After watching "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" I learned the origin of Santa Claus/Kris Kringle. What can I watch to learn the origin of the Easter Bunny? Are there any styrene models of that bunny?

Somebunny must know!!!

What can I watch to learn the origin of the Easter Bunny? Are there any styrene models of that bunny?

HAWK released a model of the Easter Bunny in 1964 designed by Big Daddy Roth. It sold poorly and has become quite the collector's item.

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HAWK released a model of the Easter Bunny in 1964 designed by Big Daddy Roth. It sold poorly and has become quite the collector's item.

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EEEEEEeeeeeewwwwwwww!

Is that from the little-known sequel Night of the Lepus II: Demon Bunnies from Hell?

After watching "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" I learned the origin of Santa Claus/Kris Kringle. What can I watch to learn the origin of the Easter Bunny? Are there any styrene models of that bunny?

"Here Comes Peter Cottontail", narrated by Danny Kaye with Casey Kasem as Peter and Vincent Price as Irontail... :thumbsup:

Pictured is the Donnie Darko "Frank the Bunny" Figure
Looks like the 12" articulated, talking version.

HAWK released a model of the Easter Bunny in 1964 designed by Big Daddy Roth. It sold poorly and has become quite the collector's item.

http://static.flickr.com/45/158492728_15197a6d6a.jpg

HAWK released a model of the Easter Bunny in 1964 designed by Big Daddy Roth. It sold poorly and has become quite the collector's item.

http://static.flickr.com/45/158492728_15197a6d6a.jpg

And Ithought Killer Bunnies was just a game....

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The Easter Bunny was introduced to America by the German settlers who arrived in the Pennsylvania Dutch country during the 1700s. The arrival of the "O_ster Haws_e" (a phonetic transcription of a dialectal pronunciation of the German Osterhase) was considered one of "childhood's greatest pleasures," similar to the arrival of Kriist Kindle (from the German Christkindl) on Christmas Eve

The name "Peter Cottontail" comes from a series of books by Thornton W. Burgess, who co-wrote the special, although it is not based directly on the books. It is a story on how Peter Cottontail became the Easter Bunny.

Eggs, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of extreme antiquity. Since birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth to large litters in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox

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Personally, I find this bunny much more appealing.

(Sorry -- you know I can never resist the obvious.)

BTW, in case anyone doesn't recognize her, that's 1970s supermodel Lauren Hutton.

And here's Deborah Harry in her Bunny days. Do they even have Playboy Clubs anymore?

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Even Gloria Steinem did a stint as a bunny...

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