"ruby slipper flippers, Munchkin huts and roofs, the disappearing witch, the witch legs in the house, the witch castle walls, the throwing apple trees, the state fair balloon, the topper, the laser-cut Oz head, a crystal ball that displays videos, a spinning house and flying monkey assemblies. The machine includes 5 flippers with a reverse flippers mode, 4 pop bumpers, 2 slingshots, 5 magnets, 2 in front of the wicked witch, 2 vertical up-kickers, 1 drop target and 1 spinning target. The Wizard of Oz (pinball) The Wizard of Oz is a Jersey Jack Pinball, Inc. pinball machine designed by"
"The Oz Kids The Oz Kids is an American animated fantasy comedy-drama television series produced by Hyperion Animation based on ""The Wizard of Oz"", L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel, and its various sequels, and was first broadcast on September 14, 1996 on ABC. The two main characters of this series are both human: Dot and Neddie (the children of Dorothy and Zeb). The minor characters are Boris and Bela (the children of the Cowardly Lion), Tin Boy (the son of the Tin Woodman), Scarecrow Jr. (the son of the original Scarecrow), Jack Pumpkinhead, Jr. (son of the original Jack"
"the youngest beginning readers, and create in them an interest in the larger Oz canon, as part of a ""promotion of L. Frank Baum and all of his books."" The six tales in the ""Little Wizard Stories"" are: The stories have a charm and simplicity that is appropriate for their intended audience. In the first selection, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger are frustrated by their tame routine guarding Ozma's throne in the Emerald City; they decide to go out and fulfill their darker desires. The Lion wants to attack a man and make ""chop suey of him."" The"
"that was given to her by the Wizard, but fails, though she does not tell this until she has been tried for the offense of devouring the piglet. In ""Dorothy and the Wizard"", it is said, the piglets are from the Island of Teeny-Weent, where it is a small island and so everything is small. In ""The Tin Woodman of Oz"" this is contradicted when it is said that the piglets are the offspring of Mrs. Squealina Swyne and Professor Grunter Swyne, two pigs who live in a small house in the Munchkin Country, and the Wizard came and offered"
"to educate and raise them. The Nine Tiny Piglets The Nine Tiny Piglets are characters in the Oz series. They first appear in ""Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz"", owned by the Wizard of Oz and used for a trick in which he uses sleight of hand to make it appear as if he is pulling apart the piglets to make them appear, and pushing them together again to make them disappear. He uses this trick to deceive the Mangaboos. Eureka expresses a desire to eat the piglets frequently and without any obvious shame or guilt. She makes the attempt"
"Olga C. Nardone Olga Nida Carmena Nardone (June 8, 1921 – September 24, 2010) was an actress and one of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"", in which she played a member of the Lullaby League. She was known as ""Little Olga"" and ""Princess Olga"" and was one of the smallest of the Wizard of Oz Munchkins, standing at just 3 foot 4 inches (101.6 cm) tall. The fact that she had done ballet solos in vaudeville helped get her the part. She was born on June 8, 1921 in Newton, Massachusetts to Louise"
"them at the brow."" As originally illustrated by John R. Neill, she fit this description; however, in most subsequent Oz books, Ozma's hair became darker. While still an infant, Ozma, the baby daughter of the former King Pastoria of Oz, was given to the witch Mombi of the North by the Wizard of Oz. Mombi transformed Ozma into a boy and called him ""Tip"" (short for Tippetarius) in order to prevent the rightful ruler of Oz from ascending to the throne. Thus, Ozma spent her entire childhood with Mombi in the form of the boy Tip, and had no memory"
"Wizard of Oz where Bela was billed as ""Mike Rogers"" (Matina), and Matyus ""Ike Rogers"" (Matina). Lajos also became known as ""Leo"" Matina while working beside his brothers ""Mike"" and ""Ike"". There is a possible but unverified connection that came from the nicknames with the candy Mike and Ike which first appeared in 1940. Author ""Dean Jensen"" writes that the younger twin brothers became very popular in America to an extent that a boxed candy was named after them. Various other theories exist however, as the company does not provide a last name for the two founders of the brand."
