Please sign the "Save Roger Rabbit" petition

Just to let you all know...

The number of signatures is now up to 849.

Phillip Chapman, are you going to sign the petition too? I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for signing the petition, Phillip Chapman.

There are 853 signatures on the petition now.

Hopefully, 2003 will be a better year for Roger Rabbit.

For one thing, that 2-disc Vista series "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" DVD set is getting released...and it seems that they're putting a lot of time, effort and heart into it. Can't wait to buy it.

Ironically, 2003 marks the 15th anniversary of the Rabbit and his movie.

Maybe they'll have the Roger Rabbit walk-around character come out for meet-and-greets at Walt Disney World and Disneyland again (if only for a limited time/if only for the 15th anniversary).

One production that I've really been wanting to see Roger in is the "House of Mouse" TV series. Maybe he'll at least make a cameo appearance in that series next year.

Also, Roger's image and likeness (including a giant statue of him) is being used in the 1980s section of Walt Disney World's still-under-construction "Pop Century Resort" hotel, which may finally open next year.

Maybe they'll make some new merchandise for the occasion. (It's nice that the Roger characters are still appearing on merchandise and artwork from time to time.)

I also hope that for the DVD they'll animate the Roger cartoon shorts that DIDN'T get made, including "Hare in My Soup".

<< In spite of all the bad blood between these two companies, it sounds like they're really putting differences aside to make this a DVD worth buying. >>

Hopefully, this new collaboration will FINALLY spell the end of the dreaded Spielberg/Disney feud--that way, Roger and his co-stars can finally be able to appear in new Disney projects and return to the Disney universe where they belong.

Firstly, he will never be on House of mouse, seening as how i's been cancelled. Wouldn't blaime them. I saw two episdoes and I'm like...OOh another commercial for Disney!

Maybe there will be Merchandise. Now that they have this pin collecting thing going on, a Roget Rabbit pin set (at least). I saw the "Roger Wnna be," aka bonkers as a pin. I hear they have Talespin and Darkwing Duck too.

They had a snow globe released last year, however.

Thought you might enjoy this!

Here are some scans of my Roger Rabbit original animation cel collection. They hang above my desk. The scans aren't that great - the scanner light created cel glare that I tried to diffuse. The cels are placed on a black and white photographic background and the shadows and effects were added later.

Take me to jamie's collection!

I think there were Roger Rabbit pins release for the 10th anniversary a couple of years ago.
They shoulda done more, though, for that milestone...

- R -

Benny the Cab made a cameo in one episode. Is that close enough?

House of mouse isnt cancelled where did you hear this? and it isnt a commericial for Disney where do you get that,oh wait you are the one who posted for 2 days not fhing xcept whining about not reading the fine print of a toyfare mag,sorry that just always bothered me.

anyway I also said the Benny appeared but he said he wasnt Roger even though he just said Roger character

<<anyway I also said the Benny appeared but he said he wasnt Roger even though he just said Roger character>>

I don't understand what you have said here. Could you explain?

sorry should explain just a bit more.see I said on another Board that Benny appeared on house of mouse but he said somehow that wasnt the same.

I know Benny appeared on "House of Mouse"...in 2 episodes, actually...and he spoke in both of them.

I still want to see Roger in there...and Jessica, Baby Herman and the Weasels too.

Frogboy: Whoaaaa. Greeeat cels. The Roger one up top is VERY Richard Williams, with the foreshortening and all. I normally can't see much of his style in Roger, but that hits it home. Neeeat.

Glad you enjoyed it. When I purchased the cel in the early 90s the gallery representative actually listed the foreshortening as a negative selling point. I was like - what? That sort of perspective shot is what Roger is all about. The only regret I have about the picture is that his signature tooth is hidden. It's a spectacular face shot though and a key line in the film: "Laughter is a very powerful thing..." Now Jessica is nearly flawless IMO. Just enough boobage, but not overdone. LOL!

I also have a Bugs Bunny signed by Chuck Jones (from an 80s vitamin commercial), a 1960s Donald Duck comic strip, 2 Oliver and Company cels and some limited edition Bambi lithographs signed by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson. I used to be quite the collector.

I gladly signed the petition, but i don't think it'll do any good. What with the rivalry between Dreamworks and Disney, I don't think there's much incentive for the two to work together.

Incidentally, I believe this was tried before. I worked as a tour guide at the Magic of Disney Animation at Disney/MGM studios Waaay back in 1998. On one of the computer stations that the animators were using for pencil tests was a bit of live action film with a man at a desk standing up with Roger Rabbit reacting to him. It was a short loop, left on the computer to compile, but it was long enough to see that it really was Roger. The rumor went around was that it was for the sequel "Who Drew Roger Rabbit," which was supposedly in production at the time. (Animators and Tour guides had very little contact -I was only allowed into the animation building once- so i was never able to confirm it.) And it's likely that any production that did happen was cancelled, as the projects the studio were working on at the time, Tarzan, Emperor's new groove (then titled "Kingdom of the Sun") and Atlantis have all long since gone out. In fact, a Animator's newsletter I grabbed when I went into the building announced that they'd just chosen the production team for thier new project, Lilo and Stitch. So, even though a Roger project would have a very long production schedule, it'd doubtful it ever got out of preproductions.

Please don't start with the pessimism, please. I've heard too much of it on other boards.

I know about the rivalry...that's why I started the petition...to try and put a stop to it...because of the "domino effects" it's been having on the public.

It might work--it got the Cartoon Network to show Speedy Gonzales cartoons again, for one thing.

I completely agree with you here, Phillip. Who would have thought that Who Framed Roger Rabbit could have been made in the first place? Warner Brothers, Disney and other companies somehow got along enough to make the film. Who is to say that it won't happen with Disney and Speilberg. It wouldn't likely be a Dreamworks venture anyway. It was an Amblin release and would likely remain that way. Anything is possoble and the almighty dollar may decide this one. It seems that's one thing that both companies can agree on!

Whether it's gonna happen or not - now is probably the right time what with all other cult things from long ago being revived. I'd like to see a sequel or prequel and it'd get massive publicity.

For anyone who's interested, the soundtrack to WFRR was recently re-released. It's been out of print for years, and I had given up on finding it (I traded for a cassette dub of the CD a couple years ago, but just not the same, ya know?) so I was shocked when I was casually walking through the soundtrack section at Best Buy last summer and there it was, right out in front!
Pick it up if you missed out on it the first time around!

- R -

Good points, Luke.

By the way, the petition now has 867 signatures.

Please keep signing it and telling others about it--I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks again. Bye for now.