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KISS Meets The phantom of The Park Rare DVD
This is a super rare Kiss movie , though cheesey a must have
for all rock n roll fans, this dvd is the best offered with menus and chapter selections and bonus material, become part of
the Kiss Army, quality is excellent for the time period 9/10This made-for-television
film, an unusual collaboration between hard rock group Kiss and
children's television kings Hanna Barbera, became one of NBC's highest-rated programs of 1978. The plot, reminiscent of the
average episode of Scooby-Doo, begins with crazed inventor Abner Devereaux (Anthony
Zerbe) getting fired from his job at California's Magic Mountain amusement park for ignoring safety standards in his quest
to create bigger and better attractions. Devereaux retreats to his underground lab and plots a revenge scenario that coincides
with the arrival of rock group KissKiss
and uses them to create havoc. However, he soon discovers he's in for a fight because the group has secret talisman amulets
that give them special powers. Thus, the stage is set for a superhero-style showdown between Kiss
and Devereaux's squad of animatronic henchmen. Although it is a live-action effort, Kiss
Meets the Phantom of the Park is cartoonish in the extreme as it dishes out plenty of bad jokes and low-budget special
effects. It was a considerable ratings success, but also unfortunately branded Kiss
with a "kiddie group" image that took years to shake. As a result, the members of the group consider Kiss
Meets the Phantom of the Park an embarrassment. Nevertheless, it remains a cult favorite with the group's fans and aficionados
of odd television (playing themselves) to perform a concert at the park. Using his knowledge of animatronics,
Devereaux creates android duplicates of
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