Nudnik Merchandise

## Unreleased

Gene Deitch had hoped that Nudnik's unmistakable identity could quickly lead to popularity and merchandising, and came up with various concepts for potential Nudnik merchandise.

### Nudnik Plushes

One of the first merchandising ideas Gene came up with was Nudnik plush dolls. Pictured are concept models made from cloth and "modurit", a type of modeling plastic dough, as well as actual concept plushes.

### Nudnik Colorforms

Colorforms consists of simple shapes and forms cut from colored vinyl sheeting that cling to a smooth backing surface without adhesives. Though no physical Nudnik Colorforms concepts had been made, Gene drew out what could've been the pieces for it, and these can be seen in the book "Nudnik Revealed!"

### Nudnik Vase/Pitcher

As strange as it is, at least one porcelain Nudnik pitcher had been made as a concept. The pitcher is a standard handmade porcelain pitcher with a handle and a spout and engravings in it, as well as a carved in and painted on Nudnik on one side of it, painted with light colors, and is supposedly made by Gene himself as his name can be seen to the left of it. This can also be seen in the book "Nudnik Revealed!"

### Nudnik shirts & hats

In a Facebook post, Gene & Zdenka had posed for a photo wearing the shirts and hats, and the post stated the shirts and hats would be available for the holidays, but supposedly no such thing had been become available.

## Released

The list of actually released Nudnik merchandise isn't very large, but isn't lacking however, mainly consisting of home media. Getting some of it physically can be difficult though, with the fee of international shipping, the high price in general for some items or just the overall scarcity of it.

### Books

#### Nudnik Flipbook

The only official merchandise that had been released during Nudnik's prime was a flipbook sold at the 1967 Montreal World's fair. The flipbook features an animated bit that was used in "Good Neighbor Nudnik". A digital release had been said to be coming soon in 2013, but no such thing had become available. However, you can see the flipbook in motion in the following video:

Folioscopes de la Cinémathèque québécoise (1967)

#### Nudnik Revealed!

At last, in 2013 an official Nudnik book produced by Gene Deitch & Fantagraphics had become available for purchase, and were first available at San Diego Comic Con alongside the DVD of the same name. The book can be purchased on Amazon here.

### Home Media

#### Nudnik Revealed!

The official Nudnik DVD released alongside the "Nudnik Revealed!" book at San Diego comic con, now recommended for purchase along with the book, as the DVD contains all 13 episodes of the series, the 11 bumpers, the show's intro and commentary from Gene Deitch about the episodes and the production behind them. The DVD can be purchased on Rembrandt's official site here. All of the content from this disc was eventually uploaded onto the Nudnik Youtube channel in 2018, along with the other animated shorts Gene directed while at Rembrandt Films, featured on the DVD "Rembrandt's Greatest Hits".

#### Rembrandt's Greatest Hits

The only other home release of Nudnik that Rembrandt had done, being released on both DVD and VHS. It contains various cartoon shorts all directed by Gene Deitch, and 3 bumpers.

#### Oiva Tumpeloisen

"Oiva Tumpeloisen" is Nudnik's Finnish name, and 2 DVDs were made consisting of the episodes and other animations, both with a duration of 52 minutes, and mainly being available for purchase through the Turkish resale website Huuto.net.

#### Nudnik och Grannarna

Nudnik och Grannarna (Which translates to "Nudnik and the neighbors") seems to be the same as the first volume of the Oiva Tumpeloisen DVDs but released in Sweden.

#### "Kiddies" DVD

A DVD released by the same company who released the Finnish & Swedish Nudnik DVDs, but in a sleeve and along with other cartoons featured on the disc, telling by the cover.

#### Yaramaz Nudnik

Yaramaz Nudnik is the Turkish DVD release of Nudnik, and has 5 episodes of Nudnik featured on it. A video has been uploaded to the persian video site Aparat titled "Yaramaz Nudnik" but seems more like what is on Volume 2 of the Oiva Tumpeloisen DVDs, judging by the back of it.