{"id":5712,"date":"2019-08-05T04:58:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2019-08-05T04:58:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:58:01","slug":"i-see-it-as-a-very-expensive-book-with-lots-of-extras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/i-see-it-as-a-very-expensive-book-with-lots-of-extras\/","title":{"rendered":"I see it as a very expensive book with lots of extras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming in October is the book\u00a0<strong>Happy Holidays, Charlie Brown<\/strong>. Now, I&#8217;m not sure exactly what is inside this book &#8211; could there be an adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas somewhere in there, given that the words A Special Peanuts Holiday Collection appear on the cover? &#8211; but I do know that they sure are packaging a lot of things with it. Officially, the package is <strong>Peanuts 70th Anniversary Holiday Collection Limited Edition<\/strong>, and the main thing this limited-edition, packed-on-a-doghouse set will be sold as is a set of four Blu-ray disks with nine specials on them (<em>It&#8217;s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown<\/em>;\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving<\/em>;\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>; <em>It&#8217;s Magic, Charlie Brown<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Charlie Brown&#8217;s All-Stars<\/em>;\u00a0<em>The Mayflower Voyagers<\/em> episode of <em>This is America, Charlie Brown<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Play it Again, Charlie Brown<\/em>;\u00a0<em>It&#8217;s Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown<\/em>;\u00a0and\u00a0<em>It&#8217;s Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown<\/em>) with new audio commentary on those first three (the announcement doesn&#8217;t say from whom, and no, that&#8217;s not some cutesy way of me saying it&#8217;s me, it&#8217;s not. I didn&#8217;t know about this project until AAUGH Blog reader John pointed me to the press release.) Oh, and a new documentary featurette.<\/p>\n<p>Also in there, a Snoopy figurine!<\/p>\n<p>Things that gotta be said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This &#8220;70th anniversary&#8221; thing is coming out on October 1st of this year&#8230; in other words, the day before the 69th anniversary of the strip.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a limited, numbered edition of 25,000. That makes it an Officially-Intended Collectible, a category that&#8217;s of less interest to me than things that are just made for consumption.<\/li>\n<li>The publicity &#8220;photo&#8221; is glorious in its fakey-fakiness. Sure, the lighting on the Snoopy figure that&#8217;s inside the packaging looks a little odd. And the doorway on Snoopy&#8217;s doghouse that&#8217;s outside the packaging is, umm, well, I&#8217;m not sure what that&#8217;s supposed to look like, it&#8217;s clearly not the hole into an open package. But it&#8217;s the reflections that really get me. Yes, the doghouses and the figure could, I suppose, show some reflection on a shiny enough base surface. But how in the world is the book reflecting its face-up front cover onto the space in front of it???<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5714\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5714\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/peanus-70th-anniversary-holiday-collection-limited-edition-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/peanus-70th-anniversary-holiday-collection-limited-edition-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/peanus-70th-anniversary-holiday-collection-limited-edition-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/peanus-70th-anniversary-holiday-collection-limited-edition.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to zoom in<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming in October is the book\u00a0Happy Holidays, Charlie Brown. Now, I&#8217;m not sure exactly what is inside this book &#8211; could there be an adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas somewhere in there, given that the words A Special Peanuts Holiday Collection appear on the cover? &#8211; but I do &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animated-peanuts","category-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}