KIDDIELAND in Melrose Park, IL is celebrating it's 80th year! We will never get old....it is too much fun staying young! What a beautiful day in KIDDIELAND today!
Down the log ride chute!
This was my favorite ride at the OLD CHICAGO amusement park. 
In the BUMPER CARS or SCOOTERS... 
Sara was surprised to see the guns attached to these planes...
I have childhood memories of these boats from the KIDDIELAND that was in Oak Lawn, IL
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Straight out of the RANKIN/BASS Archives, I offer this collector's DVD of their classic TV Special THE FLIGHT OF DRAGONS starring John Ritter, James Earl Jones and others! E-mail: Rickgoldsc@aol.com I do ship to the UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, etc. and it is in REGION 0. Enjoy!
This is the STARVING ARTISTS literally! I am helping Scott Thill at WIRED MAGAZINE with a little spot article on the famous band from MAD MONSTER PARTY performing "The Mummy." Maury Laws could not remember who actually performed the song BUT it is rumored to be DYKE & THE BLAZERS..jpg)
I am working on so many projects right now, it is hard to keep up. Many have been e-mailing me about a 3rd printing of my first book THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO. I plan on doing it before the Holidays. Not sure how big the print run will be yet or if it will be a very LIMITED hardcover or softcover BUT stay tuned here! Doug Ranney is transferring the original files as I type this to a new format. 
I ordered this great magazine from http://www.budplant.com/ along with a few other cool things I will post soon. Wonderful article in here on the art of Haddon H. Sundblom and James Avanti! It is a re-issue of the first ILLUSTRATION magazine, with a new cover.
Check out this website www.historyofthesnowman.com ! Talked with MARUY LAWS and ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. today and both are doing very well! We are starting to make Holiday plans already as it chills up in Chicago...
Brooke, the elf girl says "Buy your books and DVDs early this year!" Holiday orders are already starting to heat up for us and they will be harder to keep up with towards the holidays, so order early if you can. www.timeandspacetoys.com is taking pre-orders on tons of cool RANKIN/BASS items!
Click on my friend PATRICK OWSLEY's link to the right of this post. What a GREAT piece of art! Love Mr. Pebbles and Twiddle! 
Had a very nice talk with my old pal PAUL COKER, JR. on Sunday! He is working on the art for our Holiday 2008 postcard and will be signing them as well! PAUL designed most of the RANKIN/BASS TV Specials, series and films! He is still doing work for MAD MAGAZINE and had two new pages assigned to him. His HALLMARK card work has slowed down, due to the fact that they have hundreds on file at this point. What a GREAT and unique artist! 
