Yeti

:For the British indie rock band see Yeti (band).

The yeti in popular culture

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 Brothers cartoons from the era.

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1950s - Mel Blanc - Warner Brothers

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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.

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British - Science fiction television - Doctor Who - Robot - Yeti - The Abominable Snowmen - The Web of Fear - Anniversary - The Five Doctors

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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 favourite in the series.

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1960 - Tintin - Tintin in Tibet - Herge

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An abominable snowman called Bumbles was the villain in the perennial 1964 Rankin-Bass Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. He turned good at the end of the movie.

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Bumbles - 1964 - Rankin-Bass - Christmas - Television special - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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In 1978, Disneyland added Audio-Animatronic yetis to its Matterhorn Bobsleds attraction.

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1978 - Disneyland - Audio-Animatronic - Matterhorn Bobsleds

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

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2001 - Disney - Pixar - Monsters, Inc. - John Ratzenberger

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

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The Backyardigans have an episode about the Yeti in which Pablo the penguin sings "The Yeti Stomp".

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In 2005, Walt Disney World will open Expedition Everest in Animal Kingdom, which will be a roller coaster featuring animatronic Yetis.

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2005 - Walt Disney World - Roller coaster

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