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Post by zisssou on Feb 28, 2024 11:26:45 GMT
Does anyone remember Time Busters? This was one that was stuck in my head for years, that I found out what it was recently. Apparently made by the same producers of Knightmare.
Also Gophers! Anything that had puppets, or people in animal costumes.. I was in!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2024 11:27:40 GMT
Sorry for the thread bumps! Here's my addition, I had Battleships as a electronic game:-  The screen in the middle would launch and then declare of it was a hit or miss. Watching the recent Squid Game series with real people and no deaths reminded me of this when they were playing it and standing on the boats awaiting their fate. Had that exact set. My dad got a modernised version where you could launch a fighter bomber round the board on a rail by gravity that is really quite cool, but he’s lost it! |
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Post by Dougs on Feb 28, 2024 11:52:25 GMT
The Argos catalogue is only about the size of a magazine these days but at my son’s school they’d been using them to cut up and make collages (he’s in reception). A few weeks before Christmas when I picked him up his bookbag seemed really full so I assumed it was another toilet roll and yoghurt pot model construction. When we got home and opened it up it turned out that during collage time he’d been tearing out and hiding the toy pages in his drawer and this was him bringing back all the pictures he wanted to show Santa. There were hundreds of them all torn, cut and scrumpled up together. He was very excited to show us and tell us about the toys too. Love this! |
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Post by simple on Feb 28, 2024 13:54:25 GMT
He referred to them as his “papers” like he’s some kind of infant diplomat too
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 28, 2024 13:57:03 GMT
He referred to them as his “papers” like he’s some kind of infant diplomat too Has he also said "Diplomatic immunity!" at any point? |
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Post by simple on Feb 28, 2024 14:36:10 GMT
I should teach him that as a response to any future time outs he gets at school
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Post by wunty on Feb 28, 2024 14:48:10 GMT
Ring Raiders, I loved those things. Fighter planes on transparent plastic sticks that attached to a ring you wore on your fingers to fly them through the air. I thought "9 pages and no Ring Raiders jokes yet ?", so I guess everyone missed your comment, used to get my aunt to buy them in Poundstrechers every weekend.  And that got me thinking about the other military toys I had, little diecast tanks hiding in/on bigger crazy vehicles. It's taken me 20mins to narrow down google, but Kenner MegaForce was Command and Conquer levels of wtf before it was a thing.  I was just about to ask if we'd done MegaForce yet. That shit was brilliant. I actually found this guy buried in my mum and dads garden (they've not moved since they moved in when I was 6 months so god knows what other toys are still out there). I have him on my desk beside my Battlebeasts now.  |
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Post by jono62 on Feb 28, 2024 14:50:11 GMT
I should teach him that as a response to any future time outs he gets at school Don't, he'll use it at home. 'Who broke the TV?!!' 'I won't answer, I have diplodocus community'. |
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Post by cubby on Feb 28, 2024 14:55:28 GMT
I thought "9 pages and no Ring Raiders jokes yet ?", so I guess everyone missed your comment, used to get my aunt to buy them in Poundstrechers every weekend. And that got me thinking about the other military toys I had, little diecast tanks hiding in/on bigger crazy vehicles. It's taken me 20mins to narrow down google, but Kenner MegaForce was Command and Conquer levels of wtf before it was a thing. I was just about to ask if we'd done MegaForce yet. That shit was brilliant. I actually found this guy buried in my mum and dads garden (they've not moved since they moved in when I was 6 months so god knows what other toys are still out there). I have him on my desk beside my Battlebeasts now. Had that too! Iirc that shot quite far! |
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Post by wunty on Feb 28, 2024 15:06:02 GMT
It was lethal. Could take your bloody eye out.
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Post by cubby on Feb 28, 2024 15:10:18 GMT
The spring was inside the rocket itself, so it could generate more momentum, why didn't they do that more often? Honestly the quality of those mega force toys was insanely high.
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Post by wunty on Feb 28, 2024 15:12:00 GMT
It really was. The fact that the thing lay buried for nigh on 30 years and still not only (a) looks good but (b) works is crazy.
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Post by retro74 on Feb 28, 2024 15:44:26 GMT
Does anyone else the creepy MFer called Noseybonk on Jigsaw?
