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Laine

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I got the Chronicles of Narnia for Christmas, I was so excited!

I adored it when I was younger.

Anyway, it doesn't help that the picture quality on the DVDs is terrible, but time has not been kind to one of my favourite TV shows.

I've only watched half of Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, I'm hoping the effects are better in the later series.

Mr Tumnus' hairy bits look like they are stuck on cotton wool!

Ah, I still love it though. One of my favourite series of books.

I'd love to see Prince Valiant again. Great show.

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I got the Chronicles of Narnia for Christmas, I was so excited!

I adored it when I was younger.

Anyway, it doesn't help that the picture quality on the DVDs is terrible, but time has not been kind to one of my favourite TV shows.

I've only watched half of Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, I'm hoping the effects are better in the later series.

Mr Tumnus' hairy bits look like they are stuck on cotton wool!

Ah, I still love it though. One of my favourite series of books.

I'd love to see Prince Valiant again. Great show.

A mate of mine bought this and lent it me. Watched 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' and 'Prince Caspian.' I couldn't bring myself to sit through the others. I loved them when I was younger, but, as you said, time has not been kind.

It didn't help that Lucy's teeth looked like they were going to attack every time she opened her mouth.

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Davros sock drawer

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If you have Magic Telly, Ulysses 31 and Jayce are on every day on Fox Kids at about 10.30pm.

I keep missing them :(

I loved Trapdoor too. When I was 9 or 10, most of my time was spent making (surprisingly accurate) plasticine models from the series. Why oh why didn't I stick to my childhood dream of being an animator? Sigh...

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trapdoor's definitely up there, as are dungeons & dragons, battle of the planets and the adventure game. quality programmes.

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trapdoor's definitely up there, as are dungeons & dragons, battle of the planets and the adventure game. quality programmes.

The Adventure Game was class just for shouting at some guy on the TV while he was trying to dodge landing on the same area as the Vortex, "no, left you stupid bastard".

The Muppets is still my favourite from all those years ago, you just can't top sarcastic puppets ripping the pish out of some of the biggest names if the day.

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Shoes

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I downloaded the Thundercats movie a few months ago. It isn't as good as I remember it, but it's not bad. The dubbing is shite, mind. Especially that mong Panthro.

Certainly not as good as the Transformers movie, which is still utterly fantastic. Unicron's theme makes me feel all sexy.

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Space Renegade Ulala

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Transformers anyone. Sure the animation is crappy these days, but which of these shows isn't like that? It's still pretty damn cool and the movie remains one of my favourite films of all time.

If you try watching it today, the TF cartoon is comedy gold in its rubbishness:

(this are paraphrased but the jist of it is correct)

Wheeljack shoots Megatron in the stomach - he doubles over with pain and drops to his knees for a moment.

Starscream: Megatron has fallen! I, Starscream, am now your leader!

Er, right. No doubt he'd try it on as well if Megs bumped into a table and fell over.

Prime: CAREFUL! This meteorite is full of unstable energy and may explode at any moment!

Prime takes aim with his gun and shoots a piece off it.

Yes, that makes sense.

Hound: I've got an idea - we'll set a trap for them.

The trap involves the Autobots wearing lab coats to disguise the fact they're GIANT FRICKIN' ROBOTS.

And, best of all:

Grimlock refuses to let the Dinobots help the Autobots. Wheeljack turns to Grimlock and says:

Wheeljack: We really need your help! Why won't you help us?

Grimlock ponders.

Grimlock: Me not know why. So we will help you!

Still, the movie was and is godlike. All that top quality 'music', all that death and destruction, all those broken-hearted kids streaming out of the cinema at seeing most of their favs brutally killed in order introduce a new toyline, er, cast. Ace stuff.

It's a definite toss up between Ulysses and Defenders of the Earth for best theme tune. Chorlton and the Wheelies was possibly the most demented, drug addled nonsense of all - a terrifying Welsh witch surrounded by toadstools who lived in a kettle and terrorised a village of weirdos with wheels instead of legs, and with a friendly Yorkshire dragon as her nemesis. Oh, and I loved Trap Door, it was just so...odd.

Dogtanian can go fuck himself, mind.

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jonny_rat

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I sense a Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors revival in the future. B)

The opening theme is ace.

