This is a menu I created for a DVD set of the 1966 Adam West Batman TV show created by a Canadian friend of mine. I created 29 different menus for the set (one for each disc).
Batman 1966 DVD Menu
Month: March 2008
The Thing – Hanna-Barbera Cartoon
This cartoon is pretty bad, I’ll admit it. However, I remember loving it as a kid because it had the Thing from the Fantastic Four.
In this series, the Thing is Benjamin “Benjy” Grimm and he’s a high school student. No mention of the FF is made and he can control his transformation into the Thing by using his Thing Ring. By touching the two halves of the ring together (one on each hand) he can transform into the Thing. He’s constantly using his Thing powers to rescue his friends from everyday dangers. Rarely does he face off against any super-villain, but there is the occasional bad guy.
This was a hard series to track down. I finally found great copies through a friend. They were new recordings from Boomerang. I took the set and created a nice menu using some artwork from a Marvel Comics hardback book that details the history of their television projects. It originally aired in a 1-hour block with a Flintstones show and was called Fred and Barney Meet the Thing, although the two cartoons never crossed over.
The first segment, a very loose adaptation of Marvel Comics’ character The Thing, consisted of stories following the Thing as a teenager named Benjy Grimm who transforms into the rock-skinned superhero by touching together magic rings and reciting the words “Thing ring, do your thing!”
The stories centered mostly around Benjy at Centerville High School with his friends Betty, her rich boyfriend Ronald, Kelly (Betty’s kid-sister) and teacher Miss Twilly. Kelly was the only person who knew about Benjy’s secret.
Twenty six 11-minute episodes of The Thing were produced; 2 shorts aired per show.
from Wikipedia
Benicio Del Toro and Wolfman Nards
Wow! Very cool. I’m so glad that Rick Baker and the studio decided to go with a traditional looking werewolf for the 2009 remake of the Universal Classic, The Wolfman
Very traditional looking, but much more threatening looking when compared to the tame looking version from the 1941 original (above). The only redesign that kept the more human appearance that looked interesting since then was the Wolfman from The Monster Squad
How Best Buy Stereotypes Customer
Fascinating article at the Consumerist detailing how Best Buy profiles its customers. Be sure to check out the gallery of images at the bottom of the article all of the Best Buy profiles. Which profile describes you?
We already know how Best Buy thinks of customers as either “angels” or “demons,” and most Diggers are “Buzzes” or “Rays,” but now meet the newest additions to their internal sales stereotyping system.
Mummified Dinosaur Unearthed in North Dakota
Very cool story about a mummified dinosaur. It’s amazing the that something like that can exist after so long. Back when I was a kid, I said I was going to be a paleontologist for quite some time. Carter is now saying the same thing (depending on the day you ask him). I guess at that age we’re fascinated by the fact that “monsters” were real at some point in time.
Heck, I’m still fascinated by Dinosaurs some 30-years later.
The Edmontosaurus found in 2004 is covered in fossilized skin as hard as iron. Workers are slowly unearthing the dinosaur from its 65-million-year-old tomb. Dinosaur may give us the closest example of what dinosaurs looked like. It is the fourth dinosaur mummy of significance ever found in the world.