Disney to showcase Return to Oz props

Disney's D23 expo is set to have a slew of Return to Oz props on display.

"To celebrate the success of Disney’s Oz: The Great and Powerful, the exhibit will also have a number of items on display that celebrate Disney’s history with L. Frank Baum’s Oz books. Items on display will include props and costumes from Return to Ozand Oz: The Great and Powerful; concept art from unrealized attractions and Disney Studio productions; and the patchwork dress costume from the “Rainbow Road to Oz” segment on the 1957 special The Fourth Anniversary Show."

The 2013 D23 Expo will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center from August 9-11. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit D23.com.

  If anyone here goes, will you please send me photos so I can have them for all to view?  Here is a sneak peek of the Golden Tik-Tok they have:

Return to Oz in next D23 Magazine

Return to Oz, and some of its props, will be featured in the next D23 magazine.  Here's hoping we get a Blu-Ray!!  :) 

Here is the full article:

http://www.movieweb.com/news/exclusive-d23-spring-2013-first-look-featuring-oz-the-great-and-powerful

Lunch Pails!

Here is another little look inside our Oz museum, Today we are looking at Lunch Pails. These pails hold delicious lunches for Dorothy and Billina. They grow on the Lunch Pail trees, and are used as weapons against wheelers & Evil Princesses.


These Pails are the are the actual props used in the film. We have a total of 4 of them, 1 is made of hard plastic, while the others are made of a few materials, Rubber, resin & Metal. These are a true rare find, the only others that exist are stored at the Disney Archives.


One of them is made of small hard plastic while the other 3 are made of rubber and metal. A great addition to the Museum!

More Replica Ruby Slippers!

Sorry for not blogging in a while. But just wanted to share something pretty cool, here are another Replica pair of the Ruby Slippers from Return to Oz!

Thanks Freddy for the Photos ;)

Please note these are not the pair in my collection, but another pair. It is exciting to see how many talented people there are out there!

More updates to come stay tuned....

Return to Oz Museum Tour.... Part 1

Over the Next few weeks, while updating our entire website, we will also let you in on our private Return to Oz museum / Archive. This will entail showing photos and talking about the collection. And then we will end the series with a special video of the museum.

As for today I decided to start with this Stone Lion. As some of you may know, I am lucky enough to own a few original Return to Oz props. One of which is this Stone Lion. He is made out of actual concrete and stands about 2 feet tall. He was imported to the Us from the Uk.

This lion was casted into about 10 replicas which were sold on ebay and various other places. But the original resides here in our museum...

Archive Update

After some more research it turns out that the Disney Archive has a few more props that are not on Display. Here is what the Archive department said about Return to Oz:


"Yes, we are very proud to have a very comprehensive representation of artifacts from Return to Oz, including Dorothy's costume, complete with her ruby slippers, and her lunch pails. We also have the Tin Woodsman, Jack Pumpkinhead and even the Gnome King's ruby slippers. Tik Tok was on display for many years at Disney's Hollywood Studios; A Disney archivist is currently restoring him as there are plans to use him in an upcoming Archives exhibit."


How cool is that? I would LOVE to see some of these props on Display... Or even for sale... ( one can dream... )


And here is a little bonus, I found another photo of the props.






These photos have been updated on the Surviving Prop pages....

Stay Tuned for more on Return to oz.

Return to Oz Props on Display!

For those of you that don't know. The Disney company hung on to some major props from Return to Oz. They even have them on display in their Archive department in California. Here are some photos taken from the web of the props on display...

Baum Bugle

Everyone should check out this new issue of the Baum Bugle. Winter 2010 Volume 54

There is much to do about Return to Oz!

There are interviews with Oz collectors Willard Carol, Freddy Fogarty, and Yours truly.

Also included is an updated checklist.. some of which items are not even on the site yet..

There is also storyboards of a deleted scene from Return to Oz.

To top it all off the back cover shows a wonderful painting of Tik-Tok.

Thank you Baum Bugle for remembering Return to Oz on its Anniversary year.

For more information visit their website:http://www.ozclub.org/

Ruby Slippers Completed!

Well as promised, the are now done, here is the video of them, I hope you enjoy it.

P.S. I will also be posting this in our One of a Kind page :)

Ruby Slipper Update...

I have been working on a pair of Replica Slippers, on and off for over 2 years! Wow that is a long time, but I am happy to say they are almost done. I had re-do the bows again, these will look as close as exact as possible, only my replica pair will have quite a few more rhinestones, to give it a very beautiful look. So stay tuned, I will upload a video so you all can see how they will look finished, quite a bit different than they did before in which I had a video of those too, if you search hard enough, you can find it here....

Ruby Slipper replicas

So I have been working on some Ruby Slipper replicas for what feels like forever. Many of you already know this but, I actually started this whole project about 2 years ago....

Yeah I know, I did not think it would take this long either. The reason it is taking so long was that I had to place each little rhinestone on to them one by one. On top of that each shoe had to be re-upholstered. Many of you have seen one of these shoes on our Q & A we did back in May. But since then I have re-done the bows, as to they were all wrong, come to find out. And I have added many more rhinestones. But with all of this time I still can not say they are "DONE". But, I am about 80% done with the whole project. Which I never even thought I would make it this far. I thought it would be a neat gift to you all to show you these slippers, or at least what I have done so far. I even put them on video so you can get the full effect of the rhinestones. Let me know how you like them.