BEAUTIFUL DAY! Feels like Christmas in July!

Josh had two HOLE-IN-ONES!

One of the concept SPIDER-MAN costumes seen in the first film starring Tobey McGuire!

We even managed to squeeze in some BASEBALL today!

BATMAN: The movie 1966

You can't beat this film! Nice alternative to watching an extremely violent and disturbing , over-hyped film like THE DARK KNIGHT. Not sure what the company was thinking when they designed this cover though....probably of tapping into the DARK KNIGHT audience.

TIME & SPACE are in SAN DIEGO for the con this weekend!

RUDOLPH restoral project

Here is RUDOLPH before restoral by Seamus and Robin Walsh at SCREEN NOVELTIES! Visit http://www.screen-novelties.com/ for the rest of the story. They are restoring OCTAVIA from THE FIRST CHRISTMAS (1975) right now. They made a RANKIN/BASS ANIMAGIC figure of JINGLE BELLS for my friend PAUL DINI, a few years ago. They also did the GREAT ANIMAGIC type segment of THE FLINTSTONES ON THE ROCKS, which resembled the VIEW-MASTER treatments of the HANNA-BARBERA characters.

Monday night at the WHITE SOX VS. TEXAS RANGERS game

Josh and I had pretty good seats near Left Field...

Where else can you pay $22 for parking? Your car gets packed in like a sardine and you get your bumper scratched at no extra charge.

ALL STAR WHITE SOX Left Fielder Carlos Quentin!

It is a bit fuzzy...BUT this was right before JOSH HAMILTON hit a three run homer! It was GREAT to see him in action! He set a record in the ALL STAR GAME HOME RUN Derby this year with something like 28 HRs in one round. He already has something like 98 RBIs! AMAZING! JOSH GOLDSCHMIDT became a BIG fan of his tonight!

One of my co-workers...AD and her friend were there! She gave us a BIG box of RASINETS!

THE GRUESOMES by FUNKO

TIME & SPACE TOYS sent us some FUNKO GRUESOMES! Pick your set up today! www.timeandspacetoys.com

SUNDAY under a shady tree...

My pal DENNIS RIORDAN (Bass player in THE STARVING ARTISTS) built a new box (With very little help from me) around my HUGE Maple tree in front of my house. A big improvement over the one that was there from the previous owner! THANKS Den!

STINGRAY BAY

We were sorry to hear about the deaths of half the STINGRAY pool (Approx. 15) at BROOKFIELD ZOO's STINGRAY BAY. Apparently, there was an equipment malfuntion or power surge and they were found in 90 degree water last Monday am.

MASAKI IIZUKA

Arthur Rankin, Jr., Masaki Iizuka and Jules Bass! Masaki is THE RANKIN/BASS Producer/Director of RANKIN/BASS in Japan and began work with RANKIN/BASS in the early 1970's. He was a GREAT guest at ARTHUR RANKIN's MUSEUM OF TV & RADIO appearance in New York some years back. His PACIFIC ANIMATION animated THE NEW ADVENTURES OF JONNY QUEST.

IDEAL MAGILLA GORILLA

Here are some neat IDEAL MAGILLA toys my son Josh has! IDEAL TOYS sponsored the MAGILLA GORILLA TV series in 1965!

Rick Goldschmidt MUSIC page

www.myspace.com/rgoldschmidt Through the end of JULY, I am offering all three of my CDs for a package price of $15 + $2 shipping. I recorded a portion of each in Tempe, Arizona with the GIN BLOSSOMS.

This is the Afternoon life up I remember from the early 1970's!

Another GREAT Jules Bass & Maury Laws song from CRICKET ON THE HEARTH

Click to enlarge

THANKS again goes out to Beltin' BILL MELTON!

Who can recall...the most wonderful writer of all? ROMEO MULLER

From Romeo's scrapbook. Click image to enlarge to read.

BATMAN 2008

This is the only BATMAN we care about...

Do you need a good lawyer?

I would like to recommend our Sensational lawyer GEORGE ZADOROZNY for all of your legal needs! He is batting 1000% with us. You can e-mail him at: zorrolawyer@yahoo.com He has GREAT follow through and reasonable rates! If you are trying to collect money that you are owed, need a legal letter or advice; If you have been dealt with unfairly in any way....George is your man! Tell him Rick sent you.

RUDOLPH & SANTA Pre-order CHRISTMAS IN JULY!

www.timeandspacetoys.com somewhat based off the pictures of the actual figures from TIME & SPACE TOYS!

GARFIELD GOOSE & FRIENDS

A GARFIELD GOOSE hand puppet, just like mine, recently sold on EBAY for over $500! Check my article out on FRAZIER THOMAS and GARFIELD GOOSE & FRIENDS at http://www.tvparty.com/ I also wrote a section of the TV PARTY book about BILL JACKSON and his BJ & DIRTY DRAGON. Wrote a few other articles at http://www.tvparty.com/ including one on BOZO'S CIRCUS.

SILVERHAWKS DVD set

Interesting release. It is coming from the same company that is releasing JACK FROST (WARNER BROTHERS) BUT they failed to mention or include the RANKIN/BASS name/logo on the front cover. Several months ago, I heard from the people WARNER BROTHERS hired to put together the extras. They asked me if I had stuff from the series...I advised I could help with the entire files and have LOTS. I asked for compensation for my help and that was the last I heard from them????? In other words, the SPECIAL FEATURES on this set will not be complete and most likely be garbage. Again, no RANKIN/BASS Documentary with interviews of people that worked on the series?

Pre-Orders at TIME & SPACE TOYS

www.timeandspacetoys.com

EBAY: Who is minding the store?

I often wonder who the brilliant minds are behind EBAY these days. They remove the option of leaving negative feedback for sellers. When you ask why???? They send you a form letter answer. When you respond to that....you get another stock response. Did computers actually take over EBAY? Is there any living person there with a thinking brain right now? If you know, let me know.

BAT VEHICLES SDCC exclusive!

By HOT WHEELS! Click to enlarge

H-B JELLYSTONE PARK puzzle postcard from Sara!

The kids are back now and I took Sara to GUITAR CENTER to pick up her first YAMAHA Acoustic guitar last night!

NEW JACK FROST DVD on the way from WB

Coming this Fall. The SPECIAL FEATURES are garbage BUT I like the cover! They (The people that put the extra features together outside of WARNER BROTHERS) thought fans would like a sing-a-long much better than a RANKIN/BASS Documentary. I like the RANKIN/BASS name on the front cover. They lifted the logo right out of my first book. PATRICK OWSLEY did it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS IN JULY!

I always forget about this book! I helped quite a bit with this one as well. Did lots of JULY postings this month....to get them all, click on the JULY 2008 LINK at the right! Lots more to come.....