WTF Bus installment #6- It's a Small WTF World

[Kitsa]

When I was a lot younger and living in Milwaukee, there was this car wash that painted Disney characters all over its windows. And Disney found out somehow and sued them, or something, and I think I remember them actually sending a representative to make sure that the Mickey Mouses and Plutos and whatever actually got scraped off the windows. I mean, they took the stolen-art thing so seriously that someone from Disney actually came out to supervise the removal.

I guess it's easier to go after a Milwaukee car wash than an Indian tin bus manufacturer.

Meet WTF Bus #6- the one where they randomly sneaked some Disney characters aboard.

http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/kitsa_for_imockery2/disneybus2.jpg

I don't know what exactly they were going for here. It's obviously a ripoff of Mickey Mouse. I would think that if you were wanting to do a Disney bus, you'd just go balls-to-the-wall and do all Disney characters. They seem to be mixing these up with characters they made up, kind of a fantasy league of bus passengers. Like if they hide just a couple of Disney guys in with the others, no one will ever notice.

Also, Lion King. Get it? Get it?

http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/kitsa_for_imockery2/sidepanel.jpg

There's no "rupee limit" sticker on this bus, so I have no idea what it goes for in India. I can tell you that it's not an "electronic toy" by any stretch of the imagination. It's a traction bus like all the others, and it has a bell so when you push it, it goes *thump* ding! *thump* ding! *thump* ding!

http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/kitsa_for_imockery2/side2.jpg

It's almost like Mickey and Donald have been drugged and abducted, hidden in a passenger bus of unknown Indian cartoon characters. Notice there aren't any doors on the bus. The other passengers, many sporting inexplicable pastel mohawk puffs, look either astonished, horrified, or bloated.

http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/kitsa_for_imockery2/side1.jpg

They actually tried to make both sides match, which is more of a shit than they usually give.

http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/kitsa_for_imockery2/front-1.jpg

Kindly Nearsighted Tiger at the wheel there.

http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/kitsa_for_imockery2/back.jpg

It all finishes up with a sort of off-color Donald. I don't know if this is a "racially sensitive" version or if they just figured that if they made him pale orange he was theirs now. The panda and the squirrel are high-fiving each other. You can tell they really believe they've pulled this off.

So that's the WTF Disney bus.

[b_squared]

The trees in the background remind me of Peter Maxx's art.

[dextire]

They all look high/zombiefied with the no pupils thing. Creepy.
And I swear that hedgehog is going to eat the cow. :lol

Had to vote Spacebus for the video alone. :)
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[Colonel Flagg]

Disney gets my vote - I imagine Mickey and Donald looking at each other and going "WTF?"

I also noticed the Lion looks the same as the driver on the animal bus.

Those Wacky Indians!

[MLE]

I found a fire truck and a school bus too. I can dig up the pictures if you haven't seen them yet.

[Aaarg]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2680/4115621085_2b79f9c3f5_o.jpg

[Tadao]

I found a fire truck and a school bus too. I can dig up the pictures if you haven't seen them yet.

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You have a candle, one shoe, a shovel, deck of playing cards.

[Kitsa]

would love to see them.

[k0k0]

You collect way better things than me. The only thing I currently collect (other than video games) is funny snowglobes. The best ones I have are a sad indian who gets snowed on by glitter and a y2k exploding computer snowglobe where the snow is 1's and 0's that was made in 99.

[Nick]

I would like to see these snow globes.

[Pentegarn]

You collect way better things than me. The only thing I currently collect (other than video games) is funny snowglobes.

I sit around and collect dust :rimshot

[Colonel Flagg]

I found a fire truck and a school bus too. I can dig up the pictures if you haven't seen them yet.

There's a WTF traction train for sale on ebay, if anyone's interested.

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/TIN-FRICTION-TRAIN-MADE-JAPAN-/14/!BVqWp6!!2k~$(KGrHgoOKjsEjlLmUU31BKTnJmTzZg~~_12.J PG

[Nick]

Why didn't you give a link. I'd totally send that Kitsa's way.

[Colonel Flagg]

I'm sure Kit can figure it out for herself, however, to make it easy(er), it's item number 360318157093 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/TIN-FRICTION-TRAIN-MADE-JAPAN-/360318157093?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D2%26po%3D LVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D2496097349896283713). With shipping the price is almost $35 -
THAT'S SOME VALUE!

[Colonel Flagg]

I've located photos of several other vehicles (for sale) that may not be strictly "WTF-worthy" but there's a Fire Rescue vehicle and a cable-car/trolley, among others.