#zoggs

[animeprincessforever]

Rest In Piece James Earl Jones you will be missed

[glamnessaaumisc]

New Alien OC Just Dropped

So in this universe I'm building, all extraterrestrial beings are actually extremely mutated and/or genetically-modified versions of humans and/or other Earthling species. I figured I'd add cat-people since this is humanity making these aliens and there's got to be at least one weeaboo scientist who wanted to make catgirls real.

The Neko race was among the first of the Post-Human races to ever evolve, engineered by an ancient American geneticist who was obsessed with Japanese entertainment. In memory of their founding father, Neko culture and society is based entirely off of anime and tokusatsu.

Like all other post-Humans, Nekos are native English speakers, but they incorporate bastardized Japanese words and phrases into their speech patterns in a way most Earthling-Humans would consider "weeaboo-esque." For example, despite there being no plurals in the Japanese language, Nekos will still pluralize Japanese words. As expected of a culture based entirely off of weeb shit, the recent liberation of Earth and the recovery of Japan has resulted in many Nekos embarking in pilgrimage to the area, only to be hit with a severe case of Paris syndrome as they realize it bears little resemblance to their own anime-derived culture, and there are no English subtitles.

[reppyy]

[chernobog13]

In the mid-1970s, spurred by the success that Mego was having with The World’s Greatest Super Heroes line of action figures, other toy companies were eager to jump on the bandwagon.  The problem was, Mego had a virtual stranglehold on superheroes with their license agreements with both DC Comics and Marvel Comics, who were the only game in town at the time.

Since the comic book superheroes were unavailable some companies, for example Kenner, licensed TV superheroes like The Six Million Dollar Man.

Another company, Hasbro, had tried and failed to get the license for The Six Million Dollar Man.  Undeterred, Hasbro created their own cyborg hero: Mike Power, the Atomic Man.  Hasbro then followed up with another superhero figure, Bulletman, who was extremely similar to - but supposedly not inspired by - the Fawcett Comics character of the same name from the Golden Age.  Both were incorporated into the G.I. Joe Adventure Team.

That leads us to Ideal in 1977, and their own entry into the superhero action figure market: Electroman, and his arch-enemy, Zogg.

Electroman was one of those concepts that looked much better on the page than in real life (especially in the comic book ads, which look like they were drawn by Dave Cockrum).  

In a world where most action figures were smaller (the bulk of Mego’s figures were 8 inches tall; Hasbro’s G.I. Joes were 11.5 to 12 inches; Kenner’s The Six Million Dollar Man was 13 inches), Electroman came in at a whopping 16 inches!

And what superpowers did this gargantuan action figure possess?  He flashed light from his head and made noises.

That’s it.

Yes, Electroman had some decent (but not great) articulation.  And he had soft, flexible boots.  But really he was just some schmoe with a flashlight welded to the top of his head.

Zogg wasn’t any better.  He  looked like a monkey that had been dipped in Nair, and he was barely articulated at all.  Sure, he could move on his own (due to wheels in his feet and an electric motor), but if you shined Electroman’s light - or really any flashlight - at his head, Zogg would stop and fall over on his face.

On top of which, both figures required 3 “C” batteries (sold separately, of course) to power their gimmicks.  Back in 1977 batteries cost as much as a student loan payment, and lasted about 6 hours!

In the end, the toy buying public was completely underwhelmed by Electroman and Zogg, and Ideal cancelled the figures after just one year.

[jkflesh]

New JK FLESH and FINAL tracks out now

Justin Broadrick has donated two tracks for a fundraiser to save Bristol's Mickey Zoggs from closure.

"Noods present here a look into the sounds of Surrey Street, friends and family of Zoggs and Noods alike come together in a behemoth compilation touring through the experimental, the bizarre and the danceable to raise money to keep the creative fire burning. Godflesh’s Justin Broadrick presents a track from both the FINAL and JK Flesh projects, Memotone offers a calming respite from the chaos of the world, pure avant-gardist spoken word from Richie Culver, strange electronics from aircode, as well as a slew of talent from many other incredible artists. Mickey Zoggs rose from the ashes of The Surrey Vaults, the home of the first Noods studio — reviving the commitment to supporting underground alternative music without the chaos. Surrey Street has seen the full remit of freaks and weirdos from across the globe declare their musical prowess to the community. However, this is in jeopardy with Mickey Zoggs at risk of development, and by extension, Noods Radio at risk of being unable to continue broadcasting. Lets not let another venue be destroyed at the whim of a failing country — this time calls for extreme music and extreme action. All proceeds will be donated to the cause, to save Mickey Zoggs — Long live Surrey Street, long live Mickey Zoggs. If you feel it, please consider donating what you can to our crowdfunder. —> www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/keep-mickey-zoggs-alive

[archerygun]

A very old collection of drawings of the Zoggs seals as selkies. Don’t ask me why, don’t ask me how. This was an exorcism. The concept haunted me for like 2 weeks until I caved and created it. I do not accept constructive criticism because I have created high art.

