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Tag Archives: tik-tok of oz
Keep on Rockin’ in a Tree World
Trees bearing unusual items are a regular occurrence in the Oz series, so it’s kind of interesting that they weren’t really part of Oz as it was first envisioned. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has fighting trees, but otherwise fruits … Continue reading
Posted in L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged bunbury, dr. pipt, fighting trees, henry blossom, land of ev, nome king, ozma of oz, the blue emperor of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the silver princess in oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, travelers' trees, trees, wam, zim greenleaf
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Looking for Oz in All the Wrong Places
Where is Oz located? Of course, Oz isn’t really anywhere, being a made-up country, but what fun is that? L. Frank Baum wrote of Oz as being just as real as the United States, or whatever other country a reader … Continue reading
Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged alexander volkov, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, grampa in oz, john dough and the cherub, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, merry go round in oz, nelebel's fairyland, ozma of oz, pillars of hercules, pirates in oz, scarecrow, speedy in oz, the enchanted island of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the royal book of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, wizard of oz, yankee in oz
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Staging a Coup
Despite the phenomenal success of the 1939 MGM film version of The Wizard of Oz, adaptations of the other Oz books have never been particularly successful. I’m sure this is partially BECAUSE of the MGM movie’s success, as well as … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Comics, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged bill willingham, children's theatre company, fables, inherit the wind, mgm, nome king, sawhorse, scarecrow, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wizard of oz, the woggle-bug, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman
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A Witchy-Washy Weakness
When talking of weaknesses in works of fiction, one example that obviously comes to my mind is the Wicked Witch of the West and her aversion to water. While L. Frank Baum only mentions this weakness in conjunction with this … Continue reading
Posted in Futurama, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television
Tagged dismocolese, dragons, enorma, fred meyer, grampa in oz, king kojo, mombi, og, ogres, oziana, quox, singra, the enchanted island of oz, the lost king of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, water, wicked witch of the west, witches
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Oscar the Inventor
Many of the magicians in the Oz series mix technology with magic, and the Wizard of Oz is no exception. In fact, with his background in the Great Outside World and his resourcefulness, he’s one of the most prominent inventors … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged glinda, inventions, lucky bucky in oz, ojo in oz, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, scalawagons, teletable, tell-all-escope, the emerald city of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, wizard of oz
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Permanent Records
J.L. Bell recently wrote about Glinda’s Great Book of Records, and I don’t think I ever did a proper entry on this magical item, so I might as well say a bit about it now. The Book, which is sometimes … Continue reading
What Did the Wogglebug Map?
When a set of maps was used for the endpapers of Tik-Tok of Oz, L. Frank Baum placed these maps within his fictional universe by crediting them to Professor Wogglebug. He then started mentioning the maps in his stories, as … Continue reading
A Reign Over Rain
I believe the Rain King is first mentioned in Tik-Tok of Oz, in which we’re told, “The Rain King got too much water in his basin and spilled some over the brim. That made it rain in a certain part … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged fanny the weather witch, polychrome, rain king, rainbow, the hidden prince of oz, the purple prince of oz, the runaway in oz, the silver princess in oz, tik-tok of oz, weather
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Mildly Vile
The thing about writing villains for children’s media is that much of the villainy is often implied. Villains make violent threats, but are rarely able to carry them out, for whatever reason. That way they can be seen as evil … Continue reading
Plight of the Private Citizen
Thinking back to my earlier post about fictional societies that value reason above all things, I realized that there’s one Oz character for whom the same thing is true. This is Tititi-Hoochoo, the Great Jinjin and Private Citizen of a … Continue reading
