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Saturday, July 16, 2011
RANKIN/BASS' THUNDERCATS ARE LOOSE on BOOMERANG This weekend!
THANKS to our pal Tom Doyle for letting us know!
c. 1985 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES
from the book THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIOSunday, July 03, 2011
RANKIN/BASS' LION-O
This gift came from Arthur Rankin Saturday night at 7:30pm FED EX! Never got a delivery on a Saturday night before! It was a same day issue!Tuesday, April 26, 2011
RANKIN/BASS' THUNDERCATS archives
some of the material I provided for the DVD sets
merchandising
c. 1985 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVESposted by Davey P.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Friday, August 07, 2009
RANKIN/BASS' LION-O from THUNDERCATS!
HARD HERO presents the first statue from the long awaited THUNDERCATS! This cold-cast porcelain statue stands approximately 14 inches tall and is fully painted and ready for display! Looks good! They definitely got a good sculptor on this! Hopefully, WARNER BROS will send ARTHUR RANKIN his money from this and other THUNDERCATS revenue. Wednesday, January 21, 2009
THUNDERCATS the movie press information!
NO "MERRY" FOR THIS CHRISTMAS ICON
Arthur Rankin, Jr., creator of such holiday TV classics as RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS, THUNDERCATS and THE HOBBIT is dealing with a BURGERMEISTER MEISTERBURGER in the form of WARNER BROS. It seems that WARNER BROS. had underpaid RANKIN/BASS in various ways, including 19 years of impermissible $200,000 annual deductions from the pool of revenues from which Rankin's profit participation is paid.
"It was an accounting mistake on WARNER BROS., part, a mistake that the company's accountants readily admit, right down to the penny," said Rankin. "However, WARNER BROS. is now claiming I caught their error too late. So instead of doing the right thing and fairly compensating RANKIN/BASS for helping generate years of viewer enjoyment, not to mention an awful lot of revenue,WARNER BROS.is hiding behind the statute of limitations."
The dispute dates back to the 1980's, when WARNER BROS. acquired from RANKIN/BASS, the rights to several of the RANKIN/BASS Christmas classics and other animated properties, including the enormously popular 1980's animated television series THUNDERCATS and SILVERHAWKS. The recent WARNER BROS. home video DVD box set releases of THUNDERCATS sold over a million DVDs and they are getting ready to release SILVERHAWKS. Mr. Rankin even graciously appeared on Set #2 of THUNDERCATS in a documentary and did the same for the WARNER BROS. Deluxe DVD release of THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS (Which is also available in a new box set).
"This is obviously not the right thing to do to a creator of such wonderful programming and the rest of his staff," says Rick Goldschmidt RANKIN/BASS Historian/Biographer. "As in all RANKIN/BASS specials, writer Romeo Muller would reform the villains. This villain needs to be reformed."
"As far as I am concerned," continues Rankin, "There is no question as to what is right and what is wrong. If you take something by mistake, you put it back. You don't get to keep it. We put those kinds of ethics into our shows for children. Maybe the folks at WARNER BROS. should watch a few of them."
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When the feature film gets released...you can bet this will be part of the press/promotion!
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