THE STARVING ARTISTS to play BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC in Schaumburg, IL

Looks like THE STARVING ARTISTS will be playing BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC in Schaumburg, IL on a Saturday night in November (date to be announced)! We are also adding a book signing event at this BORDERS at Noon on December 8th and 9th with the ANIMAGIC RUDOLPH & SANTA 'ANIMAGIC' figures!

SCREEN NOVELTIES in action!

PUPPETRY JOURNAL magazine

Robin Walsh, one of the people on the restoration team from www.screen-novelties.com has been asked to write an article about their restoration project of the original RANKIN/BASS 'Animagic' figures of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER & SANTA CLAUS. Don't forget RUDOLPH & SANTA will be in OHIO Thanksgiving weekend and then at BROOKFIELD ZOO with me Dec. 8th and 9th. This may be their last public appearances for a while.

THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS figures

To celebrate the recent DELUXE EDITION DVD release of THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS, you may want to pick up these EXCELLENT figures at www.timeandspacetoys.com These are some of the BEST sculpts of RANKIN/BASS characters to date! Hurry...because they go fast during the Holidays! Take a look at our HALLOWEEN homepage at www.rankinbass.com THANKS Mark! Heard from BROOKFIELD ZOO today.....Don't miss our appearance at the ZOO December 8th and 9th with the original RUDOLPH & SANTA puppets!

FELIX FLANKIN by Patrick Owsley

Here is FELIX FLANKIN from MAD MONSTER PARTY as illustarted by my friend PATRICK OWSLEY. Check out his page from the LINK on the side of this page.

MO'C

www.mitchoconnell.com

FALL

The FALL weather has just arrived in CHICAGO. This has been the longest SUMMER I can remember! If you placed a recent order with us, I packed tons tonight and it will be in the mail tomorrow. I received the new FELIX THE CAT DVD box set from my friend Patrick and the packaging is A#1 with Patrick's art! VERY nice set. I also received THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS Deluxe DVD and was pleasantly surprised! It comes in a nice cardboard sleeve with raised, glitter artwork and I was very happy with the final RANKIN/BASS Documentary! The DOC by SPARKHILL now includes PAUL COKER, JR. drawing his famous RANKIN/BASS characters and more of BRADLEY BOLKE & RHODA MANN! I hope it airs on ABC FAMILY for their 25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS this year!

Pre-Order on a GREAT new line of FROSTY THE SNOWMAN figures!

www.timeandspacetoys.com

SALE-O-WEEN at TIME & SPACE TOYS!

www.timeandspacetoys.com is having a GREAT PUMPKIN sale-o-ween right now! Look at these GREAT items based on the classic PEANUTS special!

Two cool RANKIN/BASS ornaments at HALLMARK this year!