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Sid & Marty Krofft to Release NFTs Starting with 'Land of the Lost' (msn.com) 58

Posted by EditorDavid from the routine-expeditions dept.
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Today sees an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of 1970s children's programming giants Sid & Marty Krofft. (Born in 1929, Sid Krofft will turn 93 in July). And reportedly Marty Krofft has now partnered with NFT producer Orange Comet "in a multiyear contract to release NFTs based on the often enigmatic and much-beloved television shows they have brought to us since 1969."

The first one commemorates Land of the Lost — dropping sometime after September.

Today I learned their big break in America came from making puppets for Dean Martin's show, followed by designing and directing the Banana Splits and a string of successful children's shows on Saturday mornings. ( Land of the Lost, H.R. Pufunstuf, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters...) Looking back, Krofft muses that even today somewhere in New York City, "some guy 50 years old, remembers the damn theme songs. Because there were only three networks, so basically every kid in America saw our shows." In the article Marty Krofft describes their style as "a nightmare and bizarre" — or, more pragmatically, as "Disney without a budget" (while crediting future Disney CEO Michael Eisner for being their mentor).

Yet the article adds that "They were nearly unstoppable with styrofoam, paint and cloth. In a digital universe of truly endless possibilities, there is no telling where they could take their stories."
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  • Argh, thanks (Score:5, Insightful)

    by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:55PM (#62554880)

    Now I've got the damn HR Puffenstuff theme on shuffle with the Banana Splits theme, stuck in my head.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by splutty ( 43475 )

      We should have story moderation, so this can be moderated "Troll". :D

      • We should have story moderation, so this can be moderated "Troll"....

        I want to moderate it "Skeestak".

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by shanen ( 462549 )

      I'd ask for clarification of the FP, but it would be sufficient to mod it Funny for those in the know.

      My response to the story?

      "Me! Me! Let me buy it!"

      Just joking. I could not possibly care less about NFTs. However, if I were an unethical businessman of some sort, then I would definitely love to have a list of the wannabe "customers" of Nothing For Tat. Yes, there's a sucker born every minute, but lists of suckers still save time.

      (Yeah, I'm still trying to find a sufficiently funny interpretation of the acronym. And yes, that meme

      • (Yeah, I'm still trying to find a sufficiently funny interpretation of the acronym.)

        Dunno about a funny backronym, but if NFTs needed a theme song, I submit this. [youtu.be]

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by fermion ( 181285 )
      At least the banana splits taught us to count. It was the one show that made no sense, even if you were high.
    • Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork...Tra la la, tra la la, la

      • Apparently, the Bananna Splits are psychopathic serial killers now according to a recently made movie that licensed the characters.

          I can't wait until the bloodbath of the Care Bears Movie. And maybe they can make The Get-a-long Gang an actual gang who slings dope, guns down rivals with the AK, and "You better get along, motherfucka!"

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Jhon ( 241832 )

      I have them both running in my head simultaneously!

      (singsong)HR Puffenstuff Three Banana Four! {singsong)

    • Maybe i can help;

      Here we come, walkin'
      Down the street
      We get the funniest looks from
      Ev'ry one we meet
      Hey, hey, we're the Monkees
      And people say we monkey around
      But we're too busy singing
      To put anybody down

      any better?

  • Why is this interesting to anyone with functioning brains ?

  • FYI kids (Score:2, Funny)

    by fermion ( 181285 )
    These shows were proof that everyone was high in the 1970s. One had to be to write Far Out Space Nuts. And no one over 8 can watch these shows without being high. That is why anyone over 60 really does not have the critical thinking skills to understand climate change. Just to abstract for their pot and LSD degraded brain

    And letâ(TM)s not even get started on HR Puffnstuff, which was the best, but, you know.

    • Re:FYI kids (Score:4, Insightful)

      by iggymanz ( 596061 ) on Saturday May 21, 2022 @01:55PM (#62554966)

      All the tech we're using to lower carbon emissions were invented by the age group you're mocking. Ditto for almost all the tech keeping you alive and healthy.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by fermion ( 181285 )
        Ok not everyone. Just the 60% in the that voted for Reagan and half the others that were too high to know who they were voting for.

        • Right, they should have voted for Jimmy carter again with the double digit inflation and unemployment going on during 1980 election.

          You're the one with the impared cognition.

          I don't agree with Reagan on all things but I sure did well under him, good for working people, even good for illegal aliens that wanted to work. For parasites maybe not so much.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by fermion ( 181285 )
            And doubled the deficient as a percentage of GDP. We did goo under Reagan. Better under Clinton. Reagan because he kept government handouts high. Clinton because I had a well paying job.

          • I can't think of anyone worse than Trump. Except maybe "better dead than red" McCarthy.

            • I can, Joe Biden and his handlers, in less than two years destroying the energy independence and economy of the USA, along with useless Democrats in congress having an agenda of being "woke" and "virtue signalling" instead of doing anything for the people of the USA.

              What an utter disaster. What utter incompetence. And to think 2nd in line if anything happens to Joe is vapid airhead whose only qualifications are being dark and female.