Excuse how ASS these proportions and faces are, these drawings are like at least a year if not two old by now.

But this is what I am best known for in some circles and I figured I may as well let you know what kind of absolute doofus you are dealing with here before anybody gets the impression that I deserve basic respect.

(Slightly influenced by the personalities and names me and my sister gave them as kids)

[frozen-banana-guacamole]

RIP James Earl Jones.

[one-time-i-dreamttt]

we were trading friendship bracelets at a taylor swift concert with a friend and i'd spent so long making bracelets i just wanted to get some good ones in return. and i met this girl and we switched bracelets and she leaves and i looked down and it was just a zoggs pair purple and pink pair of goggles wrapped around my wrist

anyways i look up and it turns out we're not even at a taylor swift concert, it's a bloody red nose day campaign with dolly parton and that guy singer who was big in the seventies with long curly black hair and it's grey now, i don't know his name

[halloweenmoviewatchlist]

Sennentuntschi (2010)

[riot4jem-blog-blog-blog]

For Halloween, Zogg the Terrible — a face only a mother could love. Ideal Toys nemesis of Electroman. ©️1977 #zogg #zoggtheterrible #elecrtoman #idealtoys https://www.instagram.com/p/CkTw8fPplwM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[glamnessaaumisc]

Sci-Fi Worldbuilding

I made a map of the countries involved in my sci-fi scenario. I'll explain the few notable countries whose lore I've developed. Countries are in bold, and races are italicized.

United States - The United States (sans America) is the oldest and most powerful nation in the Solar Neighborhood. Its culture and government has barely changed since its beginnings in the ancient Holocene Epoch. When the Earth was lost to Zrout, the capital changed to the orbital habitat New Washington and the government underwent some restructuring. The United States now consists of 10 gargantuan states, each a star system full of orbital habitats.

Altair Kingdom - The Altair Kingdom is the oldest and most dominant Basaran nation. It is one of the few monarchies in the Solar Neighborhood, ruled by the tyrannical King Vodd. Though Vodd is extremely unpopular among his subjects, his youngest son and eldest daughter, Prince Zogg and Princess Hox, are very well-liked.

Kozmite Technocracy - Home to Zrout, the evil genius who took over the Solar System, the Kozmite Technocracy is a pariah to most other states in the Solar Neighborhood. It is a warmongering, Greyman-supremacist terrorist state which seeks interstellar hegemony. Its only close ally, the Lesser Technocracy of the Grey Kozm, is more of a vassal state than anything.

Nekoese State - The Nekoese State is home to the Nekos, a race created by a crazed American geneticist who was obsessed with anime and tokusatsu media. Nekoese culture heavily reflects its founder's interests, hence why many refer to the nation as the "Weeaboo Empire."

Anarchy - There are four systems in the Solar Neighborhood that are not claimed by any nation. The Solar System is one. It was where all known life originated. However, it has been closed off from the rest of the Neighborhood ever since Zrout took over Earth. New Georgia was the first orbital habitat built by the United States back before Earth fell, but the States lost all contact with the colony after a mere 100 years. No one knows why, as most of the information about the colony is top secret. Kage was formerly under the rule of the Arcadian Convention, but anarchists took over the stellar government and engaged in a massive rebellion. It is now known as the "Party System," because ever since the rebellion the system has been throwing one huge, never-ending party. Finally, G254-29 is a system shrouded in mystery. No one knows what's going on there, as no spacefaring vessel that has gone to that system has ever returned.

[justforbooks]

James Earl Jones

American actor hailed for his many classical roles whose voice became known to millions as that of Darth Vader in Star Wars

During the run of the 2011 revival of Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy in London, with Vanessa Redgrave, the actor James Earl Jones, who has died aged 93, was presented with an honorary Oscar by Ben Kingsley, with a link from the Wyndham’s theatre to the awards ceremony in Hollywood.

