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Viva Colouring Book Theatre!!!!! Fun stuff. I'd like to find some of the Bigfoot and Wildboy comics. I loved that show as a kid.Leave a comment:
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never heard of this show,but the cover of the book is really cool
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I loved this show when I was a kid. It's the inspiration for the name of my blog. In a line from the theme song they say "The Wonderful Wonderbug".Leave a comment:
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That is the most awsome thing I am finding out about this site! There are so many things that just got buried or shuffled down to cerebral storage from my childhood.
And its like BAM someone posts a pic or asks a question about something and it all comes surging back. Its such an awsome rush! And all the related memories too! Saturday cartoon/ sugar cereal fests, old friends, happy sun filled summer days, Christmas mornings.
If you could package that feeling and sell it in a pill you'd make a fortune!Leave a comment:
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I only had vague recollections of Wonder Bug, and they weren't validated until I came here and asked about the show. I thought I had dreamed of a live action Speed Buggy.
Kaptain Kool doesn't ring a bell at all though. Weird.
Nice artwork in the coloring book though. Seems to fit.
Brian, is the Superman coloring book the one about the military base? If so I have it if you'd like some scans.
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Colouring Book Theatre: Krofft Supershow Wonderbug
Turning over the reins to Sharry again this week (as I still can't find that Superman Coloring Book) and she's got a doozy based on the Krofft Supershow it's WonderBug but it also has an intro by the long forgotten Kaptain Kool and the Kongs.
Whitman also handled the Krofft Supershow comic (which had Bigfoot and Wildboy and Magic Mongo as well) the art in this book is pretty stylised and cartoony, I think it suits the subject matter well.
As I kid, I thought WonderBug was the bomb maybe because it was a live action version of Speed Buggy ( My fave as a kid) combined with a little bit of Shazam!
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The book opens as the show did with Kaptain Kool and the Kongs, Sharry pointed out that this book is based on the second season as they are wearing their toned down outfits. In the first season, the group had a more glammed out look. Kaptain Kool BTW went on to play Rachel's dad on "Friends".
The mention of Flatbush was something Sharry also wanted to point out, he was dropped by season 2. So why was he mentioned here?
The single most important colouring book page ever made. Breathtaking isn't it?
Even though it's impossible to top the "Turkey eats his lunch" page, we trudge on to the Wonderbug adventure. Wonderbug was the only show to survive season 1 of the Krofft Supershow, both Dr.Shrinker and Electra Woman were dropped.
The gang arrives in Mexico and C.C. gets recruited to help lift some pottery.
Barry and CC soon discover this is part of a smuggling ring (there is always a smuggling ring).
Dun-dun-duuuuun! The magic horn is parped and Schlep Car becomes Wonderbug, why they wouldn't always drive in a car that can fly is beyond me.
Eventhough it's a colouring book page it totally serves as a reminder on how fake Wonderbug was. I remember most of the time the car was a puppet in front a blue screen or a really unconvinving model, still, that's part of the charm isn't it.
The bad guys are sent to Mexican prison and the gang is off to get all the bootleg star wars figures they can carry. Sharry also mentioned to me that David Levy, Barry from Wonderbug is a psychology professor
at Pepperdine University in CA. If you go on their website, anyone can
easily find him and contact him. She's living proof as she has his autograph and the news that he still has one of those double zero shirts in his closet.
Got a colouring book you'd like to guest review? Drop me a line!
Previous Colouring Book Theatre Entries can be found here.
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