Every fan who dreamed of building a car like Speed Racer's Mach 5 will be
interested to know that Speed's ultra-cool car is finally being built by
Long Beach, California-based Focus on Cars, an automotive fabrication
company that caters to the entertainment and advertising industry. The car
will be used to promote a nation-wide safety tour conducted by The Child
Safety Network (CSN) called CHILD SAFETY DAY AT THE RACES. The Mach 5 will
privately debut at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show -

The United States Post Office has issued a Yellow Submarine stamp with The
Beatles which was illustrated by Robin Shepherd and Caleb Lawrence of
Jacksonville, Florida-based The Robin Shepherd Group. The stamp was
officially dedicated on September 17, 1999 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and the
package of fifteen stamps will be available soon at post offices across the
country. The "Celebrate the Century" stamp series features fifteen stamps
for each decade of the twentieth century. The final stamps were determined

Kid Rhino has released WHAT TO DO, BLUE?, an audio tape and booklet set. On the tape, the cast of Nickelodeon's BLUE'S CLUES, Steve, Blue and friends, are joined by BLUE'S CLUES co-creator Angela Santomero who reads, WHAT TO DO, BLUE? In the story Blue searches for something to do, while visiting her friends. The booklet allows listeners to read along with Santomero. WHAT TO DO, BLUE? retails in the US for $7.98. Kid Rhino and Nickelodeon will also release BLUE'S CLUES: GOODNIGHT BLUE on November 2, 1999.

McFarlane Toys is releasing four dual-packed assortments of action figures based on characters in YELLOW SUBMARINE featuring The Beatles, John, Paul, George and Ringo. Each card comes with two figures and accessories. John comes with Jeremy, the Nowhere Man; Paul comes with Glove, one of the Blue Meanies instruments of evil; George comes with the Yellow Submarine; and Ringo comes with a Blue Meanie. The figures will be released in late September or early October, and retail for between US$8 and $11.

Westbury, New York-based American Royal Arts Corp., an animation art
dealer, has been licensed by Apple and Signatures to produce hand painted
limited edition cels and sericels featuring The Beatles from YELLOW
SUBMARINE. The artwork will be signed by some of the same people who were
responsible for making the original film, including the composer, Sir
George Martin, the producer and co-author, Al Brodax, and Erich Segal,
co-author of the original YELLOW SUBMARINE screenplay and Ringo Starr, the

AnotherUniverse.com, a website devoted to
comic books and science fiction, has reported that the widow and daughter
of Jerry Siegel, co-creator with Joe Schuster of Superman, have filed
papers with the U.S. Copyright Office which have the effect of returning
50% of the rights to the character of Superman to them. (Apparently, DC
will retain 50% interest in the rights unless the family of Joe Schuster
files similar papers. Whether the Schuster family, or representative, will

Kid Rhino's BATMAN BEYOND soundtrack on CD and cassette was released on
August 31, 1999 in the US. BATMAN BEYOND is a popular series that is set
fifty years in the future, taking place after Warners' previous Batman
series, THE ADVENTURES OF BATMAN AND ROBIN. The album includes twenty
tracks. Also, the inlay and CD booklet include comments about the
soundtrack music by Bruce Timm, the series' producer, and artwork from the
series' opening sequence. The CD will retail for US$13.98, and the cassette

On September 14, Kid Rhino will release the soundtrack album for the upcoming feature length Scooby-Doo video, SCOOBY-DOO! AND THE WITCH'S GHOST, which is scheduled for release on October 5. In SCOOBY-DOO! AND THE WITCH'S GHOST, Scooby and Mystery Inc. travel to a small New England town to learn why it's being spooked by witches' ghosts. Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Machine will appear in the flesh at the Rhino Retrofest, August 13 to 15, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, USA. Suggested retail price for the CD is US$13.98 and US$9.98 for the cassette.

The soundtrack for Willis O'Brien's stop-motion masterpiece, KING KONG, is
being released by Turner Classic Movies Music/Rhino Movie Music. Composed
by Max Steiner, the collection includes music cues from the 1933 RKO film's
most memorable moments, featuring a nearly 25-minute suite consisting of
previously unreleased material. The liner notes includes an introduction by
Danny Elfman (of the band, Oingo Boingo, and composer of many soundtracks,
including EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, BATMAN, and SLEEPY HOLLOW), and notes by

Warner Bros. Consumer Products has awarded Trendmasters, Inc., a toy
designer and manufacturer, the master toy license for Cartoon Network's
animated series including THE POWERPUFF GIRLS, DEXTER'S LABORATORY and COW
& CHICKEN. In addition, Trendmasters has also secured the master toy rights
for Cartoon Network's classic characters including Yogi Bear and
Snagglepuss. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Trendmasters,
Inc. has the rights to produce toy related merchandise including toy