Saturday, October 13, 2007

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!

Friday, October 12, 2007

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.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

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


Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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!

Monday, October 08, 2007

FUNKO!

I would strongly recommend you pick up series 2 of the FUNKO 'MAD MONSTER PARTY' figures before they are gone. They were done (Like the first set) in a LIMITED EDITION. Brian Mariotti did a wonderful job on these! Looking forward to series 3!!!