Home / Rankin & Bass Rankin & Bass Rereads and Rewatches The Hobbit 45 Years Ago, Rankin & Bass’ The Hobbit Predicted the Future of Pop Culture By Austin Gilkeson November 30, 2022 Comment number: 14 Blog nostalgia Revisiting The Flight of Dragons, a Forgotten Gem of ’80s Fantasy By Reneysh Vittal September 24, 2021 Comment number: 12 Blog Christmas 11 Oddball Holiday Specials that Should Be Classics By Bridget McGovern December 23, 2020 Blog The Hobbit Rankin & Bass’ The Hobbit Predicted the Future of Pop Culture By Austin Gilkeson September 25, 2020 Comment number: 24 Rereads and Rewatches Movies of Middle-Earth Middle-earth’s Weirdest Movie: Rankin-Bass’ Animated The Return of the King By Austin Gilkeson April 24, 2019 Comment number: 24 Rereads and Rewatches The Hobbit Rankin/Bass’s The Hobbit Showed Us the Future of Pop Culture By Austin Gilkeson December 21, 2018 Comment number: 10 Column On Fairy Tales A Thin But Frosty Modern Fairy Tale: “Frosty the Snowman” By Mari Ness December 13, 2018 Comment number: 22 Rereads and Rewatches The Hobbit The Greatest Adventure: Tolkien’s The Hobbit Turns 80! By Jeff LaSala September 18, 2017 Comment number: 36 Featured Essays nostalgia The Flight of Dragons: Revisiting a Forgotten Gem of ’80s Fantasy By Reneysh Vittal October 12, 2016 Comment number: 56 Featured Essays holiday specials Should We Just Let Santa Die Already? (Asks L. Frank Baum) By Bridget McGovern December 21, 2015 Comment number: 5 Featured Essays holiday specials 11 Odd, Campy, and Surreal Holiday Specials that Should be Classics By Bridget McGovern December 21, 2015 Comment number: 10 Books The Last Unicorn Joy, Sorrow, Regret, and Reassurance: The Singular Beauty of The Last Unicorn By Bridget McGovern January 30, 2014 Comment number: 19 1 2