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What do I hope to achieve with my movie series and franchise?I hope to achieve an original vision. I hope to use the movie series to provide a good example of how education pertains to both the head and the heart at the same time. I hope to gain a large fan base, especially including children, who love the Wogglebug and are inspired by him to pursue education in life and believe heroes can use brains over brawn and that love, optimism, natural growth, and freely seeking knowledge and truth are the keys to all wisdom. I hope to prove to all the world that Mr. Wogglebug can be used as a very good example of being a good role model and children's hero outside of the Land of Oz, as well as make for a most excellent movie star. I hope to improve on what L. Frank Baum created and also righted the wrongs he did with the Wogglebug's tragic past life.
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Why have I decided to devote a franchise of books, movies, and toys to the character of the Wogglebug?I first discovered the Wogglebug in the original Oz books when I was twelve years old. I at first read only books that portrayed him in a negative light and didn't like him. At first, I didn't know him as being any different, so I had no problem going along with hating him. But then I read the second book, The Marvelous Land of Oz, and the first book he was in. Then right away, I saw him as being different from how he was later portrayed in the series. I didn't find him unlikable there, but the complete opposite. He struck me as being just the sort of character I could calmly sit and talk to without a care in the world, as he made me smile a lot. By the time I'd read the book to the end, I wanted to hug him because I felt so sorry for him. I understood he had been mistreated and that wasn't his fault. I felt he was a very lovable character with an equally lovable smile, who I could identify with and sympathize with in some ways. Also, the backstory I read of him in that book was awesome and certainly seemed like something meant for this day and age on the movie screen instead of the early twentieth century and on a cheap theater stage. I read about Baum's life and discovered the Wogglebug was actually in his first two years something of a famous icon. He had a musical named after him, and was the hero of a Sunday comic series, and "What Did the Wogglebug Say?" was a popular catchphrase that came from this series. It didn't last due to the musical's failure and the rise of the Oz books franchise. I find I love the Wogglebug more than I love the Oz books and the way the other characters were typically portrayed in them (ironically). I was interested in becoming a filmmaker for a little while before I discovered the Wogglebug, and when I looked at him, I felt I had found a profound reason to pursue this dream of making him famous as a movie character for the children of today. The time has now come for his stardom to rise and shine. Also, thinking I've found an excellent purpose for my life that involves making people happy in ways that make me happy gives me a feeling of fulfillment unlike any other. After all, everyone needs to have something to do with their life as long as it is a good thing and can be of positive value and benefit to others in the world in some way or another.
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How are the DVDs made and shipped?Right after I receive a new order, I burn the movie from my computer to a disc. Then I print and apply disc cover art and put it in a case that also includes printed case art. Then I put it in a large envelope and address and mail it, and pay for shipping myself. Then it should typically arrive at you within three to five days. And you can be sure the information you provide me with remains confidential between us.
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What does the word "woggle" mean?The word "woggle" has two closely related meanings. Firstly, it stands for "Well Orderly Gentleman," which perfectly describes Mr. Wogglebug. Secondly, in our film series, it means "wisdom and love in a collective sense," implying that these qualities go hand in hand. The Wogglebug's journey is about intertwining wisdom and love, achieving near perfection by the end. As Professor Nowitall says, "Your well-rounded education enables you to not just attain success, but to also sustain a failure." Mr. Wogglebug is always gentlemanly, intelligent, and humorously lighthearted, making him an excellent role model for children.
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How can families and educators benefit from purchasing Wogglebug DVDs?Mr. Wogglebug is not only a lovable character but also a great role model for children. His movies contain themes and messages perfect for lesson plans, which teachers can create or purchase as a teacher's edition of the DVD. The storylines offer deep meanings for parents to discuss with their children. The Wogglebug's movies emphasize values like caring, kindness, courtesy, humility, optimism, honesty, using brains over brawn, true friendship, and unconditional love. These films can help children develop excellent social skills, inspire kindness, and encourage a love for education. Mr. Wogglebug has made a positive difference in my life, and I hope he can do the same for many others.
