RARE RANKIN/BASS

This special definitely falls under the RARE RANKIN/BASS file in the archives! It is also a fun special to watch! FLIP WILSON, THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS, GROUCHO MARX, JACK BENNY, GEORGE BURNS, PHYLLIS DILLER, etc. AMAZING talent rounded up by ARTHUR RANKIN and JULES BASS for their HIGHEST RATED TV special. Bruce Stark designed the show.

DONNA BUNNY with BONNIE BONNET

http://www.timeandspacetoys.com/ has the HERE COMES PETER COTTONTAIL figures...including BONNIE BONNET and DONNA BUNNY with Heart Accesory for VALENTINE'S DAY! High Quality figures from a RANKIN/BASS classic!

Custom figures

This is a custom set of resin figures of the FROSTY family from a RANKIN/BASS fan! They are based on the way they appeared in RUDOLPH & FROSTY'S CHRISTMAS IN JULY (1979).

ST. VALENTINE'S DAY is coming!

Here is a cool hand painted VALENTINE'S DAY Thank You card I got from my friend BOB DUBE that he painted in 2002. HERE COMES PETER COTTONTAIL has a nice Valentine's Day section.

Review of THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF DANNY KAYE from Romeo Muller's scrapbook

Click to emlarge for reading purposes.

TV GUIDE clipping

Here is a cool clipping courtesy of my pal RON MURPHY!

Collector's CD

Posted the Collector's CD of HERE COMES PETER COTTONTAIL on EBAY under ANIMAGIC1...before you know it, it will be here! I am saying that with several inches of snow on the ground in Chicago and below zero weather. Enjoy!

FUNKOVISION

I have been working with BRIAN MARIOTTI on his GREAT MAD MONSTER PARTY line at www.funko.com and here are a few of the NEW FUNKOVISION items I REALLY like! It's all coming back to you!

TODD KAUFFMAN

How can you re-make something that was GREAT to begin with? Ask my friend TODD KAUFFMAN (Click the 2nd link on the right). I would much rather see a very cool, stylistic take on something like H.R. PUFNSTUF or any classic cartoon (re: RANKIN/BASS, etc.) than seeing a LIVE ACTION remake of a cartoon.

HANNA-BARBERA Art!

No one does the classic HANNA-BARBERA art quite like my friend PATRICK OWSLEY! Check his blog by clicking on the link at the right!

SUNDAY Band Practice

Dennis is THE handy man around here! He customized a lighting fixture for my daughter's room and installed it, just before we started tearing into NIRVANA.

Practicing up for another show at BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC in Schaumburg, IL...

MAIL CALL!

Sending out lots of mail still! E-mail: Rickgoldsc@aol.com if you would like to order anything. I even had to send out several duplicate packages due to the post office new service: PRIORITY DISAPPEARING MAIL (Delivery non-confirmation). Apparently the post office has hired several employees/magicians to make packages disappear into thin air. Oh well...

GROUND HOG DAY!

Another pic from the RANKIN/BASS TREASURY book of ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. working on MAD MONSTER PARTY (1967). Notice the unused JACK DAVIS poster on his drawing table! Not sure if PARDON ME PETE saw his shadow or not BUT I have had enough winter in CHICAGO! We got about 8 inches of snow Friday am.

Another cool image with H-B BANANA SPLITS in it!

HANNA-BARBERA

My son Josh and I have been collecting quite a bit of HANNA-BARBERA lately! My friend Patrick Owsley worked on all the H-B style guides a few years back. Check his blog by clicking on his name at the right. A few years back we had meetings with BILL HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA and we talked about RANKIN/BASS and a few of their employees that worked for both companies. It was great hanging out with JERRY EISENBERG and IWAO TAKAMOTO and my pal SCOTT JERALDS. Wish I was on the West Coast right now...the snowy weather in Chicago today is brutal!

THE EASTER BUNNY IS COMIN' TO TOWN (1977)

Some people have been asking...What is up with the DELUXE EDITION of THE EASTER BUNNY IS COMIN' TO TOWN DVD? The answer...Nothing. The cover seen here at the right is the one you want to get. The DELUXE EDITION doesn't have any additional RANKIN/BASS material! It has some EASTER short cartoons that are unrelated. NEW WAVE did contact me about doing some extras for the disc BUT when I asked for payment...I never heard from them again.

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO (1960)

Another sneak peak at my RANKIN/BASS TREASURY book ! A few pictures provided by KYOKO KITA from the making of THE NEW ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO, which was the very first ANIMAGIC Production for RANKIN/BASS and RUDOLPH was their 2nd! Above you see ANIMAGIC puppet makers Reiko Yamagata and Kyoko Kita in action!

Animators Koichi Oikawa and Fumiko Magari prepare a scene for the RANKIN/BASS Production (then known as VIDEOCRAFT INTERNATIONAL). I posted tons of NEWS in JANUARY....to get it all, just click on JANUARY 2008 at the right!

Highland Park, IL

Looks like THE STARVING ARTISTS will be playing a place called GABE'S in Highland Park, Illinois soon. Met a cool band there recently and we are going to open one of their next shows. Stay tuned for details. In the meantime, still working on a few tracks to record at URANUS RECORDING STUDIOS in Tempe, AZ.

DVDs

Just got in some more RUDOLPH 1964 complete DVDs! Have had a rash of customers saying they never got their package and a few kooks that complain right away and blame me for this. I ship the next day. I also resolve problems without a problem.

EBAY

Posted some cool things on EBAY under seller ANIMAGIC1 and MISER BROS this weekend!