Reutter Porcelain Tea Sets

Longtime Oz collectors will remember the highly sought after porcelain tea set Reutter's made for The Smithsonian some years ago.  Now Reutter's has three new tea sets available!!  

Large tea set in case

SRP: $169.99 plus shipping

Medium tea set in case

SRP: $99.99 plus shipping

Large tea set in box

SRP: $99.99 plus shipping

Pre-order here

Photos courtesy Reutter Porcelain and Dave Woodicus

Lux Playing Cards Kickstarter Campaign

Lux Playing Cards collaborates with artists the world over to create beautiful, collectible playing cards.  They're next endeavor is based on L. Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Artist Suzanne van Pelt has created some really unique versions of the Oz characters including some of the scariest flying monkeys I've ever seen!   There are 21 days left in the Kickstarter campaign.  

Bicycle Wizard of Oz Playing Card Deck Features: 

Printed by The United States Playing Card Company Bicycle playing card stock 

Inspired by L. Frank Baum’s novel, The Wizard of Oz.

 Illustrated by renowned artist Suzanne van Pelt. 

100% completely custom designed playing cards, including art, pips, royalty, backs, jokers, tuck cases, and everything else that you can put into a card deck. 

Custom Tuck Cases, including embossing in order to further enhance the designs. Foil accents on the tuck case, as well as printing on the inside of the tuck case. 

56 cards including a full 52 card deck, plus 2 Jokers, a card outlining the characters, and a double backed card.

 Standard sized poker deck of playing cards, 2.5" by 3.5" 

Linen Finish, also known as Air-Cushion Finish.

 Diptych Jokers which tell the story of a scene between Dorothy and the Wicked Witch when placed together, side by side.

Wizard of Oz Emerald City Edition - Playing Card Deck Features:

Printed by MPC with new embossing technology to accentuate the art on the card back.

 First playing cards in history with this raised technology on the card backs.

 Inspired by L. Frank Baum’s novel, The Wizard of Oz.

 Illustrated by renowned artist Suzanne van Pelt. 

Emerald green backgrounds and borders to differentiate from the other deck 

100% completely custom designed playing cards, including art, pips, royalty, backs, jokers, tuck cases, and everything else that you can put into a card deck. 

Custom Tuck Cases, including embossing in order to further enhance the designs. 

54 cards including a full 52 card deck, plus 2 Jokers. 

Standard sized poker deck of playing cards, 2.5" by 3.5"

 Linen Finish, also known as Air-Cushion Finish. 

Wraparound art on the tuck case

 Diptych Jokers which tell the story of a scene between Dorothy and the Wicked Witch when placed together, side by side.

Projected release date is June 2015.  Visit the Kickstarter page for more information and to see the various donating levels. 

Yellow Brick Road

I do apologize for the lack of updates to this blog.  I have to admit I was disheartened in a BIG way over the failure of Legends of Oz.  I thought it was utterly precious and adorable.  I blame the investment scandal more than anything.  I think the wrong people got ticked off and were willing to lose a few bucks to see this sweet little movie tank and tank it did.  What a disservice they've done. Shame on them!  Anyway, for awhile I didn't even want to look at this blog.  But Oz will always persevere and Oz fans. being the intrepid little creatures we are, always believe hope springs eternal.  It is a new year with new days so we'll see what lies ahead. And in the spirit of L. Frank Baum, a new adventure awaits.  But they need your help!

A campaign is underway right now on indiegogo.com. Indiegogo is a crowdfunding website similar to Kickstarter.  

"In Yellow Brick Road, the adult Dorothy Gale teams up with Oscar Diggs, the former Wizard of Oz, to face the mysterious Betsy Bobbin, who is tearing apart every corner of the land in search of the Silver Slippers. Our heroes will have to work with General Jinjur, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Lion, and the Good Witches in order to uncover Betsy's motives and ultimately defeat her."

This film will be directed by Leigh Scott who should be familiar to Oz fans for the imaginative Witches of Oz and was written by Angelo Thomas who is a lifelong Oz fan/collector. So this is an endeavor by an Oz fan for Oz fans.  

Any amount is greatly appreciated and there are several donation levels with benefits such as exclusive emails, posters, soundtrack, books, even tickets to the premiere.  

Also join the Yellow Brick Road Facebook page for news and updates.    https://www.facebook.com/yellowbrickroadfilm

Best of luck to Angelo and everyone involved with Yellow Brick Road!!