Fisher-Price Bath Center

Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 11:24 pm

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Rub-a-dub-dub! From earliest infancy to toddler-hood, the Aquarium Bath Center from Fisher-Price provides three stages that grow with baby. The versatile sling feature means baby can get squeaky clean in comfort while mom and dad are assured by its safety.

The sling attached as a hammock provides comfort for infants.

For newborns, the sling is attached to both ends of the tub like a hammock. This creates a platform that comfortably cradles babys entire body and keeps them above the tubs water level. For infants, the sling attaches to only the narrow end of the tub, providing trunk and neck support for those who cant sit up by themselves yet. There is an included headrest for both the newborn and infant stages that provides additional support and comfort to baby.

Toddlers can be bathed in the large end once sitting up on their own.

Finally, in the toddler position, the sling can be moved to the wide end of the tub or removed altogether, giving baby more room and offering back support for sitting upright.

Because bathing isnt just about getting clean (its also supposed to be fun!), the Aquarium Bath Center has some other great features. Soft armrests along both sides of the tub keep mom and dad comfortable so they wont have to rush through bath time. Fisher-Price also includes a rinsing cup, a water-sprinkling toy, and a fish-shaped toy that doubles as a water temperature gauge to keep everyone entertained.

Notes to Customers
Newborn stage is meant for babies weighing up to 10 pounds. Some assembly is required.

Product Description

The Fisher-Price Aquarium Bath Tub brings a comfortable bath time experience to both babies and parents in three stages of use: Newborn, Infant and Older Infant/Toddler. Each stage has a different washing position and use for the soft sling.

In Newborn Mode, hang the sling from both ends, providing a safe and comfortable platform for bathing even the youngest babies. The sling includes a head support for stability. In Infant Mode, the sling sits along the slope of the narrow end of the tub and provides support for infants that cannot hold themselves up. Additionally, the bump in the base of the tub provides a stop. In Toddler Mode, sitting babies can sit at the wider end of the tub, giving them more room. The sling provides added support along the back wall.

The Fisher-Price: Aquarium Bath Tub has soft cushions along the upper lip of the tub, giving parents a comfortable resting position for their arms and wrists. Tub comes with three aquarium-themed toys, including a pouring cup and a toy that sprinkles water.

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Where Can I Still Buy A Big Hello Kitty Head Necklace?

Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 10:06 pm

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I know theyused to have them at Hot Topic, but they don't sell them anymore?
I also checked ebay and amazon, but they don't have the one I want,
It's a Hello Kitty head thats big and not made of crystal.
It's just made from metal or something like that. No crystals!
Please help me find a place where I cans till get one!
THANKS!!

Where Can I Get Some Pictures Of Betty Boop In Her Birth Day Suit?

Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

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I grew up watching Betty Boop and reading her in comics. As a matter of fact I'm sittin here right now with a sweatshirt on with her on it, but in all my days I never saw Betty in her birthday suit! Good luck on your search, sorry I couldn't help you.

Biography – Betty Boop: The Queen of Cartoons

Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 9:36 pm

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She first appeared on screen with the body of a woman and the head of a dog! Re-invented as 100% woman, the racy cartoon star became an American icon.

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Review Date: February 1, 2010

Reviewer: Bobby L, Florida

Nearly 70 years after making her debut, Betty Boop is still going strong especially in the area of collectibles. To prove this ongoing popularity, the Biography Channel, which mostly chronicles human celebrities and historical figures, traced the origins of this cartoon character. Clips include the spicy early black & white toons and the classic spooky thriller with Cab Callowy singing "St. James Infirmary Blues."

An interesting and solid introduction to the great Betty Boop

Review Date: September 20, 2009

Reviewer: Robert Moore, Chicago, IL USA

I want to start off by taking issue with the one-star review of this documentary. If you look carefully, the errors that are noted are not all that important and some are not errors at all, but merely conflicts with the subjective evaluation of the reviewer. The brute fact is that for the documentary is reliable and interesting. The accuracy is no worse than the other Biography shows. A one-star review is simply absurd. I will concede that it is not a great documentary, but it is also certainly not a bad one. If you want to know about Betty Boop, this will serve as an excellent introduction. I would normally have given it four stars (rounding up a 3.5 star rating), but the one-star rating is so silly that I'm going to engage in a bit of correction.

What is astonishing these days is how often Betty Boop pops up. A Thai restaurant in Lakeview in Chicago that I used to visit constantly features, in addition to a life size statue of Elvis, a four and a half foot tall statue of Betty Boop dressed as a waitress. Checking out of a newsstand the other day I noticed that there were some lottery tickets emblazoned with Betty's visage. A woman I work with decorates her cubicle with images of Betty Boop, and there are a lot of them.

While this DVD does an adequate job of introducing the viewer to the career of Betty Boop, it doesn't come close to substituting for watching the actual cartoons. The problem is that we still don't have a definitive DVD edition of Betty Boop as there was on VHS. I am not aware of what efforts are currently underway. Current DVDs announce themselves as "Definitive" or "Ultimate" but really are reworkings of public domain cartoons. All hint at how great Betty Boop was (and remains). Qualification: I have not yet seen the new two-disc Collector's Edition, which maintains (like some of the others) that it has remastered the original prints. Maybe. There have been so many mediocre versions of Betty Boop that one does well to be hesitant in accepting such claims. But maybe this one is the exception, but until I hear some great reviews or can watch it via Netflix (it is not currently available), I'm going to hold off.