I swear, I need to get round to recording my acoustic cover of this.

Thundering across the stars,

To save the universe from the Monster Minds,

Jayce searches for his father,

To unite the magic Root and lead his Lightning League to victory

Over the changing form of Saw Boss!

Wheeled Warriors explode into battle!

Lightning Strikes!

There's a power that comes from deep inside of you,

'Cause every day you're reaching toward the light!

And you know there's a long long way ahead of you,

But when your wheels get you there,

Things will turn out right!

Just keep 'em turning, don't stop 'em rolling,

The fire is on -- Wheeled Warriors!

Battle drums burning, wheels moving!

Wheeled Warriors!

Wheeled Warriors!

Cause we can just keep 'em turning, don't stop 'em rolling,

The fire is on -- Wheeled Warriors!

Battle drums burning, wheels moving!

Wheeled Warriors!

Wheeled Warriors!

Drivin' down on the highway,

And my wheels are spinnin' fast!

I've been driving now for a long long time,

And soon I will be there!

Keep on rollin'!

Keep on rollin'!

There's no turning back, we're goin' all the way!

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Liquid Myth

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I doubt that anybody has ever even heard of it, let alone seen it, but does anybody remember a cartoon that used to be shown about 8-10 years ago before the Big Breakfast, about a bunch of crime-fighting T-Rexes? There was about 4 of them, and I distinctly remember them shooting through the ground each and every episode only to destroy a newspaper stand every time.

I can't remember anything else about it, but I can't be the only one who saw it. Anybody know what I'm yammering about?

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I doubt that anybody has ever even heard of it, let alone seen it, but does anybody remember a cartoon that used to be shown about 8-10 years ago before the Big Breakfast, about a bunch of crime-fighting T-Rexes? There was about 4 of them, and I distinctly remember them shooting through the ground each and every episode only to destroy a newspaper stand every time.

I can't remember anything else about it, but I can't be the only one who saw it. Anybody know what I'm yammering about?

I do have vague memories of this. It also reminds me of Dino Riders which I liked at the time.

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Jolly

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"good idea: feeding stray kittens in the park

bad idea: feeding stray kittens in the park....to a bear"

Good Idea: Playing catch with your grandad.

Bad Idea: Playing catch with your grandad.

Animaniacs was fucking class.

As was Thundercats, although watching it these days I find myself laughing at it's rather heavy handling of morals. For example, Tigro looking right down the camera and saying...

"Rules are only rules when everyone agrees to abide by them...Otherwise they're just words!"

I'm shocked not to see Knightmare mentioned yet. I saw it on Challenge TV a couple of months back. Looked a bit basic to say the least, but it used to make my weekends.

"Side step to your left...Two steps forward...No! No! Stop! Right, reach out and put the pie in your napsack. O.k...Spellcasting! F..I..R..E..B..A..L..L!"

And who could forget the drama school dropouts, dreaming of doing Shakespeare at the Globe, but reduced to prancing around dressed as jesters...

"The key ye seek is in the lake, but the lake you seek is in the key!"

Tell you what else made my weekends...Fun House. Good God CITV had some quality Friday afternoons.

(Incidently, Pat Sharp is to appear in the next series of The Games. Aces.)

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I do have vague memories of this. It also reminds me of Dino Riders which I liked at the time.

I have a dino riders video. It's...cheesey but there is something good about it. Was it a whole TV series? I only seem to have the pilot, or something. Also there seem to be no sound effects at all. No laser blasts, no dino roars, nothing, nadda, zip, El Zilcho. Strange.

I also have fond memories of Bravestar. Class film.

TTFN

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DarhkFox

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I remember an episode of animaniacs that took the piss out of friends. It was dead funny.

I also loved Chicken Boo. They all thought he was human, until some stupid little thing gave it away that he was infact, a chicken.

I feel like downloading a bunch of episodes of newsgroups now. heh

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Jolly

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I also loved Chicken Boo. They all thought he was human, until some stupid little thing gave it away that he was infact, a chicken.

I'd forgotten about that.

Excellence.

"You're not a man, you're a chicken Boo!"

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Jolly

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My gf denies there ever even existed a program called Galaxy High. Fool

I seem to remeber that there was pratically an identical show called Transylvania High.

You'll never guess what the twist was.

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