Thank you for posting these videos on these gemmy prototypes, many people in the gemmy community really thought about of these prototypes were lost to time, especially the Frank Sinatra pop culture figure. Again, thank you much!
Rocky Balboa is my favorite of the Pop Culture Series, although unlike all of the others, they're nearly impossible to restore to fully-working condition. The figure and audio are the best part! The animation is excellent too, although it does remain as the most faulty Gemmy mechanism set of all time.
The licensor made a wise choice, picking the clean head as opposed to these. Beautiful pieces of sculpture though they are, they'd be pretty gruesome to have to look at while the figure is going through its sequence. And besides, Rocky is only beat up after the fight at the end of the movie, people remember him more looking like the finished figure. A neat idea in concept, but the way the figure went was the way to go.
Did you create the Frogz? If so I have a couple questions. 1. Is the “Umbrella” Frogz Made by Rihanna Real or a fake Custom? 2. Are there released Frogz with buttons on their hands? 3. What happened to Push it Pink, Pon De Replay Blue and Yellow Were not gonna take it?
Yes. Not sure if we switched the buttons. Could have. We released all those songs, don’t remember the colors. Sometimes we’d release the same song in a different color.
I had a woman who worked for me who handled the licensing. She's actually still doing it today. She gets a lot of credit for many of the Rudolph items Gemmy has made. I was very involved in the early animation, especially the smaller misfits characters which I really wanted to do. One voice talent did all those sayings. I remember showing them at New York Toyfair and the Wayans Bros walked in. I showed them our lines and they loved those Rudolph misfits the most. They knew every saying by heart.
@@coolman6940 We were at Toy Fair in the 200 5th Ave building every year until they closed it down. I was there for a week or two every February and sometimes for week in October.
Awesome! This is really a unique one, I must say. Does that mean this one ruclips.net/video/o8vXemutdkk/видео.html at the 0:45 second mark isn't real? Just wondering, im assuming it isnt.
@@TheLiqui That's Dr. Grossman. We did that for Kaybee but they eventually didn't buy it. I developed a Dr. Grossman card game too with a bunch of different ailments that played like the Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh games. The object was to be the grossest without killing yourself.
Thank you for posting these videos on these gemmy prototypes, many people in the gemmy community really thought about of these prototypes were lost to time, especially the Frank Sinatra pop culture figure. Again, thank you much!
I like the sculpts!
Looking back, I'm kinda curious to see how well the Rocky figure would've done if this was the head sculpt the final product used.
This is cool! I would’ve expected these to be sold at places like spencers. But I can see why they would want the clean versions instead of these.
That’s really cool I like this sculpt better than the produced sculpt
Rocky Balboa is my favorite of the Pop Culture Series, although unlike all of the others, they're nearly impossible to restore to fully-working condition. The figure and audio are the best part! The animation is excellent too, although it does remain as the most faulty Gemmy mechanism set of all time.
I wish Elvis was apart of the pop culture series
Neat. Can’t wait until you talk about the Frogz series.
Those are pretty neat!
The licensor made a wise choice, picking the clean head as opposed to these. Beautiful pieces of sculpture though they are, they'd be pretty gruesome to have to look at while the figure is going through its sequence. And besides, Rocky is only beat up after the fight at the end of the movie, people remember him more looking like the finished figure. A neat idea in concept, but the way the figure went was the way to go.
Did you create the Frogz? If so I have a couple questions.
1. Is the “Umbrella” Frogz Made by Rihanna Real or a fake Custom?
2. Are there released Frogz with buttons on their hands?
3. What happened to Push it Pink, Pon De Replay Blue and Yellow Were not gonna take it?
Yes. Not sure if we switched the buttons. Could have. We released all those songs, don’t remember the colors. Sometimes we’d release the same song in a different color.
is there any footage of the greg brady prototype?
Welp probably not but one day Will If someone finds them
Cool
Did you make any Rudolph the red nosed reindeer stuff
I had a woman who worked for me who handled the licensing. She's actually still doing it today. She gets a lot of credit for many of the Rudolph items Gemmy has made. I was very involved in the early animation, especially the smaller misfits characters which I really wanted to do. One voice talent did all those sayings. I remember showing them at New York Toyfair and the Wayans Bros walked in. I showed them our lines and they loved those Rudolph misfits the most. They knew every saying by heart.
@@joep5300 Was 2000 the only year that Gemmy was present at the Toy Fair or were there other years?
@@coolman6940 We were at Toy Fair in the 200 5th Ave building every year until they closed it down. I was there for a week or two every February and sometimes for week in October.
Awesome! This is really a unique one, I must say. Does that mean this one ruclips.net/video/o8vXemutdkk/видео.html at the 0:45 second mark isn't real? Just wondering, im assuming it isnt.
And do you own this prototype? ruclips.net/video/zP8KiXzIO8o/видео.html it's the one at the 0:31 mark of the linked video.
@@TheLiqui That's Dr. Grossman. We did that for Kaybee but they eventually didn't buy it. I developed a Dr. Grossman card game too with a bunch of different ailments that played like the Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh games. The object was to be the grossest without killing yourself.
I'm the one who made that video lol. The Rocky at 0:45 is a normal one, the picture was edited to look like he was smiling.