{"id":1250,"date":"2008-09-04T07:14:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T21:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/04\/big-bird\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T07:14:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T21:14:58","slug":"big-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/04\/big-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bird?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a giant monster bird movie out there that is more recent than the infamous <strong>The Giant Claw<\/strong> (US-1957; dir. Fred F. Sears).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called <strong>Big Bird<\/strong> &#8212; but it&#8217;s not this one by artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawfluffy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonni Good<\/a> (click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawfluffy.com\/movie.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to view Flash movie&#8230; it&#8217;s very short).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/bigbird2.jpg\" title=\"Big Bird 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/bigbird2.jpg\" alt=\"Big Bird 2\" height=\"257\" width=\"443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nor does it have anything to do with this guy:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/bigbird.jpg\" title=\"Big Bird on Sesame Street\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/bigbird.jpg\" alt=\"Big Bird on Sesame Street\" height=\"481\" width=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/bigbirdposter.jpg\" title=\"Big Bird poster\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/bigbirdposter.jpg\" alt=\"Big Bird poster\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Kaiju Search-Robot Avery asked me if I&#8217;ve ever heard of the film that goes with the\u00a0 poster on the right. Supposedly it&#8217;s a Thai film, and Avery says he first became aware of it via a 2005 issue of <em>Fangoria<\/em>, where it was mentioned &#8212; along with <em>Deep Sea Monster Reigo<\/em> and <em>Mega-Snake<\/em> &#8212; in an article on the American Film Market for that year. It is also mentioned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schlocktoberfest.com\/current_columns\/foy_bware05B.html\" target=\"_blank\">Foywonder<\/a> (which is where the poster comes from).<\/p>\n<p>But it still hasn&#8217;t &#8230; um&#8230; flown in.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone heard of it? Details, please?<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s a spoof, if it even exists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a giant monster bird movie out there that is more recent than the infamous The Giant Claw (US-1957; dir. Fred F. Sears). It&#8217;s called Big Bird &#8212; but it&#8217;s not this one by artist Jonni Good (click here to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/04\/big-bird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}