"The Doll Family The Doll Family, also billed as The Dancing Dolls, were a German American quartet of dwarf siblings born in Germany, who were popular performers in circuses and sideshows in the United States from the mid-1910s until their retirement in the late-1950s. They also appeared briefly in films, and were probably best known as members of The Munchkins in the 1939 MGM film ""The Wizard of Oz"". The Dolls were four of seven children born to Amelia Emma Preusche and Agustva Schneider in Stolpen, Germany (the other three were average-sized). Harry and Grace were the first of the"
"M. and Leonardo B. Nardone. She died on September 24, 2010 in Nonantum, Massachusetts of natural causes, at the age of 89 years. Olga C. Nardone Olga Nida Carmena Nardone (June 8, 1921 – September 24, 2010) was an actress and one of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"", in which she played a member of the Lullaby League. She was known as ""Little Olga"" and ""Princess Olga"" and was one of the smallest of the Wizard of Oz Munchkins, standing at just 3 foot 4 inches (101.6 cm) tall. The fact that she"
"Little Wizard Stories of Oz Little Wizard Stories of Oz is a set of six short stories written for young children by L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Oz books. The six tales were published in separate small booklets, ""Oz books in miniature,"" in 1913, and then in a collected edition in 1914 with illustrations by John R. Neill. Each booklet was 29 pages long, and printed in blue ink rather than black. The stories were part of a project, by Baum and his publisher Reilly & Britton, to revitalize and continue the series of Oz books that Baum"
"Clarence Swensen August Clarence Swensen (December 29, 1917 – February 25, 2009) was an American actor and was one of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"". Swensen was born in 1917 and grew up in Austin, Texas. He was not allowed to attend a public school until he was nine because of his size. At 4ft 6in, he played one of the 25 Munchkin soldiers in the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"". He also appeared in ""The Terror of Tiny Town"" as a preacher. Many of his ""Oz"" co-stars were cast members of"
"Elly Annie Schneider Elly Annie Schneider (July 23, 1914 – September 6, 2004) was an American dwarf actress, billed as Tiny Doll and Tiny Earles, and a member of The Dancing Dolls with her three siblings who played as some of the Munchkin villagers in ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939). Born in Stolpen, Germany, she moved to the United States in 1925 to join her three dwarf siblings. She was 39 inches (99 cm) tall and weighed 46 pounds (21 kg). The four siblings—Harry, Gracie, Daisy, and Tiny—were among the dwarfs who welcomed Dorothy to Munchkinland in a 10-minute scene"
"of 91. Clarence Swensen August Clarence Swensen (December 29, 1917 – February 25, 2009) was an American actor and was one of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"". Swensen was born in 1917 and grew up in Austin, Texas. He was not allowed to attend a public school until he was nine because of his size. At 4ft 6in, he played one of the 25 Munchkin soldiers in the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"". He also appeared in ""The Terror of Tiny Town"" as a preacher. Many of his ""Oz"" co-stars were cast"
"I are happily spent our childhood in my farmhouse. But suddenly, my family, Toto, Neddie and I were caught up in a tornado and carried away! And then, when we woke up, I discover the magical Land of Oz, my very own magical world! Oh well, I guess everything will be okay."" From October 1996 to March 1997, some episodes of The Oz Kids were released in the form of nine VHS volumes by Paramount Home Video. The Oz Kids The Oz Kids is an American animated fantasy comedy-drama television series produced by Hyperion Animation based on ""The Wizard of"
"turned over to ""our illustrious Magician"" the next day. With the aid of some friendly talking sheep, girls escape with the dishpan. (And frog. They concluded that Froggie is under an enchantment, since he does not gain the ability to speak when he comes to Oz. At one point, Shoshanna impulsively tries to kiss the frog, but he evades her lips.) The children make their way toward the Emerald City along the yellow brick road. In an abandoned house, the girls find Scraps the Patchwork Girl, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman, disassembled. The three Oz inhabitants are quickly restored"
"turned into the emeralds and rubies that decorate the dishpan. As is fitting in a fairy tale, it is Shoshanna, the smallest and youngest member of the group, who restores the missing principals, just in time for Glinda to overcome the Magician of Ignorance and return Oz to its former state. The Magicians of Mischief are not restricted to the Land of Oz; to the contrary, they plague the entire world. They have come to Oz because they ""have suffered a few temporary setbacks in the outside world."" They find the naive residents of Oz easy to influence. The Magician"
