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Title: ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: mrjuggins on March 18, 2003, 05:01:48 PM: http://mrjuggins.topcities.com/gram/gram.htm

Tim
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Maria_Merriweather on March 18, 2003, 06:34:40 PM: So DCP is liscensing bobbleheads? Why am I not surprised that DC would like this idea? Wonder if there will be one for Willie?[bouncer]
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Carol on March 18, 2003, 07:10:35 PM: Quote from: Maria_Merriweather on March 18, 2003, 06:34:40 PM
So DCP is liscensing bobbleheads? Why am I not surprised that DC would like this idea? Wonder if there will be one for Willie?[bouncer]
I'd buy a Willie bobblehead!
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: CastleBee on March 18, 2003, 07:55:24 PM: Quote from: Carol on March 18, 2003, 07:10:35 PM
I'd buy a Willie bobblehead!
Oh, heck, I just know I'd buy ALL the bobbleheads! [crowdhappy]

Bring 'em on DC! [thumb]
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Annie on March 18, 2003, 07:59:31 PM: [wavey] [wavey] Tim thanks for the info
very thoughtful of you!!
Love U Anne ;D 8)
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Midnite on March 18, 2003, 08:39:32 PM: Quote from: Maria_Merriweather on March 18, 2003, 06:34:40 PM
So DCP is liscensing bobbleheads? Why am I not surprised that DC would like this idea? Wonder if there will be one for Willie?

Or one for any of Roger Davis' characters? And if so, will its hands reach up to touch its own bobblehead? [cheesyg]
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: ClaudeNorth on March 19, 2003, 03:55:35 AM: Quote from: Midnite on March 18, 2003, 08:39:32 PM
Or one for any of Roger Davis' characters? And if so, will its hands reach up to touch its own bobblehead? [cheesyg]

ROTF LMAO!!!!!! You deserve one thousand good karma points for that one!!!

As for my reaction to the bobblehead announcement, all I have to say to MPI is that if they don't issue a Julia Hoffman, then bobbleheads will roll! ;D

Regards,

John (who knows better than to hold his breath in anticipation of a Claude North bobblehead...)
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Julia99 on March 19, 2003, 05:46:23 AM: Of course i'm with John about the Julia Hoffman bobblehead but then again .. uhhh. .what *is* a bobblehead?? who'd like to educate me? There will be a nice whip slap for ya or a cure or curse, whichever you like. . .
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: CastleBee on March 19, 2003, 01:36:38 PM: Quote from: Julia99 on March 19, 2003, 05:46:23 AM
.. uhhh. .what *is* a bobblehead?? who'd like to educate me? There will be a nice whip slap for ya or a cure or curse, whichever you like. . .
Don't know if anyone emailed you privately about this or not but incase you're still wondering, here's a site that has an interesting selection of those [bouncer] little buggers:

http://store.yahoo.com/wickedcoolstuff/bobbleheads.html

Disclaimer: I have no connection with WickedCoolStuff.com, just like the name. ;D
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Philippe Cordier on March 20, 2003, 02:47:58 AM: Please, somebody, tell me I didn't read that, it was just a bad dream ...
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Midnite on March 20, 2003, 03:26:09 AM: Quote from: Vlad on March 20, 2003, 02:47:58 AM
Please, somebody, tell me I didn't read that, it was just a bad dream ...

Unfortunately, Vlad, there really is a picture of the Barnabas BH in Shadowgram. ::)
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: RingoCollins on March 20, 2003, 03:59:38 AM: Most obvious choice for bobblehead?

[size=12]Judah Z.![/size]

...and a good looking B-head, too!
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: jennifer on March 20, 2003, 02:41:38 PM: Very funny thread and i can't wait to order them all just to see my family's reaction to them![crowdhappy]

jennifer
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: onyx_treasure on March 20, 2003, 02:52:21 PM: How fun! I want a Barnabas Bobblehead for my dashboard nodding his agreement wherever we go. He will give me someone to talk to when I'm alone in my car.
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: CastleBee on March 20, 2003, 03:48:53 PM: Quote from: Vlad on March 20, 2003, 02:47:58 AM
Please, somebody, tell me I didn't read that, it was just a bad dream ...
Oh now, come on you guys...you mean you don't see a certain amount of kitschy humor in this? LOL!

