With Easter coming up, I though I’d share this:
It’s from “The Easter Bunny is Comin to Town” one of those great Rankin/Bass stop-motion specials from the 70’s. Glad my son gives me an excuse to watch it.
WHAT>>>>>> 2:38 and thats all we got… Thats cruel …
Like, um, ah, yea. If only…
a steamer could be fired up with a single match
a steamer plus tender could be turned, when the turntable is only as long as the steamer
a steamer had car like doors on the cab
Ya gotta love children’s animations like that…
Hey… if dinosaurs can run kids trains then so can chickens and rabbits.
Just when it was getting interesting…lol, brought back memories, thanks!
How does it end???
How will I get to sleep 2nite?
Oh Woe…
Carrying coals to Newcastle, eh. Haven’t heard that one in a while.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/carry-coals-to-newcastle.html
Newcastle Upon Tyne in England was the UK’s first coal exporting port and has been well-known as a coal mining centre since the Middle Ages, although much diminished in that regard in recent years. ‘Carrying coal to Newcastle’ was an archetypally pointless activity - there being plenty there already.
Despite the name of the city, Newcastle’s castle keep is almost a thousand years old - having replaced an earlier castle in 1178. The association of the city with coal and the phrase itself are also old. In 1606, Thomas Heywood in ‘If you know not me, you know no bodie: or, the troubles of Queene Elizabeth’ wrote:
“As common as coales from Newcastle.”
Dave Taylor said:
WHAT>>>>>> 2:38 and thats all we got… Thats cruel …
Yup, that’s what I thought when we first found this on youtube a few years back. Next thing I know my wife came home with the DVD that she had found in some local store. I never saw this one as a kid, but am sure glad I can make up for lost time now.
Yeah David, there are some glaring issues in that yard scene, but it’s still fun. Seems like a perfect Aw Nuts modeling candidate.
Forrest Scott Wood said:
Carrying coals to Newcastle, eh. Haven’t heard that one in a while.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/carry-coals-to-newcastle.html
Funny forest we were discussing the origin of that phrase last night. We had the correct New Castle but there is a lot more neat history in your link. Thanks for that.
Welcome! And I went and found the entire show on YouTube. I love that kind of animation.
At one point there was a goof where train was moving and every wheel except driver was turning. https://youtu.be/lTzLNJqgBvQ?t=43m55s (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
I put my money on Rooster to be able to build that.
David Maynard said:
Like, um, ah, yea. If only…
a steamer could be fired up with a single match
a steamer plus tender could be turned, when the turntable is only as long as the steamer
a steamer had car like doors on the cab
Ya gotta love children’s animations like that…
You have a problem with all of that but ignore the fact it’s singing to chickens?
<3
“You have a problem with all of that but ignore the fact it’s singing to chickens?”
You’ve been BURNED Maynard!!!
Burned? Huh? Why wouldn’t a locomotive and chickens sing along, if they could sing?