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ninthdoc
January 9th, 2007, 10:39 AM
The creator of Scooby-Doo. :cry:

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070109/ap_on_en_tv/obit_takamoto)
CupidsArt
January 9th, 2007, 10:41 AM
The creator of Scooby-Doo. :cry:

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070109/ap_on_en_tv/obit_takamoto)

Rut-Ro Raggy

Well at least we have pleanty of the old toons to keep our hearts warm and a smile on our face, :)
Grishnakh
January 9th, 2007, 11:24 AM
It is a sad day indeed that Iwao Takamoto has left us. Scooby Doo was and still is an important cartoon figure to many children and adults alike. Scooby Doo is such a great tool for parents to use to teach that "monsters" are not real, they are only bad guys in masks, a fact that has certainly comforted my children over the years when they are scared to go to bed at night due to their childhood fears. I've also used Scooby as a spring board to teach my children to think critically about other types of imaginary, supernatural beings our society generally accepts as real. At one point Warner Brothers did a cartoon that announced "This time the monsters are real!" which totally destroyed the concept at the heart of Scooby Doo. And while I like the live action films their diving into "real" monsters felt out of place as well. I was glad when Warner Brothers new re-imaging of the Scooby Doo cartoon brought it back to plots that revolved around bad guys as monsters and the scooby gang having to use their brains (and Shaggy/Scooby's comedy antics) to solve the mystery. What lessons we can learn from Scooby Doo.

My seven year old son is working on a combined book report and art project and the book he has chosen is "Scooby Doo and the Opera Ogre". It will be a sad night for him if I tell him about Iwao Takamoto. Better I keep it to myself and just hug him a little tighter tonight as I help him with his project. I'm sure Mr. Takamoto would understand and approve.
markwars
January 9th, 2007, 12:42 PM
He would have lived it hadn't been for that stupid dog and those meddling kids!
curseyoukhan
January 9th, 2007, 12:54 PM
For a moment I thought this was about one of the new flagbearers...
kenjib
January 9th, 2007, 01:05 PM
Shaggy is my hero - a true inspiration and rolemodel for slackers everywhere. May the memory live on...
johnny139
January 9th, 2007, 02:59 PM
Wow. Joe Barbera died a few weeks ago, too.

:cry:

A sad time for animation.
Nwojedi
January 9th, 2007, 03:04 PM
as a kid i never cared for hanna barbara cartoons, and still don't. They were something to watch when nothing else was on.

as far as scooby doo teaching kids that monsters wernt' real. That didnt' work for me. I was still scared ****less of skeletons. Maybe cuz you know there isn't someone hiding inside. :)
markwars
January 9th, 2007, 03:47 PM
A ghost could hide inside a skeleton.
kenjib
January 9th, 2007, 03:55 PM
as a kid i never cared for hanna barbara cartoons, and still don't. They were something to watch when nothing else was on.

as far as scooby doo teaching kids that monsters wernt' real. That didnt' work for me. I was still scared ****less of skeletons. Maybe cuz you know there isn't someone hiding inside. :)

Well obviously it's an image projected with mirrors of a man standing in a dark room wearing a black suit with a skeleton painted on...