It started out as a simple hobby when, lo and behold, I realized I have just accumulated 20,000 distinct toy characters in my collection... and the number is still growing. This blog is a great space to share to others just how amazing some of these characters are especially the ones that may have been forgotten or perhaps even those deemed insignificant. Visit Percy's World of Toys as often as you can and witness how the list progresses right before your eyes. Enjoy.
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Showing posts with label Oliver and Company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oliver and Company. Show all posts
Friday, July 1, 2011
2423. Oliver
Oliver, voiced by Joey Lawrence, is a cute orange kitten who wants a home from the movie Oliver & Company.
Oliver & Company is a 1988 American animated film in which a homeless kitten named Oliver joins a gang of dogs to survive on the 1980s New York City streets. The film was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and became the twenty-seventh animated feature released in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. It was re-released in the USA, Canada, and the UK on March 29, 1996, and again on February 3, 2009 on DVD.
The film is inspired by Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, which has been adapted many other times for the screen. In this version, Oliver is a cat, Fagin's gang is made up of dogs (one of which is Dodger), and Sikes is a loan shark. After Dumbo (1941), Bambi (1942), One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), and The Rescuers (1977), this is Disney's fifth animated feature to take place in the present day of its release, using New York City as its setting.
Friday, May 27, 2011
1751. Dodger
Dodger is one of the main protagonists from Disney's 1988 feature film Oliver & Company, based on The Artful Dodger from Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist". In Disney's re-imagining, he is a street-smart mongrel (although his predominant breed appears to be terriers), continuing the stereotype that mongrels are smarter than purebreds. He is voiced by Billy Joel.
Dodger is the appointed leader of Fagin's gang his first scene in the film appears when his paws are seen underneath a car. He is calm, sly, and cool and is also Oliver's best friend since he doesn't mind cats because of "Too much fur".
Monday, May 23, 2011
1694. Georgette
Georgette is a minor antagonist in Oliver & Company, voiced and sung by Bette Midler. Georgette embodies the stereotypes of a poodle, including the stereotypical cut of their fur, their snappish tempers, and their use as show-dogs. She also embodies the tendency of show-dogs in general to be spoiled and domineering, and as a result no good as a family pet.
Georgette is vain, spoiled, over-dominating and rather selfish, with dozens of ex-boyfriends. She is not really a house-pet (explaining why Jenny would take in a stray kitten as a pet) but a pampered, prize-winning poodle with a whole room to herself in the Foxworth residence. She is incredibly jealous that Oliver is getting any attention, even though she never shows any real emotional attachment to Jenny, and helps the dog-gang rescue him just to get him out of the house.
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