I noticed that the documentary left out clips from the Louis Armstrong short. I can understand why. Cab Calloway's appearances in the Betty Boop cartoons were not racially embarrassing, but Louis Armstrong's was. I once ran a film society and would often order cartoons from distributors to show before the main feature (usually trying to get something from approximately the same time). I showed both "Minnie the Moocher" with Cab Calloway and "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" with Louis Armstrong. The latter shows Armstrong transforming from an apelike African native into a disembodied head and back again. It is rather hard to watch. The documentary also sloughs over other more controversial aspects of Betty Boop. For instance, the cartoon "Ha! Ha! Ha!" was banned because everyone in the cartoon got high on laughing gas.

So watch this, but be sure to follow it up with a DVD or two or three of Betty Boop cartoons.

Inaccurate Junk and Disgraceful to the Original Animators

Review Date: February 11, 2007

Reviewer: Jon, NY

I found this dvd terribly overpriced, yet I finally bit the bullet and shelled out.

What a mistake - the narration is inane and misleading in terms of Betty's history (it is made to sound like "Snow White" was an effort by the studio to get Betty back on track and woo the movie-going public - it is in fact one of the earlier Jazz efforts when her skirt was still short) and very little of the narration or interviews provides insight into what made Betty popular in the first place: namely the risque, jazz, "acid" and spooky elements that make up the first few years of her series and appearances in 'Talkartoons'.

The man who should have been interviewed for this special (indeed, should have narrated it)was Leslie Cabarga, who wrote a wonderful book titled "The Fleischer Story" in the early 1970's - a remarkably well researched book, full of enthusiasm, love and respect for the material.

I suspect Richard Fleischer's (son of Max) inclusion in this special was incumbent on Mr.Cabarga's absence, as bickering factions of the Fleischer clan had previously chosen sides over whether to cooperate with Cabarga's research or not.

But the real slap in the face, which affects all viewers and not just those scholarly types, is that more than two thirds of the animation portrayed during this special are re-"black and whited" versions of colorised copies made in the 1980's of the original black and white cartoons.

Worse still, characters in motion are virtually re-drawn and animated at a lower frame rate, making the originally beautiful smooth animation now jerky and awkward - a disgrace to the work of the animators who put so much love and soul into these amazing cartoons, since the work here portrayed is supposed to be of a "historical" and "scholarly" bent.

I've never met a Fleischer fan who claimed that the later, "tame", long skirted, unfunny domestic Betty was an improvement, yet here we are presented with veteran animator Myron Waldman (may he rest in Peace) informing us that he always hated those peripheral elements in Betty's cartoons like the character Bimbo - who I think, along with Ko Ko, only aided Betty's appearances.

Pudgy vs Bimbo? No contest. Perhaps they might have found a Fleischer Studios animator whose opinion of the elements that made Betty's cartoons so popular in the first place was a little higher and not at odds with the lessons of history: namely, that turning Betty into Mrs.Cleaver is what spelled the series' demise, and not, as this special suggests, because her former Flapper looks was somehow out of style with late Thirties America.

Betty and the Fleischer studios animators who created her deserved better.

BETTY BOOP BIOGRAPHY

Review Date: January 11, 2007

Reviewer: Sherry Allen,

I REALLY ENJOYED WATCHING BETTY'S BIO. I HAD SEEN IT ON TV, BUT I MISSED SOME OF IT. IT WAS VERY INTERESTING SEEING HOW SHE STARTED AND HOW POPULAR SHE STILL IS AFTER 60+ YEARS. IF YOU ARE A TURE BETTY FAN THIS BIOGRAPHY IS A MUST. S.ALLEN

Betty Boop: Technique-Focused

Review Date: October 5, 2006

Reviewer: Jeffery Mingo, Homewood, IL USA

The usual Biography installment has approximately 5 interviewees and you can see the narrator at the beginning and end of the work. This work on Betty Boop had two interviewees and the narrator is never seen. I really think this work was intended to focus on the technical aspects of this cartoon, rather than anything else.

You learn stuff here. Betty Boop was originally a dog-like cartoon. Cartoons were meant for all ages, not just children, and thus they had many double entendres. Cartoons were made by young, American men. In the autobiography of Bart's voice, she said the Simpsons are drawn and painted in Korea. So much has changed in animation.

This film had modern people raving about Betty Boop. However, her popularity could have been proven by showing some famous person from the 1930 raving about her. The narrator says, "Betty Boop offered a female lead character at a time when feminism was unheard-of." WRONG! First-wave feminists organized to get women the right to vote 10 years before Betty's creation. Further, Betty's depiction takes from the 1920s New Woman and a bit from flappers. This work really could have benefited from an interviewee with a academic knowledgeable about feminism and media studies. They say she launched Popeye's career, but I wonder if Olive Oyl were drawn in response/opposite to her.

This work says Betty is still popular. However, it says nothing of her guest appearance in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" It says nothing about the 1990s dance song "Betty Boo just doin' the doo." It seem truncated and incomplete at times.

What Were The Names Of Some Of The Important Designers With Art Deco?

Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 6:38 pm

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Stage designer and graphic artist Romain de Tirtoff known as Erte; the couterier Paul Poiret; glass and jewellry designer R. Lalique, American designer Donald Deskey - designed interior and fittings of Rado City Music Hall, NY; furniture R.Mallet-Stevens, English pottery designer Clarice Cliff - and there were many more.