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Can I be sure that my having the Wogglebug in a whole new fandom without Oz will not be looked on as literary theft?Absolutely! For one thing, the book series that Baum wrote has been in the public domain for a long time now. And also, I've figured out how it could easily have happened and plan to explain all about it in the final book in a series of Oz-related novels that are in progress. Spoiler for it below: Professor Nowitall (who wanted to leave Oz for Genoma anyway, as Oz does not need teachers anymore with no natural life cycle to it) takes the Wogglebug with him. Once they are in a new schoolhouse in Genoma, Nowitall gives the unclad Wogglebug the water from the Fountain of Oblivion (something directly from Baum's books), thus erasing all of his memories from his mind. He then unmagnifies him and places him with tender-loving care onto the rug in front of the hearth of the room. Then they both begin a new day there in the schoolhouse in Genoma, and a new life for both of them. The Wogglebug is educated and then magnified all over again in his new life, in which he can experience the joy of his origins all over again, and then he and Nowitall can correct any mistakes they made in Oz in how things progressed afterward.
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Why am I so against the Oz fandom and community?This community is a ridiculous cult made of the most disgusting, lousy, idiotic, perverted, and lowlife imbeciles who will not grow up and just devote their pointless lives to worshipping a nonexistent place that is a nasty and malevolent dystopia that is only vaguely disguised as a grossly exaggerated children's ultra-paradise. They are hollow-headed, stuffed shirts who are too afraid of the real world so they wish their lives away in being all for themselves in how they try to make this too good to be true or to be a real place and have some sort of historical pattern to it so they can have it as their afterlife reward as celebrated historians of it All the while purveying idol worship of ridiculous and worthless creatures that are just as living toys that cannot set a good example as they are not meant to live, think, or feel and should therefore be grown out of before long. They also lust after innocent little girls whom they want to make into immortal princesses who never grow up and never gain education in our world, so they can be forever subservient to all the above-mentioned kinds of people and creatures. This is literally and figuratively the very definition of the actual Oz fandom and community that its fans consider to be "historically canon." And I should know this from having experience with it in past years. The Wogglebug's fandom and community are meant to be the polar opposite of all of this.
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Why is this separate from the Oz fandom?Because I love the character, which is something Oz fans never do. It simply means that I love, care about, and completely respect the character for all that he is. Nothing more. Respect is something the Wogglebug is sorely deprived of in the Land of Oz and its fans of it. But in my fandom, he is surrounded by love and respect always. And although in my books and movies he is not perfect and never really immune to mistakes and or suffering, the way everything always plays out and comes together at the end with him always a hero and center of influence puts the fandom's treatment of him to shame. Around here, we treat the Wogglebug with the respect and love due to a person who just happens to be a bit different than regular people. Unlike the Oz fandom, which seems to enjoy in a most mean-spirited way to treat him like he's not respectable as a person, but like he's just a large insect posing as a human and has no right to do such and is to be made to feel alienated from everyone else. This is all lies and hogwash, and scandal-ism to see him like that. For one thing, my theory that he is a human-insect hybrid created by the great Professor Nowitall makes a lot of sense when you put it all together. And ordinary insects have thoughts but no intellect, yet he does. Just as ordinary insects have feelings, but no emotional abilities, which he has. I firmly believe Professor Nowitall had always been the Wogglebug's creator and had created him for a great purpose and a grand plan of his own. In Oz, it hadn't worked out simply because Oz had failed it (not the Wogglebug). And in Genoma the new purpose is that he is a creature meant to reconcile the conflicts and differences between human nature and nature itself, and in a most awesome way.
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Why do I think Mr. Wogglebug needs to have a separated fandom from the Land of Oz?It's very simple. First of all, the Oz franchise has become SO enormous these days that making just another Oz film or book would prove meaningless and likely another failure. As there is not a great market for new Oz books these days, and the latest films haven't been very successful, as ratings have shown. Besides, the presence of other Oz characters and an Oz setting would only be a terrible distraction to the Wogglebug's greatness. So just as most Oz films omit him from Oz, now his film he stars in will omit all the rest of the Oz characters and take place in a different fantasy land that is closer connected to our world than Oz ever was, and thus a better home for the Wogglebug. There's no place like your true home, as the saying goes. Another important fact is that the Wogglebug was never actually meant to be in the Oz books to begin with. Baum himself stated this in a 1904 interview when he explained how the Wogglebug's name just came to him at random and out of the blue when he wasn't thinking about the plot of his second Oz book, which was already a third written. Then he had only chosen to put him into the story right where he was, only because his wife suggested it. If either of them had adequate common sense, Baum would have known to just have the Wogglebug star in a completely different and separate book from Oz altogether. Just as certainly as Baum should have known to put Dorothy in the second book as a heroine again, since he was writing a sequel at all, because he made a deal with a little girl named Dorothy, he would, when a thousand letters to him requested one. Instead of needing her to be updated on all that had gone on while she had been absent from Oz, when she returned in the third book. Just as certain as if the Wogglebug was in a book and musical completely separate from Oz all along, they might not have flopped at least.
