Besides being the decade with no name (I mean, seriously, what do you call it? The Oughts?), the 2000's are, in my estimation, the Yeti Renaissance - the Yetissance. Just look at this graphic, a veritable cornucopia. I could barely fit them all in.
Surveying the '00s, one can see Yeti everywhere: comics, toys, video games, Saturday morning cartoons, commercials, live-action kids shows, and on and on. Just throw the kitchen sink in there, too. With the faucets turned on full blast.
Retro is all the rage this decade, so we see a new and improved G.I. Joe action figure, a re-envisioned Choose Your Own Adventure book, and a Lego playset. Yeti gets a cameo in a major animated kids' film (Monsters, Inc.) and a major live-action motion picture (Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor). He's on the ground floor for the ascension of MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft. These giant RPGs are released at a near constant rate, and they need monsters, monsters, monsters; with Yeti being one of the first picks at the top of their roster. He takes memorable supporting roles in popular, influential games: Zelda: Twilight Princess, League of Legends, Uncharted 2, Plants vs. Zombies. With the rise of the Internet, we see the arrival of numerous screen-printed T-shirt companies featuring original designs, as well as the formation of the vinyl designer toy movement. Yeti's a popular muse for both (prime example: Gama-Go). And Disney surmounts its own Matterhorn, imagineering Expedition Everest, a new ride at Florida's Walt Disney World Resort. To coincide their effort, the Mouse House churns out endless merchandise displaying a variety of depictions - all white-furred as it turns out. In fact, at this point in the popular culture (with the early-in-the-decade exception of the GameBoy game, Urban Yeti), Yeti is white as snow, and he's not goin' brown any time soon (much to the irritation of many cryptozoologists).
And that's the Two-Thousands in a nutshell. A good way to describe it: "nuts".
Yow, did I miss anything?
2000 Spyro: Year of the Dragon (game)
2000 Banjo-Tooie (game)
2000 Metal Slug 3 (game)
2000 RPG Tsukuru 4 (game)
2000 Kong Animated Series (animation)
2000 Digimon (animation)
2000 Mystic (comic)
2001 Monsters, Inc. (film)
2001 Monkeybone (film)
2001 Runescape (game)
2001 Atlantis: The Lost Empire - Trial By Fire (game)
2001 Wario Land 4 (game)
2001 Dark Age of Camelot (game)
2001 Arcanum (game)
2001 Letters from Felix (animation) [Not depicted]
2002 G.I. Joe Search for the Yeti (toy)
2002 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (animation)
2002 Urban Yeti (game)
2002 Metal Slug 4 (game)
2002 Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure (game)
2002 Icewind Dale II (game)
2002 Ty the Tasmanian Tiger (game)
2002 What's new Scooby Doo? Snow Creature (animation)
2002 Capital One (ad)
2003 Fairly Odd Parents (animation)
2003 Tim Biskup Gama Go (apparel)
2003 Lego Yeti’s Hide-Out (toy)
2003 Grand Chase (game)
2003 America's Army: Special Forces (game)
2003 The Battle for Wesnoth (game)
2003 Gladius (game)
2003 Lineage II (game)
2003 MapleStory (game)
2003 Harvest Moon: It's a Wonderful Life (game)
2003 Ratchet & Clank 2: Going Commando (game)
2003 Shining Soul II (game)
2003 Little Lit (book)
2004 Yetisports (game)
2004 PopTarts packaging (ad)
2004 Backyardigans: "Yeti Stomp" (animation)
2004 Planet Cook (television)
2004 Franny's Feet (television)
2004 Dofus (game)
2004 Everquest 2 (game)
2004 Jack Bivouac: Ace Yeti Trapper (game)
2004 Mabinogi (game)
2004 Metin2 (game)
2004 World of Warcraft (game)
2004 Jacobsmeyer painting (book)
2005 Guild Wars (game)
2005 Icy Pinball (game)
2005 Kameo: Elements of Power (game)
2005 ROSE (game)
2005 Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (game)
2005 Crash Tag Team Racing (game)
2005 Warhammer Alliance (game)
