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The Singing Career of Tik Tok the Clockwork Man
Before the word "robot" was invented, L. Frank Baum wrote about a clockwork man named Tik-Tok who lived in Oz. Tik-Tok is a portly metal creature who constantly needs winding. Though he has no emotions, he is ridiculously grateful to Dorothy after she discovers him in a cave and winds him up in the 1907 book Ozma of Oz. He pledges to be her slave, which is probably what inspires the lyrics he sings (while covered in rivets, at left) in a 1913 stage play called "The Tik-Tok Man of Oz":Always work and never play!So nice! Just like Robocop, Tik-Tok never goes on strike. Find out about Tik-Tok's evolution into a murderous sex fiend after the jump. More »
Don't demand a cent of pay!
What I'm wound to do I do do,
Isn't that the nicest way?
concept art
Artist, designer, and futurist Mark Goerner reimagined The Wizard of Oz long before Tin Man started rattling the airwaves and ratings on the Sci Fi Channel. This conceptual painting shows the cavern where the subterranean Munchkins dwell. It looks like a fairly lonely place with some sort of sleeping pods hanging from the ceiling by chains. Plus there are those balls of weird red liquid hopping up in the air, which probably aren't used to make treats for the Lollipop Guild. It's dark, spooky, mysterious, and we love it.
Underground Munchkin Cavern in Deconstructed Oz
Artist, designer, and futurist Mark Goerner reimagined The Wizard of Oz long before Tin Man started rattling the airwaves and ratings on the Sci Fi Channel. This conceptual painting shows the cavern where the subterranean Munchkins dwell. It looks like a fairly lonely place with some sort of sleeping pods hanging from the ceiling by chains. Plus there are those balls of weird red liquid hopping up in the air, which probably aren't used to make treats for the Lollipop Guild. It's dark, spooky, mysterious, and we love it.
tin man
Tin Man, The SciFi Channel's reimagining of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz begins airing on Sunday night as a three-night miniseries. It's a complete refab of the entire book as you know it, set in the O.Z., or Outer Zone. The 13-year-old kid in us loved the complete reworking of something that has quite frankly become stale and boring over the years. But the cynical adult in us has some problems with the story.
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Welcome to the O.Z., Bitches
Tin Man, The SciFi Channel's reimagining of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz begins airing on Sunday night as a three-night miniseries. It's a complete refab of the entire book as you know it, set in the O.Z., or Outer Zone. The 13-year-old kid in us loved the complete reworking of something that has quite frankly become stale and boring over the years. But the cynical adult in us has some problems with the story.
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