Comments on: 50 Years Of Yetis

By: korollocke

korollocke — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:13:58 +0000

The one with the yellow snow cones is the Yeti from Monsters Inc, and the fat looking thing is a Yeti from Doctor Who.

By: HIWrite

HIWrite — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:07:58 +0000

I believe the other Jim Henson film was The Labrynth, with David Bowie. I forget his name but im sure thats where hes from.

By: korollocke

korollocke — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:28:47 +0000

How about the claimed bigfoot randy brisson took a photo of just now at the vancouver olympics.

By: korollocke

korollocke — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:36:20 +0000

How’s about the 50 foot tall Yeti from the movie yeti giant of the 20th century? What wild film that is! The giant snow monster woo from ultraman is a neat looking one, there are yetis that beat you silly in the online fate games, there was even a pro wrestler in wcw called the yeti (true he was wrapped like mummy.), the action figure line from combex/tomland had a yeti, cyclops, morlock and the fly, super sugar crisp had glow in the dark bigfoot stickers in the eighties as a free inside prize, godzilla even face a yeti godzilla vs the snow creature an authorized and uber hard to find film, just like i dare you to japans first special arts direction film king kong arrives in edo from 1938 (yes he was licensed.).

By: Averagefoot

Averagefoot — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:56:28 +0000

Well now I feel like a jerk. I didn’t realise the show was so recent or I would’ve added a spoiler warning.

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:22:51 +0000

joe levit, you’re right! Tintin, it is. The Pangboche scalp inspired Herge to give his yeti a cone-head.

Rosicrucian, I would argue that Pikachu and Totoro have as much to do with how artists today are choosing to depict the Yeti as apes & gorillas. Most yetis you will find out there look like white Totoros.

korollocke, Troglodyte is a great choice. To be honest, I just didn’t know about him. I really need to get caught up on my Harryhausen. I picked Cyclops as he’s so well known in the popular culture – the epitome of the big, hulking brutish monster from myth and folklore. And yes, the bigfoot from the six million dollarman, Krofts’ Bigfoot, Beastman, etc. are all great choices too and would have been good additions. I think I saw them as advancing the popularity and visual depiction of Bigfoot/Sasquatch, more so than the Yeti. I guess I was trying to keep the Bigfoot influences to a minimum. Couldn’t resist throwing Quatchi in there though.

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There are still a few that haven’t been identified yet. Where’s the guy at the bottom from the yellow snowcones from? How about the fellow right below him with the ice bat?

By: Unknown Primate

Unknown Primate — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:18:19 +0000

The Cyclops is definitely from THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD.

By: joe levit

joe levit — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:30:52 +0000

It’s from the Adventures of Tin Tin

“Tin-Tin in Tibet.” Saw an original version in a store while on a trip in Brussels.

By: joe levit

joe levit — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:26:48 +0000

No, sorry, wrong reference. I’ll find it.

By: joe levit

joe levit — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:24:22 +0000

I think the second image is from Rin-Tin-Tin