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My awesome sister, ~Nebulan , and her bizarre hobby of attempting to do every Magic School Bus crossover possible ( [link] ), mentioned that she was contemplating one of these being the Wizard of Oz.Since the Wizard of Oz is the sort of thing I could see the kids having a good reason to dress up as, I drew this for her. The kids are putting on the play for Walkerville Elementary!
I wasn't sure how much costume makeup would last to the end of a play on a group of energetic eight-year-olds. I tried to mix in some of each kids' unique traits to make them easily identifiable.
Dorothy Ann is playing Dorothy.
For some reason, her father insisted on her wearing silver slippers. He gave no indication that he actually read the original book or anything, but he was very determined.
Carlos RamΓ³n plays the scarecrow.
Arnold Perlstein plays the fitting part of the cowardly lion.
And the misunderstood Tim is the Tin Man.
the witches are the best friends Keesha and Phoebe each filling rolls well suited for them. (Keesha, a realist, often comes across as a cynical, and Phoebe is such a bubbling optimist).
Wanda Li and Ralphie Tennelli play generic rolls. Wanda is a flying monkey, and likely enjoyed running around and maybe they got her to fly some too (some of the kids are creative engineers, plus they do have a magic bus). Ralphie represents the Lollipop Guild... or rather, the Maloblaster Guild.
Ms. Frizzle is the Wizard of Oz, with Liz playing Toto and the Bus is in the back as the Hot Air balloon, just happy to actually get to be in this play.
Magic School Bus is still owned by Scholostic, and hopefully Joanna Cole still has some rights to it all.
Wizard of Oz can originally be credited to L. Frank Baum , but since there's so many parodies selling, I think the copyright there is up.
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angeladoesart [2023-02-01 01:47:05 +0000 UTC]
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EpicDreamerPrince95 [2014-07-28 14:54:59 +0000 UTC]
Cool idea! The roles they play are great!
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Brittany-Psalm28-7 [2013-03-25 03:32:10 +0000 UTC]
Cool idea! The roles they play are great!
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hermione-of-vulcan [2011-06-07 01:47:37 +0000 UTC]
My two favorite things as a little kid. Brings back memories.
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Kimberly-AJ-04-02 [2011-01-30 21:51:48 +0000 UTC]
So do you mean Dorothy Ann playing the role of "Dorothy Gale"?
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RogueDragon In reply to Kimberly-AJ-04-02 [2011-01-30 23:25:32 +0000 UTC]
Yep! Granted to character match might be closer in personality to Phoebe, but I wanted Pheeb to be Glinda.
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AJHalliwell [2010-10-02 20:14:07 +0000 UTC]
This is awesome, LOVE the concept! And greatly done too.
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fierysue [2009-06-05 04:12:04 +0000 UTC]
Dorothy Ann as Dorothy = MAKES SO MUCH SENSE.
Haha, when you put Phoebe and Keesha in the role of the Witches it automatically reminded me of Wicked. Doesn't that make sense?
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evolra [2009-05-22 04:51:19 +0000 UTC]
Whats-her-face is a flying monkey. It's Dr Horrible's sing a long blog documentary all over again. racist. (jk)
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RogueDragon In reply to evolra [2009-05-27 16:48:25 +0000 UTC]
the flying monkeys are mockeries of Chinese-Americans, what?
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evolra In reply to RogueDragon [2009-05-30 00:51:05 +0000 UTC]
No, that she wasn't put as a main character...
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RogueDragon In reply to evolra [2009-05-31 23:32:16 +0000 UTC]
I don't think she would have made a very good Auntie Em
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AtarahDerek [2009-05-21 06:06:46 +0000 UTC]
Even though, for reasons I can't explain even to myself, I've never been a fan of Wizard of Oz. But I do still enjoy MSB. I really like the casting in this pic. All very appropriate roles. Well done.
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RogueDragon In reply to AtarahDerek [2009-05-21 17:28:11 +0000 UTC]
I'm not fond of the Wizard of Oz either. Maybe it's due partly to the fact that the much of the book's original intentions and (arg, my vocabulary fails me right now, I give up)
...anyway, did you happen to see SciFi's "Tinman". it was a SciFi channle miniserise that did better than they expected. It was a very different take on Oz, but I enjoyed it and even liked how they did sort of tie it in to the original story (though how Dorothy Gale came back and ended up mothering the royal magical family wasn't explained...)
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AtarahDerek In reply to AtarahDerek [2009-05-21 06:09:23 +0000 UTC]
Since there's no way to edit my original comment (which irks me)...
That was meant to say, "Even though, for reasons I can't explain even to myself, I've never been a fan of Wizard of Oz, I do still enjoy MSB."
I relly can rite, ya no.
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RogueDragon In reply to AtarahDerek [2009-05-21 17:29:22 +0000 UTC]
for example: the comment I just sent to your other comment... oy, I need to shut up while I'm ahead...
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RogueDragon In reply to AtarahDerek [2009-05-21 17:24:13 +0000 UTC]
I love the typos that get set in stone on DeviantArt. Especially the comments I write at hours long after I should have gone to sleep...
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panhellsing66 [2009-05-21 02:29:31 +0000 UTC]
aw so cute, I like how you did this, Liz as Toto! XD
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Bug-Off [2009-05-20 14:28:47 +0000 UTC]
This would've made an interesting Magic School Bus episode.
Except it wouldn't have been as educational as one of their usual field trips.
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RogueDragon In reply to Bug-Off [2009-05-20 22:14:31 +0000 UTC]
They learned about... tornados, and ... hot air balloons.
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AtarahDerek In reply to RogueDragon [2009-05-21 06:04:21 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, actually, they did. In one of the spin-off books. I guess that particular field trip is what inspired them.
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RogueDragon In reply to AtarahDerek [2009-05-27 16:49:44 +0000 UTC]
Was it one of the black-and-white pamphlet-books? I glanced a a couple online (which was only a couple of pages).
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AtarahDerek In reply to RogueDragon [2009-05-27 19:03:12 +0000 UTC]
If you're referring to the multi-chapter books, then yeah. There's one book where a couple of kids complain that they have to study the weather rather than go to some amusement park with big roller coasters, so the Friz turns the bus into a hot air balloon and takes them into a tornado.
The book's writer neglected to mention that it's the debris, not the wind, that makes tornadoes as dangerous as they are.
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Bug-Off In reply to RogueDragon [2009-05-21 04:35:12 +0000 UTC]
See, they should take an actual field trip to Oz!
Now THERE'S an episode!
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