[Summer Week] Yeti Arcade: Skylanders: Lost Islands

Skylanders: Lost Islands (2012)

Surfer Slam Bam is the Summer counterpart of regular Slam Bam.

[Multi-armed Monday] Throwback: Barsoom's Great White Apes

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[Multi-armed Monday] Multiple Examples

From TVTropes:

So, you've got a character that you want to show is really dangerous. You could give him/her the normal two arms or legs, but that's just not enough. Maybe you could replace one of those arms with a really big gun, or a sword, or have it transform into something else. If that doesn't work, you can always give a character extra arms... 

Slam Bam from Skylanders is the most famous example:

But here are other really dangerous yeti...

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Six Million Dollar Man vs. Yeti

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The Six Million Dollar Man fought a multi-armed (cyborg? robot?) Yeti on the cover of the May 1977 issue of the magazine "The Six Million Dollar Man".

And the article in question that discusses this fight was called "High Stakes in the Himalayas"

Yeti Arcade: Skylanders Spyro's Adventure

The video game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (2011) features a four-armed yeti named Slam Bam. He's one of the main 37 playable characters and can become unlocked when you buy his action figure and put it on a special peripheral called a "Portal of Power".



Slam Bam's main claim to fame is his four violent fists. But he also has a creative side. He fashions ice sculptures to trap his enemies in and slow them down. Here's more about him:

Slam Bam lived alone on a floating glacier in a remote region of Skylands, where he spent his time ice surfing, eating snow cones, and sculpting amazing ice statues. It was a peaceful life, until Kaos destroyed the glacier, stranding Slam Bam on an iceberg that drifted through the skies for days. He awoke on Eon’s Island, where he was taken in and trained to become a Skylander. Now his ice sculptures serve as a frosty prison for any evil-doer that gets in his way.

Not Yeti Friday - Great White Apes of Barsoom

In honor of ice being found on Mars, I bring you the Yeti of Mars!...



In the Barsoom tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs (most famous for penning Tarzan), there is a race of giant white-skinned, four-armed ape-men that live on Mars.

They are practically identical to the yeti in almost every respect (except for the bit about the extra arms).

For the curious, Den Valdron has a thorough discussion and analysis of the origin of the Barsoomian Ape in his article for ERBzine.

Here are some images depicting the Burrough's Great White Ape culled from the Web (mostly from ERBzine):