Simon Says

We read an article in a magazine- the article was about American Idol judge Simon Cowell. Simon Cowell has made quite a name for himself. We watch American Idol almost regularly as well as the X Factor. We have Simon's autobiography I Don't Mean To Be Rude and it's a really amusing read. Our good friend Tyrone The Terrible is a close friend of his- in fact Simon is a member of the Evil Genius organisation Tyrone is the founder of. The Evil Genius organisation is kind of like similar to the Stonecutters, except all the members happen to famous villain types such as Alice Cooper, Ozzy Ozbourne, Every Disney villain imaginable, Darth Rangoon, Nigel Von Sinister, various Bond villains, Dr Evil, Dr Madness (my evil counterpart) and Simon. Simon Cowell gets a bad rep because of his brutal honesty towards contestants- but it's the contestants fault anywhere, almost HALF of the loser auditionees that come on to audition to be on American Idol absolutely STINK. Some of them get all worked up because of something he says- he's only doing what he does best, he's telling it like it is, he's telling them the truth- the cold, hard truth. And you know what? We agree with him. Those contestants CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! Those contestants really don't have a single clue of how worthless and untalented they are. Our friend Tyrone The Terrible does a terrific Simon voice impersonation. He demonstrates this to perfection in our classic animated fantasy film Fantastic Portal. In the film our friend Tyrone the Terrible voices the villain, the evil, deadpan snarky Dark Overlord Simon (who looks, sounds and acts like Simon Cowell does) who plans to rule the kingdom. Dark Overlord Simon is an evil spellcaster type. Our old pal Kirsty provides the voice of the Princess character in it Princess Aideen from the city of light (who is a lot like Paula Abdul). Tyrone The Terrible's performance as the voice of Dark Overlord Simon is considered to be one of his best, because even though Simon Cowell has never actually tried singing himself, Dark Overlord Simon gets his own Villain Song in the movie. In addition to writing villain songs he sings them. Tyrone The Terrible is the go-to-guy for villainous character roles over here. After all-he IS a professional supervillain. Tyrone is good friends with Tim Curry (who provided the voice of Morlock in the rock opera episode of Millitary Koalas and again in Millitary Koalas the movie). Tim Curry's most famous role is Dr Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror, he's also famous for playing Darkness in Legend and his spine chilling as Pennywise in Stephen King's It. His sinister yet seductive voice can be heard in such animated films as Ferngully, The Pebble And The Penguin, Beauty And The Beast: Enchanted Christmas, and Bartok The Magnificent. Tyrone The Terrible got acting tips from him on how to do villain roles back in the 1990's. Dark Overlord Simon is also partially influenced by quite a few Disney villains- mainly Jafar, Scar and Hades.

Dark Overlord Simon's villain song is one of the tracks on Tyrone The Terrible's Evil Yet Entertaining Villain Songs cd album, other villain songs on the album include Baddest WereElvis In Town which is Spike's villain song from Teenage WereElvis, I'm A Living Nightmare (Morlock's villain song from the rock opera episode of Millitary Koalas) performed by Tim Curry, and his very own villain song. You should get it, it's really good. He also has two books out, one is his autobiography A Day In The Life Of An Evil Genius and the other is his humourous how to book How To Be A Villain which teaches the reader how to be a great villain and has all sorts of tips on how to be evil. He also has invented a variety of different toys for evil purposes such as the custom made Voodoo Dolls, the Doomsday Device model kit, the Hypno Blaster (a mind control device made to resemble a toy gun) and the Monstrosibeanies (which are kind of monstrous, evil beanie babies).

Unlike others, we don't hate Simon in anyway. Me and my brother like him.

Millitary Koalas: About Morlock.

Millitary Koalas: The Movie is one of the best animated features we've done. It was released in cinemas on February 7th 2009 and will be on dvd and blu ray May 14th. A lot of people liked it. The soundtrack is a most awesome one as it features such rock anthems as Born To Be Wild, Don't Stop Believing, Everybody Wants To Rule The World, and Bat Out Of Hell which were all used in the film. Everyone thought the voice cast was wonderful, especially Tim Curry as the voice of Morlock the evil dropbear. We enjoyed having Tim Curry perform the voice of the deliciously evil dropbear- it was a lot of fun and we knew we had our money's worth when he came along. Our friend Tyrone The Terrible is a big Tim Curry fan and even knows him.

Morlock is a sinister but charming dropbear from the Down Under World. He first appeared in the rock opera episode of Millitary Koalas and is voiced by Tim Curry of Rocky Horror fame. Morlock posesssess the power of darkness and can use his dark magic to make people's lives a living nightmare (literally) and can make their worst fear come alive. We delved deep into the Nightmare Fuel/High Octane Nightmare Fuel pages of the TVTropes to get the inspiration for this character and his realm, we also look on Villain Song and Large Ham pages of the site to get further inspiration. Tyrone The Terrible wrote a great villain song for the rock opera episode of Millitary Koalas and Tim Curry was magnificent performing it. The song is called I'm A Living Nightmare and it is one of the villain songs on the Evil But Entertaining Villain Songs cd which is in stores now. Morlock is super intelligent, evil, charismatic and deliciously wicked. Millitary Koalas the movie won several animation awards including best character design, best score and best soundtrack. The soundtrack is in stores now and is a must have.



We have special exclusive merchandise featuring this diabolical marsupial. And they are:

Toys:

• Malicious Morlock action figure (this action figure of Morlock has light up evil eyes and a cape which when opened up looks like a pair of bat-like wings)
• Cackling Morlock Plush (squeeze this ones paw and he cackles evilly and says various evil lines of his from the movie, features the voice of Tim Curry)
• Down Under Underworld Lair.
• Morlock cuddle buddy (this cuddle buddy version of Morlock has light up eyes and sings a villain song when you press his paw)

Books:

• Morlock's Book Of Evil Spells.
• Morlock's Tricks
• Character Compendium.
• Escape From The Down Under Underworld.

Other media:

• Evil But Entertaining Villain Songs cd (Morlock's song from the rock opera episode of Millitary Koalas is one of the tracks)
• Millitary Koalas: The Movie video game (is the final boss you have to fight in the nightmare realm that is the Down Under Underworld)
• All For One, One For All (in this beat em up he is a boss character and later becomes a playable character)
• Millitary Koalas: The Movie soundtrack (his villain song is a bonus track).
• Operation Thunder (in this Millitary Koalas rpg he is one of the antagonists you have to fight, and also you can make your character a dropbear just like him if you want your character to be a villain)

My theatre career

Aside from doing animation and films, me and my brother have done quite a lot of work in theatre. I've been in a number of company productions such as Oliver, Cats, Phantom Of The Opera, Sweeney Todd and Little Shop Of Horrors. Namely when it comes to theatre I get typecast playing the role of the villain- the only non villain roles i've played are Jay Leno in Leno (although I do also play some of his old tonight show characters mainly Beyondo, Iron Jay and Billy Tuttle, so I do get to do Evil Jay as well), Rum Tum Tugger in Cats and Erik in the Phantom Of The Opera. My most notable performances include my performance as Rooster in the company production of Annie (a role which was played by Tim Curry in the 1980's film version), my performance of Fagin in Oliver (a role that's being played by Rowan Atkinson in the new west end version), Dr Orin in Little Shop Of Horrors (a role that was played by Steve Martin in the film and Stefan Karl Stefannson of Lazytown fame in one of the stage version) and Dracula in La Vampiro. But according to my friends, my most memorable performance was as Gaston in last year's production of Beauty And The Beast opposite my brother who played the role of the beast (my portrayal was a mixture of Hugh Jackman's version and Donny Osmond's version with a bit of Elvis Presley thrown in). A lot of people said I did good in that role. I also played one of Joseph's evil jealous brothers in a company production of Joseph And The Technicolour Dreamcoat. Rum Tum Tugger is one of the only non bad guys i've ever played, I originally auditioned for the role of Macavity the mystery cat, I passed the audition but they said I wasn't evil enough so they gave the role to my evil counterpart Dr Madness- I got the part of Rum Tum Tugger instead. My portrayal of Dracula in La Vampiro was based on Chris Sarandon's character from the 1985 vampire flick Fright Night and influenced by David Bowie's role of the Goblin King from Labyrinth. La Vampiro was a rock opera based on classic bits of vampire mythology. My brother played the role of the vampire hunter. This year our company production is Rocky Horror Picture Show, and I was considered to play the role of the mad Dr Frankenfurter (the role that made Tim Curry famous), the part has been given to our good friend Tyrone The Terrible (he's a very good actor btw), I play Dr Everett Scott, and my brother plays Meatloaf's character Eddie.

Introducing Tyrone The Terrible

We would like to introduce you to our friend Tyrone The Terrible.

Full name: Tyrone Lucius DeSoto.
Nickname: Tyrone The Terrible.
Age: N/A.
Occupation: Writer/singer/supervillain.
Personality: Evil, charming, funny, suave and deliciously hammy.
Star sign: Scorpio.
Hair: Black with red streeks.
Eyes: Eeerie glowing green.
Skin: Fair.
Special skills: Singing, writing, inventing, plotting.
Trademarks: His evil laugh, his wicked smirk, his smooth voice, and his love of reptiles.
Villainous asscioates: Morgoth (an Alice Cooper lookalike), Dr Madness and various other villainous friends of his.
Favourite animal: Snakes and any other kind of reptile, bats, and spiders.
Favourite food: Anything hot and spicey.
Favourite drink: Beer.
Favourite colours: Black, grinch green, purple, and blood red.
Favourite movie genres: Sci fi, fantasy, horror, animation.
Favourite singers: Alice Cooper, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Meatloaf, Metalica, Kiss, Iron Maiden, Voltaire.
Idols: Vincent Price, Tim Curry, Christopher Lee, Chris Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Lorre.
Favourite tv shows: BlackAdder, Buffy the vampire slayer, Supernatural, Tales From The Crypt, Masters Of Horror.
Favourite movie directors: David Cronenberg, Tim Burton, David Lynch, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Tom Holloland, George Lucas, John Landis.
All time favourite movie: Nightmare On Elm Street.
Favourite Disney villains: Scar, Shere Kahn, Clayton, Forte, Maleficent, The Queen/Witch, Ratigan, Chernabog, Gaston, Sid, Ursula, Judge Doom, Hades and Oogie Boogie.
Talents: Can do mean impersonations of Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Tim Curry and Simon Cowell, can pull off a great Villain Song, is extremely clever, can invent a lot of evil weapons and gadgets.
Special powers: Mind control, levitation, and the ability to turn into a big, scary all powerful monster.
Personal quotes: "I'm good at being bad!" "I know, i'm just terrible!" "There is no escape!" "Give into me now!".
Home: A tall, dark terrifying evil fortress located three blocks away from our amusement park/museum. It's the one with the big T on it.
Favourite song: Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears (his doorbell plays this tune and also this song is his ringtone).
Hobbies: Plotting evil plans, inventing, drinking, collecting old automobiles and other machinery.
Drives: A Ratfink style hot rod which he calls the Demon Prince.
Background: Tyrone The Terrible is our closest friend and an evil genius. Even though he is an evil sinister villain, he is a villain with good publicity. He is also a writer and his song speciality is villain songs. He works with various other villainous cohorts including fellow supervillain Nigel Von Sinister. When he's not trying to take over the world he's busy working on his huge collection of old automobiles and other types of machines. He has a pet rat named Ramone and a lot of minions to do his bidding. To him being a villain is fun, so much fun that he enjoys himself. He is quite the Large Ham and isn't afraid to put on a show. He wears a black and red evil overlord outfit made to look like Jafar's one from Aladdin. He posesssess an array of amazing supernatural powers and one of them is the abiltiy to turn into a big, scary, all powerful monster. His monster form has rarely been seen but rumour has it that it's so scary that people are put into a catatonic state of fear if they ever catch a glimpse of it.

Our favourite Disney villains list

The villains are what makes Disney films so great and here are our top ten:

• Gaston
• Ratigan
• Scar
• Hades
• Sid
• Jafar
• Ursula
• Maleficent
• John Silver
• Evil Emperor Zurg.
• Judge Doom.
• Sykes
• Pete
• Chernabog
• The Queen/Hag.
• Narrissa.
• Cruella De Vil.
• Forte.
• Hopper.
• Captain Hook.
• Prince John and Sir Hiss.
• Clayton
• Shan Yu.
• McLeach.
• Madam Mim.
• Oogie Boogie.
• Ratcliffe.
• Hanging Lamp and Jack Nicholsonesque airconditioner (from the Brave Little Toaster)

Our favourite Disney villain songs:

• Gaston, Gaston Reprise, and The Mob Song.
• The World's Greatest Criminal Mind and Goodbye So Soon.
• Be Prepared
• My Town (From the Hercules cartoon series)
• You're Only Second Rate
• Oogie Boogie Song.
• Mad Madam Mim.
• Poor Unfortunate Souls.
• I'm Getting Good At Being Bad.
• Don't Fall In Love.
• It's Our House Now (from House Of Villains)
• King Of France (Three Musketeers)
• Trust In Me.
• Mine, Mine, Mine.
• B-Movie Show.

Our favourite non Disney cartoon villains are:

• Ruber (Quest For Camelot)
• Rasputin (Anastasia)
• Belladonna (All Dogs Go To Heaven)
• Hexxus (Ferngully)
• Drake (Pebble and The Penguin)
• Steele (Balto)
• Ludmilla (Bartok the Magnificent)
• Lord Farquaad, Prince Charming (Shrek films)
• Pharoh (Prince Of Egypt)
• Dr Schaudefreude, King Malbert (Igor)

Favourite tv cartoon villains:

• Brain (Pinky and The Brain)
• Mojo Jojo (Powerpuff Girls)
• Limburger (Biker Mice From Mars)
• Chairface Chippendale (The Tick)
• The Boogieman (Billy and Mandy)
• Red Guy (Cow and Chicken)
• Mr Burns and Sideshow Bob (The Simpsons)
• Evil the cat (Earthworm Jim)
• Lobe (Freakazoid)
• Vermacious Scum (Captain Planet)

Our favourite Batman villains:

• Joker
• Poison Ivy
• Two-Face
• Catwoman.
• The Penguin.
• Riddler.
• Mr Freeze.
• Manbat.
• Mad Hatter.
• Ventriloquist.

Our favourite Spiderman villains:

• Dr Octopus.
• Venom.
• Carnage.
• Green Goblin
• Hob Goblin.
• ManSpider.
• Mysterio.

Our favourite Star Wars bad guys:

• Jabba The Hutt
• Emperor Palpatine.
• Darth Vader.
• Darth Maul.
• Darth Tyranus.
• Watto.
• Bobba Fett.
• Ziro the Hutt (from The Clone Wars movie)

Our favorite evil Digimon bad guys:

• Devimon.
• Myotismon.
• Etemon.
• Puppetmon.
• Piedmon.

Our "Evil" Windows Media playlist:

1. Fright Night by J. Giels Band.
2. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) - David Bowie.
3. Jaws theme.
4. Theme from Poultergiest.
5. Once Bitten (title theme).
6. One Winged Angel (from Final Fantasy 7)
7. Once Bitten by 3-Speed.
8. Gremlins theme.
9. Imperial March (Star Wars).
10. Edward Scissorhands theme by Danny Elfman.
11. Halloween theme.
12. Beetlejuice theme by Danny Elfman.
13. Beetlejuice cartoon theme.
14. Funeral March For A Marionette.
15. Psycho theme.
16. Beetlejuice cartoon theme version 2.
17. Nightmare On Elm Street theme.
18. Imperial March by Metalica.
19. Come To Me (Instrumental) by Brad Fiedel.
20. Come To Me (Vocal) by Brad Fiedel.

Bonus tracks on the list:

• Welcome To My Nightmare, Devil's Food, Poison, Wind Up Toy, and Black Widow all by Alice Cooper.
• Call Me When You're Sober, Haunted, Bring Me To Life, Whisper, My Immortal, Everybody's Fool all by Evanesence.
• Numb, Somewhere I Belong and Crawling by Linkin Park.
• Iron Man by Black Sabbath.
• The Monster Is Loose by Meatloaf.
• Undertaker, Goldust (wwe wrestling themes)
• Toxic Love by Tim Curry.

Evil asscioates of ours:

• Tyrone The Terrible (he's the go-to guy for all things evil, if you need a villain song parody written he's the one for the job)
• Darth Rangoon (he's a Sith lord and the go-to-guy for sci fi themed villain song parodies, he also owns his own circus of fear and a workshop where he keeps all his evil gadgets and weapons)
• Nigel Von Sinister (this guy is an evil genius with a knack for horror themed villain song parodies, he lives in a big dark scary mansion)
• Dr Madness (my evil counterpart)
• Weremoose (his real name is Lance Halloway, he's a very good artist, you should look him up sometime).

The Dropbear: Real Or Fake?

Welcome to Myths From The Other Side. The segment where we examin the stories behind adifferent mythicals animal from across the globe. Today we are going down under to uncover the truth about the deadly dropbear. In Aussie folklore a dropbear is supposed to be a large, carnivorous almost vampric koala that "drops down" from the trees onto the heads of any victim that comes it's way. This is used as a tall tale that Australians used to scare, confuse or amuse tourists. We are quite facinated by this.

This is Killoala, one of the characters from our Creepy Critters range of Gremlins style plush animals. Killoala is a blue dropbear with a black stripes, a star on his forehead and a blood red marking on his stomach. In his "mutant" form he has fangs, devil horns, claws and black bat-like wings. Killoala has inspired by the Dropbear legend and the plush Werebears that the Hornby toy company made in the early 80's (the werebears were plush teddies that were reversible- you could turn their heads and paws inside out to "transform" them from cute to scary). The Creepy Critters range of plush toys were inspired by the 1980's horror comedy Gremlins.

This is Morlock the dropbear, one of the villains from our popular cartoon series Millitary Koalas. His voice is done by Tim Curry (who is known for his delightfully creepy, villainous but yet seductive voice). Morlock first appeared in the episode Rock N Load- which was a special musical episode done in the style of a rock opera. In it, Morlock (who was banished and sent to live down in the down Under Underworld by the Bunyip King) uses his special brand of dark magic to bring everyone's worst fears to life and turn the city into a city of nightmares. Morlock was "defeated" and was sent back to the down Underworld by the heroes. However he makes a return in Millitary Koalas: The Movie, and this time he's got something much bigger planned. Morlock's mustache and goatee is a nod to how some evil twins in tv and movies have a goatee like Spock's evil twin from that one episode of Star Trek and Buzz Lightyear's evil clone from an episode of Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command.

In April 5th, 1992 we produced a short horror flick called Killer Koalas From Another World. It was filmed in Australia and was inspired by the dropbear myths. We created animatronic dropbears especially for the movie. We entered the film in the local film festival, it won the following awards: Best Soundtrack, Best Score, Best FX, Best Short Film, and Best Horror Film. The animatronic dropbears used for the movie can be viewed in our museum of props from our films. The movie is very good and is also available on dvd- however it is quite hard to obtain.

The dropbear is indeed an interesting creature. The story behind it is also interesting. The dropbear:

If you wish to find out about more about the Dropbear- see this link:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/animals/comments/19/

Need info on the Werebear toys? Click this link:

http://www.redhotscott.co.uk/werebear/

Millitary Koalas The Movie: Bad Guy info.

A while back we asked fans of our show Military Koalas which bad guy they would love to see in a full length movie of the show. We asked them to vote for the bad guy of their choice, the bad guy choices were: Dingo Dan, Manogator (the half man half aligator), Draco the Lizard Man, or Morlock the Dropbear. And the bad guy who got the most votes was....Morlock the dropbear.

This is Morlock. He is a dropbear. Dropbears are basically vampire-like koalas that the Australians use as tall tales to scare tourists. Morlock the dropbear's voice is done by the great Tim Curry (who played Darkness in Legend). Morlock first appeared in the special rock opera episode of the show. Our good friend Tyrone The Terrible is a Tim Curry fan and a specialist in the art of writing villain songs (he wrote the Vizini villain song Inconcievable and many more villain songs including his own villain song, last August he and I worked on a villain song duet), he wrote the lyrics to Morlock's villain song from the rock opera special. In a musical, the villain song is a special song that is sung by the villain- sometimes it's about themselves and sometimes it's about their evil plan. . We dug deep into the dank, dark and spooky depts of the Nightmare Fuel and High Octane Nightmare Fuel pages to get inspirations for the dark dimension Morlock lives in known as the Down Under Underworld. Millitary Koalas: The Movie will be released in cinemas this weekend.

For examples of villain songs, head over to the tv tropes villain song page via this link: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainSong

We also advice that you must NOT under any circumstances, visit the Nightmare Fuel and High Octane Nightmare Fuel pages before bed- it will give you non-stop nightmares.

Also be warned: TV Tropes will ruin your life. (I'm just kiding, that site is awesome).