Lovers of Finger Puppets, Rejoice!

Your Time Is NOW.

This is your lucky day.

What luck to find in the New Year a finger puppet of the Abnamibitamphetemine Snowish-Manimal Personified.

Available here.

Holiday Greeting (by noctrnlcry) - ** Please read the fine print **

Yeti by ~noctrnlcry on deviantART


I'll be back posting in early January!

Oh NO! It's GIFT Giving Time!

Don't pull your hair out!

Every year around this time, I try and do a little bit of good in the world. By which I mean to say, I post about yeti related gift ideas so that you don't have to ever think about such things. Who would want to think about anything? Don't answer that! It would require you to think. I don't want to think either, but since I only have to do it once a year, I am not complaining. No sir.

And for you folks celebrating who celebrated Hanukkah, I apologize for being a whole nine days after the fact.

Without further ado...

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You can't go wrong with this 2 1/2 inch high figurine of a white gorilla yeti. He has "MADE IN CHINA" blazoned across his chest. National pride?

At $2.00 a pop (and a charity to support), buy twelve and make your giftee an ARMY, or at least a basketball team.

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Why not procure a plastic facsimile of Hugo the Abominable Snowman? He comes with a giant TV set for no reason.

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You could do much worse than get this little cuddly, fuzzy pal for the toddler in all of us. It would look great all dolled up and sitting demurely at fake, miniature tea parties.

At least think about it.

Note: mostlymade mostly made it.

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Yeti Loves Sea Monster is a great place to look for hand-made goods for sale, like this Yeti Stocking. Note: the stocking is already sold out.

Be sure to check out their great coloring book pages to download for free.

I am actually serious about this one.

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This little character's name is Oishi and he's some kind of ninja samurai. I don't think he's supposed to be a yeti. In fact, I'm fairly certain his creators thought of him as a humanoid snow monkey. But really, what yeti fan (particularly one in the 9-28 age range) is going to know the difference? Pass it off as a yeti and reap in the gratitude.

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As of this posting, Threadless still has some kids tees of this snazzy Hooray for Cryptozoology shirt.

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And this concludes the annual gift-giving guide!

Hooray for the Holidays!

Oxley Yeti

Designer Simon Oxley can be held responsible.

Everybody Loves A Yeti

T-shirt design entitled "Everybody Loves A Yeti" by Scott Bartlett.

Yeti in the Sixties

The 1960's were the golden age of yeti depictions.

In 1961, the Warner Bros. cartoon The Abominable Snow Rabbit was shown in theaters. The world received perhaps the first ever imagining of the yeti as a white-haired creature. None of the purported sightings of the yeti in the Himalayas that I've read from the 50's describe a white hue to its fur, and both the 1957 Peter Cushing film and a Japanese one the following year depicted the snow beast as brown. So does this mean that Chuck Jones is the reason the yeti is white like a polar bear? Looks like it to me!

In 1964, three years after "Snow Rabbit", Rankin/Bass made the stop-motion Christmas classic, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which featured a white-haired, blue-faced yeti.



I believe the Chuck Jones and Rankin/Bass yetis have defined the look of yeti in popular culture for the last 40 years. Yeti hasn't changed much!

Turns out there was another yeti made in the Sixties, but it's hardly known about at all.

In 1968, legendary cartoonist Alex Toth created the yeti-esque being known as Gorr for Hanna Barbera's Mighty Mightor cartoon.



Gorr, ruler of the Ice Creatures, was an enemy of Mightor, a cave man superhero with a magic club.



I'm not sure it's in the cartoon, but Gorr must have wanted to get his hands on that stave. All yeti's covet staves. Look it up; it's in a book somewhere.

Oddly enough, the show was paired with another cartoon about the adventures of the whale named Moby Dick, and Mighty Mightor was even given second billing.



Click to get a larger look at this model sheet by Alex Toth. Note that the Ice Creatures ride white pterosaurs. Awesome. I think that more yeti should ride winged creatures. In fact, this may be the only representation of a yeti I've ever seen where it rides a winged creature. Gama-Go's Battle-Axe Yeti may have rode in on that pegasus, but he's already off it before Biskup painted him.

Frostbite and his Frozen Arm

Character designer Ben Balistreri created this yeti character named Frostbite for the popular Nickelodeon cartoon "Danny Phantom".

Ben explains:

"The script had him described as an abominable snowman/wampa type creature. I tried to think of something to distance him a bit from every other snow creature we've seen so I came up with the frozen arm. I don't know if it makes much sense, but I thought it looked cool. (no pun intended!)"

According to Wikipedia:

"Frostbite is a yeti-like ghost in charge of the Realm of the Far Frozen. Frostbite and his race (known as the Far Frozen), despite their fearsome appearances, are intelligent creatures capable of many things--including medicine and technology. They refer to Danny as the 'Great One' or the 'Savior of the Ghost Zone"', and treat him like a king (Frostbite introduces himself as Danny's "humble servant"), due to his defeat of Pariah Dark in the episode 'Reign Storm'."

For Danny Phantom fans, here are 2 exciting pieces of trivia:

1. Frostbite helps Danny develop his ice ghost powers!
2. Frostbite is the one that gave Danny the Infi-map!

Despite the fact that Frostbite is an ally, you can actually play as Danny trying to defeat him in hand-to-hand combat if you select the "Scary" option in this online game.