Glenn Close in Los Angeles said that Jones represented the “essence of truly great acting” and Kingsley spoke of his imposing physical presence, his 1,000-kilowatt smile, his basso profundo voice and his great stillness. Jones’s voice was known to millions as that of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars film trilogy and Mufasa in the 1994 Disney animation The Lion King, as well as being the signature sound of US TV news (“This is CNN”) for many years.

His status as the leading black actor of his generation was established with the Tony award he won in 1969 for his performance as the boxer Jack Jefferson (a fictional version of Jack Johnson) in Howard Sackler’s The Great White Hope on Broadway, a role he repeated in Martin Ritt’s 1970 film, and which earned him an Oscar nomination.

On screen, Jones – as the fictional Douglass Dilman – played the first African-American president, in Joseph Sargent’s 1972 movie The Man, based on an Irving Wallace novel. His stage career was notable for encompassing great roles in the classical repertoire, such as King Lear, Othello, Hickey in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh and Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

He was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, the son of Robert Earl Jones, a minor actor, boxer, butler and chauffeur, and his wife Ruth (nee Connolly), a teacher, and was proud of claiming African and Irish ancestry. His father left home soon after he was born, and he was raised on a farm in Jackson, Michigan, by his maternal grandparents, John and Maggie Connolly. He spoke with a stutter, a problem he dealt with at Brown’s school in Brethren, Michigan, by reading poetry aloud.

On graduating from the University of Michigan, he served as a US Army Ranger in the Korean war. He began working as an actor and stage manager at the Ramsdell theatre in Manistee, Michigan, where he played his first Othello in 1955, an indication perhaps of his early power and presence.

The family had moved from the deep south to Michigan to find work, and now Jones went to New York to join his father in the theatre and to study at the American Theatre Wing with Lee Strasberg. He made his Broadway debut at the Cort theatre in 1958 in Dory Schary’s Sunrise at Campobello, a play about Franklin D Roosevelt.

He was soon a cornerstone of Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare festival in Central Park, playing Caliban in The Tempest, Macduff in Macbeth and another Othello in the 1964 season. He also established a foothold in films, as Lt Lothar Zogg in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove (1963), a cold war satire in which Peter Sellers shone with brilliance in three separate roles.

The Great White Hope came to the Alvin theatre in New York from the Arena Stage in Washington, where Jones first unleashed his shattering, shaven-headed performance – he was described as chuckling like thunder, beating his chest and rolling his eyes – in a production by Edwin Sherin that exposed racism in the fight game at the very time of Muhammad Ali’s suspension from the ring on the grounds of his refusal to sign up for military service in the Vietnam war.

Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs (1970) was a response to Jean Genet’s The Blacks, in which Jones, who remained much more of an off-Broadway fixture than a Broadway star in this period, despite his eminence, played a westernised urban African man returning to his village for his father’s funeral. With Papp’s Public theatre, he featured in an all-black version of The Cherry Orchard in 1972, following with John Steinbeck’s Lennie in Of Mice and Men on Broadway and returning to Central Park as a stately King Lear in 1974.

When he played Paul Robeson on Broadway in the 1977-78 season, there was a kerfuffle over alleged misrepresentations in Robeson’s life, but Jones was supported in a letter to the newspapers signed by Edward Albee, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Miller, Lillian Hellman and Richard Rodgers. He played his final Othello on Broadway in 1982, partnered by Christopher Plummer as Iago, and appeared in the same year in Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard, a white South African playwright he often championed in New York.

In August Wilson’s Fences (1987), part of that writer’s cycle of the century “black experience” plays, he was described as an erupting volcano as a Pittsburgh garbage collector who had lost his dreams of a football career and was too old to play once the major leagues admitted black players. His character, Troy Maxson, is a classic of the modern repertoire, confined in a world of 1950s racism, and has since been played by Denzel Washington and Lenny Henry.

Jones’s film career was solid if not spectacular. Playing Sheikh Abdul, he joined a roll call of British comedy stars – Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Roy Kinnear, Spike Milligan and Peter Ustinov – in Marty Feldman’s The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), in stark contrast to his (at first uncredited) Malcolm X in Ali’s own biopic, The Greatest (1977), with a screenplay by Ring Lardner. He also appeared in Peter Masterson’s Convicts (1991), a civil war drama; Jon Amiel’s Sommersby (1993), with Richard Gere and Jodie Foster; and Darrell Roodt’s Cry, the Beloved Country (1995), scripted by Ronald Harwood, in which he played a black South African pastor in conflict with his white landowning neighbour in the 40s.

