Toy Suggestion OTD: Medicom Vinyl Collectible Dolls: 70s Garfield
I just got my Medicom 50s Snoopy VCD figure in the mail yesterday. It's awesome! I posted a photo of it on Facebook, and one of my friends there had a great idea... why not make the original Garfield design into a toy?
I know that Garfield hasn't really lacked for merchandising, but there's never really been a figure of the first version of the character (not that I'm aware of, anyway). To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, here's how the lasagna-eater looks today:
... and here's how he looked back in his first strip in 1978:
Artwork ©1978, 2009 Paws, Inc.
I think this Garfield design would make an awesome toy! How about it, Medicom?
I know that Garfield hasn't really lacked for merchandising, but there's never really been a figure of the first version of the character (not that I'm aware of, anyway). To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, here's how the lasagna-eater looks today:
... and here's how he looked back in his first strip in 1978:
Artwork ©1978, 2009 Paws, Inc.I think this Garfield design would make an awesome toy! How about it, Medicom?
posted by Jeff Pidgeon at
12:15 AM
7 Comments:
I think it would be a great pillow. I think the retro Garfield and the new Garfield are my favorite versions of the cat.
i think i prefer the old apathetic version of garfield.
more eeyore like. to many toons today are insanely over enthusiastically happy.
Agreed. His sullenness was part of the joke for me!
The old version of Garfield was awesome. They really should consider bringing it back. I also love that Snoopy vinyl figure---I was thinking that it would be cool if they made an animated special or feature using the "old school" version of the Peanuts characters from the 1950s--the amount of detail and style is amazing, and shocking compared to the latter day "Peanuts".
That would be neat, but it'd be tricky to write. There are plenty of running stories left from the strip, though! Or maybe there isn't. I haven't watched a lot of the new TV specials!
I guess Charles Schulz probably left strict rules about how his characters were handled.
Concerning the "old school" Garfield--I have the book "Garfield loses his feet: His Ninth Book" from 1984. The back of the book has a cartoon "Garfields Yet to Come!" and shows variations of Garfield in 1986, 1996, 2063, and 2121. The Garfield from 2121 is the very first design, and is thinking "Here we go again."
I dunno, I think the new one is quite badly designed - why is a supposedly fat, lazy cat so vertically stretched and top rather than bottom-heavy? It definitely is about the merchandise, but unfortunately it forgot about the character itself. Sorta like the way they changed the Road Runner into a girl and redesigned Tweety's proportions in the early nineties to be appealing to the female demographic (when in fact he's the biggest little sh!t of ALL the Warners characters!) and work better for merch.
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