I have a brand new vlog reading the entire WICKED series by Gregory Maguire if you fancy keeping the Oz world alive: th-cam.com/video/bOvlIYKKW6k/w-d-xo.html
“Because if I wasn’t ugly, you wouldn’t have questioned whether I was a good witch or a bad witch” lolol I definitely didn’t catch Glinda’s shade as a kid
Fun and unnecessary fact lol, Im a distant relative of L Frank Baum. But if you go to his hometome Chitenango, NY they have Oz Stravaganza at the end of May and its a whole fair about the land of Oz and people dress up as the characters, theres writing contests, silent auctions, special guests connected to the books and movies, parades, etc etc. its really fun! I went every year as a kid. I also remember the Chitenango Library is themed with Wizard of Oz and it felt like I walked into oz when I was a kid.
Gavin doing Dorothy/Judy Garland Drag? Ok now we have reached the Top Tier of Performance Artistry. One of the all time talented and amazing gay icons.
The OZ series is like the Harry Potter series of the early 20th century. I can just imagine children 110 years ago excited about hearing a new OZ book was comming out.
10:50 fun fact! The musical is based on the book Wicked by Gregory Maguire. There are four books in the series; Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion among Men, and Out of Oz. Maguire takes a lot of small details from the Oz books and weaves them into his series. Even the wicked witch of the west name, Elphaba, comes from the Oz author's initials L.F.B. Maguire also has a Cinderella retelling but from the POV of the stepsister.
I started the first book after having already heard the musical and it was not what I expected! I also didn't finish it because it was too depressing for my taste.
You might be interested to know that Tik-Tok is considered by many to be the first true robot in literature. I thought that was so interesting, because you wouldn't expect these books to actually have some serious firsts when you consider that they were largely written as an American answer to the lack of fairy tales in the US. One of the main things ended up being pretty sci-fi.
It’s so frustrating for me that these books were so incredibly popular at one point in time, yet only a small handful of movies have been made from any books after the first one. There is SO much great material there! I’m a very visual learner, so I’m not above loving the movies equal to or more than the book, and it always adds to my enjoyment to actually be able to physically see the scene, characters, etc.
The copyright on Baum's Oz books has expired now so movie companies could make movies of them if they wanted to. But, back in1954, Disney bought the movie rights to the rest of Baum's Oz books after the first one. They started production on a movie called The Rainbow Road to Oz but it was never released.
I think the problem is until fairly recently, the special effects would have been prohibitively expensive. And, the stories are probably often outdated. I read all of the first 40 books(other authors took over after Baum died) as a child, and a few of ones written even later as an adult. It's been decades since I read any though...
omg I spit out my drink when you asked glinda why she asked if you were a good witch or bad witch if bad witches are ugly. this is perfection! The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is always my first read of the year so I know I start with a five star.
I listen to audiobooks while I am sewing. The Oz Books are part of my rotation. Already listened to all 14 books 3 or 4 times. I liked the first book better than the movie.
So, the movie was my favorite. I’m 60 now, and I never knew there were books outside of the 64 page book my mother would read me - Fast forward to the age of 40? I believe, and my husband had gotten me the 50th Anniversary of the Wizard of Oz. I was consuming every page and kept coming across a guy with the same last name as my grandpa, Raabe. Please take this next part in - every year for 3 hours (with commercials) my family, including my mother and father would watch The Wizard of Oz. It was the only time my parents were together, and no one fought. Back to age forty… My mother walks through my door and I say - Mom there is this guy in here who has the same last name as Grandpa. Meinhart Raabe… My mother nonchalantly says… Oh, that’s just your cousin Meinhart!! My mouth fell open! I’m thinking this would have been a super cool thing to know growing up! I called my aunt Jane who used to play on Meinhart’s farm in Juneo Wisconsin, and I found him in Florida, at Penny Farms, his wife had recently passed, and he was just the most delightful man. When my grandfather, C.C. Raabe passed away, I knew I would never get a hand written letter from him ever again… Fast forward to 2018, and I’m driving cross country and see the signs to the Wizard of Oz Museum. I tell the curator who I am and she takes me on a special tour and tells me delightful stories, when there in glass cases is Meinhart’s signature… my heart broke, because it was exactly like Grandpa’s. Anyway, it’s a sweet story, and my children and grandchildren know - it’s a huge cool factor! Have a blessed day!
