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Re: The Grinch toys
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:07:16 GMT
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Markus Wolf wrote in message ...
> things so well, regardless of the mediocre plot. But the character toys
> were patterned after the actors, not after the actual Flintstones, and that
> pretty much ruined it for me.
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> My surmise? Do the same with the toys as you tried to do with the movie.
> Copy the original. Don't copy the copy. We all know what happens after
> multiple generations.
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> Markus
Same with Pooh. All the Pooh toys out there are based on Disney's rendition
of Pooh, not the original Pooh drawn by E. H. Sheperd. And the Thomas the
Tank toys are based on the TV series, not the original books. Wonder what
this means for how the Harry Potter toys will turn out... guess it depends
on how good the movie is.
Kevin
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| (...) Not true. The TTTE stuff from Hornby appeared before the TV show was finished (in 1984/5). So, it was based on the books, and what was available in the Hornby mold room rather than on the TV show. (It also predates most of the C. Audry books- (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| I noticed that too. I thought it'd be neat that there would be Grinch merchandice, because the original really is a classic. I really wasn't looking for it, but when I saw the grinch from a distance, I had to check it out. But they really are (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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