I wasn't aware of it until recently (I'm waaaay out of the loop on things like this), but apparently there's a bobblehead of just about any and everything that has ever been on television - why not DS? It isn't any goofier IMHO than a board game featuring vampire teeth or, for that matter, a replica of a music box that looks like a plastic cup and now sells for over $100 (good thing I purchased early on that one! ;D ).
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Happybat on March 20, 2003, 06:46:30 PM: Quote from: Vlad on March 20, 2003, 02:47:58 AM
Please, somebody, tell me I didn't read that, it was just a bad dream ...

Invasion of the Bobbleheads!!
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No, Vlad, bobbleheads are only found in parallel time, so you can relax now. ;D

My question is, do these heads really "bobble"? Or are they just oversized like some actors' egos? (Ahem, I won't say who!)
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Raineypark on March 20, 2003, 07:00:45 PM: I think I must have been frightened by a bobble-head when I was a small child... (perhaps around the same time as the infamous avatar incident) because the idea strikes me as grotesque. Hasn't DC wrung enough cash out of Dark Shadows YET?

I would LOVE to hear Jonathan Frid's take on being made into a bobble-head! ::)

rainey
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: CastleBee on March 20, 2003, 07:34:28 PM: Quote from: Raineypark on March 20, 2003, 07:00:45 PM
I think I must have been frightened by a bobble-head when I was a small child...
Maybe you were frightened by that Twilight Zone with a very young Billy Mumy (later Will Robinson of Lost in Space) - playing a demonic brat [evild] that made David Collins look like an amateur. Toward the end he turns this guy into a Jack-in-the-Box toy and the head bobbles around grotesquely. "He's a bad man, he's a really bad man!" - one of the classics later re-told in the '80's movie (BTW: Mumy was in that one too, but only did a cameo.)
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I would LOVE to hear Jonathan Frid's take on being made into a bobble-head! ::)
OMG! THAT would be rich!
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Happybat on March 20, 2003, 08:13:41 PM: Quote from: CastleBee on March 20, 2003, 07:34:28 PM
Toward the end he turns this guy into a Jack-in-the-Box toy and the head bobbles around grotesquely.

One interesting thing about that scene is that what happens to the man in the original short story is far, far grislier, and impossible to film! Nevertheless, Mumy's chilling portrayal of evil incarnate makes this one of TZ's most chilling and memorable episodes.
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Raineypark on March 20, 2003, 08:16:12 PM: Quote from: CastleBee on March 20, 2003, 07:34:28 PM
Maybe you were frightened by that Twilight Zone with a very young Billy Mumy

THAT'S IT!!! THAT's what I'm thinking of!!! The poor man who ended up in the Jack-In-The-Box!!

By the way, the NEW Twilight Zone series just did an episode where Billy Mumy plays that little boy all grown up...with a kid of his own....or something like that. I certainly didn't watch it!!! :o

rainey
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: jennifer on March 20, 2003, 08:51:58 PM: Quote from: Raineypark on March 20, 2003, 07:00:45 PM
I think I must have been frightened by a bobble-head when I was a small child... (perhaps around the same time as the infamous avatar incident) because the idea strikes me as grotesque. Hasn't DC wrung enough cash out of Dark Shadows YET?

I would LOVE to hear Jonathan Frid's take on being made into a bobble-head! ::)

rainey
OH rainey you'd love one of willie bouncing around on your dashboard! ;D

jennifer
karlen was on an old Mike Hammer movie today on Mystery Channel one of the advantages
of being home sick is watching all the old tv
shows seeing DS friends is really great!(for those of us who refuse to wacch the news these days!)
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Raineypark on March 20, 2003, 09:19:17 PM: Quote from: jennifer on March 20, 2003, 08:51:58 PM
OH rainey you'd love one of willie bouncing around on your dashboard! ;D

Now make that Willie himself, bouncing around the back of my van....and you've got a DEAL!! [smrtasb]

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(for those of us who refuse to wacch the news these days!)