And the Oscar goes to…Gav & Tobu🤩 Your intro had me in tears laughing, and the thorough content is really quite impressive. I enjoy your channel so much ♥️.
Fun fact, there was a Russian version of the Wizard of Oz called the Wizard of the Emerald City. My mom loved those books. It's also a whole series, I think the other books are more original, but not sure.
I think you should read Gregory Maguire's 4 book series that the musical wicked is based on in honor of the first film coming out. It would be fun to read that and see how he reshapes the story. He does great re-imaginings of existing properties and is such a fantastic author. (I mean, he did give us Elphaba afterall)
I love watching your videos! The skit at the beginning was SUPERB! I've always wanted to read this series and you're definitely making me want to add this series to my already long reading list:) Thanks for all that you do
I love that you read these!! I’m shocked you hadn’t read the entire series before with it being your fav movie. I read them all as a kid and LOVED THEM! The Patchwork Girl of Oz was always my fav. I’m writing this at the beginning of your video but can’t wait for your thoughts. Omg your cosplay. I’m dying 😂😂
There is a recent TV series that got cancelled but I really enjoyed it! It was called "Emerald City". It was a modern day version of The Wizard of Oz, but it has a lot of things in it that I now know are from the other books you've mentioned above. I didn't realise there were so many books, but things like the heads and the vegetable people etc makes so much more sense now :)
If you want to see a fantastic adaption of book 2. I recommend 1981s "Marvelous Land Of Oz" Musical by the minneapolis childrens theater you can find it here on youtube free.
This was such a throwback to my childhood! I read the series when I was younger and remember loving the world even when the characters were a bit questionable. You embodied Dorothy even better than she deserved…
The Wizard of Oz actually has a lot of political allusions. The Yellow brick road referred to the gold standard. The three (lion, Scarecrow, Tina Man) were all supposed to be certain politicians (can't remember who, though)
This is mostly stuff academics read into the book later. Baum himself wrote: "Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' was written solely to pleasure children of today." The only political allusion Baum seems to have intentionally put in the books were some female-empowerment themes due to his involvement in the suffrage movement.
Gavin that skit was hilarious 😂 Oscar worth acting and production 💯💯💯 this might be more difficult to do but a manga skit for one of your feature length manga vids would be hilarious too! I think you’d kill it (but ofc only if you want to)
As a Kansan (who does want to move), I have such a love/hate relationship with these books/movie. However, your acting? Iconic. Incredible. The best thing I have ever seen in my life. You make me actually love the movie.
talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it.
There are actually around 40. It’s just that the original author died after 14, but other people continued the series after and they are considered canonical texts.
I read all of these too and then kept on going with the Ruth Plumly Thompson ones, but I've finally reached a point at which I can't track down the next ones :(
Tin Man and General Grievous display striking parallels in their origins: Both were stripped of their natural selves by the influence of others, their body parts replaced with mechanical ones, transforming them into machines. While one seeks a heart, the other is driven by a thirst for revenge. 🤖
The Dorothy/Glenda opening Gav! You're really out here killing it. I really enjoyed this deep dive into the Wizard of Oz. It was never a favorite of mine but it still makes me nostalgic for when I was young. I doooo love Wicked though. If you haven't already, you should look into The Search for WondLa series by Tony DiTerlizzi. It's a mid-grade fantasy/Sci-fi where a young girl goes on a search for other humans, something she's only ever seen in a picture that she calls WandLa but it's actually the cover of the original Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It's got a lot of similar themes of discovering new worlds and wanting to find your home and I really loved it =)
I remember watching the movie by myself and I just loved it, being the gay child that I was (and am). They showed it in school and other people weren’t getting it. I was really sad for them.
Great video! If I recall, several of these books were actually stage productions first then adapted to book form. That's probably why there are so many inconsistent and repetitive elements in some of these. Definitely doesn't explain all of them , but I think LFB was more invested in getting Oz on the stage than the page in some cases.