How was that allowed on kid’s TV?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2024 15:53:06 GMT
Ren & Stimpy, Rockos Modern Life and Cow & Chicken were some of the weirder kids shows. Watched some with my daughter recently and she enjoyed the.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 28, 2024 16:11:00 GMT
It brings into focus when you find out the main writer on Ren and Stimpy was a groomer.
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Post by cubby on Feb 28, 2024 17:05:25 GMT
I remember regularly being physically grossed out by Ren & Stimpy, even then I was asking the question "why is this on so early?" I've seen adult gross-out animation that's way tamer than some of the shit they pulled on that show.
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Post by simple on Feb 28, 2024 17:24:27 GMT
Didn’t the original guy try to do an adult revival of the show in the noughties that was shit and full of gratuitous boobs and made everyone realise Nickelodeon were right to take the show away from him in the 90s?
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Post by rawshark on Feb 28, 2024 21:18:56 GMT
I never saw it, but that sounds accurate.
Those early NickToon days were a real purple patch in the early nineties. Having Ren & Stimpy, Rocko’s Modern Life and Rugrats (before it got shit) was a real reason to lord having satellite tv over your mates. I had a soft spot for Aargh! Real Monsters, too.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 28, 2024 22:44:53 GMT
I never saw it, but that sounds accurate. Those early NickToon days were a real purple patch in the early nineties. Having Ren & Stimpy, Rocko’s Modern Life and Rugrats (before it got shit) was a real reason to lord having satellite tv over your mates. I had a soft spot for Aargh! Real Monsters, too. Knowing that Rocko was voiced by the guy who played Deputy Garcia in Reno 911 continues to weird me out for some reason.
The Rocko reboot movie from 2019 was surprisingly decent.
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Post by simple on Feb 28, 2024 23:00:11 GMT
Star Trek TNG at 6pm on BBC2 followed by either Ren & Stimpy or Wayne’s World shorts. That was living.
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Post by Syrette on Feb 29, 2024 0:01:06 GMT
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Post by simple on Feb 29, 2024 0:30:31 GMT
Even though it came out much later, on another network, and was a flop, I always think of the Sam & Max tv show as being part of this scene.
Its oddly stilted and slow if you watch it back on youtube now compared to the zip I remember it having at the time.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 29, 2024 0:49:53 GMT
Star Trek TNG at 6pm on BBC2 followed by either Ren & Stimpy or Wayne’s World shorts. That was living. Sometimes it would be Aeon Flux from Liquid TV. |
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Post by simple on Feb 29, 2024 1:01:40 GMT
Was The Tick around that timeslot sometimes too?
I think Stressed Eric was as well, possibly beside DS9.
And you had Sliders on another evening and eventually Buffy on a Thursday and the Simpson before it went to C4. Classic Doctor Who reruns too if I recall correctly, and Space Precinct.
The 6pm slot had some great stuff in it before it became Eggheads for about 20 years. House of Games has turned the tide slightly by being entertaining even if it is just another quiz.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 29, 2024 6:04:32 GMT
BBC2 at 6pm was the best thing ever.
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Post by Garfy on Feb 29, 2024 10:06:33 GMT
Why isn't there a Knightmare VR game? You could sell the helmets to go over your vr headset in the special edition!
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Post by simple on Feb 29, 2024 10:09:53 GMT
There’s some nerds probably still trying to recover from Isy Suttie being in the revival.
Knightmare nostalgia but with Dobbie from Peep Show in it has got to be someone’s ultimate fantasy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2024 11:42:14 GMT
Why isn't there a Knightmare VR game? You could sell the helmets to go over your vr headset in the special edition! When niche meets niche, no money is made! |
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Post by retro74 on Feb 29, 2024 12:36:22 GMT
It still makes me laugh about the odd stuff I watched a youngster, I watched all the stuff like The A-Team, Knight Rider and the Dukes of Hazzard but I also never missed an episode of things like Moonlighting, The Golden Girls and The Love Boat
I even went through a spell of watching every episode of Prisoner Cell Block H - Vinegar Tits was my favourite screw
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Post by simple on Feb 29, 2024 12:48:45 GMT
I was in for any sci-fi that was on. Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica, any Gerry Anderson programme.
And since Knightrider and A-Team just got mentioned can we take a moment to acknowledge the Airwolf theme tune.
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