[Were-Yeti Week] Heather Hudson

Disney's making a lot of Marvel comic book movies these days. I say they make a Heather Hudson movie!

She is a black Canadian lady who can turn into a yeti.

Did you know?

• She married Wolverine.  Yup, he was her husband. But he went crazy and she had to kill him.
• Then she married Guardian, basically "Captain Canada", the superhero superstar of the entire country. You know, like you do.

Another super hero lady that can turn into a yeti is Snowbird (blogged about here). Make a movie about her, too, Marvel.

[You are the Yeti] Yeti Arcade: Sasquatch Survivor

Sasquatch Survivor (2012): Play a yeti mislabeled as a Sasquatch in a puzzle platformer.

Not Yeti Friday - Sasquatches that Should Be Yetis

Sasquatch from Darkstalkers and Sasquatch from Marvel Comics are famous examples.

Here's a few more...

The Sasquatch from the film, "The Capture of Bigfoot" (1979)

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Paizo's Sasquatch:

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2009 Sasquatch! music festival mascot

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This Bigfoot from the Real Ghostbusters cartoon:

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Sasquatchanakwa is a character from the Canadian cartoon, Total Drama Island.

Hotel Transylvania

I saw the claymation film The Pirates! last week  (lovely flick - go see it! Support claymation!), and it has a Yeti cameo in it! At least, my wife assures me it does.  I blinked and completely missed it.  It's during one of the map sequences - so pay attention!  If anyone happens to have a screen grab, please send to me and I'll share it on the blog.

Anyway, before the film began, there was a trailer for Hotel Transylvania, an upcoming 3D-animated film from Sony, and it appears Yeti will have a cameo in it as well:

Here's the trailer:

At the beginning Dracula speaks to a "Mr. Bigfoot" and he looks like this (note how gigantic he is)...

Then later, Dracula is seen interacting with this character (note how smaller he appears)...

In both cases, it looks like a classic, pop-culture Yeti (inspired by Bumble from the Rudolph special) with white fur, blue face, and horns - none of which are Bigfoot characteristics.

Are they really going to refer to what is clearly a Yeti as "Bigfoot" throughout the film?

Boy, would that be something or what?

And what's with the giant version and the normal size version?   Same creature?

Rest easy, I'll be monitoring the situation from my headquarter command station. Such is the burden of my duty.

Pointyhead 2

Reconstruction of Meh-Teh by Dr. W. Tschernezky
for Ivan T. Anderson's book Abominable Snowmen: Legend Comes to Life

Why are there so many yetis with cone-heads?

It's all because a scalp thought to be from a Yeti was discovered in a Buddhist monastery in Pangboche, Nepal in 1954. It was pointy.


Source: Bigfoot Lunch Club

Hergé knew of it and stuck it on his yeti in Tintin in Tibet:


And that's how the yeti got his pointy head.

Yeti Arcade: Bigfoot

A couple years after Alpiner, Bigfoot (1983) (also for the TI-99/4A) featured a yeti. Well, they called it a Bigfoot. But, I mean, a white ape monster is at the top of an icy mountain. What do you think they meant?

Also, look at the manual cover:



Official Description:

"It's 50 degrees below zero, your guide is nowhere to be found, and you are clinging to a snowy ledge by a rather shaky-looking piton. Can you make it to the top of the mountain, collect food and gold on your way up, and cage the raging Bigfoot?"

Staehle Yeti

Dr. Sasquatch poster by Will Staehle

Collective Noun

We know that a number of dolphins is a pod, that some geese are a gaggle, and that owls make up a parliament. But what about the supernatural creatures? Do they get collective nouns? Huh?! HUH!?

For example, what, pray tell, do we call a group of yeti?

David Malki of Wondermark has done us the courtesy of providing us a list:

The Stoakes-Whibley Natural Index of Supernatural Collective Nouns

Under Wild-life at the bottom of the list, one can find the following:



So there you have it, a flurry.