              • Think about this:

                Your career is ruined, there are death threats being made against you and your family. You hope to leave town before that molotov cocktail crashes through your bedroom window in the middle of the night. And you are on a blacklist and subject to arrest anywhere you go. Just because someone snitched you out for "communist activities", whether the accusations are true or not. The 1950s version of accusing someone of being a witch.

                Let me know when we have to have the same fear with Bide

                • Yeah let's ask the supreme court justices about that. or before that the victims of the rioting and looting Biden admin and their ilk encouraged, or busineses having to put BLM Matters on their stores while BLM says "looting is a form of reparation".

                  Your left wing nutcases are indeed on that witch hunt.

      • "mY gEnErAtIoN iS bEtTeR tHaN yOuRs"

          I've heard this clap trap go both ways and it's moronic and stupid.

        Generational hatred accomplishes nothing.

    • Wasn't it stoned hippies that made the environmental movement mainstream? That would imply environmentalism is not a product of critical thinking, but instead results from altered states of consciousness.

      In fact if today you look at the states with the highest rates of marijuana use https://www.statista.com/stati... [statista.com] with states with the strongest climate change policies: https://www.c2es.org/content/s... [c2es.org] there is pretty strong overlap.

      Logically this means that increasing drug use will decrease green

  • NFTs are like hot potatoes, you can put your hands on one but hold it and you'll get burned.

  • enough with the NFT spam.
  • The newest of these shows appears to be 49 years old. I've never seen any of them, and I'm 47.
    I suspect you'd probably have to be closer to 60 to really remember these.
    • Good kids shows from the 70s, 60s, and even 50s were re-run non stop over and over during the 80's and I have never seen any of these. And I watched a lot of TV. I guess you had to be there.
    • Nah, I'm 50 and remember them well. Land of the Lost used to scare the crap out of me. Those Sleestaks were some scary shit.

      • Nah, I'm 50 and remember them well. Land of the Lost used to scare the crap out of me. Those Sleestaks were some scary shit.

        Maybe it was a regional thing where these were shown as reruns? I never saw them growing up in Michigan in the early 80s.

      • Nah, I'm 50 and remember them well. Land of the Lost used to scare the crap out of me. Those Sleestaks were some scary shit.

        Yep, they were in endless reruns. I was fascinated by the Sleestaks and the pylons and stuff ...

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Megane ( 129182 )
        I remember it as being moderately scary, but also full of cheap costumes, sets, and effects, and the sleestak hiss was funny to imitate. And I thought those panels that crystals went on were pretty cool. They were cool in exactly the way that NFTs aren't.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by mkwan ( 2589113 )

      I'm 51, and those shows were repeated all through the 70's (and much of the 80's) in Australia.
      At least Land of the Lost, Banana Splits, and HR (hand rolled) Puff'n'stuff were, because I still remember the theme songs.

      • I'm 51, and those shows were repeated all through the 70's (and much of the 80's) in Australia. At least Land of the Lost, Banana Splits, and HR (hand rolled) Puff'n'stuff were, because I still remember the theme songs.

        That confirms what I was just thinking. These weren't shown where I lived in the 80s.

        • I remember Land of the Lost being broadcast in my area, but no other S&MK shows. This was around 1987 when there was a huge dinosaur fad going on, and this was likely the reason for LoTL being broadcast.

    • H.R. Puffinstuff began in 1969, so this "anniversary" is a few years late.

    • I'm 52 and clearly remember Land of the Lost, HR Puffnstuff, Dr. Shrinker, and their Saturday morning lineup. I also remember liking Sigmund the Sea Monster, but watched it a few years ago and realized it's terrible. Or just terrible for a 50 year old.

  • "Sid & Marty Krofft to Release NFTs Starting with 'Land of the Lost'"

    Fuck you, Sid & Marty Krofft.

    • Is S&MK even still alive? I think this was done by the current IP holder, not S&MK themselves.

      • Then fuck whoever it is that is doing this.

      • "Sid Krofft (born July 30, 1929) and Marty Krofft (born April 9, 1937)"

          Apparently they are still alive, but I doubt they realise what an NFT is. Whoever is owning or managing the IP now probally came up to them and said something along the lines of "There is this hot new craze going on that everyone is excited about, and we would like to use it to promote our 50th anniversary!". S&MK said "Great! Go ahead!".

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Megane ( 129182 )
          They're probably expecting the NFTs to be prominently displayed on the shelves of K-Marts nationwide.
  • By the way, can I sell an NFT of an NFT?

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by ebvwfbw ( 864834 )

      By the way, can I sell an NFT of an NFT?

      No. I'm waiting for someone to do a NFT of a goatse. I figure it's a matter of time.

  • If I buy an NFT for "Land of the Lost" what do I own? I don't own the rights, or even a copy of the video. What do I have? What can I do with it other than sell it to someone else? I'm pretty sure the answer is "nothing".

  • Out of all the good stuff they could've done to celebrate their 50th anniversary, why sully S&MC's good name with this 21st century moronic garbage?

      It's too late for an April Fools joke.

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