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Acme No. 6 Chin Canister mask with welding outserts, 50's-60's. Relatively rare and very sought after, these are more or less standard No. 6 Acme's, the only difference being the metal lens frame crimps have two added hinges on the outside for the welding outserts, which flip to the side when not protecting the user's eyes.

90's Badger Sport Comedy Theatre baseball jersey Shirt "Made in U.S.A."

Coyote Vs ACME is less than two months away, a triumphant win over Warner's constant shelving of people's hard work after years of campagining to get it out of the ACME vaults. After all the bullshit warner has done and the fine products it's either shelved or made unavaliable, this is a huge victory and one i'm keen to celebrate. So buildling up to this cinematic event, i'm going to review the film's spirtual predecessors, the films that likely made Coyote VS ACME possible, also having various looney tunes as real actors and ACME as a real force in the world, starting for good before, perhaps ineveitbly, sliding into cartoonish supervillany.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is a film i hadn't seen in ages and after watching it I am baffled as to why. I'ts a love letter to the goldgen age of animation, a time in the medium i've only grown to love more and more as i've rediscovered my love of classic Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry and Tex Avery Shorts and found one for Disney over the past decade. As a kid the film was decent but not one that ever really stood out to me. As an adult.. it feels made for me, a true masterpiece of technical wizardry, animation , plotting and one long tribute to the shorts I love so dear that manages to be compelling in it's own right. Some of the animation has aged a tad, can't be helped, but it dosen't fail to impress.

It's no suprise Robert Zemickis was a big fan of animation and lobbied for the project as soon as Disney got the rights for Who Censored Roger Rabbit? the base novel I have not read but would love to review sometime that focused on comic strips instead of cartoons. At the time though disney wasn't intrested as his first few films weren't a success. For once it was a good thing the film got stuck in development hell for a few years: By the time Stephen Speilberg had stepped in as producer and the film was ready, Zemickis made massive hits Back to the Future and Romancing the Stone, both excellent films. Disney badly needed a hit as while they were about to come out of the dark age, it was still hard times for both live action and animation.

Thankfully Zemicckis was just the man for the job: while he'd later get swallowed by his love of cutting edge tech, here he helped blend animator Richard Williams stunning work with the sets: I was amazed at the sheer technical scope here: any time a toon in the film interacts with something, you see it: Roger touching Eddy's brother's dusty abandoned chair, left as a shrine, leaves a handprint. Most impressively when roger slips ina nd out of handcuffs... we see it and it feels seemless. The actors, whie using models on set, move as if they were there. Bob Hoskins, the genius who played eddie Valiant, had to praccticce mime to get this down, but it works well.. maybe too well as he was apparently haunted by visions of weasels and rabbits after the film and needed a break. It's a tribute to both a talented crew and talented actors that the illusion dosen't break through anything they do and despite the restoration I watchced on Disney Plus making the animation slightly jarring here and there... you never break the illusion these characters are in thes ame space as everyone else. Given both how hard animation is to do and synch its a fucking marvel this was done with no cgi and only bluescreen for toon town. It's the most technically impressive film ive ever seen and that's a high bar.

Now it being this impressive for the medium and a triumph of hard work is a lot and would make the film great on it's own.. but it's a masterpiece of story too, every bit masterfully thought out and every frame used well, emersing you in this incredibly neat little world and in the story of Eddie Valiant, his new cartoon rabbit best friend and the woman who loved said rabbit.

Eddie is a fascinating character: On the surface he's just the surly foil to roger and your standard drunken depressed detective protaganist who gets his life together. All that is true... but it belies a truly tragic figure. When we meet Eddie he's a surly depressed often soused detective. I like how his alcholism is depicted; its not overly dramatic, he's not drunk off his ass all the time, but he's near constantly buzzed always getting a drink where he can as a small detail and usually taking a nip in a scene. He dosen't get so hammered he dosen't function, but its a clear problem: he has no money, owes his girlfriend Delores who had to cover for him to the point she might loose her job, and his alcholic breath is commented on.

Yet as we see he's a genuinely good detective, hired by Rk Maroon head of Maroon Studios for a seemingly average job: Maroon's biggest star Roger Rabbit is missing his queus. In a truly spectacular opening sequence we get a whole baby herman short, following a pretty typical formula for the time as Baby Herman, an innocent baby, nearly dies a bunch. The short perfectly gets down the feel of a golden age short. I paticuarlly love the boxes of poisoin and roger's transformations. But he can't get the shot right summoning birds instead of stars. Which is a funny gag and all but I can nver fully understand as it's not like he was supposed to summon little fridges or soething. Whatever he's seeing isn't the gag itself. Given the director screams at roger, who he knows is going through it most likely and is an abusive prick, I see this as mmore his problem than Rogers.

