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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2011 12:04:11 GMT -7
So, I was watching the animatronic movie last night and right at the beginning when Ilana is singing "Come Dream with Me Tonight" to baby Teddy, I noticed how Teddy moved like the WoW Teddy. The only difference is that the arms were moving. So, I'm wondering, did they use a modified version of the WoW Teddy Ruxpin for baby Teddy?
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Post by teddy4evr on Jun 12, 2011 12:54:26 GMT -7
No, he was made speacailly for the movie. He is much bigger with rotating eyes that are not built in to his eyelid.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2011 17:20:12 GMT -7
Ah. Okay. I wasn't sure. It just looked like it, because of the way the head was, and how the mouth and eyes moved. Thanks for that explanation though.
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Post by teddy4evr on Jun 12, 2011 20:19:46 GMT -7
Your welcome!! Oh, and thanks for saying what Teddy's mom's name is, I never knew what her name is.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2011 7:04:39 GMT -7
No problem. It was mentioned quite a few times in the animated series. I don't think the Adventure series ever gave her a name though.
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Post by TRO Admin on Jun 23, 2011 14:13:06 GMT -7
Phil Baron's wife voiced Illana.
If any of you have ever watched or heard of "Welcome To Pooh Corner"... Ken and AlchemyII designed those live-action animatronics for that show and the Teddy Ruxpin live action movie uses identical technology. I own the Purple Fob from the movie and he has no insides, is built like a puppet. He has a wire attached to his eyes and mouth that were attached to a pulley system to animate.
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Post by teddy4evr on Jun 23, 2011 14:26:19 GMT -7
That is really cool!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2011 21:16:43 GMT -7
I remember "Welcome to Pooh Corner." The Disney Channel used to show reruns back in the day...it was fun to watch, but I can see how making a show like that could get cumbersome and expensive.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2011 5:51:27 GMT -7
I remember it too. It was a pretty decent show for Disney's version of Winnie the Pooh. In a way Teddy Ruxpin and Pooh Bear have something in common, besides the production staff and voice actors/actresses. They both had live action shows, and became a cartoon later on. The only difference is that "Welcome to Pooh Corner" made it to series, whereas "The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin" made it only to pilot, before being revamped into the animated series a year later.
I'm sure if they were to do either "Welcome to Pooh Corner", "Dumbo's Circus" and "The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin" now, it probably wouldn't cost as much now, and the technology would be better. Though, and I hope they wouldn't, they might go the CGI route for a show like that.
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Post by TRO Admin on Jun 26, 2011 11:15:43 GMT -7
I am a fan of "old school"... but I think Teddy would be best served now as a CGI project. To advance the storyline though at this point I would be happy with caveman rock drawings.  I think Teddy has a bright future. We all need to keep the interest growing here online. |
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Post by teddy4evr on Jun 26, 2011 11:43:13 GMT -7
I hate CGI.....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2011 17:24:08 GMT -7
I don't mind CGI. And, definitely seeing Teddy in CG would be awesome. He could probably do so much more in CG than in traditional. And, it would be the next logical step in Teddy's evolution. I mean, story wise he appeared as a drawing in the books, then shifted to animatronics for the movie, and finally into traditional animation when it proved to be cheaper to do a television show with it, instead of animatronics.
Which, actually leads me to a question. I found on Youtube the video extras from the Hi-Top Teddy Ruxpin tapes, as well as the Come Dream with Me Tonight video special, and I was wondering, why were those scenes, and the special done in animatronics, rather than in animation? Was it to distinguish between the fact that the animatronic scenes weren't part of the episode(s) on the tapes, or was it just because it was just one character, and a simple location like the Ruxpin living room, Bounder Pass, The bottom of the Treacherous Mountains, or Boggley Woods/Woodley Bog?
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Post by teddy4evr on Jun 26, 2011 19:16:34 GMT -7
I still would think CGI wouldn't capture Teddy well. Animatronics was awesome, they shoulden't even have made the cartoon, in my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2011 19:35:33 GMT -7
If the animatronics had been cheaper, they wouldn't've made the animated show. It would've been an animatronic show, though I can't really imagine characters like Quellor, Eleanore Tweeg and Bognostroclum in animatronic form.
But that still doesn't answer my last question about the animatronic scenes from the Hi-Top tapes and the Come Dream with Me Tonight special.
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Post by teddy4evr on Jun 27, 2011 7:05:07 GMT -7
I guess they wanted to nake it seem magical, like Teddy was actually talking to you.
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I think Teddy has a bright future. We all need to keep the interest growing here online.