Miscellane-Oz

• The Ruby Heart, an award inspired by the Tin Woodman

• Wizard of Oz birthday party ideas

• Oz birthday party and craft ideas

• Original Oz coloring pages

• Vintage Wizard of Oz valentines

• Oz pumpkin carving designs — [Dorothy and Dog] [Scarecrow] [Tin Man] [Lion] [From The Movie] [More from The Movie]

• The Wizard of Guffaws — Oz riddles

• The Wizard's real name revealed (along with a few other characters)

• Could this tornado have inspired L. Frank Baum?

• Board for The Wonderful Game of Oz (first issued in 1921)

• The Oz Quest board game (based on The Patchwork Girl of Oz)

• All kinds of Wizard of Oz board games

• The Wizard of Oz Collectible Card Game

• The Wizard of Oz edition of Fluxx
  • A review of The Wizard of Oz Fluxx

• Adventures in Oz role-playing game and new character stats from the game's blog

• Role-playing in Oz with the GURPS system

• Heroes of Oz role-playing game — [website A] [website B] [on Facebook]

• Oz: Dark and Terrible role-playing game — [A] [B]

• Jersey Jack Pinball, makers of the Wizard of Oz pinball machine
  • More about Wizard of Oz pinball, including a demonstration of the melting Wicked Witch, Dorothy's house, and a preliminary gameplay demonstration
  • More Wizard of Oz pinball news — [A] [B]
  • Footage of the game in action
  • Top twelve things you should know about the Wizard of Oz pinball machine

• Vintage Halloween costumes for The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz

• The history of Oz puppets

• The Ornament Rooms, a gallery of fans' collections of trinkets

• Wizard of Oz embroidery patterns (on CD-ROM)

• Project Ozma, the first known project searching for signs of extraterrestrial civilizations — [A] [B] [C]

• Did Dorothy land on Mars?

• About the Wicked Witch of the West

• So why does water melt the wicked witch?

• Why are some witches green? The Wizard of Oz is part of the reason.

• "A Lament for Witches", from The New Yorker

• Whither Our Flying Monkeys?

• The Taz of Oz

• The Robots of Oz

• The Tin Man is a spokeman (?) for canned pasta

• 1980's Oz-themed Yamaha synthesizer commercial

• How collectible are fast food giveaway toys? (Check this one out if you have some of the Madame Alexander Happy Meal Toys from McDonald's)

• Emerald City, an online science-fiction and fantasy fanzine (it doesn't have a lot of Oz content, but the name is good, and they're located in my former home town)

• The Wonderful Babies of Oz

• Oz-themed music videos:
  • "Na Sua Estante" by Pitty (in Portuguese)
  • "I Don't Want to Be a Statue" (cover version of a song from the movie The Wonderful Land of Oz)
  • "He's a Mental Giant" by Tech N9ne and the inspiration for it
  • Oz-themed Israeli rap video (in Hebrew)
  • Korean and Japanese pop music videos about Oz
  • "Blown Away" by Carrie Underwood (and behind the scenes)

• Tir nan Oz, the secrets behind the Ozzish language

• Why is the Wicked Witch of the West green?

• Composer Alan Cook (look for the track "The Wonders of Oz")

• Frances Colettera and his Oz music suite

• Music in the Oz books

• Yellow Brick Road Hopscotch

• The Wizard of Oz: A Tale of Library Circulation

• Tour of an Oz bedroom (video)

• BookCrossing — register your book, release it into the world, and see where it goes! They have several Oz books, of course.

• Death of a Witch (my, she gets around, doesn't she?)

• LOL catz and dogz — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I (from an old postcard of the 1903 stage play!]

• Fake de-motivational Oz posters

• Can you find the Oz characters amongst these famous robots?

• Dave Barry writes about Oz — [A] [B]

• Is fantasy bad? (Includes Oz content)

• Oz Winery in (where else?) Kansas

• Ruby Red Punch

• The Wicked Witch of the West

• Technology in Oz

• Oz-inspired GPS-enabled shoes — "There's no place like home!"

• "There's No Place Like Kansas!"

• 7 Shocklingly Dark Origins of Lovable Children's Characters (you'll probably want to skip to #1)

• Penguin Audio Books ad (from Malaysia)

• The Reading Streak — it started and ended with Oz

• Oz fan/historian/author John Fricke

• A big Wizard of Oz collection in the news

• A warning to practice good hygiene

• Did the movie 12 Monkeys get its name from The Magic of Oz?

• Post-apocalyptic Wizard of Oz miniatures

• A 1992 demonstration of animatronics

• The Oz Nightclub, St.Louis, Missouri

• Smith and Tinker, an electronics company named for the inventors of Tik-Tok

• Tinman Gallery, Spokane, Washington

• Look like Ozma while listening to your music with poppy earbud covers

• Mago de Oz, a Mexican heavy-metal music group (site is in Spanish)

• Auntie Em's Kitchen in southern California — no Oz connection, but they do make a mean bunch of cupcakes

• Auntie M's Cupn'Cake Bakery — another southern California bakery that does have Oz-themed cupcakes!

• Wicked Witch of the East cupcakes

• The Wizard of Oz Moving, for those moving from New York, New Jersey, or Los Angeles

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