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Race For Your Life, Vanellope Von Schweetz - Ch10Taffyta roared up the track, with thirteen other cars and the entire Sugar Rush police force hot on her trail. Ralph was perched on the back of Vanellope’s kart; Rancis was squeezed in next to Candlehead, just as eager to get his car back as he was to bring justice to the girl who stole it. High above the convoy of candied vehicles, Calhoun and Felix flew in on their hoverboard, with Sour Bill clinging to the back.

The chase rounded a corner, and Taffyta snagged an A La Mode power-up without even meaning to. She glanced behind her and gasped; the gap between her and her pursuers was closing.

Calhoun drew her plasma cannon and took aim

Race For Your Life, Vanellope Von Schweetz - Ch9Half an hour before opening, Mr. Litwak made his daily sweep of the arcade, tidying up before he unlocked the doors at 10:00 AM. Armed with a spray bottle full of Windex and a roll of paper towels, he cleaned the smudges and fingerprints off each of the screens. His morning employee, Randy, went over the whole floor with a carpet sweeper, clutching a half-eaten Subway breakfast sandwich in his other hand.

As Mr. Litwak approached the Sugar Rush cabinet, he heaved a small sigh.

“Something wrong, sir?” asked Randy through a mouthful of ham and egg.

“Well, Sugar Rush hasn’t been bringing in a lot of quarters this week,

Race For Your Life, Vanellope Von Schweetz - Ch8By 8:00 that morning, the election results were in, and Vanellope's worst fears were confirmed – Taffyta had won in a landslide. The only vote Vanellope had received was the one she cast herself.

"Sorry, Vanellope," Jubileena had said after the outcome was announced. "But you gotta admit, your campaign team was a bunch of psychos. And not just the guy who shot up the town square, either."

"Yeah," Adorabeezle added. "That Wreck-It Ralph guy you hang out with, the one who's always roaring and threatening to smash us? I think he's a few Good 'N Plentys short of a full box, if you know what I mean."

Vanellope wanted to object loudly to this sl

Race For Your Life, Vanellope Von Schweetz - Ch7A meeting was held in Candy Hollow in the hours before Litwak's opened that day, and it was decided that the election would be conducted on Friday morning. Taffyta wanted it to happen immediately, but Ralph, Felix, and Calhoun had argued to give Vanellope the rest of the week to campaign. (The motion was nearly vetoed, but Ralph needed only to discreetly flex his powerful arms and pound his fist into his palm to convince any contrary voters.) This gave her three days to sway the residents of Sugar Rush back to her side.

Unfortunately, this was much easier said than done. Taffyta's words had filled the other racers with a kind of mob-like pas

Race For Your Life, Vanellope Von Schweetz - Ch6By the time the four of them got back to the starting line, everyone else had already left, but the totals still displayed on the board. Much to Vanellope's dismay, Taffyta had pulled out another first-place victory, beating Snowanna by just three-tenths of a second. And of course, Vanellope herself had been disqualified.

Vanellope had requested that Felix not repair her car – she wanted to keep her broken brake line intact as evidence. With no working brakes, Ralph had to sit on the back of Vanellope's car and propel it back to Candy Hollow with his hands. Calhoun and Felix followed close behind on the hoverboard. All the way, Vanellope sat

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In creating the history for the BarbozaToons, I knew I couldn't call their backstory complete without a lengthy period of bastardization in the 1990s. Here's one such example - the poster for a special edition theatrical Ken Kangaroo cartoon from 1990. You may recall that the Looney Tunes had a number of special edition theatrical cartoons in the 1990s that varied greatly in quality, from the superb ("Carrotblanca", "Chariots of Fur") to the embarassingly bad ("Superior Duck"). That's what inspired this. A brief synopsis:

"When Ken escapes from the zoo, Cleft Rockpile endeavors to round him back up. Ken hides out in the city, disguising himself among the break-dancing homeboys on a street corner. When Cleft catches up with him, the hip-hopping Ken revels in tormenting him by blasting his boom box and pummeling him with his "rad" dance moves."

Sad, really. Note also the exclusive engagement with a particularly crappy-sounding movie called "China Charlie 2" - picture it as one of those cheesy kung-fu action epics starring Hulk Hogan and Tawny Kitaen or something. The name "Layla Sammis" is one of those names I pulled out of the copyright page of one of my textbooks.

There are a few things I've been changing in the BarbozaToon universe recently. Most significantly, I changed the name of their studio from Big O Studios to Gryphon Pictures, which I think fits in a bit better with the majestic-sounding studio names of yesteryear (Paramount, Columbia, Universal, and so on). Plus, I recently found out that "big O" is also a sexual euphemism, so I decided it didn't work as well as I hoped.

In terms of the detrimental period that the BarbozaToons went through in the 1990s, this is just the tip of the iceberg - there were also TV series, advertising tie-ins, and just wait until you see 1995's "The BarbozaToons Movie"...

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~maxvision92 Jan 25, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

Just tell me that the Movie had no singing, "radical" baddies, live-action celbrities, or anything resembling that that vet from the Tom and Jerry movie.

*inkypaws-productions Oct 13, 2009

You're right about how great "Carrotblanca" and "Chariots of Fur" are. I saw them on Youtube, THEY ARE GENIOUS.

Nice Cuckoo clock, by the way

~katrover Apr 29, 2007 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Arugh, the bastardization! It kills my eyes! Especially Ken's expression.

~nicole-sarah-white Mar 25, 2007

g'day mate great choice with the kangaroo i love em soo much heh i see about 12 of em a week in aus

!King-Cheetah Feb 26, 2007

... hmmmmm... I... hmmmm... I'll send you a private note about this.

~FrijolesGirl Feb 23, 2007

OOH I LIKE THIS!

~Scott-da-Hedgehog Feb 23, 2007

My hat's off to you sir. You went all out with giving these characters a real history. I wish I had put this much thought into my own Carrot Cake and Avery J. Fox.