2005 Tork: Prehistoric Punk (game)
2005 Yeti or Not (game)
2005 Dragon Ball GT Transformation (game)
2005 TMNT "Raphael vs. the Yeti" (toy)
2005 Freddy the Yeti (animation)
2005 Houston statue (attraction)
2006 Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman DVD (animation)
2006 Expedition Everest (attraction/apparel/toy)
2006 Abominable (film)
2006 Georges le yeti commercial (ad)
2006 Yeti Hammer Throw (game)
2006 Zelda Twilight Princess (game)
2006 Mother 3 (game)
2006 Penguin vs. Yeti (game)
2006 Rampage: Total Destruction (game)
2006 Titan Quest (game)
2006 Sonic Rivals (game)
2006 Valhalla Knights (game)
2006 Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (game)
2006 Gumby vs. the Astrobots (game)
2006 Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (game)
2006 Biker Mice from Mars (animation)
2006 Emperor's New School (animation)
2006 IWG Yeti figure (toy)
2006 Blocky horned figure (toy)
2006 Nichtlustig German characters (comic)
2006 John Cox's "How to Make a Monster" (attraction)
2006 Great Ten's Hu Wei ("snaauurr") (comic)
2006 Prince Lao (comic)
2006 Red Sonja (comic)
2007 Chill Out, Scooby Doo! (animation)
2007 Lissi und der wilde Kaiser (film)
2007 Futurama: Bender's Big Score (animation)
2007 Danny Phantom (animation)
2007 Eudemon Online (game)
2007 Lord of the Rings Online (game)
2007 Lunia (game)
2007 Regnum Online (game)
2007 Mega Man Star Force 2 (game)
2007 YetiSports 7 Free Ride (game)
2007 Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (animation)
2007 Doctor 13 (comic)
2007 Scooby Doo 116 (comic)
2007 Jr Skiski (ad)
2007 Avalanche Howler the Yeti mascot (sports)
2008 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (film)
2008 Age of Conan (game)
2008 Carrot Mania On Ice (game)
2008 Christmasville (game)
2008 Castle Crashers (game)
2008 Frost Bite 2 (game)
2008 Grimm (game)
2008 Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (game)
2008 Roogoo: Twisted Towers (game)
2008 Snow Drift (game)
2008 Super Smash Bros. Brawl (game)
2008 Yeti Aim Fire! (game)
2008 Aion: The Tower of Eternity (game)
2008 AdventureQuest Worlds (game)
2008 Wizard 101 (game)
2008 LEGO Batman: The Videogame (game)
2008 Atlantica Online (game)
2008 The Incredible Hulk (game)
2008 Tomb Raider: Underworld (game)
2008 Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (game)
2008 Pokemon (animation)
2008 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (animation)
2008 Screen Novelties yeti (animation)
2008 Patch Together (toy)
2009 Basil's Swap Shop (Television)
2009 LandSAR commercial (ad)
2009 Phineas and Ferb (animation)
2009 Cold Storage (game)
2009 Darkfall (game)
2009 Gates of Andaron (game)
2009 EpicDuel (game)
2009 Gift of the Yeti (game)
2009 Invizimals (game)
2009 League of Legends (game)
2009 Minecraft (game)
2009 AMBL Bowling League (game)
2009 MySims Agent (game)
2009 Overlord II (game)
2009 Plants vs. Zombies (game)
2009 PoxNora (game)
2009 Rappelz (game)
2009 Torchlight (game)
2009 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (game)
2009 Free Realms (game)
2009 Spelunky (game)
2009 Loderunner (game)
2009 Scribblenauts (game)
2009 Minigore (game)
2009 Moorhuhn Jump'n'Run - Schatzjager 2 (game)
2009 Doodle Jump (game)
2009 Earth Eternal (game)
2009 Hunter Blade (game)
2009 Ravensword: The Fallen King (game)
2009 Bill the Yeti figure (toy)
2009 Guy Davis' BPRD (comic)
2009 Patsy Walker Hellcat (comic)
2009 Teddy and the Yeti (comic)
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2 comments:
You forgot the yeti (snow ape) from HeroesV (2007) - so rare that it's actually only in the previews from the game and not in the actual released game.
I originally blogged about it here: http://ilovetheyeti.blogspot.com/2014/11/sword-sorcery-3-yeti-arcade-s-roundup.html and list it on my complete Video Games list.
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