Colouring Book Theatre: The Black Hole

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Here's a colouring book from my past that I found reasonably priced at an antique mall of all places.

Books like this are the reason I'm such a big fan of this Disney Sci Fi epic, around the release date I got sick, "scare your parents" sick and was given a huge poly bag of Black Hole merch to stave off boredom.

Everything was in there, the strangely drawn comic book (why did Tony Perkins have a fro and a moustache? ), the album, little golden book and this activity/colouring book.

I haven't seen this thing in nearly 30 years and I gotta tell you, it's kind of a weird trip. The opening pages are cool stamps (which I ruined) and the rest of the book looks like they blew their budget on the stamps:

Hey Kids, colour in Maximilian Schell! That's the first time that sentence has ever been said. The art in this book is actually nice, the activities however have the same blandess these books are generally known for.




Use your crayon to identify which menial taks the zombiefied slave is doing. Remember kids, death is their only escape!






The rest of the book is a lot of "connect the dots" kind of stuff and a board game, where you're supposed to close your eyes and point to this page, depending on the robot you choose, you advance or go back. Sounds like hours and hours of fun. I am positive I just coloured this page and ignored the game.



Draw it your damn self kids! I think this page would have been better if they got kids to draw that trippy "heaven and Hell" ending.




The back cover is a great image, as a bonus I've posted up the real selling feature of the book, the stamps from the front page, the back was also stamps but it's puzzle you were supposed to tear apart and rearrange, I did a terrible job of that:





Print these out and put 'em on your lunch pail!




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[cjefferys]

I never saw this book before. That drawing of the Humanoid cleaning the floor just kills me. Too bad they didn't have a pic of one washing the windows.

[Meule]

Draw yourself

Fantastic

[wyldpny]

LOVE it! Black Hole rocks

[toys2cool]

alright that's it, i gotta rent this movie

[Ranger 3]

alright that's it, i gotta rent this movie

Rent??? You must BUY this movie.

M

[kennermike]

Rent??? You must BUY this movie.

M

yeah rent forget that mess ! buy it !

[4NDR01D]

Still never saw this movie, is it available on DVD? Can't say I've ever seen it for sale.

[palitoy]

Still never saw this movie, is it available on DVD? Can't say I've ever seen it for sale.

Yeah, Anchor Bay and Disney have released in the last five years. I don't see it for sale a lot either.

[kennermike]

Yeah, Anchor Bay and Disney have released in the last five years. I don't see it for sale a lot either.

you can find it Ebay,Amazon .The Anchor BAY release came out in 1998 thats 12 years ago and the Disney official version about 5 years ago on dvd like you said Palitoy .That version is easier to find.I dont know the difference between the 2 .but I know somebody metioned here Disney treats this film like their red headed stepchild.I would try and find the Anchor Bay version