Abominable Snow Monster

The Abominable Snow Monster of the North was the main antagonist in Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but has reformed and is a friend of Rudolph. The Abominable Snow Monster of the North is a giant yeti that lives in the North Pole and the main antagonist in the 1964 Rankin/Bass special Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. In the 2001 sequel, he is Yukon Cornielius' bumbling sidekick. Yukon calls him Bumble.
When Rudolph was growing up, his father told him that the snow monster hated Christmas, had giant razor sharp teeth and eats anything. It's probably not that he hates Christmas, it's possibly that he had grown up knowing only how to attack. Months before Christmas Eve, Rudolph and Hermey the Elf ran away and came in contact with the Abominable. He chased them towards a frozen lake, where they ran into Yukon Cornelius. The trio jumped on a floating piece of ice and the Abominable jumped in but could not swim and so they managed to escape.
Rudolph returned to find that his parents and Clarice have been searching for him and that they have been captured by the Bumble. Rudolph went to Bumble's cave and challenged him but was knocked out with a stalactite grabbed by the monster, who then laughed sadistically at Rudolph's misfortune. Hermey and Yukon found the cave and tried to rescue their friend. Hermey lured the Bumble out of the cave and Yukon pushed a boulder over the Bumble's head and knocked him out cold.
When the Bumble awoke, he noticed that all his teeth were gone. Hermey took them all out with his pliers. Yukon no longer saw him as a threat and started to fight him. Yukon and his dogs cornered him towards the ledge and they all fell off the cliff. Rudolph and Hermey believed they were dead and returned to Santa's workshop very sadly. Yukon and the Bumble survived and returned to help Santa with the toys. With no more teeth, the Bumble became good and followed Yukon everywhere he went.
Question: The picture of the snowmonster shows him ready to put the star on the tree. But he has teeth. This is not consistent with the rest of the story. What gives? See next.
Note: Since 1991, about half the population -- based on number of newspaper items -- seems to believe, mistakenly, that Hermey did not pull all the teeth but only one. The Abominable was suffering from a toothache which Hermey fixed. Relieved of his suffering, the Abominable ceased to be grumpy and vicious, and that's why he became pal to Rudolph and the others. Of course this is absolute nonsense. Why don't these idiots sit down and watch the show, instead of spreading misinformation? They will find out (Duh!) that there was no toothache, Hermey was not intending to help the Abominable, his goal was to cripple it. The picture referred to in the question above, where the Abominable has teeth when he puts the star on the tree, reflects this non-existent version.
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