Smurfs

Almost everyone has some knowledge or memory of the Smurfs, even if it is simply the .La la, la, la la la sing a happy song,. tune. There, now you will probably be humming that all day, remembering wearing your pj.s and eating bowls of cereal in front of the television on Saturday mornings, right? The creation of the artist Peyo, the tiny blue Smurfs took Europe by storm and then made their appearance on American television in the 1980.s. The popularity of the adventures spawned numerous products and toys that are still delighting collectors. Smurf has even made its way into our everyday language usage, as electricians wire homes using .smurf tube. of various dimensions but always
June L.

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This summer we're getting two giant films based on toys we grew up with in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. But what about all those other toy movies in the works? What will they look like, and which directors will take on the tough task of adapting those properties that just don't lend themselves to big-budgeted feature films? Well, cartoonist Dan Meth, better known as the dude behind The Trilogy Meter and the Futuristic Timeline (which we just featured yesterday), has created another winner in this little animated short called Toy Movies from our good friends at Atom.com. Essentially, Meth imagines what some of the more famous old school toys would look like if they were adapted for the big screen by some of today's more interesting directors.
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Care Bears vs. My Little
Erik Davis

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It looks like those loveable little blue people with the white trousers and the funny white hats will be coming to us in the full, bombastic glory of 3D with, Columbia Pictures' planned CG/live-action hybrid film based on the characters first introduced to us by Belgian cartoonist Pierre "Peyo" Culliford in 1958. The Smurfs were then introduced to younger generation when Hanna-Barbera turned the comic strip into a hit Saturday morning cartoon in the eighties. Now Papa Smurf,...
Daniel Barna

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