It is hard to believe that I have gone nearly three months (!) without a posting. . . 2020 cannot end too soon! However, I am dreading a contrived cliffhanger finale with the last frame announcing "To be continued. . . "
During this posting hiatus, I have embarked on a rather interesting detour! While figures will be a part of some--not all!--of the projects, this is mainly a scale-modelling undertaking.
I can't speak for the readership as a whole, but the Sixties as a pre-teen was all about the week- ends, Saturdays in particular. This was the swan-song of the Golden Age of American Animation! Creativity and technology were in synchronous bliss, and we were treated to the likes of Jonny Quest, Scooby-Doo, Space Ghost, and. . . the Wacky Races!
Wacky Races (WR) is a 1968 television cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera Produc- tions. The series features 11 different drivers in unique character-derived cars racing in various road rallies throughout North America, with all of them hoping to win the title of the "World's Wackiest Racer”.
While Wacky Races has had numerous successful spin-offs/reboots, 2016 saw DC Comics reboot select Hanna-Barbera classics with darker and edgier iterations. This collaboration resulted in a six issue mini-series, Wacky Raceland, which can essentially be described as "Mad Max meets WR". There are at least two projects that will fall under the Wacky Raceland umbrella.
[to be continued]
“When the cost of a hobby exceeds the fun and doesn't attract new people, the game is over.” -Oscar Koveleski, August 2003
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