Changes: Mustache Maniacs Film Co.: The Visual Dictionary - 2nd Edition

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Mustache Maniacs Film Co.: The Visual Dictionary - 2nd Edition is the updated, expanded, and enhanced version of Mustache Maniacs Film Co.: The Visual Dictionary. This version adds content cut from the original book, expands it with new pages for films released since the first edition's release, and adds new behind-the-scenes material. The book covers content from 2004 through 2016.

Book Details

Release Date: June 21, 2016
Page Count: 74
Book Type: Informative
Author: Andrew Bermudez

Just like the first edition, the book covers nearly every Mustache Maniacs Film Co. production from January 2004 through Ninjago: Visions of Memories in August 2016. Almost every page is devoted to a single film or related topic, with a introduction that briefly talks about the film or films in question. Also on each page are a collection of facts, images, and highlighted elements of each image. The book then ends with pages about Project U, behind the scenes material, never-released films, and a final statement by the author.

41 - Building a Portfolio
42 - A Game Show-Contest-School
43 - Legoman Returns!
44 - Dodos in Deep Doo-Doo
45 - The Online Network
46 - Dracula's Internship
47 - You Chose the Winners Again!
48 - Wacky Birthday Cards
49 - Johnny's World Tour
50 - Delectable Edible Premiere Delights
51 - A Celebration of Ten Years
52 - Building Movie Moments

Part 6: The World of Project U (2015 - 2020)

53 - Establishing the World
54 - The Canon of Fan Fiction
55 - The Story of Martha Parker
56 - Alpha Team Returns
57 - Amset-Ra's Curse
58 - Chase Through Time
59 - The Future of Project U
61 - Writing the Final Chapter

Part 7: That Mustache is Fake (Behind the Scenes)

63 - Generating Ideas
64 - Storyboards
65 - The Art of Mustache Maniacs Film Co.
67 - Lights, Camera, Action!
68 - Bringing It All Home
69 - The Best Films Never Made
71 - Making a Comic
72 - Random Acts of Fun
73 - Conclusion
74 - Advertisements

Tropes

"Stop it! Stop it! You're ruining everything!"
-Theodore Taylor, Mustache Maniacs Film Co. is Coming to LEGO Dimensions!
Spoiler warning! This section contains details that reveal crucial plot points. If you do not want to find out what happens, skip to the next section.

Mustache Maniacs Film Co.: The Visual Dictionary - 2nd Edition contains examples of the following tropes.

Great Big Book of Everything: Sort of, at least when it comes to Mustache Maniacs Film Co.'s library of content. It doesn't cover everything (and it has fallen out of date since schedules started shifting in 2017), but at its time of release, it covered nearly every production past, present, and future.
Firing Day: In the behind the scenes section of the book, the company-wide firing running gag spills over into this book, with a pointer suggesting that a PA that was photographed not doing anything should be fired.
Product Placement: A very obvious example is on the last page of this book, which is simply a slew of posters for then-current Mustache Maniacs Film Co. products. Even the page itself is referred to as "Advertisements" in the table of contents.
Re-Cut: This book takes the original book and expands upon it greatly, adding material that had been released since the first book's publishing and adding back in material cut from the original.
Running Gag: Throughout the book, there are small pointers for details in the images with descriptions of what these items are. Some of these are completely obvious (like a piece of glass, for example), with the pointers themselves noting that these are being pointed out just to fill up space on the page.
School Play: Featured in the book are none other than the Cornerstone Thespian Society plays Kilroy Was Here!, Jolly Roger and the Pirate Queen, and Mystery at Shady Acres. The Nifty Fifties is also mentioned in the behind the scenes section of the book in the spread about never-released films.
Set Behind the Scenes: The last section of the book pulls back the curtain at how the films featured in the book were created, with looks at production documents, artwork, and production photos.

Trivia

While this book was originally intended to be released as part of Ten Years of Going Crazy!, it was pushed off in order to finish production on both Johnny Thunder and the Wisdom of the Ancients and Alpha Team: Mission Deep Jungle.
While this book is modeled on the first edition, it does not recycle any digital assets from the original book, as they were at too small of a resolution to be usable. Instead, the returning pages were recreated at the higher resolution.
While existing when the first edition was published, both Remember the Alamo and Mystery LEGO Theater 3000 were not acknowledged until this edition.
Even though the book's cover features the fish skeleton editorial graphic created for the film Mercury Rising in Our Oceans, the film in question is never mentioned in the book.

External Links

Official Web Page

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