P.S. For those of you who like yeti's brown American cousin, you'll be pleased to know a group of sasquatch is called a yearning.

And now you know. And you are pleased.

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Thanks, Lauren for the scoop!

The Yeti Doesn't Appreciate Being Called Bigfoot

I ♥ writer/illustrator Adam Rex.

Look at this yeti he did, and this one.

In his picture book, Frankenstein Makes A Sandwich:



He has a page about the Yeti (click image below to view bigger & read poem):



And he has a page about Bigfoot (click image below to view bigger & read poem):



I get asked a lot on this blog what the difference is between the two:

----"How is a Bigfoot not a yeti?"

----"Why don't you feature a well-known beef jerky commercial?"

----"Hey, you forgot Harry and the Hendersons!"

Many people think that Bigfoot is just a type of yeti, or yeti is a type of sasquatch.

Thank you, Adam Rex, for showing us how the Yeti and Bigfoot are emotionally affected by this common misconception.

In the sequel, Frankenstein Takes the Cake, one can assume by their cameo that the two have resolved their differences. They appear to be conversing amiably at a wedding:



That's a screaming flower girl interrupting them, btw. You'll have to buy the book and read it to find out more.

White City: What's in a name?

"White City" is the name of a city in Saskatchewan, Canada and Cyprus, Greece. In the U.S., it's the name of a city in Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Oregon, and Utah. It's the name of an area within London and Moscow, and the nickname for a city in Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Serbia, Italy, Sweden, as well as the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the fictional city of Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings.

It's also an anagram for "yeti witch".

Band of Bigfoot

Reader charalee gives this heads up:

there is a fresh band in los angeles called band of bigfoot...they perform in sasquatch yeti and bigfoot costumes... they have a facebook page... and a cd...they are working on a "short" (film) too...

The lead singer is known as the Abominable Frontman. Here is their Myspace page.

Land of the Lost yeti

Since Land of the Lost is a movie in the theaters, perhaps it would be a good time to post about the yeti which was depicted in the original tv show.



The synopsis of the 1976 episode I found is an entertaining read.

The native Sleestaks call the club-wielding yeti the "Tapa". Although quite angry and raging, he is easily distracted by cake, and then later by gentle dancing and torch twirling. But unlike most yeti in Popular Culture, he doesn't stay placated and friendly. As soon as that cake is gone or the twirling has stopped, he's launched back into a homicidal rage. It's not like he secretly harbors an innocent, loving soul. I like that about him.

Monsterology Yeti

There is a popular series of books for kids called Ologies. There's Dragonology, Wizardology, Pirateology, Mythology, and Spyology. I would have totally gone ga-ga happy over these as a child. These were my absolute favorite subjects back then (okay still are). I should have been born 8 years ago; I would be in hog heaven right now with the amount of fantasy books that are out. Where were all these fantasy books when I was a kid and didn't enjoy reading anything because there was nothing out there to enjoy? In my day, the closest we got to Harry Potter was a lame choose-your-own adventure book about a cave with maybe a dragon in it... and that was only if you chose to go there!. Oops! I never made it to pg. 32. No dragon for you!!

But I digress.

The most recent Ology book, Monsterology has a section about the yeti, and here's a scan of the lovely illustration:



Some interesting, previously unknown information about the yeti is divulged:

Yeti's scientific name is Ursus saxum.

This means 'Rock Bear' in Latin. This actually makes sense considering that the word yeti is believed to be derived from the Tibetan word for "rock bear".

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"It is disputed whether these denizens of the Himalayas are descended from bears or apes."

I had no idea anyone had ever disputed this.

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"Hair colour changes from brown in summer to pure white in winter."

Ah-ha! That explains why we see both brown and white yetis!

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"Forms of attack: Teeth, claws; crushing with arms."

Well, this is old news really. I just like the way they put it. And yeah, I would have added staves to the list, but that's just me.

