New Animated Short From Skydance Animation and Executive Producer John Lasseter Will Leave You Blushing
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Part I of premier Schroeder toy and bank collection rings the register at $3 1 million
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Part I of premier Schroeder toy and bank collection rings the register at $3.1M
J&E Stevens Bread Winners cast-iron mechanical bank, possibly the best of all known examples. Near-mint condition. Sold for $102,000.
VINELAND, NJ
.- The excitement level leading up to Bertoias $3.1 million sale of the Aaron and Abby Schroeder mechanical bank and toy collection was already starting to build shortly after the Christmas holidays. As early as January, antique toy enthusiasts who knew of the extraordinary collections reputation were calling to make appointments for private previews at Bertoias New Jersey gallery. Some who were especially determined to attend the sale in person staked their claims for a coveted seat at the live event, held March 5 and 6.
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It is not hard to hate Sid Phillips, the enfant terrible of Pixar’s groundbreaking 1995 CG animated film,
Toy Story. From the toys’ point of view, he is the devil incarnate, an 11-year-old anarchist who never met a plaything he couldn’t burn, explode, or Frankenstein into a bizarre, mutant lifeform. With his braces-clad sneer, his skull-emblazoned T-shirt and his bedroom stocked with ominous Army handbooks, Sid is the polar opposite of childhood innocence, an unholy force of nature who revels in destruction for destruction’s sake.
Or is he? Granted, Sid would not be anyone’s first choice for Most Huggable Child, but is he really an unambiguous personification of evil? Consider: What comes out of Sid’s desktop workshop the likes of a dinosaur/Raggedy Ann hybrid or a shaven, one-eyed doll’s head affixed to an arachnid-esque assemblage of Erector set girders may look horrific. But viewed from a loftier perspective, these creations might just