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for Scrappy and Scrappyland: "America's favorite forgotten cartoon star...[a] spectacular homage site." "Totally fantastic. Cool, cool, cool." "Jeepers...the ungodly love-child of Mickey Mouse and Astroboy." "...This is a part of your knowledge bank that needs to be filled."
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Okay, is this little fellow cute? Or creepy? Or a little of both, in a manner which we at Scrappyland have come to think of as...screepy? In any event, he's a made-in-Japan celluloid Scrappy doll, with articulated head and arms, and he's remarkably fragile. Like Charlie Brown, he has flesh-colored hair, and his tongue-but-no-teeth mouth and slumpy posture make him look like either an overgrown baby or a strangely juvenile old man. In 1935 as now, Playthings magazine was the dominant trade organ of the toy industry. So it's only logical that Scrappy graced its pages, in ads touting "games and toys" from Transogram and pull toys from Anchor Toy Corp. (Transogram and Anchor seem to have been same company, effectively--or at least they shared office space and a president.) We're not sure what sort of Scrappy toys and games were produced by Transogram--we wonder if they might have been the ones brandished in photos by Cora Sue Collins--and while we've seen Scrappy pull toys at eBay, they've evaded our grasp as of this writing. In the Anchor ad, Scrappy invites toy buyers to "see me on my new line at room 424 Fifth Ave. Bldg."--boy, how we wish we could take him up on his offer. Weirdly, the ad on the back of one of these pages is for the Hubley Manufacturing Corporation--a toy company founded by one John Hubley. Whether he was kin to the John Hubley who was the leading light of UPA--the studio whose films Columbia released years after Charles Mintz's death--we don't know. Click
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And here, courtesy of Keith Spurgeon, is one of the Scrappy toys manufactured by Transogram--the Scrappy ring toss game which Cora Sue Collins was known to hawk. Keith's example is complete with box; needless to say, we're jealous.
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 Hollywood celebrates Scrappy Frequently-asked Scrappy questions The classic Animania article Why Scrappy Matters The National Scrappy Gallery The greatest Scrappy toy of them all Meet the Mintz Studio staff Scrappy edits a magazine The Cora Sue Collins mystery Other kids who loved Scrappy, or at least claimed to Rediscovering Scrappy Posters a la Scrappy Scrappy's letter to camp directors |
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