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Why are the characters of Professor Nowitall and the Frogman also in my non-Oz Wogglebug Series?I know I have a right to believe the characters of Professor Nowitall, the Frogman, and the Wogglebug have had terrible injustices done to them in Oz and to this day receive a lousy deal from that fandom. And you don't even have to take my word for it. In David Hulan's book Eureka in Oz, Professor Nowitall appears briefly in it and confesses that shortly after the events of Ozma being restored to the throne and Oz stopped having a natural aging and growth life cycle as our world does, he had just retired from his teaching position. And as he said himself, "When children always remain children, they eventually learn all there is for them to need to learn, and then they no longer need any schooling." And according to the laws of Oz, now he is going to just live forever at the age he's at alone and retired in that "utopian paradise" forever and ever. And Eric Shanower's short story The Final Fate of the Frogman tells of the Truth Pond's ultimate effect on the Frogman in ways that can be appropriately described as tragic. The ending states that it eventually ended his life as a gentleman, and he just resigned to a position of standing guard at the Truth Pond to warn potential bathers of its side effects, while crouched on all fours and not walking upright or wearing his fancy clothes anymore. And as for the Wogglebug. I shall not go into detail now as I have already done so in previous posts. And especially because my novels explain it in the fullest detail in every way, which is all the more reason to write them. And as for "retconning Thompson's portrayal of him," that is sort of what the deal is also with my Oz novels. And Thompson is far from the only Oz author after Baum that I need to retcon with concerning the Wogglebug and the other characters I listed above. Except I am giving Oz fans what they want in a way they don't want it at all. Especially because I've come to realize no matter how nice and kind and polite I portray him as (the way he is) there will always be plenty of Wogglebug haters among Oz fans who either insist I am wrong or get the impression that the Wogglebug being this way is all the more reason to treat him in mean ways, which only causes me more anger than the former. I know this from tragic experience.
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Why do Oz fans dislike the Wogglebug?Oz fans may dislike the Wogglebug due to changes in his characterization over time. Originally, he was a lovable and eccentric character, but later portrayals made him seem conceited and unlikable. This shift has led to misunderstandings and negative opinions. However, in the Wogglebug fandom, we celebrate his positive traits and aim to restore his original charm and appeal. Our community values his wisdom, humor, and the positive messages he represents.
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How is Genoma different from Oz?Genoma is a world that balances magic and logic, harmonizing fantasy and reality. Unlike Oz, Genoma has a natural aging and growth cycle, and its residents often come from nearby fantasy lands. This makes Genoma feel closer to our world. The Wogglebug thrives in Genoma because it doesn't pretend to be a perfect world, allowing him to grow and learn. Sylvie, the young girl who travels to Genoma, does so through simple magical portals, making her journeys more relatable. In Genoma, the Wogglebug has a loving mentor in Professor Nowitall and a best friend in Sylvie, creating a supportive environment for his adventures.
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What had caused for the Wogglebug's character to change in the Oz series?It's a rather complicated matter, also. But over the years, I've come up with the best plausible explanations for why it happened on our side of the world, and why and how it happened in Oz. I think that his original creator, L. Frank Baum had changed the character both intentionally and unintentionally. First of all, Baum had never expected to write any more Oz sequels after the second book any more than he had after the sixth book, of course. Second, the musical the Wogglebug starred in and was named after turned out to be a miserable flop due to Baum's poor adapting skills, and this was disheartening to Baum and also caused the Wogglebug craze, which was at the time, to be short-lived. The next reason is how the Wizard was originally not going to come back to Oz again, and the Wogglebug was meant to replace him as a better and more whimsical version as a right-hand man to Ozma, the rightful and much better ruler of Oz. But then the Wizard did return, and the Wogglebug was forced to turn his back on everyone and go into a state of forlorn isolation. He was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and got involved with the wrong people also. He felt himself ripped away from everyone else, crushed in his pride, and he eventually just devolved into his alter-ego out of feeling so much neglect of love and care, and stopped being able to be caring or a good friend to anyone. He immersed himself in his pride and let his lovability fade away and dissolve. No one liked him, and he didn't like them, either, or didn't care anymore. And I rather got the impression Baum was just making everything up about Oz and all the characters' stories as he wrote without really planning much beforehand. Another point is also that it was no fault of the Wogglebug's that he was just a character ahead of his time. He's better off being made famous in this day and age.
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