Nostalgic Appeal - The Sequel

 

It's officially been a month since I did a Nostalgic Appeal post. You can find the first one here by clicking the link.

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/nostalgic-appeal-looney-tunes-disney.html?m=1

Anyways, this time I'm going through a Clifford book and other animated shorts that peeked my interest.

But first things first I have a selection of old pictures I took on my Nintendo 2DS. It barely works nowadays but it was still able to show my random yet fun screenshots from the camera mode.

The reasons as to why this is considered "nostalgic appeal" it's because it really does, to me at least. Not all of you guys really have had a bedroom like I did when I was 7. 

Of course I loved Sprout and had a Chica Show plush. I think I still have it somewhere in my toybox.

These pictures I took are from 2014 if you wanna know.

What's so great and fascinating about having toys is that you can imagine having one character from a Nickelodeon show interact with a other studio character like a Disney one. It's kinda quirky but it's really fun.

Here's Swiper exploring for once and visiting Disney Princesses and their playhouse.

Chilly has my old deceased TV remote.

One of my oldest invented characters Super Sweiol fighting against Mr. Pirate, oh wait, "Mr. Pirete"

I remember cuddling up with this alien human hybrid for a long period of time back then. This is Po's shot on playing the light guitar, she's too lazy to play it though.

In a near future post, I want to make a post talking about Uglydolls. My parents loved the heck outta these guys and I still collect them. They're not as a populated brand like Funko or Sanrio but I think that's for the best, these were just cute and likeable.

I chose the pictures that weren't over-the-top shaky because I have over zillions of pictures where I couldn't focus or I took the pictures while I was running like crazy. 

It's really upsetting that almost all of these toys I have are gone especially my books and magazine covers. 

However when it comes to me taking pictures in a normal light I somewhat go for more surreal and unpleasant approaches. When I first saw you could take pictures in a negative effect, it stayed it's welcome on my photo gallery. Oh the memories.

What's at least interesting is that I can still see the Sprout logo on the bottom right. Love that lil thing.

Now that's over with I'll now get onto the actual stuff that you might have more of an interest in, this book was very special to me when I was little, for some stupid reason I got rid of it but to me it'll never be forgotten. 

I loved Clifford and I remembered when we had library class in preschool I would often buy these and take them home. But this one I definitely had for a few years. 

This is sorta of a remodeled version of the original 1977 story. This to me is better because the older one has limited colors. 

The watercolors are extremely pleasing, you can look closely at small details of Clifford's red fur and there's more to the environment. The greens and yellows absolute pleasure.

The pinks have a cotton candy essence as well as the yellow and lime greens, they don't expose too much brightness whatsoever. 

The whole book has a ball pool charm to them.

Don't know what to call the aesthetic but it's definitely been used before and especially nowadays. 

Here's a Tom and Jerry cartoon, The Duck Doctor (1952), this cartoon wasn't that good, but I'm on the complete opposite when it comes to the backgrounds. 

The whole layout is gorgeous. Can't you even be shocked for a moment by how good this looks? 

This reminds me of when my parents would walk around the neighborhood in the evenings. 

If your only looking at the character, bud, we're not friends. 

Here's another, Little Quacker (1950)

This is how I really like life. The skies are massive, well-built houses, not minimalistic, trees are wealthy, this is so real that it comes close to Edward Hopper or Maxfield Parrish levels of talent. 

These are my all time favorite colors meshed in together. The perfect frame!

Last but certainly not least is Foul Hunting (1947). Yet another Disney production. Just like with The Duck Doctor (1952), the best part about it is the scenery, I also didn't really think this cartoon was anything enjoyable either but I do love a bit of Goofy shenanigans so I'm not complaining too much. 

You cannot go wrong with these colors!

Even his house is really calm and nice. 

Also to end it off, Happy Mother's Day. 🌸