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And the most revelatory:

"Female yetis can only be distinguished from the males by their habit of twisting their whiskers into elaborate curls."


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AMAZING the amount of new information Monsterology has unveiled for the field of Fictional Yeti Scholarship.

Dudnik Yeti

A design by Tatyana Dudnik for BarCamp Portland, "an unconference for the Portland tech community."

Here is another of her designs featuring the same yeti riding a rocket ship above a flaming mountain. Yes, it's awesome!

Everyone keeps calling it a sasquatch, but readers of this blog know how wrong this is. Let's remember to look at history and not make the same mistakes.

A-Bomb of the Enigmas

The Enigmas was an action-comedy comic book series. One of its protagonists was a yeti named A-Bomb.

Kudos to the creators for thinking up that most perfect nickname for the Abominable Snowman... A-Bomb!

Ha!

Here are the details:

"THE ENIGMAS is a creator-owned comic book series about Big Foot, The Loch Ness Monster, Abominable Snowman and an alien survivor of The Roswell Incident joining forces to prevent the Illuminati from replacing humans with a new dominant species. First published in Digital Webbing Presents #34-35. Written, inked and colored by Dustin Yee. Pencilled by Casey Maloney. Lettered by Ed Dukeshire."

Not Yeti Friday - Bigfoot Er, Is Yeti

I wish it was Not Yeti Friday. But it's not not yeti. Not yet anyway. It's Thursday. And it is therefore yeti. What you gonna do?



The cartoon above, which you should click on to see bigger, is by Mike Jacobsen of See Mike Draw.

I like it a lot. But it is the antithesis of Not Yeti. You know what they say: 'Tomorrow is only a day away'. Sigh.

White Tea the Yeti

White Tea is a plush sold by a purple octopus named Dr. Perfect.

White Tea was designed by Brian Gubicza and fashioned in plush form by Jen Bennett Gubicza, both very talented.

On a personal note, "White Tea" is probably the best name for a yeti I've ever heard.

Warhammer Yhetee

This is concept art for the (clearly) nasty creature in the Warhammer game known as "yhetee".

Astute readers will note a remarkable similarity in the pronunciations of this creature's name and that of the beloved Himalayan man-ape from our world.

Question: Coincidence?

Answer (highlight to read): No.

Yeti Anagrams

I discovered that Abominable Snowman is an anagram for... (click here to find out)!

But what other anagrams exist? I found four online.

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Type II Diabetes
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I eat yeti bipeds.

by Judson T. Pewther

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Is it the abominable snowman?
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White baboon? Last simian men?

by Tom Myers

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Leicester City
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Electric Yetis

by Unknown

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I Got You, Babe
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Yeti Bugaboo

by Roy R. Pryor

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And the word 'yetis' by itself has two anagrams:

seity: A quality peculiar to oneself.

yites: European yellow-hammers (birds)

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Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman inspired this post when I read on his blog about a famous anagram controversy involving another cryptid - The Loch Ness Monster.

In a cryptozoology news round-up in the last week of November 2006, Coleman discusses Sir Peter Scott, a well-known British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, and later in life, a supporter of the search for the Loch Ness Monster:

"After several successful 1970s photographic and sonar findings by the Academy of Applied Sciences, Sir Peter announced in 1975 that the scientific name of the monster would henceforth be Nessiteras rhombopteryx, which is Greek for 'The Ness monster with diamond-shaped fin.' This allegedly enabled Nessie to be added to a British register of officially protected wildlife, although that is disputed today. Ridicule followed quickly when London newspapers noted that Nessiteras rhombopteryx is an anagram of "monster hoax by Sir Peter S." Nessie searcher and cryptozoologist Robert H. Rines replied that the letters could also be rearranged to spell: 'Yes, both pix are monsters–R.'"

To recap:

Nessiteras rhombopteryx
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Monster Hoax by Sir Peter S.
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Yes, both pix are monsters. – R.



I love it!