Updates and News from April, 1999
April 23, 1999
MAJOR NEWS BREAK
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre family home has been found!
Soon, YOU will be able to walk into the very house that TCM was shot in and order some BBQ. Perhaps a hamburger, or a pizza!
Because this news is only 2 hours old, I won't have a chance to give full details on this web site until I see it this coming Sunday. Not until then will I reveal extensive information on this. My wife and I are driving to Lake LBJ where the family house is being remodeled. I cannot name names until I have their permission to use them on this web site. But a restaurant and lodge owner purchased the house last year and had the house moved in several pieces (3 with or without the roof) to their location at Lake LBJ in Texas. It is being remodeled to eventually become a restaurant! NO, I'M NOT KIDDING! The property owner of Quick Hill faxed me a newspaper article and picture that was published in the Kingsland Current on September 9th, 1998. Here is a .jpg version of the fax. This picture shows the house being put back together and explains who purchased the house and why.
April 2, 1999
My mother-n-law bought me the Leatherface action figure made by McFarlan Toys. IT'S AWESOME!!!!! They have a web site at http://www.mcfarlane.com/ and their toll-free number is 1-888-99-SPAWN. (Their main line of toys is Spawn). It was really cool that she sent this to me at the time she did because at the time I was in the hospital for an appendectomy. I'll be out of work until sometime next week in the meantime. But I will follow-up with the update from March 23.
The Leatherface figurine comes fully dressed as you see above. But there are two versions of the figurine. One with blood (as above), and one without. It also comes with a really cool backdrop (which is not shown) made out of skulls and bones that acts like a stand-up frame with the original movie poster in it. Their web site doesn't have a SINGLE picture of Leatherface on it (far as I can find), so I scanned the back of the package and cropped out the part with Leatherface as above. It comes with Leatherface himself, a separate chainsaw, a bucket, a hammer (you can barely see it next to the severed arm in the bucket), a severed arm, a severed head, and the posterframe backdrop that I just described. I recently received an e-mail from a fellow TCM fan who read this page, and he said that he read somewhere that the head is a model of the artist that designed the Leatherface figure. And all the items I just mentioned that come with the figurine are separate accessories.
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