Please....I've watched nothing but House and Garden TV for DAYS!!....wait'll my husband comes home and sees what I've done to the living room! [argue]

rainey
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: CastleBee on March 21, 2003, 04:18:48 PM: Quote from: Raineypark on March 20, 2003, 08:16:12 PM
By the way, the NEW Twilight Zone series just did an episode where Billy Mumy plays that little boy all grown up...with a kid of his own....or something like that. I certainly didn't watch it!!! :o
Oh, I would really LOVE to see that one! I always liked him. I wonder if his son Seth played the kid role. Was this show on SciFi?
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Midnite on March 21, 2003, 05:33:15 PM: Quote from: Happybat on March 20, 2003, 06:46:30 PM
My question is, do these heads really "bobble"? Or are they just oversized like some actors' egos? (Ahem, I won't say who!)

LOL!

I confess.... I think the prototype Barnabas bobblehead is kinda cute, unlike the old "Groovy Horror Heads", brrr!
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Cassandra Blair on March 21, 2003, 05:39:02 PM: Quote from: CastleBee on March 21, 2003, 04:18:48 PM
Oh, I would really LOVE to see that one! I always liked him. I wonder if his son Seth played the kid role. Was this show on SciFi?

I saw it, CastleBee. It was shown on UPN and the kid was his daughter (not sure if she's actually Bill Mumy's but she looked like him). Sadly, it wasn't a very good episode. :'(
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Raineypark on March 21, 2003, 05:42:05 PM: Quote from: CastleBee on March 21, 2003, 04:18:48 PM
Oh, I would really LOVE to see that one! I always liked him. I wonder if his son Seth played the kid role. Was this show on SciFi?

If not Sci Fi, then FX (I'm watching "Buffy" re-runs when I can't take any more HGTV....ANYTHING but the news ::) )...and I'm pretty sure the child was a little girl.
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Midnite on March 21, 2003, 05:45:34 PM: Quote from: Cassandra Blair on March 21, 2003, 05:39:02 PM
I saw it, CastleBee. It was shown on UPN and the kid was his daughter (not sure if she's actually Bill Mumy's but she looked like him). Sadly, it wasn't a very good episode. :'(

It was Mumy's daughter Liliana. Cloris Leachman played his mom again, too.
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Philippe Cordier on March 22, 2003, 11:48:38 PM: Quote from: CastleBee on March 20, 2003, 03:48:53 PM
I wasn't aware of it until recently (I'm waaaay out of the loop on things like this), but apparently there's a bobblehead of just about any and everything that has ever been on television

I didn't know that -- I was barely aware of what these things are as it was.

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or, for that matter, a replica of a music box that looks like a plastic cup and now sells for over $100

Make that $150.

Wish you hadn't described it as a "plastic cup," Castlebee dear ... now that's probably the cold reality of what I'll see whenever I look at mine ...

>:(
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Stuart on March 23, 2003, 02:56:35 AM: Sounds good to me - it's cool having any merchandise from MPI that isn't a red logo pasted on any random black item it happens to fit on...

Can't be any more horrifying than the gargantuan Barnabas boxer shorts from a few years back... ;)
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: Raineypark on March 23, 2003, 03:07:32 AM: Quote from: Stuart on March 23, 2003, 02:56:35 AM
Can't be any more horrifying than the gargantuan Barnabas boxer shorts from a few years back... ;)

I don't know....boxer shorts just seem kind of....silly.

Bobble-heads, on the other hand, have a sort of....demonic.....quality to them, don'tcha think? [liteye]
Title: Re:ShadowGram Update #91
Post by: CastleBee on March 23, 2003, 06:37:54 PM: Quote from: Vlad on March 22, 2003, 11:48:38 PM
Wish you hadn't described it as a "plastic cup," Castlebee dear ... now that's probably the cold reality of what I'll see whenever I look at mine ...>:(
I'm sorry Vlad! :-X As I said, I bought one myself about 5 years ago now and I was so thrilled when I got it - I think I morphed back to my 12 year old 1967 self for about 10 minutes (my only complaint was - would it have killed them to put a hinge on the lid??). But even back in the day though I thought the original, as beautiful as it was, kind of resembled a decorated cup - but a glass one, not plastic. Since we're on that subject, did you notice how the stove in the rectory resembles the shape of the music box?