And still they dream.

Happy birthday, Mr. Milne.

Comments

[FanOfMostEverything]

Huh. I'll have to tell my sister; Pooh was one of the pillars of her childhood.

[PresentPerfect]

The whole aesthetic of this blog post is creeping me right the fuck out D:

[A British Gentleman]

Gotta wonder what that collection is worth.

[Aotrs Commander]

Ah, that's some PROPER Winnie-the Pooh, wot is in the books (as read to me by me Dad when I were a youn'un), not the modern Disney stuff.

[Estee]

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If they were ever placed up for bids? I'd set the floor at four million and then stand way back. There are likely other surviving toys from that era, ones from the same models and molds -- but you're looking at the historical verified real articles. They traveled across the decades, from the bedroom of Christopher Robin Milne to their current place of honor at the New York Public Library. That is Pooh. That is Tigger. That is Eeyore. Kanga. Piglet. There are no others.

Until I saw that picture, I didn't know they'd survived.

And still they dream...

[Skeeter The Lurker]

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More than an average lifetime, and double that for the memories they contain.

~Skeeter The Lurker

[Manga Shoggoth]

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... Or even the older Disney stuff, for that matter. While Disney made some very good (if woefully inaccurate) copies of British stories (Sword in the Stone, Jungle Book), I never really got on with the Pooh adaptations.

Although, while I was skating in Atlanta, one father of a young child did say that my voice was rather like Christopher Robin's...

[wolfstorm56]

Powerful energy coming from that photo. The weight of the history.

[Aotrs Commander]

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When I said "modern Disney stuff" I was being particularly Luddite (though specific to Winnie-the-Pooh[1]) and meaning "from the latter half of the 20th century, i.e. when Disney bought it."

Also: the Fat Controller speaks in the voice of Winston Churchill and any source, official or otherwise, that says otherwise is just WRONG.

[1]I actually like a lot of modern Disney cartoons; when we finally got the Disney Channel on cable as a standard package, Kim Possible was airing and I was kind of blown away and while not much since then has been to that level (exception - Gravoty Falls), most of it (even stuff I thought from concept would be really, really bad) has a charm and elegance - and creativity and wit - all its own.

[livinthelife]

That is fantastic. I remember reading Pooh to my daughter. Truly magical. Now, in the throes of her pubescence, she wants nothing to do with me. The real Christopher Robin reacted similarly, but he couldn't escape just by avoiding his loser dad. Shows that perhaps if one is going to base an adorably twee children's book series on your son as a young child, maybe think of changing his name.

[SWEETOLEBOB18]

You would think having A. A. Milne as a father would be so wonderful but I remember that he said something to the effect of "There was only room for 1 of us to be 5 years old and he was bigger than me"

[Reese]

Brings back some memories, this; thanks.

[rantu1324]

Interesting fact : the actual son of the writer who he based christafer robin off of hated the books and thought they were just a way for his father to rip off families

[SIGAWESOME]

Dream on...

I remember the old cartoons. I was fascinated how Pooh et al interacted with the "words" of the story. The one with the flood that washed away the sentences and paragraphs made me nervous as a wee sprog.

[fausticornrules]

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/1570013 a really cute story in the warehouse 13 universe. about pooh.

[Manga Shoggoth]

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Also: the Fat Controller speaks in the voice of Winston Churchill and any source, official or otherwise, that says otherwise is just WRONG.

Here, I must disagree - but then I grew up on the 45rpm singles of the stories as read by Johnny Morris (of Animal Magic fame, if you remember him).

[1]I actually like a lot of modern Disney cartoons; when we finally got the Disney Channel on cable as a standard package, Kim Possible was airing and I was kind of blown away and while not much since then has been to that level (exception - Gravoty Falls), most of it (even stuff I thought from concept would be really, really bad) has a charm and elegance - and creativity and wit - all its own.

I'll be fair - Some of the modern Disney stuff has been really good - I'd add Star vs the Forces of Evil to the list.

[Aotrs Commander]

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I also had some of those, but, while good, they were not the enduring one. (I, after all, INSISTED that the parents (my dad especially) do the voices when reading to me. Nothing less would I accept. And that was far more frequent than using the record-player.

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A record player, for probably most people on Fimfic, was a sort of device used to listen to music on before people had tape players.

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A tape player was a device that people used before CDs were invented.

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A CD player was what they had before MP3 players.

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An MP3 player was what people used to use before mobile phones...

I'd make some comment about how old I am, but they said I was middle-aged at eleven, so I've long been at the point where I'm shaking my fist at people on lawns and such...

[Manga Shoggoth]

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A record player...
A tape player...
A CD player...
An MP3 player ...
I'd make some comment about how old I am, but they said I was middle-aged at eleven...

"Wireless! Curse! This means the end of the horned phonograph and the little doggie that looks in to it. Exits left."

(I was listening to the Goons at Age 11, when my parents got fed up of me listening to Flanders and Swann...)