"in ""The Wizard of Oz"". They also appeared in ""Sailors, Beware!"", a 1927 Laurel and Hardy short, and the cult classic ""Freaks"" in 1932, and performed with the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus and the Christiana Brothers Circus. Elly Annie Schneider Elly Annie Schneider (July 23, 1914 – September 6, 2004) was an American dwarf actress, billed as Tiny Doll and Tiny Earles, and a member of The Dancing Dolls with her three siblings who played as some of the Munchkin villagers in ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939). Born in Stolpen, Germany, she moved to the United States in"
"Ozana is shocked to discover that the Mimics have evaded her guardianship; she leads Dorothy and the Wizard back to Oz, flying on giant swans. The attacking Mimics arrive in Oz disguised as beautiful birds, with gorgeous plumage of ""Red, blue, green and gold..."" The residents are seduced by their beauty, and the Mimics quickly duplicate and paralyze them. The trick works only on humans; fierce beasts like the Cowardly Lion and Hungry Tiger are magically sedated, while the Scarecrow, the Patchwork Girl and other non-human creatures are simply tied up. The Mimics have largely accomplished their ends when they"
"of the lions, tigers, bears and the fantastical jitterbugs who are controlled by the Wicked Witch. The three friends meet a lion who lacks courage, and they invite him to join them. When the jitterbugs attack, Dorothy appeals to the Sorceress of the North, who freezes the jitterbugs (""The Jitterbug""). The friends finally reach the Emerald City, where they meet Lord Growlie, his daughter Gloria and the Royal Army of Oz. Lord Growlie warns that if someone bothers the Wizard with a foolish request, he may destroy them. After a tour (""The Merry Old Land of Oz""; ""Evening Star""), the"
"the Emerald City in the magical Land of Oz. In ""The Road to Oz"" (1909), Billina accompanies Tik-Tok into welcoming Dorothy, Shaggy Man, Button-Bright, and Polychrome to Oz. Billina is later present at Princess Ozma's royal birthday party. Later books reveal that Billina has hatched many chicks (their father unknown). She names all of them Dorothy after her young friend. Gender confusion reappears, however, and the proud mother discovers that some of those chicks will be ""horrid roosters""; she changes the males' names to Daniel. One of Baum's earliest books described raising Hamburg chickens, and he drew on that expertise"
"this piece. It was not mentioned in the original novel, though it is mentioned in ""Ozma of Oz"" (1907). The main plot of the show, as recounted in newspapers of the time, is Pastoria's attempts to regain the throne from the Wizard of Oz. The original protagonists' search for the Wizard puts them on the wrong side of the law. A young girl named Dorothy Gale lives on the great Kansas prairies with her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and little dog, Toto. One day, while she is playing with her pet cow Imogene, a fierce whirlwind appears. Dorothy and Toto"
"cap to summon the Winged Monkeys two more times. When Dorothy and her friends meet the Wizard of Oz again, Toto tips over a screen in a corner of the throne room that reveals the Wizard. He sadly explains he is a humbug—an ordinary old man who, by a hot air balloon, came to Oz long ago from Omaha. The Wizard provides the Scarecrow with a head full of bran, pins, and needles (""a lot of bran-new brains""), the Tin Woodman with a silk heart stuffed with sawdust, and the Cowardly Lion a potion of ""courage"". Their faith in the"
"the Flower of Oz, they are invited down by the voice. They come to the town of the Mini-Munchkins, who built the Silver Bridge before it was destroyed by the Wicked Witch of the East, who also them smaller so they couldn't rebuild it. The bridge the group saw was just an illusion caused by the Mini-Munchkins' sadness and doubt. Wimzik inspires them to believe in themselves and not to give up, somehow breaking the Witch's spell over them, returning them to their real sizes and restoring the bridge. Inside the dungeon, Fitzgerald learns from a flying monkey guard that"
"miniseries where they played a couple. The film depicts how L. Frank Baum came to create ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" while undergoing and eventually overcoming professional and personal failures. The story is interspersed with the famous Oz story, shown at certain points when Baum is writing down his ideas. It is shown that Baum was originally telling this to a group of kids, who asked him the name of this location, to which he looks at a file cabinet with one drawer marked O-Z and decided ""Oz"". Another idea Baum had thought of was to say Dorothy was born"
