Protozaius
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Today is the third year anniversary of when the Planet of the Apes line went up for pre-order. It was in the Sideshow weekly newsletter dated 2/28/04.
Here is the POTA excerpt from that newsletter:
* PRE-ORDER PLANET OF THE APES FIGURES EARLY!
On a planet where apes talk and walk like men, and men are primitive animals, Taylor, an astronaut from Earth, is captured by gorilla soldiers when he crash lands his spacecraft. He is imprisoned and left in the care of two chimps, Cornelius and Zira. It's soon discovered that Taylor, unlike the other humans, can talk. Taylor is brought before Dr. Zaius, an orangutan, who fears the talking human could bring the downfall of the ape civilization, on the Planet of the Apes! Now you can pre-order the first 5 characters from our 'Planet of the Apes' line-up! Available are 1/4 Scale figures of Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius and Roddy McDowall as Cornelius; a polystone reproduction of The Lawgiver; and 12" figures of Charlton Heston as Colonel George Taylor, Kim Hunter as Zira, Linda Harrison as Nova, Dr. Zaius, and Cornelius.
Planet URL: https://www.sideshowtoy.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=apes_12
I still lament to this day that Sideshow cancelled those Ape PFs.
Here is the POTA excerpt from that newsletter:
* PRE-ORDER PLANET OF THE APES FIGURES EARLY!
On a planet where apes talk and walk like men, and men are primitive animals, Taylor, an astronaut from Earth, is captured by gorilla soldiers when he crash lands his spacecraft. He is imprisoned and left in the care of two chimps, Cornelius and Zira. It's soon discovered that Taylor, unlike the other humans, can talk. Taylor is brought before Dr. Zaius, an orangutan, who fears the talking human could bring the downfall of the ape civilization, on the Planet of the Apes! Now you can pre-order the first 5 characters from our 'Planet of the Apes' line-up! Available are 1/4 Scale figures of Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius and Roddy McDowall as Cornelius; a polystone reproduction of The Lawgiver; and 12" figures of Charlton Heston as Colonel George Taylor, Kim Hunter as Zira, Linda Harrison as Nova, Dr. Zaius, and Cornelius.
Planet URL: https://www.sideshowtoy.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=apes_12
I still lament to this day that Sideshow cancelled those Ape PFs.