Maroon dosen't and instead wants Eddie to get proof Roger's wife Jessica Rabbit played by Kathleen Turner, is cheating on him so Roger can move on. Eddie not giving enough of a shit these days to notice how flimsy this plan is agrees and goes to the club she works at to get the evidence she's cheating with local magnate Marvin Acme, who helped found toon town , where most of the toons live and legally owns it.

While there we get my favorite cameos of the film: Donald Duck , my favorite cartoon character and Daffy, one of my top ten easily playing dueling pianos while invetibly devolving into a slapstick brawl between the two. I like that daffy is a mix of the early bob clampett version in his design and animation, but has the egotistical fed up personality of his later years, a perfect matcch for the easily pissed off donald. THe two are only on screen together for a few minutes but their glorious. I wish it was remotely fesable for these two to meet again but even getting this required equal time: while Disney, backing the film, does get more apperances when it came to warner's characters the time had to be equal, so it leads to Donald and Daffy and later Bugs and Mickey sharing the screen. I do love Bugs and Mickey's scene casually skydiving and the immpilcation their close buddies. And bugs being the one to give him the spare he ended up not wanting.

The film has a nice stack of cameos and intended for more particularly Popeye but king features wanted way too much money. How droopy and tom and Jerry aren't a package I don't know but the dynamic duo also didn't make the cut. We still get most of Warner's biggest stars up to the time of the film with, funnily enough, Coyote and Road Runner who were Zemickis favorites. Minnie and Goofy both show up though only goofy gets to speak , porky closes out the film , Betty boop gets one of the best cameos of the film as a cigarette girl and good friend of eddies, and Disney of course packs in a few extra with dumbo as on loan child labor , and gals the cast of fantasia as maroon got them on loan. Chernabog had too big a rider. A shame as he e does love maroons craft services. Chernabog likes him a nice cheese.

The world feels fresh and lived in: the city of la is same as it ever was but the toons slot in naturally as performers, wether acting in pictures or performing in clubs. There's a whole room district but also a nice little sliver of prejudice. The toons mostly live in harmony...but the studio head can easily threaten to fire and blacklist Roger and force Jessica to play paddyxake with acme , fucking fantastic visual gag, and a hardcore highly prejudiced judge can kill a toon just on suspicion of it.

The situation is frought and while later works like the excellent webcomic Doris doodle would flesh out toon descrimination, Roger keeps it on the edges but doesn't sugarcoat it

Eddie isn't exempt: he was a friend to toons having gotten Yosemite Sam off charges even. We see in a heartbreaking scene and photos who Eddie was: he was a proud jokester with his brother, a former cop before turning private, a good boyfriend...then as he tells Roger a toon with red eyes and an insane laugh killed his brother, his sense of humor and his heart. Eddie is a good man who let his grief destroy him.

So naturally the universe won't let him sit and forces him to be the one person between toontown and genocide. Roger takes the news as well as you'd expect and bolts ...and the next day acme is found dead and things are suspect. While the bulk of the cops on the case dick around we meet the villain of this picture: judge doom who bribed his way to it and has free reign to just murder toons. Toons here have a neat logic. They can't get hurt regularly. Pain gags are just good work...but doom intented a way: the dip basically a boiling green paint thinner that kills toons. He's also suspiciously keen to kill Roger ..plot wise realistically he's basically a cop. Operating with unchecked power and committing murder is a normal day.

Eddie soon runs into Rogers friend baby herman whose the weakest charcter a chain smoking baby and Jessica whose pissed Eddie set this shit off and hurt Roger, the affair as stated black ail. Jessica's a fantastic charcter: the embodiment of fanservice...but a loyal partner. While her being paired with the much goofier Roger could be a gag she genuinely loves him. She's seen as a femme fatale by judgt assholes...but she's a good egg.

Also hounding Eddie is Roger himself who Eddie is forced to hide. Eddie just wants to leave Roger to die..his lowest moment. But you can see his face struggling. He ends up having to for his own sake as dooms minons the weasels are on them.. but unlike the clear inspiration as he hides Roger in his girlfriend's speakeasy that as much as Roger annoys him being an adorable stuttering goofball and everything eddies repressed ...he can't help it. He says he doesn't like being played for patsy but the performance conveys it's just that ..a performance.

Eddie hates Roger...but he can't help himself. He's a good man despite himself. Roger is who he used to be in a way: kind , trusting, earnest. He puts his faith in the random regulars and performs for them...and his faith is correct. When doom shows up no one will sell him out. It takes doing the shave and a haircut bit to draw him out..

Eddie could let Roger die...but dosent. Instead he uses a chekovs gag knowing what liquor does to Roger. The film is filled with em: all the gags in acme warehouse, eddies background as a clown, the invisible ink...everything comes back by the end. The plot is incredibly tight and masterful..

