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Mister T pitching the Atari 800XL

Graphic of Mister T created on the Atari 800 XL

In 1984, Mister T advertised for the Atari 800XL family computer.

Mister T joins other 80s computer spokepeople like Asimov, Alan Alda, Bill Shatner, Andy Warhol, Cosby, Debbie Harry, Bill Bixby, Roger Moore, and Dom DeLuise.

The 800XL had its biggest success in Eastern Bloc countries.

The quality of Mister T is much better, and Mister T ran far longer.

Funny that I don't know a comic book account dedicated to the *Silver* age!

Let's count it!

Na-na-na-na-na-na Cat-Man

The Crazy World of Early Comics

Frank Temerson was Jewish, born in Poland, but grew up in the US. He went from publishing pulps to comics in 1937, buying some properties, but were bought out in 1938. Tried again in 1939, bought out in 1941. Tried agin in 1943 - which lasted a few years.

Name is Mister T. First name is Mister, middle name is that period, last name is T. Listen and listen good.

Mister T joins a list of real people with fictional adaptations: Gary Coleman, Harlem Globetrotters, Jackie Chan, Hulk Hogan, Kid 'n Play, Mike Tyson, Mary-Kate and Ashley, the Osmonds, etc

YouTube video by MikeSchwartzWrites Mister T Cartoon Intro

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I pity the fool who's never seen Mister T (1983), produced by HB sister company Ruby Spears.

Here is the intro from episode 1. Steve Gerber and Paul Dini were on the writing team. The theme song was likely composed by Shuki Levy of Saban Entertainment

youtu.be/lisFbvyheqo?...

What a great looking Garfield!

From the 1960s cartoon, Space Waiting Room

That was fun! The blood was a bit shocking tbh and Anguirus really needs a ranged attack.

Anyway here’s my ranking so far:

This is great! Did you watch an English dub of Ghidrah or a subtitled one of Ghidorah?

I grew up with english dubs, but all I can find now streaming is a subtitled version.

I'm not fond of 'franchise' either - seems too corporate, especially as things in the public domain - like Shakespeare - as franchises.

I love Peanuts - it was there everyday in my dad's newspaper.

And there were years in the early 1980s when Garfield was everywhere - especially calendars and on cars. Garfield just faded away in the 1990s, I guess.

What are your favorite franchises?

Do you buy merchandise?
Do you consume media about them?
How passionate / nerdy are you about them?

winnie the pooh and piglet are dancing together with music notes behind them . ALT: winnie the pooh and piglet are dancing together with music notes behind them .

I was *very* surprised how valuable Winnie the Pooh and Hello Kitty are - purely based on merch. Sweet Honey!

franchises and gross sales

franchises and gross sales

Star Wars rounds out the top 5, and about the only one with a sigmificantly diversified income stream - although still dominated by merchandise <I am writing this wearing a Star Wars tee I bought at Epcot>

Illuminates why a bad movie that sells merch is better than a good one that doesn't

chart of various entertainment franchises and their gross sales

chart of entertainmemt franchises, gross sales broken down by various categories - showing that its merchandise that matters

Holy Pikachu!

So, one of my kids is currently into Sonic, which got me into thinking about various franchises.

Pokemon is the most profitable - by a good margin - and most of it from merchandise.

It also lets you see that the goal of all media is to sell merch, apparently.

Iran Daily: Supreme Leader - "US Will Fail Like the Cat in Tom & Jerry" - EA WorldView Iran's Supreme Leader adds cartoon flourish to confrontation with US, saying the Trump Administration will fail like "the cat in Tom and Jerry"

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Something decidely serious today. Back in the first Trump administration, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei - the one who was killed yesterday - compared US Iranian relations to Tom (US) and Jerry (Iran)

eaworldview.com/2018/05/iran....

So, a rear view of a naked cartoon Homer Simpson - which aired on Fox television 30 years ago in prime time - is 'adult content' to Bluesky moderation.

That is beyond ridiculous.

I say, War! uh good god, ya'll
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing!

And Swamp thing and the Gill man! Love it

I can believe that.

I think Harvard (?) did a study and found, yeah, AI boosted what each employee could do - and them they burned out from the constant workload in a year.

I think there is a lot of skill in sculpting a 3D character totally on model of a 2D character. Probably pretty easy to end up in some uncanny valley off-putting result. Plus, each scene neds elements to look good as a View-Master slide.

Be nice to know the process. Was there a different storyboard artist or booklet writer?

By the way, the original dioramas were never preserved. The images can be scanned, but its laborious and each frame is very tiny and the film has often degraded (or dusty). Plus, commercial firms are wary of copyright and might not scan them. There are DIY methods though.

Thats cool Brent! I've not seen these

SUPERMAN View-Master packaging.

He also did dioramas for the SUPERMAN one.

Jack Dorsey - the founder of Bluesky - in a pensive pose as he casually ruins livelihoods, crushes dreams, and enriches himself.

And so it begins as Jack Dorsey says white collar workers should prepare for large-scale job losses.

Loss of jobs will have a multiplier as well.

Joe Liptak at work sculpting a diorama of Peter Pan

Huck Hound sculpt of Huck and his rocket to the moon

Joe was married to Lorina for 56 years. If you think comic book artists haven't gotten due recognition, Joe Liptak really needs more attention. He did most of the Disney sculpts and many Hanna Barbera ones for View-Master.

sculpt of Huck Hound reading a paper which says Cost of Living Goes Up. Huck is in his dark 1960 living room

sculpt of Huck Hound leabing a store with an armful of fireworks rockets

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Joe Liptak (Joseph Albert Liptak 1923-2014), a WWII pilot, worked for View-Master for over 40 years doing sculpts. Makes you wonfer what a stop motion Huck Hound special would've been like.