Would you consider doing a Cosmere reading vlog series? Since you have talked about getting more into adult fantasy I would love to see you explore the different series within the Cosmere and hopefully loving them!
In your opening credits you give a tribute to your pet they died in 2020 that must have been rough. To have them pass then the pandemic. My friend lost her dog around that time. He is indeed over the rainbow. Happy you are here making great videos
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I think the Wizard of Oz books might make good bedtime stories. They're very repetitive in a sort of comforting way, and they probably aren't exciting enough to keep a kid awake out of anticipation
Wizard of Oz is one of my favourite oldie films too. I read some of the books years ago, watching to find out which ones it was. Watching the bit about ozma of oz now, when you said you couldny remember the princesses name causr it was long one, my brain... princess consweila banana hammock. Cause obviously L. Frank Baum co-wrote the final friends series!
Thank you for doing this. My mother read me these books one chapter a night when I was a child. (Talking late 60s early 70s here) it was good to hear the names again as through the decades people looked at me odd when I told them there were many more books. Though I do remember as a child Tick Tock scared me a bit. 🙂
Came here after watching the Wicked vlog because I cant believe I missed this one. A few years ago I started reading this serjes but gave up after the 6th one, I think. After watching this i may pick up a select few others, but not the whole thing. At the time, I hadn't been aware there were so many Oz books. I have seen several Oz tv series and was confused by where they were getting all this material. So maybe they'd make more sense now. Also I had no clue there was another movie. So I'm off to watch now. This was fun and informative as usual.
Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry do stay in Oz at the end of book 6. Baum actually wanted to move on from Oz, so in book 6 it is stated there will be no more Oz books, but then pressure and a need for money took over and he continued… but started phoning it in. Sort of. Book 8 is actually a novelization of the play based on book 3 which pulled in elements from book 4-5 as well. Book 9 is actually a sequel to two books about Trot and Cap’n Bill, but that series didn’t catch on like Oz had. Book 10 was written with no mention of Oz, but he was pressured into rewriting the ending to tie it into the series.
This is great, i have a couple of early editions from the OZ series (not first editions) but the books are over 100 years old and have 12 color plate illustrations. Beautiful artwork.
The bleeping took me out! Your skits are unmatched. I loved the first book as a kid and didn't know it was a series until a few years ago. After this review I do want to get to Ozma of Oz at least.
1:05:30 my head canon would be that the organic body would remain cursed and he'd be in a living hell level repeating cycle of torture. Replace everything with tin and you're no longer chopping your limbs off everyday.
Yes Toto talking really bothered me at the time and now I realized why. They were doing a "retcon" to explain the plot hole of why we can talk and Bellina can. I know realize that this prepared me for later in life when Star Wars, and now many other series, used prequels to retcon a bunch of things about franchises. It is the most memorable part of the book.
I never knew there were this many. Not counting movies I know the series best by its cartoon that covers about 3 or 4 seasons and goes to the desert and every which way on top of movie 1 events. Now I see the cartoon could not cover everything despite its length as I thought it might have done before. 14 is quite a long series by my reconning.
1:06:50 In the Tin Woodsman of Oz, the tin man considered his tin body superior to his “meat body.” The witch actually stole his og head, and the tinsmith made him a new head. Nimee stole the head back, but the tin man chose to keep the tin head because he liked it better. I really liked the part in the book where the tin woodman and the tin soldier were talking about how much better their tin bodies were compared to their old bodies. Woot mentioned meat bodies don’t rust, and both tin men just looked at him.
PLEASE do an episode on the Ruth Plumly Thompson Oz books. My partner got me an old copy of The Gnome King of Oz and I absolutely love it and I really want to know more about her other books but my ADHD makes reading quite difficult for me and I fear I’ll never read them on my own.