So instead they go on the run and while at the theater we get the films best scene: Eddie recounting his brother's death...and finally letting Roger in. Roger sobs, no wonder Eddie hates him...and it forces Eddie to admit he doesn't. He wants to, to be racist and bitter...but seeing this innocent weirdo show so much empathy...he can't. He can't fully admit he cares ..but he can solve this.

Turns out maroons involved and was threatened by doom he's shot before he can say that but come on. We get some shenanigans as Rogers knocked out and Eddie goes on an adventure through toon town. Love the smile darn ya smile number and the bounce. We also get outdated sexual harassment gags boo...but we get droopy in what I believe to be the first time I ever saw him it was love at first sight. The elevator gags perfect for him .

This stretch of film is alright, not it's best droopy aside but it's not long. It does have a great moment leading in though.... Eddie grabs his toon gun, with for no reason I can fathom a confederate and native sterotype bullet. I mean it's accurate to a golden age cartoon to eventually run into random racism but if all the things to be accurate about....

More importantly he almost drinks ..and pours it out , hoskins acting impeccable.

So we're to the finale. Doom kidnaks Jessica and Eddie and while Roger tries he's well Roger. He's fantastic ....but he fails.

So we get Dooms plan: using cloverleaf industries, a shell company he killed acme so without his will z which has been missing , he gets toon town and can destroy it, using a dip pressure cannon to commit genocide in minutes and assuming he'll be fine because people will like his big idea: a freeway. That's it. He saw one in city planning.

If this sounds looney ..that's the idea and the big twist. Doom is the toon who killed eddies brother and he sounded JUST. LIKE. THISSSS. the room effects on Christopher lloyd are easily the films worst ...but everything else works

Judge doom might be Lloyd's finest performance and it's a high bar. He's perfectly chilling...yet robotic and stiff moving like he's trying to be human but not so obviously that if you don't know the twist. He sucks all air out a pure monster ..yet it makes the freeway scheme delivery hilarious. Lloyd perfectly plays him as what he is' someone in a rubber suit trying to be as grim as possible. To be the big bad but has gone so far restraining themselves their a grim skeleton of a person. He's willing to kill his people for the bit. Because it's what the villian does.

So Eddie plays his. While the weasels dying of laughing is a bit over foreshadowed how they die is fantastic. Eddie...does his own version of Mary go round broke down..he does a bit as Roger would. He uses his deadpan and slapstick plays it beautifully...jokes again...and leaves em dying laughing.

So we get one last excellent battle, the big line and doom going ham. And a truly great ending. Turns out Roger who sweetie he is write his wife a love letter...on the will. Toontown goes to the toons and Eddie kisses Roger, his smile back as some of the greatest cartoons in history singnus out.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a masterpiece. Easy as that. I'm glad I rewatched it and bob hoskins deserved way better after this. Do yourself a favor and watch it. Then do me one and join my Patreon. 1 buck a month and exclusive reviews including an upcoming one of space jam I'm announcing first here.

ACME's Japan corridor firms up: 405 kTPA green ammonia to IHI, USD 1 billion methanol pact with MGC

ACME Group signed two anchor offtakes with Japanese counterparties at a New Delhi ceremony: 405,000 tonnes per annum of green ammonia to IHI Corporation, supported by Japan's METI-administered Contract-for-Difference scheme for low-carbon ammonia, and a 10-year, USD 1 billion agreement with Mitsubishi Gas Chemical for 100,000 tonnes per annum of green methanol from ACME's 200 KTPA Paradip plant under development.

The methanol is designed to meet EU RFNBO and IMO marine-fuel standards.

The structural piece landed in Tokyo the same week

IHI, Kobelco Power Kobe, Sumitomo Chemical, Nippon Beet Sugar, Hokkaido Electric, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical and UBE announced that their plan to use low-carbon ammonia produced in India — offtaken by IHI from the ACME project in Odisha — has been certified under Japan's 'Support focusing on the price gap' scheme under the Hydrogen Society Promotion Act.

That certification underwrites the price spread between grey and green molecules for Japanese buyers from fiscal 2030, converting Indian SIGHT-programme capacity into contracted demand.

The read-through for the domestic chemicals audience

Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and MNRE Secretary Santosh Kumar Sarangi framed the deals as proof of commercial maturity; METI Vice Minister Takehiko Matsuo called them flagship outcomes of India-Japan clean energy cooperation.

The read-through is feedstock: Paradip's electrolyser build-out will compete for renewable power and water on the Odisha coast, and green methanol at scale eventually touches the solvent chain economics tracked in this bulletin.

Financial close on the Paradip phase and the first electrolyser orders are the execution markers; Japanese certification converts to cash only when molecules ship from fiscal 2030.

thinking abt the time i went to see acme and miura ayme with my irl and i swear on my Life bro. THE SPIT FROM MIURAS WATER BOTTLE LANDED ON MY LIP shit was crazy