Saturday, April 13, 2019
Excerpt from COLLECTOR'S CALL
An original art wall of mine, that we shot a segment for Collector's Call call, but didn't make the final episode. The Rankin/Bass cel third from left in the white frame from Festival of Family classics, did make the series logo on the 2nd floor of the doll house. I have a story for each one of these pieces of art. The Jack Davis painting of Arthur Rankin, was Jack's very last painting. #metv #art #rickgoldschmidtcollection #saturday #lisawhelchel
Easter is next weekend already!
Chiller Theatre is 2 weeks from this weekend!
Friday, April 12, 2019
The Subject of this week's COLLECTOR'S CALL on ME TV
Thursday, April 11, 2019
More Soles in my collection...
Mego on ME TV's COLLECTOR'S CALL
Last
year Whelchel became a collectible herself with the resurrection of the
legendary 1970’s toy company Mego, famed for its licensed action
figures, which have since become very collectible. One of the first
toys the company distributed was a Blair “action figure.”
“I didn't know about Mego till we covered a collector on the show who collected ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s memorabilia from TV shows,” she shared. “We filmed it before the Blair doll came out.” When Blair appeared on store shelves, “I was like, 'Oh my goodness, I know this company and I am in the same company as superheroes!’ That's kind of cool, and while it doesn't look like me at all, it doesn't matter. It has the uniform, name and hair, so for me it wasn't about that. It was just the thrill and privilege of having a character figure and that feels great!”
Collector's Call #metv #mego #rickgoldschmidtcollection enchantedworldofrankinbass
“I didn't know about Mego till we covered a collector on the show who collected ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s memorabilia from TV shows,” she shared. “We filmed it before the Blair doll came out.” When Blair appeared on store shelves, “I was like, 'Oh my goodness, I know this company and I am in the same company as superheroes!’ That's kind of cool, and while it doesn't look like me at all, it doesn't matter. It has the uniform, name and hair, so for me it wasn't about that. It was just the thrill and privilege of having a character figure and that feels great!”
Collector's Call #metv #mego #rickgoldschmidtcollection enchantedworldofrankinbass
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
National Sibling day?
007
Tuesday, April 09, 2019
Questions about Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Many have asked, Who created all of the wonderful and unique characters from the Rankin/Bass version for the TV Special. Was it Robert L. May? No, he wrote the short story book for Montgomery Ward. Was it Johnny Marks? No, May's brother-in-law wrote the song and then Rankin/Bass hired him to write the additional songs for the program. Maury Laws was hired as Musical Supervisor (The first time he was given that title).
The characters were created by Romeo Muller, Jr. in the several scripts he wrote for the historic program and then designed by Antony Peters for the Animagic technicians in Japan to make Animagic figures for the TV Special. Romeo based several of the characters on actual friends of his, such as his girlfriend Clarice. Hermey was based off of another dear friend. He created all of the wonderful toys in the Island of Misfit toys as well. I hope this clears up some of the misconceptions circulating. Romeo always worked close with Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass in the final development of the special, but his creativity gave the specials an extra level of uniqueness that has made them sustain the test of time!
I have been getting many messages all over with questions and appearance requests....
Monday, April 08, 2019
A funny story I had about Lisa...
$500,000 man
The Eye of the Tiger and Political Analysist