Wow, only ever heard of the Gregpry Maguire side series (would love to see a youtube video done on that series, hint, beg). Have to go look for this one too! This comment section always has the best info ☺️
I have a brand new vlog reading the entire WICKED series by Gregory Maguire if you fancy keeping the Oz world alive: th-cam.com/video/bOvlIYKKW6k/w-d-xo.html
“Because if I wasn’t ugly, you wouldn’t have questioned whether I was a good witch or a bad witch” lolol I definitely didn’t catch Glinda’s shade as a kid
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Fun and unnecessary fact lol, Im a distant relative of L Frank Baum. But if you go to his hometome Chitenango, NY they have Oz Stravaganza at the end of May and its a whole fair about the land of Oz and people dress up as the characters, theres writing contests, silent auctions, special guests connected to the books and movies, parades, etc etc. its really fun! I went every year as a kid. I also remember the Chitenango Library is themed with Wizard of Oz and it felt like I walked into oz when I was a kid.
Oh that's so awesome, thanks for sharing!
that's really neat
@@TheDaniMarie0403 I didn't know any of this. Thank you!
The opening credits if you wanna call it that was just...the best. Love it. ❤
Had to get that true Wizard of Oz feel
We’re off to see the gavin, the wonderful Gavin of books
Gavin doing Dorothy/Judy Garland Drag? Ok now we have reached the Top Tier of Performance Artistry. One of the all time talented and amazing gay icons.
The OZ series is like the Harry Potter series of the early 20th century. I can just imagine children 110 years ago excited about hearing a new OZ book was comming out.
GAVIN THIS SKIT OMG I’M DYING.
“The munchkins are very impressionable”
“BEEP BEEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP”
LOLLOLLOOLL
One of my favorite things about the original Oz books is how they like have so much Adventure Time energy
That opening scene was Oscar worthy! Pure effing genius.
Is he...you know....A friend of Dorothy?
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😏☺️
@@Djinn_Entonic We're all her friends ;)
@@RoyalKnightVIIIpost-wicked hyper focus comment? 😁
10:50 fun fact! The musical is based on the book Wicked by Gregory Maguire. There are four books in the series; Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion among Men, and Out of Oz. Maguire takes a lot of small details from the Oz books and weaves them into his series. Even the wicked witch of the west name, Elphaba, comes from the Oz author's initials L.F.B. Maguire also has a Cinderella retelling but from the POV of the stepsister.
I started the first book after having already heard the musical and it was not what I expected! I also didn't finish it because it was too depressing for my taste.
Love Gregory Maguire!
You might be interested to know that Tik-Tok is considered by many to be the first true robot in literature. I thought that was so interesting, because you wouldn't expect these books to actually have some serious firsts when you consider that they were largely written as an American answer to the lack of fairy tales in the US. One of the main things ended up being pretty sci-fi.
Gavin, you have outdone yourself this time! I'm crying from laughter. Also, Ash-Toto is Brilliant.
Gavin, I am SCREAMING at the “munchkins are impressionable” part!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣💀 this is amazing!!!
It’s so frustrating for me that these books were so incredibly popular at one point in time, yet only a small handful of movies have been made from any books after the first one. There is SO much great material there! I’m a very visual learner, so I’m not above loving the movies equal to or more than the book, and it always adds to my enjoyment to actually be able to physically see the scene, characters, etc.
The copyright on Baum's Oz books has expired now so movie companies could make movies of them if they wanted to. But, back in1954, Disney bought the movie rights to the rest of Baum's Oz books after the first one. They started production on a movie called The Rainbow Road to Oz but it was never released.
I think the problem is until fairly recently, the special effects would have been prohibitively expensive. And, the stories are probably often outdated. I read all of the first 40 books(other authors took over after Baum died) as a child, and a few of ones written even later as an adult. It's been decades since I read any though...
omg I spit out my drink when you asked glinda why she asked if you were a good witch or bad witch if bad witches are ugly. this is perfection! The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is always my first read of the year so I know I start with a five star.
Hahaha your accents and 'Oh..' is perfect. I love this movie too, glad to hear about the books!
Haha OH thank you 😂
@@GavinReadsItAll ☺️💚
The Dorothy outfit, the commitment, the beauty of it all 👌❤Perfection
Oh wait sorry not Dorothy outfit, Dorothy herself!
I listen to audiobooks while I am sewing. The Oz Books are part of my rotation. Already listened to all 14 books 3 or 4 times. I liked the first book better than the movie.
