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meanmistert
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 Donald & Frog from waaay back I found these at a antique shop while on vacation a couple months ago. I'm thinking both will become custom fodder. (unless somebody tells me that Donald is worth a million bucks) They are both "squeakers," but have since lost their squeak. I'm really diggin the frog. The sentimental asshole side of me almost wants to leave him as-is, because he's got character. Does anyone have any input on either of these?
Donald: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS MADE IN JAPAN
Frog: THE SUN RUBBER CO. 1955
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atease
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oh i love that donald duck. 
there are some big donald fans here...they might be able to chime in on his origins.
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Dean
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atease
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ha! i just watched that the other day!
didn't realize the resemblance until you pointed it out!
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Dean
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I've never seen it, but recognized the froggie from "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" at Disneyland.
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meanmistert
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Is that who it's supposed to be? Colors are off, figure has 4 fingers instead of 3, no hat, etc. I thought maybe this was a more generic fig. (maybe more like "ripoff") Even way back Disney still had their name slapped on everything usually. Hmm...is that record from '55 or before?
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atease
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there is some info about the film here
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041094/
looks like originally it came out in 1949. the sleepy hollow portion was one of my favorite rentals at the video store when i was a kid, and i bought the re-issued version on DVD about a year ago. Classic stuff...really, really great.
i think your toy is Mr Toad, but I'm not sure it's the disney Mr Toad. it might have been released as a tie in to a "Wind in the Willows" set.
it's great to see all of these historical references come out in toy form though.
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vintagevinyl
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mangakaben
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wow that donald is awesome, does his armes and legs have articulation??
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meanmistert
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vintagevinyl wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/BUSTER-BROWN-Froggy-Gremlin-5-squeak-toy-1948-REMPEL_W0QQitemZ250186661057QQihZ015QQcategoryZ723QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem is this the same frog ? hmm.... hard to say exactly what it is, my guy has no shoes, leads me even more to believe that maybe he's a knockoff. mangakaben wrote: wow that donald is awesome, does his armes and legs have articulation?? arms, legs, head move, I guess you call it 5 points of articulation, one for each limb?
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