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Return to Oz
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48 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.
The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.
--from Wikipedia
Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.
The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.
--from Wikipedia
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August 11, 2022
4 stars.
I still stand by this being the scariest, darkest kids movie I saw in my childhood. Mombi. Yes Princess (bitchy nasty) Mombi, you know, the lady who takes her head off at night to sleep and then decides which head she will place on her body the next day from the cabinet of heads she has at the palace. Ohh and don't forget she's the one who will threaten to take Dorothy's head because she's pretty. Don't ask me where she got the other heads from. I'll just point out the window to the 'statues' of the headless ladies in the courtyard. *shivers*
Then there is the Wheelers. Yeah, the creepy clown looking guys who have wheels instead of hands and feet. Seriously I couldn't make this up! They squeek when turning and their laugh is enough to give you nightmarers for life!
Did I mention this is a children's book. Ohh....and that it's a freaken DISNEY movie 🤯 It was like Disney wanted to work with the devil and this was the movie the came up with. I swear they actually tried to make it the stuff of nightmares.
But I got a bit side tracked. This audio read-a-long version definitely was the lightest way to tell the story. Briefly and without the horrors getting too deep into your soul. The story definitely has imagination and wonderful characters.
This story will always be one that I really love. Dark and creepy but I love horror movies. I love to be scared. This version was still good and stuck to the main parts of the storyline which was good. It's one I can go back to listen to anytime because it's so short and quick to get through but just enough so that I get that desire to hear the story, fullfilled.
(I still can't believe this was Disney...)
Audiobook I choose - https://youtu.be/XOGQxPuaVN4
I still stand by this being the scariest, darkest kids movie I saw in my childhood. Mombi. Yes Princess (bitchy nasty) Mombi, you know, the lady who takes her head off at night to sleep and then decides which head she will place on her body the next day from the cabinet of heads she has at the palace. Ohh and don't forget she's the one who will threaten to take Dorothy's head because she's pretty. Don't ask me where she got the other heads from. I'll just point out the window to the 'statues' of the headless ladies in the courtyard. *shivers*
Then there is the Wheelers. Yeah, the creepy clown looking guys who have wheels instead of hands and feet. Seriously I couldn't make this up! They squeek when turning and their laugh is enough to give you nightmarers for life!
Did I mention this is a children's book. Ohh....and that it's a freaken DISNEY movie 🤯 It was like Disney wanted to work with the devil and this was the movie the came up with. I swear they actually tried to make it the stuff of nightmares.
But I got a bit side tracked. This audio read-a-long version definitely was the lightest way to tell the story. Briefly and without the horrors getting too deep into your soul. The story definitely has imagination and wonderful characters.
This story will always be one that I really love. Dark and creepy but I love horror movies. I love to be scared. This version was still good and stuck to the main parts of the storyline which was good. It's one I can go back to listen to anytime because it's so short and quick to get through but just enough so that I get that desire to hear the story, fullfilled.
(I still can't believe this was Disney...)
Audiobook I choose - https://youtu.be/XOGQxPuaVN4
July 9, 2012
This book is based on the movie "Return to Oz." If you've seen the movie, you've read the book as there is absolutely no new information that can be gleaned from reading it. In fact, I kept seeing the movie perfectly from beginning to end in my head and hearing the character's voices as I was reading. The movie was very loosely based on L. Frank Baum's classic book "Ozma of Oz," one of the many books in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" series borrowing elements from the 1939 film such as the slippers being ruby rather than silver and also stealing the character of Jack Pumpkinhead from the book "The Marvelous Land of Oz." An AMAZING movie and excellent adaptation from screenplay to book.
January 6, 2021
I rank it ahead of most graphic novels for this panel alone:
March 12, 2024
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January 1, 2020
Read this when I was around 9-10 years old. I expected it to pick up right where the movie ended. I don't remember it well but I do remember being disappointed and finding it weird. Probably because I was little and had such big expectations for it since The Wizard of Oz is one of my favourite movies.
I'm sure little me would have given it a lower rating but I am giving it 4 because I'm certain it is better than I thought at that time.
I'm sure little me would have given it a lower rating but I am giving it 4 because I'm certain it is better than I thought at that time.
September 9, 2013
old time favorite... haha
February 28, 2016
Not as scary as the movie, but still pretty scary.
The story really isn't that good. It's weird. But I like the artwork.
Disney makes weird shit.
The story really isn't that good. It's weird. But I like the artwork.
Disney makes weird shit.
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews