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With the many yeti reports in the 1950s, the creature crossed over into popular culture. Mel Blanc lent his talent to voicing a bumbling, lovelorn Abominable Snowman on a few Warner Bros. cartoons from the era. The British film "The Abominable Snowman" appeared in 1957, starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing; Fred Johnson played the yeti. The long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who featured a robotic Yeti in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear and i ...

Yeti: Encyclopedia II - Yeti - The yeti in popular culture

Yeti - The yeti in popular culture

The British film "The Abominable Snowman" appeared in 1957, starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing; Fred Johnson played the yeti.

The long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who featured a robotic Yeti in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear and its 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors.

In 1960, the Tintin comic book Tintin in Tibet was published, featuring a story about a yeti. This has been claimed to be the author Herge's own favorite in the series.

An abominable snowman called Bumbles was the villain in the perennial 1964 Rankin-Bass Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. He became friendly over the course of the story.

In 1978, Disneyland added Audio-Animatronic yetis to its Matterhorn Bobsleds attraction during an extensive refurbishment of the 1959 roller coaster.

Polish artist Stanisław Szukalski's idea that many people are actually subhuman descendents of Yetis ("Yetinsyny") was adopted by the Church of the SubGenius, with the twist that SubGenii are supposed to be superior mutants descended from godlike Yetinsyn ancestors.

Philip Kerr's adventure novel Esau (1996) tells of an expedition which encounters yeti in the Himalayas.

The 2001 Disney/Pixar film Monsters, Inc. featured an abominable snowman voiced by John Ratzenberger.

The 2001 movie Monkeybone had a yeti that worked at the Morpheum Theatre in Downtown.

In 2002, the Gameboy Advance game "Urban Yeti" was made. This game was used for many jokes and puns within the now defunct video game magazine "GameNOW" . (Jokes mainly revolving around the term "Ready to YETI!!!" ) The Backyardigans have an episode about the Yeti in which Pablo the penguin sings "The Yeti Stomp".

In 2006, Walt Disney World Resort will open Expedition Everest in its Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, a roller coaster featuring an animatronic yeti; Disney will promote the attraction in February 2006 with a publicity stunt set to feature an enormous yeti image decorating a Times Square skyscraper

Gregg Yeti (of The Flashing Astonishers) is a modern indie rock musician who took on the abominable one for a last name.

The role-playing game Final Fantasy VI contains an unlockable character named Umaro who is based on the yeti.

The sub-Canadian Yetti, or, "Yettius Subcanadius" have been known to inhabit the lands around Whippoorwill Mountain.

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