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First of all? I'm sure you all want to know What's Going On In Olive and Popeye? And what's going on in Thimble Theatre? February - May 2024 in two comics that still cover not even half the week between them.
Now, let's enjoy a double-dose of Gilmore Car Museum pictures:
You've seen the gigantic Gnome-Mobile set; now here's the real actual Gnome-Mobile as used for the people performing human sizes.
So this is a picture from low down, shooting up, in the actual car. How's it compare to the giant car set? Besides the lighting being different and worse?
Pretty sure this is the actual Rolls Royce, looking forward to where the driver sits.
According to this explanatory panel, the Gnome-Mobile is a 1930 Rolls Royce Phantom II Sedanca De Ville, who I believe showed up in the 101 Dalmatians II direct-to-video movie.
The giant Gnome-Mobile set has an upper level, from which you can photograph the prop driver's seat and peer int the backseat. How does this look, as a photograph with no specific focal plane?
And now here's a picture looking down into the giant Gnome-Mobile prop; you can see an actual person on the side. I believe they didn't notice the set and thought the actual car was all there was to see.
This is a photo from the upper level of the set, looking out over the faux door and catching the whole display of kids' vehicles.
Pictures of Walt Disney having something to do with the movie, and some clip of the movie showing off the car. There's also a camera with teleprompter that I assume has something to do with the filming.
And there we go: everything I know about The Gnome-Mobile, the car and the mobile.
Back to the toys. Here's a board game that, really, seems like exactly the sort of thing I would never stop playing given the chance. Board Game Geek offers that the game exists all right, but hasn't got much else to say.
Finally, a pedal-powered vehicle for the dizzy kangaroo!
And here's a toy car that seems to offer all the excitement of a railroad handcar but rail-free.
Trivia: The Expert Committee of the Royal Philatelic Society examines something like three thousand stamps for forgery each year. It keeps no official notes of its deliberations. Source: The One-Cent Magneta: Inside the Quest to Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World, James Barron.
Currently Reading: Sign Painters, Faythe Levine and Sam Macon.
