Yellow Yetis (plus - Kids Cartoon: ChalkZone, Yeti Arcade: Aztec Wars, & Destination: Stoughton, Wisconsin)

Jush

3-D print

 Brad Simon of Straggletooth

Source

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ChalkZone (2002-2008) - animated cartoon had an episode with a yellow yeti:

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Aztec Wars (1999) - obscure PC game from Russia featuring an alternate reality with Aztecs conquering the world. The Chinese armies in the game employ yellow yetis.  Phew, this was a tough one to track down a screenshot. *Pats self on back*

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If you're ever in Stoughton, Wisconsin, or you like live there, I suggest eating at Famous Yeti Pizza. Their logo features a yellow yeti. The owners seem like nice folks, and they support libraries.

He-Man Custom

Yeti Man is a Masters of the Universe custom figure by mkULTRA.

Tim and Eric's Dee Vee

In The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job Chrimbus Special (2010), Tim and Eric show their yeti love for a little yeti named Dee Vee (played by Bradley Laise).





It's really very sweet.

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Later (or earlier), Dee Vee saves Chrimbus by shooting a laser into their brains.





It's really very sweet.

Not Yeti Friday - The Enemies of the Yeti

According to the artist Zachariah Bauer, this guy is a "member of a tribe of ape-men called the Golden Yeh Rén. They live deep inside mountains near lava flows, and are the hated enemies of the Yeti."

I am interested in seeing more from this world of Mr. Bauer's where the yeti have such a foe.

Not Yeti Friday - Albino Wookiees

We all know that Star Wars has its own version of the yeti: the Wampa.

(For you wampa fans, see here for a good cartoony, bloodpainting wampa by illustrator Michael Fleming (tweedlebop!) as part of his Star Wars Alphabet series.)

The Wampa has been cited by Loren Coleman as the most likely inspirational source for all those horns that artists often make sprout from the tops of their own yeti's heads.

Yep, wampa = yeti. But look at the wampa up close and compare it with a certain other significant hairy hominid of the Star Wars universe:



They're not that much different. Give Chewie some horns and dye his hair white and he'd pass as a skinny wampa.

Believe it or not, there are albino Wookiees in the Star Wars universe. The SW Wiki has this to say on the subject:

"Although albino Wookiees were rare, they were not unheard of. However, such a birth was generally held to be a bad omen, as white hair did not blend in with the earth-tones of their forest surroundings."

A famous albino Wookiee is a fellow named Tojjevvuk:




His SW Wiki entry reveals he was a freedom fighter. But he fought Chewbacca in a duel over a girl (later Chewie's wife Malla). During the fight, Tojjevvuk employed his claws. This is a big no-no in Wookiee culture. He would have been made a social outcast for the dishonorable act, but before he could be brought to justice, he fell to the forest floor. His white hair (which did not blend in with the earth-tones of his forest surroundings) made him an easy target for the creatures of the forest floor, who killed and devoured him.

That is why there aren't more white wookiees. They stand out too much.

Cry a tear for the tragic albino wookiee.

Not Yeti Friday - Zog

The artist David Lanham created the character Zog that was later made into a vinyl toy. There isn't much to know about this oaf-like being. We know that he likes to hunt marshmallows and takes 10 naps a day. He seems like a sweet feller who likes flowers.

Lanham teamed up with artist Frank Kozik to make an alternate reality version of Zog... MURDER ZOG.

Murder Zog appears to live in the world of a horror movie. From his name, we can assume that he likes to murder, and that he isn't so fond of flowers or marshmallows (unless said flowers and marshmallows have spurting blood and can be murdered).




Here are the two Zogs together in a piece entitled "Simple Pleasures". I think it illustrates the dichotomy of the two quite well:



My preference is for purple, friendly floraphilic Zog, but that's just me.

Role Reversal

This French parody of the Tintin comic book by Daniel Goossens appears to feature the yeti as the star and central protagonist. His quest in the book is to find the elusive Abominable Tintin.

McGee Yeti

American McGee makes video games. Right now he's working on one based on the Grimm fairy tales called "Grimm".

It looks pretty neat. There are two worlds in the game you can travel between: one that is bright, cute, soft and friendly, and another that is a mirror version of the first - where each house, person, animal, tree, etc. from the first becomes dark, evil, and harsh (though still cute, imho).

There's even a yeti in the game! Here are the two versions:




American McGee is an excellent game designer, and I'll tell you why. He is following the cardinal rule: Every game should have a yeti in it.

DISCLAIMER: My viewpoint is biased. I believe yeti should be involved in all aspects of every single thing.

You can see more of the good world/bad world designs from the game on McGee's blog, like this puppy/hell hound.

This world has elected to follow the path to.... YETIS!

The Silver Surfer battles yeti in an alternate dimension in this section of a comic book from long ago.

At first, the Silver Surfer has sympathy for the yeti, recognizing that their motivations are rooted in fear, not savagery. While he gets soundly beat up by them, he continues to muse philosophically to himself on the subject. Then, just like that, he abruptly changes his mind, calls them all brutes living in a world of madness, and takes off.

Way to go, Silver Surfer.



Silver Surfer: And now I stand upon another world... far younger... far more primitive.. A world at the crossroads! And no man may predict which path it will elect to follow!

Silver Surfer: But wait~ I hear the sound of muffled footpads approaching! YETIS! The wild, savage snow-dwellers... The so-called Abominable Snowmen of earthly legend! They think me an enemy! They rush to attack... without question or pause!



Silver Surfer: Even they... poor, unthinking creatures of the frozen wastes... have been so wounded... so ruthlessly hunted for time without measure... that they fear any who invade their desolate domain! And, like so many who attack without reason... how often is blind, unreasoning fear the cause... rather than naked savagery?



Silver Surfer: They seek to smash me to the ground... to fell my [sic] by sheer weight of numbers! And I have not the words to turn aside their wrath! Since I do not wish to harm them, I will try another means..! Let my surfboard float... and thus attract their bestial attention!

Seconds later... Two huge, clutching hands seize the strangely alien object...

Silver Surfer: It is done! They have forgotten me! Now, as they battle for their prize... like the brutes they are... let my board and me again become as one! For I must leave this place of madness!

Every Planet in the Galaxy has a Yeti, Or...

MUGATO! MUGATO! MUGATO!

Star Wars has its wampa...

...we have our yeti, and now Star Trek has its MUGATO!

No one told me - I had to find out for myself, but there is a very yeti-like creature in the Star Trek universe called the Mugato.

It's basically yeti, but with a horn and a bad gorilla suit.

Why didn't anyone tell me?!

White Pongo, I defy you

White Pongo is just another one of those movies that tries (desperately) to place yeti in a context, i.e. the jungle, where he has never, and never will, belong. It is a fantasy of Man that we are always trying to displace the truth. Examples include:

Star Wars: Let's set the Civil War on a space plane

The Terminator: The wolf in Little Red, Riding Hood is now a cyborg

Three Amigos: Oh, I know! The battle of minotaur is in mexico!

It's just our way of trying to take larger-than-life characters and situations and make them seem closer-to-home. White Pongo, you're not real. You are a figment of the imagination of poets and artists who use cinema as their brushes on canvases of our lives. Think about that when you pick up a lady in the jungle and carry her around. She's not your luggage.