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Little Ricky kicks off the Holidays

Posted On: November 28th, 2011 | Posted In: News

For the second year ShakyPlanet mascot, Little Ricky, joins our holiday line of eCollectibles. ’2011 Little Ricky Holiday‘ features animation and sound. This is a limited time release so add it to your collection soon! Just visit the ShakyStore in your ShakyPlanet app and you will find right at the top of the list. If you have an iPhone, iPad, or Ipod Touch but don’t have ShakyPlanet yet, be sure to visit the iTunes store and download it!

Our Peace on Earth eCollectible brings full 3D rendered animation and music to the season. This is the first 3D rendered animation we have featured but it isn’t the last!

2011 Christmas Trees will charm you. Mr. Snowman wishes you a Happy Holiday.

Santa spends some quality time with the flight crew in 2011 Reindeer Feeding Time. This holiday eCollectible features animation and music.

It is cold outside but toasty by the Christmas tree lights. 2011 Nutcracker has subtle animation and fun music from the 1920s.

Download our latest Holiday eCollectible, 2011 Northern Elf, and you will be happy as an Elf! A Northern Elf, not a melancholy Shoe Elf!

Spin spin spin….play the dreidel game! Happy Hanukkah! 2011 Dreidel features animation and music.

Santa has some special toys for all the girls and boys on Christmas Eve.

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Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz born this day in 1922

Posted On: November 26th, 2011 | Posted In: News

: Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer. Source: Library of Congress

Thanksgiving and Christmas wouldn’t be the same without the Peanuts gang that Schulz created.

The Peanuts comic strip hit newspaper funny pages in October of 1950. Charlie Brown and the gang have starred in thousands of stories since their debut – their Thanksgiving and Christmas specials are two of the most memorable.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving © 2011 Peanuts Worldwide LLC

“I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.”
“That’s right. I’ve seen you make toast. You can’t butter it, but maybe we can help you.”

Can you name the two characters in the above image that weren’t at Charlie Brown’s first ill-fated Thanksgiving dinner party? What recurring favorite character is missing? Click to see a larger version and stop by Peanuts.com to play games and vote on who would eat the most.

A Charlie Brown Christmas © 2011 Peanuts Worldwide LLC

“I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.” -Linus Van Pelt

Millions of collectibles have come from the comic strip, comics, TV specials and movies. The Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California has some of some of the earliest toys in their collection.

The ComicArtville Library site has info on the first comic books to feature the peanuts characters, like a lot of our current favorite comics they didn’t get their own book right off the bat- you’ll have to track down TipTop Comics #173 or United Comics #21 to collect their first appearance outside of a newspaper.

You can visit Peanuts.com to keep up to date on all things Peanuts.

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ShakyPlanet 2.2 has arrived!

Posted On: November 22nd, 2011 | Posted In: News

What’s New in Version 2.2

• Brag about your collection on Twitter (requires iOS 5)
• Scan redeem codes with your camera
• User Interface Improvements

: ShakyPlanet 2.2

Get ShakyPlanet 2.2 in the app store, it is still Free!

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How comics were distributed changed how they were collected.

Posted On: November 14th, 2011 | Posted In: News

The latest Comic Book Comics issue illustrates how behind the scenes changes in comic book distribution changed the industry and the collecting of comics.

I don’t think I ever met an English teacher that appreciated comic books. Comics Alliance has an exclusive 5 page preview up on their excellent site- read on to see how the change led to both the boom and the bust of modern comic collecting.

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Happy Birthday to the friendliest street there is!

Posted On: November 10th, 2011 | Posted In: News


Sesame Street - Children's Television Workshop

Susan (Loretta Long) and an orange Oscar the Grouch in the first season 0f “Sesame Street.”

Happy Birthday Sesame Street! Oscar, Big Bird, and the gang debuted on November 10, 1969. Those kids with Oscar and Susan are all hitting 50 now!

The 70′s brought some great Sesame Street toys to the market that have since become highly collectible. The Muppet Wiki has some great photos of the Fisher Price Little People Playsets featuring the Sesame Street.

© All rights reserved by RussSwift (used with permission)

In 1999 the post office included a Big Bird stamp in their ‘Celebrate the Century-1970′s’ set. Old stamp sets like these can be found on eBay and other auction sites. The nice thing about collecting uncirculated stamps is that when times are tough you can always use them as postage!