"The Nine Tiny Piglets The Nine Tiny Piglets are characters in the Oz series. They first appear in ""Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz"", owned by the Wizard of Oz and used for a trick in which he uses sleight of hand to make it appear as if he is pulling apart the piglets to make them appear, and pushing them together again to make them disappear. He uses this trick to deceive the Mangaboos. Eureka expresses a desire to eat the piglets frequently and without any obvious shame or guilt. She makes the attempt to eat Princess Ozma's piglet"
"The Tin Woodman of Oz The Tin Woodman of Oz: A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter is the twelfth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum and was originally published on May 13, 1918. The Tin Woodman is unexpectedly reunited with his Munchkin sweetheart Nimmie Amee from the days when he was flesh and blood. This was a back-story from ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"". The book was dedicated to the author's grandson Frank Alden Baum. The Tin"
"Oz books, """", and other works, plus new selections like ""Prince Marvel"", a short play for child actors based on ""The Enchanted Island of Yew"". One of the selections is ""Little Bun Rabbit,"" the final piece in Baum's ""Mother Goose in Prose"" from 1897. The protagonist in Baum's version of the nursery rhyme is a little girl who can talk to animals – named Dorothy. When Baum reprinted in story in his ""Juvenile Speaker"", he changed the character's name to Doris, to forestall confusion with Dorothy Gale from ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"". Baum made other revisions in his reprinted"
"initials on his balloon and took them as a message that he was to be their king. She relates that the country was already named Oz (a word which in their language means ""great and good""), and that it was typical for the rulers to have names that are variations of Oz (King Pastoria being a notable exception to this rule). Ozma elaborates further, saying that there were once four Wicked Witches in Oz, who leagued together to depose the King, but the Wicked Witches of the North and South were defeated by Good Witches before the Wizard arrived in"
"Dot and Tot of Merryland Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", he wrote this story about the adventures of a little girl named Dot and a little boy named Tot in a land reached by floating on a river that flowed through a tunnel. The land was called Merryland and was split into seven valleys. The book was illustrated by artist W. W. Denslow, who had illustrated three previous Baum books. Unlike ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", ""Dot and Tot of Merryland"" contained no tipped"
"Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", with science fiction and additional fantasy elements added. It focuses on the adventures of a small-town waitress named DG who is pulled into a magical realm called the O.Z., ruled by the tyrannical sorceress Azkadellia. Together with her companions Glitch, Raw, and Cain, DG journeys to uncover her lost memories, find her true parents. and foil Azkadellia's plot to trap the O.Z. in eternal darkness. Costing $20 million to produce, the first part of the mini-series was the highest-rated program in its time slot, with 6.4 million viewers; the mini-series itself would be the highest-rated mini-series"
"great Wizard of Oz to help her return home. The Wicked Witch of the West, sister of the late Wicked Witch of the East, vows revenge upon Dorothy. Dorothy meets the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. The Scarecrow wants to get a brain, and the Tin Woodman needs a heart (""If I Only Had a Brain""/""If I Only Had a Heart""). Dorothy suggests that the Wizard can help them too (""We're Off to See the Wizard""). They then meet the Cowardly Lion (""If I Only Had the Nerve""). The four friends travel down the yellow brick road, having been warned"
"Tales of the Wizard of Oz Tales of the Wizard of Oz is a 1961 animated television series produced by Crawley Films for Videocraft (later known as Rankin/Bass Productions). This is the second animated series produced by the studio, and the first by Rankin/Bass to feature traditional animation. The series features stories derived from characters created in L. Frank Baum's book ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"". Several characters are given additional names, including Dandy the Cowardly Lion, Rusty the Tin Man, and Socrates the Scarecrow. Artistic renditions of the Oz characters created for this series were later featured in the"