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As the school year starts to encroach on what has been a largely Thunderbean-drenched summer, I\u2019m both happy and a little sad that this period is transitioning back to spending a large amount of my time back at my full-time job. This week (the second to last before going back) has been largely about following-through on finishing this or that aspect of a project, switching gears a lot from the digital world of all this stuff and back into building or fixing this or that at home. Over the summer many of the special sets were finished as well as nearly finishing four \u201cOfficial\u201d sets. I\u2019m pretty happy to see things moving forward well.<\/p>\n

\"\"Dave Gerstein has nearly wrapped up all the bonus features for the first Flip the Frog<\/em> disc of the two disc set and is making short work of the second disc\u2019s special features. The Van Beuren Tom and Jerry<\/em> set has a majority of the films scanned and cleaned up, the Stop Motion Marvels<\/em> set is all mastered and off to replication. Another small batch of films are starting to gather for the next scanning sessions and things are gong back to all the people that were kind enough to lend them. <\/p>\n

As all these are finishing off I\u2019m looking at the next projects with excitement. Work has started in getting the Bunin Alice materials finally scanned after a long wait. The collection of Mid Century Modern 3<\/em> films have started scanning, and I\u2019m most excited about scanning the rest of the Technicolor Rainbow Parades<\/em> and Comi-Color<\/em> shorts. The efforts of so many people have helped to move these things forward really well- that community involvement can’t be understated. Beside the stuff I can talk about, there are other projects I can\u2019t talk about yet\u2014 but when I can I’ll be so happy to share them.<\/p>\n

\"\"I\u2019m working right now on combining the Comi-Color cartoon Puss in Boots<\/em> together from the negs to premiere in a little more than a week at Cinecon in Los Angeles along with some of the Flip the Frogs. If you’re in Los Angeles, be sure to go to one of the shows. There’s more cool things being shown there than you can believe.<\/p>\n

I started pulling out the Halloween and spooky cartoons this week, and it’s almost a tradition now – so we’re working on a special disc (BDR) called \u201cSecret Halloween 2022\u201d<\/em>. We\u2019re getting a little bit bigger of a jump on it this year compared to past years and plan to have it shipping by the end of September or earlier. It\u2019s available at the Thunderbean shop for just a short time. Thanks to everyone for supporting this small company through all these years.<\/p>\n

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So, instead of a cartoon this week, let\u2019s look at some cartoon-related talking dolls!<\/p>\n

As with records based on cartoons, the talking dolls of the 50s into the 70s often had the same voices. I find these toys especially fun- and was amazed at how much fun the commercials are as well as people playing the pull-strings of the toys now.<\/p>\n

This commercial is maybe the most fun of all talking doll ads- and this kid’s parents really made a bad choice in buying all those dolls for him. I have a pull-string Bugs Bunny that uses this same recording – clearly Mel Blanc doing Bugs and Grace Stafford doing Woody here. Thanks to Ira Gallin for posting these!<\/p>\n