Does anyone else think the Oz stories are untapped potential

>>89140867
Full of some wacky shit, open to numerous interpretations, wide range of stuff not well known to general audiences but with a popular aspect extremely well known via the movie(s) and the like...

...Yeah, yeah, it is.

>Why does Alice in Wonderland get all the attention while Wizard of Oz gets ignored?

Because it got a Disney cartoon and Oz was MGM... though Return to Oz was Disney. But 80s Disney. And Oz Great and Powerful was a bit of an underwhelmer critically IIRC.

Anyway, it's good Alice got the "attention" of Tim Burton and not the Oz stories, because all the potential would be screwed once it became Tim Burton's Wizard of Oz. It'd just be a Tim Burton movie with ruby slippers and a yellow road that spirals far too much to be useful as a road.

>>89141040
And you just know that Burton would have made his husbando Johnny Depp into the Scarecrow and the movie would have been "Scarecrow: with a guest appearance by Dorothy and Toto".

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I love Baum and I storytimed Henrique Fernandez's adaptation of the first book last week.
I think that the issue is that Oz is too unique and people only wants more of the MGM version, is a lose-lose situation for anyone that wants to adapt it and baum's other works suffer a similar case

>>89140867

They really can make a series of movies with some more action, I mean, if tin man chop some wolves and the Lion fight against a bigass sipder, hey, I'd pay for see that.

>>89141040
>Because it got a Disney cartoon

Why can't Oz get a Disney cartoon? It's too bad though that Disney seems to have a fetish of remaking cartoons into live-action while turning its back on animation.

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>look on deviantART for Oz art
>find this

The more I look at Tin Man the more I laugh.

>>89140867
Wasn't there a wizard of OZ comic that was storytimes here less than a week ago that was fucking fantastic?

>>89142095
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/88967733/#88967733

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>>89140867
Oz by Ralph Griffith & Stuart Kerr and the Zenescope Oz comics include later characters and settings. They're not traditional interpretations on the setting though. The Stuart/Kerr version is a darker take and the Zenescope books... they're what you'd expect. Both are entertaining though.

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>>89142439
>Zenescope

I'm reading the books for the first time and I was taken aback by how enjoyable and charming they have been. Despite their age they are still very easy to read and enjoy to this day.