Land of oz

Now, I’ve been to Kansas – and I can tell you one thing for sure – I’m not going to make a ridiculous joke about no longer being there – we were somewhere a great deal stranger tucked away in these North Carolina mountains.

'Land of Oz' Theme Park in North Carolina Will Reopen in June

Wizard of Oz corn field - Yahoo Search Results

The Wizard of Oz, Munchkin Land set.

The Emerald City (The Wizard of Oz) by One Horse Town, via Flickr:

My little prep paintings of Oz were but a faint echo of the original magical drawings and paintings of John R. Neill. He illustrated the vast majority of the yearly produced Oz books, giving flavor and substance to Baum's and successors' charming stories. As research for my Oz mural that never was, I read all of Baum's original books and my inner child was thoroughly entertained by his phantasies. There have been many printings, editions and variations over the years, and there is new Oz…

Based on the iconic 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, the Land of Oz attraction park in Beech Mountain has a fascinating story to tell.

With only days to go until the premier of Disney's newest movie, Oz the Great and Powerful, the excitement is ramping up exponentially. Of course, one of the many similarities between this film, the 1939 MGM Wizard of Oz film and L. Frank Baum's original book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is the use of balloons as a means of reaching Oz. In the 1939 MGM Wizard of Oz film, we see the balloon only at the end when the Wizard inadvertently goes airborne and is unable to control the balloon…