In all these performances, Jones quietly carried his nation’s history on his shoulders. On stage, this sense could irradiate a performance such as that in his partnership with Leslie Uggams in the 2005 Broadway revival at the Cort of Ernest Thompson’s elegiac On Golden Pond; he and Uggams reinvented the film performances of Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn as an old couple in a Maine summer house.

He brought his Broadway Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to London in 2009, playing an electrifying scene with Adrian Lester as his broken sports star son, Brick, at the Novello theatre. The coarse, cancer-ridden big plantation owner was transformed into a rumbling, bear-like figure with a totally unexpected streak of benignity perhaps not entirely suited to the character. But that old voice still rolled through the stalls like a mellow mist, rich as molasses.

That benign streak paid off handsomely, though, in the London reprise of a deeply sentimental Broadway comedy (and Hollywood movie), Driving Miss Daisy, in which his partnership as a chauffeur to Redgrave (unlikely casting as a wealthy southern US Jewish widow, though she got the scantiness down to a tee) was a delightful two-step around the evolving issues of racial tension between 1948 and 1973.

So deep was this bond with Redgrave that he returned to London for a third time in 2013 to play Benedick to her Beatrice in Mark Rylance’s controversial Old Vic production of Much Ado About Nothing, the middle-aged banter of the romantically at-odds couple transformed into wistful, nostalgia for seniors.

His last appearance on Broadway was in a 2015 revival of DL Coburn’s The Gin Game, opposite Cicely Tyson. He was given a lifetime achievement Tony award in 2017, and the Cort theatre was renamed the James Earl Jones theatre in 2022.

Jones’s first marriage, to Julienne Marie (1968-72), ended in divorce. In 1982 he married Cecilia Hart with whom he had a son, Flynn. She died in 2016. He is survived by Flynn, also an actor, and a brother, Matthew.

🔔 James Earl Jones, actor, born 17 January 1931; died 9 September 2024

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[grigori77]

James Earl Jones, RIP

Just heard the heartbreaking news, one of the greatest, most awesome and all time INCREDIBLE actors of all time, as well as one of the sweetest, kindest and most selfless human beings ever, has passed away. The seemingly immortal James Earl Jones, one of the most famous actors of his generation, well respected on both big and small screens AND on the stage for over SEVEN DECADES, respeonsible for portraying some of my favourite screen characters ever ... this might be the one that hurts me the most this year ...

Of course, like everybody, he will FOREVER be most closely associated with Star Wars, as the voice of probably the greatest screen villain of all time, Darth Vader.

But he was also King Jaffe Joffer, the father of Eddie Murphy's wayward prince in Coming to America and its sequel ...

The Counter Culture author Terence Mann in the magnificent Field of Dreams, as well as ...

NSA Agent Abbott in director Phil Alden Robinson's next film, the underrrated suspense thriller Sneakers ...

Simba's dad Mufasa in The Lion King ...

Jack Ryan's CIA boss and father figure, Admiral Jim Greer, in The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games AND Clear & Present Danger ...

Lt. Luther Zogg in one of my favourite screen comedies of all time, Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb (his VERY FIRST big screen role) ...

and, of course, MY very favourite role that he EVER PLAYED, the role I will always MOST FONDLY remember him for, one of my very favourite ever screen villains, the dastardly ancient wizard Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian.

Oh yeah, and also those brilliant and thoroughly hilarious Sprint adverts in which he and Malcolm McDowell would read out inane social media posts with the utmost gravitas as though it was Shakespeare ...

The man had an AMAZING RUN, and he is guaranteed to go down as one of the all time greats, beloved around the world and destined to become one of the true icons of the 20th AND 21st Centuries, remembered LONG after his passing. But he's STILL gone far too soon ...

James Earl Jones, January 17th 1931 - September 9th 2024. Rest In Power.

[1980sactionfigures]

Zogg the Terrible - Electroman (Ideal)

[rubenovichoff]

expecting to find myself in possession of the sweet iodine perfume Highly popular few years back so i know u know we know its iodine-weirdness quality is exaggerated but it is in fact fun and i like it but the air is already getting too warm and pollen-y for it (((((((( sad i cant have body-temp of -7 C