OMG another Gavin series reading vlog!!!!! These are my favorite uploads!!!!👏💯❤️🙌💕
So, the movie was my favorite. I’m 60 now, and I never knew there were books outside of the 64 page book my mother would read me -
Fast forward to the age of 40? I believe, and my husband had gotten me the 50th Anniversary of the Wizard of Oz.
I was consuming every page and kept coming across a guy with the same last name as my grandpa, Raabe.
Please take this next part in - every year for 3 hours (with commercials) my family, including my mother and father would watch The Wizard of Oz. It was the only time my parents were together, and no one fought.
Back to age forty… My mother walks through my door and I say - Mom there is this guy in here who has the same last name as Grandpa. Meinhart Raabe… My mother nonchalantly says… Oh, that’s just your cousin Meinhart!!
My mouth fell open! I’m thinking this would have been a super cool thing to know growing up!
I called my aunt Jane who used to play on Meinhart’s farm in Juneo Wisconsin, and I found him in Florida, at Penny Farms, his wife had recently passed, and he was just the most delightful man.
When my grandfather, C.C. Raabe passed away, I knew I would never get a hand written letter from him ever again…
Fast forward to 2018, and I’m driving cross country and see the signs to the Wizard of Oz Museum. I tell the curator who I am and she takes me on a special tour and tells me delightful stories, when there in glass cases is Meinhart’s signature… my heart broke, because it was exactly like Grandpa’s.
Anyway, it’s a sweet story, and my children and grandchildren know - it’s a huge cool factor!
Have a blessed day!
3:37 YASSSSSSSSSSSS THE COSTUME IS LOVELY ❤
And the Oscar goes to…Gav & Tobu🤩
Your intro had me in tears laughing, and the thorough content is really quite impressive. I enjoy your channel so much ♥️.
The costumes, the acting, this was superb. Amazing production value, 10 out of 10.
Your opening skit was magnificent. Bravo good sir!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
One of my favorite parts about this video is the fact that you get to order Wizard of Oz costumes and write them off on your taxes.
the Muppets Wizard of Oz includes more scenes from the book
Such a fantastic intro, I am loving this vlog 💕👠✨
There’s something so magical about hearing Dorothy curse 😂
Fun fact, there was a Russian version of the Wizard of Oz called the Wizard of the Emerald City. My mom loved those books. It's also a whole series, I think the other books are more original, but not sure.
The Scarecrow kills 40 crows, and the Tin Woodsman kills 40 wolves.
I think you should read Gregory Maguire's 4 book series that the musical wicked is based on in honor of the first film coming out. It would be fun to read that and see how he reshapes the story. He does great re-imaginings of existing properties and is such a fantastic author. (I mean, he did give us Elphaba afterall)
2:17 AND THE OSCAR FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SPECIAL EFFECTS GOES TO…
“Glinda’s such a bitch”
Having this series reviewed with gay sass is such a gift.
There are times that I had to do a double take coz I thought I was seeing Lin Manuel as Dorothy in some angles 🤣
I love watching your videos! The skit at the beginning was SUPERB! I've always wanted to read this series and you're definitely making me want to add this series to my already long reading list:) Thanks for all that you do
Such a great video Gav!!! That intro is too iconic 😂😍👏
Wicked the musical is actually based on a book series by Gregory McGuire. He has written several fairy tales/classic story retellings.
I love that you read these!! I’m shocked you hadn’t read the entire series before with it being your fav movie. I read them all as a kid and LOVED THEM! The Patchwork Girl of Oz was always my fav. I’m writing this at the beginning of your video but can’t wait for your thoughts. Omg your cosplay. I’m dying 😂😂
There is a recent TV series that got cancelled but I really enjoyed it! It was called "Emerald City". It was a modern day version of The Wizard of Oz, but it has a lot of things in it that I now know are from the other books you've mentioned above. I didn't realise there were so many books, but things like the heads and the vegetable people etc makes so much more sense now :)
Gavothy Gale teaching the munshkins crass language is what i subscribed for
I’ve read them all in junior high. Surprisingly pretty heavy sometimes. Loved it. A true fantasy. Love the takes on have. FUNNY.
If you want to see a fantastic adaption of book 2. I recommend 1981s "Marvelous Land Of Oz" Musical by the minneapolis childrens theater you can find it here on youtube free.
