Tik-Tok of Oz also contained the first map of Oz and its neighboring countries, which proved to be a very popular feature.

The first edition of the novel sold around 14, 300 copies, only a couple hundred more than its predecessor, Tik-Tok of Oz — though in the long run The Scarecrow of Oz would be one of the more popular installments in the Oz series.

An additional inconsistency is introduced with Tik-Tok of Oz: Hank the Mule can not speak until he reaches the Land of Oz, although he lands on the shore of Ev first, where Billina the chicken gained the ability to speak.

A map of Nonestica, first published in Tik-Tok of Oz in 1914.

The first published map of the Land of Oz, from the first edition of Tik-Tok of Oz.

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The notion of using the faithful robot servant in the Oz books to analyze Asimov's principles, and to question the social status of robots, was first proposed in the 1978 essay " Tik-Tok and the Three Laws of Robotics " by Paul A. Abrahm and Stuart Kenter in the academic journal Science Fiction Studies, which Sladek may have read.

A talking Toto, for example, is important in Snow's narrative ; Baum first made Toto speak at the end of Tik-Tok of Oz.

Tik-Tok also appears in most other Oz novels as a notable inhabitant of the Emerald City, most prominently in The Scalawagons of Oz, in which he operates the production of the Scalawagons.

He also worked for years on a musical version of Ozma of Oz, which eventually became The Tik-Tok Man Of Oz.

Prior to that, his last produced play was The Tik-Tok Man of Oz ( based on Ozma of Oz and the basis for Tik-Tok of Oz ), a modest success in Hollywood that producer Oliver Morosco decided did not do well enough to take to Broadway.

In Lyman Frank Baum's children's novel Ozma of Oz, the first-ever introduction of a humanoid-appearance mechanical man that would satisfy the later " humanoid robot " definition occurred in 1907-some fifteen years before the word " robot " was coined-with Tik-Tok, powered with a trio of clockwork movements for his thinking, movement and speech, none of which he could wind up himself.

Ozma, the twenty-seven soldiers of the Royal Army of Oz, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and Tik-Tok all suffer this fate ( Dorothy escapes it only by touching a purple ornament in one of her guesses ).

Aside from Tik-Tok, a princess named Ozma, and a visit to the Nome King's domain, the similarities between the book and the finished play were minimal, allowing Baum to re-adapt the latter as the eighth Oz book, Tik-Tok of Oz, in 1914.

Once on the surface again, Polychrome ascends her rainbow and Ozma uses the magic belt to bring Tik-Tok back to Oz and send Queen Ann, the Army of Oogaboo, Files, and Ozga back to Oogaboo.

In 1913, Baum's long-delayed and heavily-adapted stage version of Ozma of Oz, re-titled The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, was produced in Los Angeles, with moderate success.

Both Ozma of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz describe trees with meat growing on them, so it is possible that no animal was killed for most of the meat eaten in Oz.

This might be because Tik-Tok of Oz was originally a stageplay version of Ozma of Oz.

The Tik-Tok Man of Oz was a stage musical loosely adapted from Ozma of Oz ; and the play was adapted back into a novel called Tik-Tok of Oz ( 1914 ).

Tik-Tok was a main character in the movie Return to Oz, adapted from The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz.

L. Frank Baum's Tik-Tok of Oz ( 1914 ) and The Scarecrow of Oz ( 1915 ) might be deemed novelizations, as they are based on the musical play The Tik-Tok Man of Oz ( 1913 ) and the feature film, His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz ( 1915 ), respectively, which were adaptations of earlier Oz books, Ozma of Oz ( 1907 ) and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1900 ), respectively.

* An underground Nome Kingdom is featured in several of the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, notably the Ozma of Oz ( 1907 ), Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ( 1908 ) and Tik-Tok of Oz ( 1914 ).

His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers ( The Master Key ), wireless telephones ( Tik-Tok of Oz ), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations ( Mary Louise in the Country ), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing ( Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work ).

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the only element of romance lay in the backstory of the Tin Woodman and his love Nimmie Amee, which explains his condition and does not otherwise affect the tale, and that of Gayelette and the enchantment of the Winged Monkeys ; the only other stories with such elements were The Scarecrow of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz, both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them.

Upon reaching Oz, Dorothy and her companions are welcomed by Tik-Tok and Billina the Yellow Hen.

L. Frank Baum revisited this story for the plot of his 1913 musical The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, starring James C. Morton and Fred Woodward.

Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum, published on June 19, 1914.

The book actually has little to do with Tik-Tok and is primarily the quest of the Shaggy Man ( introduced in The Road to Oz ) to rescue his brother, and his resulting conflict with the Nome King.

Tik-Tok tells Dorothy and Billina about the Land of Ev where they are now and the loss of its royal family to the magic of the Nome King.

They meet up with Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter ; and they rescue Tik-Tok from the well where the Nome King had tossed him.

In the second half of the film, Dorothy, Billina, Tik-Tok, and other new friends traveled to the Nome King's mountain, to rescue the Scarecrow from the King's ornament collection, which were emerald green unlike the book ’ s royal purple.

Baum emphasized that the Tin Woodman remains alive, in contrast to the windup mechanical man Tik-Tok Dorothy meets in a later book.

Pursued by Wheelers ( men who have wheels for hands and feet ), Dorothy and Billina hide in a secret room using the key, and meet a clockwork mechanical man named Tik-Tok.

While imprisoned, Dorothy, Billina, and Tik-Tok meet Jack Pumpkinhead, a man made of tree limbs with a pumpkin for a head.

Tik-Tok lets Dorothy in on his plan — if he guesses incorrectly, she can see what ornament he will be transformed into, giving her a clue as to which one the Scarecrow is hidden as.

He was purchased by the king of Ev, Evoldo, who gave him the name Tik-Tok because of the sound he made when wound.

This liberation from tradition, while it makes him a cruel sociopath and nihilist, also provides him with intellectual insight and artistic talent ; thus Tik-Tok is an extreme type of Romantic anti-hero.

Having found the key by the door, they open it and find Tik-Tok, a round copper mechanical man whom they activate by winding up all three of his clockwork motors ( one each for thinking, motion and speech ) with the key like a wind-up toy.

Tik-Tok stops in mid-motion unable to move again until he is wound up with the key.

Once Tik-Tok is wound up, he accompanies Betsy, Hank, the Shaggy Man, Ozga, and Polychrome to their chance encounter with Queen Ann and her army.

The element about Tik-Tok being " The Royal Army of Oz " derives from Tik-Tok of Oz ( 1914 ), in which he is made the Royal Army of Oogaboo, and also makes frequent cries of " Pick me up!

Tik-Tok is unable to wind any of them up himself.

Meanwhile, through an unfortunate series of events involving a winding road and a pair of Quick Sandals, Betsy Bobbin ( introduced in Tik-Tok of Oz ) and her new acquaintance, Carter Green, the Vegetable Man, end up in Rash, and no sooner do they arrive than they're thrown into the crowded prison.

When Number Nine joins Jenny, they find and wind up Tik-Tok, and eventually locate the scalawagons flying over the Deadly Desert and herd them back to Oz.