Finntastic!

[marineboy]

Here\'s a link to a site dedicated to the art of the guy who inspired these figure, Vaughn Bode:

http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~jdavies/bode/

Odd and sometimes disturbing stuff, but nice drawings.

 

[dauber22]

Oh my God, MB! Thanks for the link. I\'d completely forgotten about Cheech Wizard! Well... That all dates from a rather hazy period in my life... circa 1964 - 1988 lol lol lol lol


ps - I can always tell when you\'ve come aboard I pop into the forums from a session of voting and 8 of the top 10 topics in General Discussion have you as the last poster. lol lol lol

 

[finn17]

Good link MB!

I wasn\'t aware of the inspiration for these figures, but It\'s great to see their roots.

 

[marineboy]

Originally posted by dauber22
Oh my God, MB! Thanks for the link. I\'d completely forgotten about Cheech Wizard! Well... That all dates from a rather hazy period in my life... circa 1964 - 1988 lol lol lol lol


ps - I can always tell when you\'ve come aboard I pop into the forums from a session of voting and 8 of the top 10 topics in General Discussion have you as the last poster. lol lol lol

What?!! Only eight out of 10?!!! Jeez, sorry...lollollol

 

[vincegamer]

MB! You Da Man!
Yes, it was Cheech Wizard I was thinking of.

 

[airhead]

Wasn\'t that also the basis or was Bode the artist for the movie \"wizards\" ?

\"Fritz, Fritz, they\'ve killed Fritz\"

 

[marineboy]

Btw, Daub, comes from a hazy period in my life too....roughly 1961 to 2005...so far...lol

 

[vincegamer]

Wizards was Ralph Bakshe. I don\'t know if Bode was at all involved or influential.

 

[supervike]

I vaguely remember Wizards, but didn\'t Bashki also do \"The Lord of the Rings\" and \"Fire and Ice\" as well?

 

[marineboy]

Please don\'t forget Bakshi\'s animation of Crumb\'s Fritz the Cat.

 

[supervike]

I never saw that one....I should see if I can dig some of those up.

 

[vincegamer]

never saw Fritz, but Bakshi did do an LOTR, which was trippy. Unfortunately the funding fell through so he didn\'t get the whole story done. It ends at Helms Deep and there is no resolution of the quest.

Wizards on the other hand has the best possible resolution

 

[Ritual]

I watched that LOTR film nearly 20 times when I was a kid! I loved it!! I was so angry about there not being an end to it...

 

[marineboy]

Here\'s your link, super...

Fritz the Cat on sale at Amazon

That\'s really cheap, too...new DVD\'s over here cost about 250 kroner, like 40 bucks...Disney films cost even more. Old specialty films are a little cheaper, but not 11 dollars, no way.

I think I\'m getting ripped off over here!:flame:lollol

 

[supervike]

Originally posted by vincegamer
never saw Fritz, but Bakshi did do an LOTR, which was trippy. Unfortunately the funding fell through so he didn\'t get the whole story done. It ends at Helms Deep and there is no resolution of the quest.

That whole movie (the animated LOTR)was hit or miss. Some of it was downright cool, some of it cringingly bad.


EDIT:. Thanks MB...that indeed is very cheap.

 

[Ritual]

@marineboy
That\'s even more expensive than here in Sweden!! I\'d say you\'re DEFINITELY getting ripped off!!

 

[marineboy]

@ Ritual -- I buy music from Swedish websites, MUCH cheaper than over here...if I could get Danish-captioned films (for the kids) over there I\'d be doing that too...

...well, maybe not Fritz the Cat.... or Bakshi\'s other classic Heavy Traffic....lollol

 

[Ritual]

All my life people around here have complained about how expensive everything is and people in southern Sweden have always gone over to Denmark to shop. Now, suddenly you guys start shopping here?? ??? I heard that a lot of people from Denmark comes over to buy beer in Sweden, not because it\'s cheaper though, but because there\'s a way better selection. Is that true?

 

[marineboy]

More and more foreign beers are getting imported to the country now. The brewery giant Carlsberg lobbied the government a couple of years ago to put a surcharge on any imported beer that was not bottled in the standard bottle shape that is used by the Danish recycling industry...that means EVERY foreign beer. The imports got very very expensive and alot of small importers just stopped doing the trade.

The situation has changed now. Lots of imports are around, beer has gotten a new glossy image and people are taking it just as serious (well almost) as they do wine... lots of microbreweries around and lots of shops selling specialty beers.

Wouldn\'t suprise me though that you Swedes ae still out in front, though, the Danes are a suspicious and hide-bound lot...

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by supervike
That whole movie (the animated LOTR)was hit or miss. Some of it was downright cool, some of it cringingly bad.

That\'s what I said: \"trippy\"