Yes! That one is really nicely done and very underrated!
This was such a throwback to my childhood! I read the series when I was younger and remember loving the world even when the characters were a bit questionable. You embodied Dorothy even better than she deserved…
The Wizard of Oz actually has a lot of political allusions. The Yellow brick road referred to the gold standard. The three (lion, Scarecrow, Tina Man) were all supposed to be certain politicians (can't remember who, though)
This is mostly stuff academics read into the book later. Baum himself wrote:
"Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
Having this thought in mind, the story of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' was written solely to pleasure children of today."
The only political allusion Baum seems to have intentionally put in the books were some female-empowerment themes due to his involvement in the suffrage movement.
You should've called this "The Wizard of Vlog"
Omg you’re brilliant
the “wtf was that?” at the beginning 😂
Omg I've been waiting for this!!! I love the wizard of oz series
Gavin that skit was hilarious 😂 Oscar worth acting and production 💯💯💯 this might be more difficult to do but a manga skit for one of your feature length manga vids would be hilarious too! I think you’d kill it (but ofc only if you want to)
Have you seen the Wiz? I love that version
That wind is so perfect in an OZ vlog
A crow telling the Scarecrow a brain is worth more than anything actually make so much sense, do to crows being really intelligent creatures.
This series is so nostalgic! Love the opening skit so much
The costume😱
As a Kansan (who does want to move), I have such a love/hate relationship with these books/movie. However, your acting? Iconic. Incredible. The best thing I have ever seen in my life. You make me actually love the movie.
talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it.
I didn't even realise there were 14 books!!!
There are actually around 40. It’s just that the original author died after 14, but other people continued the series after and they are considered canonical texts.
Hahaha the munchkin's being bleeped out for swearing lol shame on you Gavin, they are impressionable.
I read all of these too and then kept on going with the Ruth Plumly Thompson ones, but I've finally reached a point at which I can't track down the next ones :(
Lovely and entertaining video as always!
Tin Man and General Grievous display striking parallels in their origins: Both were stripped of their natural selves by the influence of others, their body parts replaced with mechanical ones, transforming them into machines. While one seeks a heart, the other is driven by a thirst for revenge. 🤖
The Dorothy/Glenda opening Gav! You're really out here killing it. I really enjoyed this deep dive into the Wizard of Oz. It was never a favorite of mine but it still makes me nostalgic for when I was young. I doooo love Wicked though.
If you haven't already, you should look into The Search for WondLa series by Tony DiTerlizzi. It's a mid-grade fantasy/Sci-fi where a young girl goes on a search for other humans, something she's only ever seen in a picture that she calls WandLa but it's actually the cover of the original Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It's got a lot of similar themes of discovering new worlds and wanting to find your home and I really loved it =)
Loving your rebrand, Gavin! 😍
I remember watching the movie by myself and I just loved it, being the gay child that I was (and am). They showed it in school and other people weren’t getting it. I was really sad for them.
I was waiting for this!
Gavins dedication is 👌
Great video!
If I recall, several of these books were actually stage productions first then adapted to book form. That's probably why there are so many inconsistent and repetitive elements in some of these. Definitely doesn't explain all of them , but I think LFB was more invested in getting Oz on the stage than the page in some cases.
That intro was hilarious... I think I kinda prefer this version to the original :) Thanks again for another amazing video
Would you consider doing a Cosmere reading vlog series? Since you have talked about getting more into adult fantasy I would love to see you explore the different series within the Cosmere and hopefully loving them!
In your opening credits you give a tribute to your pet they died in 2020 that must have been rough. To have them pass then the pandemic. My friend lost her dog around that time. He is indeed over the rainbow. Happy you are here making great videos
I think the Wizard of Oz books might make good bedtime stories. They're very repetitive in a sort of comforting way, and they probably aren't exciting enough to keep a kid awake out of anticipation
i just googled L. Frank Baum and on the google search your video showed up.
Wizard of Oz is one of my favourite oldie films too. I read some of the books years ago, watching to find out which ones it was. Watching the bit about ozma of oz now, when you said you couldny remember the princesses name causr it was long one, my brain... princess consweila banana hammock. Cause obviously L. Frank Baum co-wrote the final friends series!
