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

• Did you ever want to put your child in The Wizard of Oz? Here's what the results might look like in Japan

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

• Could this tornado have inspired L. Frank Baum?

• Was this the inspiration for the Yellow Brick Road?

• Jack Snow's grave

• Munchkin economics — [A] [B]

• The Wonderful Game of Oz (first issued in 1921) — [A] [B] [C (along with The Wogglebug Game of Conundrums)]

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

• All kinds of Wizard of Oz board games

• The Wizard of Oz Card Game — [A] [B]

• 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
  • Can this machine save pinball?
  • Unboxing and gameplay video
  • The manual is online!

• 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

• A North Dakota Oz fan

• Oz fan/historian/author John Fricke

• Proud Kansas Oz fan Jane Albright

• Stanford alumnus and Oz fan Dr. Dick Rutter

• Willard Carroll's Oz collection

• Oz fans in southern California

• A New Jersey fan's Oz room

• Denzel Washington is an Oz fan!

• So is Zooey Deschenel!

• How Oz influenced writer Elizabeth Gilbert

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

• How to make a Wizard of Oz tissue holder

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

• Did Dorothy land on Mars?

• Kick-Butt Women of Literature (and yes, one's from Oz)

• The origin of Toto's name

• 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

• The Metaphor of Melting

• Whither Our Flying Monkeys?

• The Taz of Oz

• The Robots of Oz

• The Tin Man is a spokesman (?) 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)

• A Wizard of Oz April Fool's Day prank

• 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 and performances:
  • "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)
  • "Guillotine" by the Coup
  • "Business" by Louana (Russian)
  • "The Wizard of Ahhs" by Todrick Hall and Pentatonix, (and the behind-the-scenes video, too)
  • "Dead Air" by Vincent Minor
  • Lady Gaga's Oz-themed performance for "Applause" on Good Morning America (with a little "Over the Rainbow" thrown in, too)

• Tir nan Oz, the secrets behind the Ozzish language

• Why is the Wicked Witch of the West green?

• Ozma, a trans-positive character

• 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)

• Oz-inspired house

• 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?)

• Milo the dog in The Wizard of Oz

• 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

• Tin Man Brewing Co. (Evansville, Indiana)

• 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

• 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

• A Wizard of Oz dance performance in North Dakota

• Happy Feet music video

• Wedding Nouveau Magazine has Oz-inspired images

• The Scarecrow dances gangnam style!

• Reel Science uses The Wizard of Oz to explain the scientific method

• The Card Game of Oz

• The Wizard of Oz game from the Ohio Lottery

• The Harlem Shakes in Oz

• A Wizard of Oz-themed prom

• Tim Samaras, Oz-inspired storm chaser

• The Singaporean Fairy Tale uses famous literary characters, including the Scarecrow, to teach about starting and raising a family

• Gita Dorothy Morena, L. Frank Baum's great-granddaughter

• A huge Wizard of Oz LEGO display at a 2013 convention, complete with motorized tornado — [A] [B] [C] [D]

• More about Oz and LEGO

• Some of the great domed cities of science fiction and fantasy — there's a big surprise from the Oz books

• The Oz Chronicles book series and Superman

• The contents of a suspicious package

• Oz hallucinations on a long-distance swim

• A Wizard of Oz-inspired wedding

• Glenn Beck uses The Wizard of Oz to explain his version of how American politics works

• xkcd asks, Can you catch a bullet? (No, really, this one has Oz in it. Check out the cartoon at the very end.)

• The Oz Nightclub, St.Louis, Missouri

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

• Tinman Gallery, Spokane, Washington

• Tin Man Snacks

• 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

• Wizardly cakes, including Oz-themed ones

• Bad cakes, presented with an Oz theme

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

• Munchkin cats

• Protective cases for your Oz (and other) books — [A] [B] [C] [D]

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