This is the best video yet! I love when you dress up and act ♥️♥️♥️
Thank you for doing this. My mother read me these books one chapter a night when I was a child. (Talking late 60s early 70s here) it was good to hear the names again as through the decades people looked at me odd when I told them there were many more books. Though I do remember as a child Tick Tock scared me a bit. 🙂
I have read all 14 books, I have lived 63 years a true fan of the original Oz stories
Was about to say this was the original isekai but obviously that's alice in wonderland
Can't wait for your speech at the Oscars next year!
Came here after watching the Wicked vlog because I cant believe I missed this one. A few years ago I started reading this serjes but gave up after the 6th one, I think. After watching this i may pick up a select few others, but not the whole thing.
At the time, I hadn't been aware there were so many Oz books. I have seen several Oz tv series and was confused by where they were getting all this material. So maybe they'd make more sense now. Also I had no clue there was another movie. So I'm off to watch now. This was fun and informative as usual.
Girl, you ate this
This was definitely one of your best performances, the swearing 😅
The green screen edits are ICONIC 🤩🤣🤣🤣
I love this video idea
Thank you 🙏🏼
Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry do stay in Oz at the end of book 6.
Baum actually wanted to move on from Oz, so in book 6 it is stated there will be no more Oz books, but then pressure and a need for money took over and he continued… but started phoning it in. Sort of.
Book 8 is actually a novelization of the play based on book 3 which pulled in elements from book 4-5 as well.
Book 9 is actually a sequel to two books about Trot and Cap’n Bill, but that series didn’t catch on like Oz had.
Book 10 was written with no mention of Oz, but he was pressured into rewriting the ending to tie it into the series.
This is great, i have a couple of early editions from the OZ series (not first editions) but the books are over 100 years old and have 12 color plate illustrations. Beautiful artwork.
Return to Oz is my favorite, and I could watch it over and over.
The bleeping took me out! Your skits are unmatched.
I loved the first book as a kid and didn't know it was a series until a few years ago. After this review I do want to get to Ozma of Oz at least.
omg i read these in early middle school (not all unfortunately) and our library had the best covers
Yesssss let's get this started as I enjoy my breakfast
Your cats don't hate you. I can't imagine anybody hating you. 💖 Loved this video!
1:05:30 my head canon would be that the organic body would remain cursed and he'd be in a living hell level repeating cycle of torture. Replace everything with tin and you're no longer chopping your limbs off everyday.
If you love the 1939 Wizard of Oz. You need to watch the animated series. It's more accurate with the books.
Yes Toto talking really bothered me at the time and now I realized why. They were doing a "retcon" to explain the plot hole of why we can talk and Bellina can. I know realize that this prepared me for later in life when Star Wars, and now many other series, used prequels to retcon a bunch of things about franchises. It is the most memorable part of the book.
I never knew there were this many.
Not counting movies I know the series best by its cartoon that covers about 3 or 4 seasons and goes to the desert and every which way on top of movie 1 events.
Now I see the cartoon could not cover everything despite its length as I thought it might have done before.
14 is quite a long series by my reconning.
someone get this man an oscar
1:06:50 In the Tin Woodsman of Oz, the tin man considered his tin body superior to his “meat body.” The witch actually stole his og head, and the tinsmith made him a new head. Nimee stole the head back, but the tin man chose to keep the tin head because he liked it better.
I really liked the part in the book where the tin woodman and the tin soldier were talking about how much better their tin bodies were compared to their old bodies. Woot mentioned meat bodies don’t rust, and both tin men just looked at him.
PLEASE do an episode on the Ruth Plumly Thompson Oz books. My partner got me an old copy of The Gnome King of Oz and I absolutely love it and I really want to know more about her other books but my ADHD makes reading quite difficult for me and I fear I’ll never read them on my own.
Wow, only ever heard of the Gregpry Maguire side series (would love to see a youtube video done on that series, hint, beg). Have to go look for this one too! This comment section always has the best info ☺️
Omg the greenscreen in this is amazing!
I need to find that book set! I've always wanted to read these books