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Post by sesley on Oct 1, 2008 17:52:06 GMT
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Post by Patrick on Oct 2, 2008 0:05:17 GMT
At least they hadn't mucked around with them at that point. I knew one thing though - I could never stand the "Little Misses" I ask you! PC rubbish in the Eighties! Although they were written by Hargreaves - I thought the TV prog was a little trashy. Hence the sudden downturn in quality! Just reading through the list of Mr Men on Wiki. There is some horrendous stereotyping going on here! The modern mucking about with the Mr Men is beyond belief - take this for example: Catch phrases? Regional stereotypes? They really are takng the piss! Here were a set of nice simple stories and now they've just been torn apart by the "with it" brigade! It's like sticking Upvc windows in a castle!
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Post by trubble on Oct 2, 2008 7:50:03 GMT
It's like the Wombles. It never crossed my mind as a child that the wombles were any colour at all, they were just wombles. I know Uncle Bulgaria had a Scottish accent fetish thang going on but I thought he was just a womble that had been educated in Scotland. And the french one was just...french! When they started to introduce black wombles it suddenly made all the other ones white and I refused to watch it on principle. Mind you, I was about 30 or something at the time so I suppose I shouldn't have been watching it anyway.
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Post by Patrick on Oct 2, 2008 13:43:22 GMT
Oh yes! I'd forgotten that one! Suffice to say I won't repost the picture of the first LP I was ever given........ The "Foreign" Wombles were mentioned in the books - Cousin Yellowstone, Snan-si Womble, etc. Wombles are Wombles though and have no need for such stereotyping! .......and it's nothing without Bernard Cribbens! - Though Apparently he didn't want to do it this time around.
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Post by Patrick on Oct 2, 2008 13:46:26 GMT
Mind you, I was about 30 or something at the time so I suppose I shouldn't have been watching it anyway. Do not be afraid! You're amongst friends! We can help you with your addiction - OK - My turn. My name is Patrick, I'm 39 and these are some of my videos: These don't include the box DVD set of the original Moomins series or the the original Mr Men or The Camberwick Green Video! I'd also like to point ou that the "New" Magic Roundabout Video" was a present by someone who doesn't appreciate my sensitivities about originality.
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Post by motorist on Oct 2, 2008 14:24:50 GMT
I have the boxed sets of Ulysses 31 and the Dungeons and Dragons cartoons
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Post by trubble on Oct 2, 2008 14:46:26 GMT
.......and it's nothing without Bernard Cribbens! - Though Apparently he didn't want to do it this time around. Good for him, man of principles and so on... I'm a gonna keep postin it till you fix it, ya know. ;D *A little mix up between the left and the right hand methinks!
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Post by trubble on Oct 2, 2008 14:47:44 GMT
Do not be afraid! You're amongst friends! We can help you with your addiction - OK - My turn. My name is Patrick, I'm 39 and these are some of my videos: ... I'd also like to point ou that the "New" Magic Roundabout Video" was a present by someone who doesn't appreciate my sensitivities about originality. Ok, thanks. It's such a relief to be able to talk about this.
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Post by trubble on Oct 2, 2008 14:49:38 GMT
My name is Trubble. I'm 38. And I have the exact same edition of the Bagpuss video as Patrick does. I also have a Bagpuss Computer Screen Cleaner.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 2, 2008 17:35:00 GMT
The Man. ;D
AH
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Post by sesley on Oct 2, 2008 19:53:06 GMT
my ASD boy loves Thomas ,The tank engine, they have ruined the new ones by first selling it to America and then using CGI,the whole point about the original series was the trains were a model train set
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Post by Patrick on Oct 2, 2008 21:51:45 GMT
Mr Mean's looking a bit pale in that copy! Then again - The old laptop isn't too healthy at the moment! With Thomas the Tank I can remember when the Telephone was still a public service, and if you dialled "1 6" early in the evening you could get a bedtime story - and quite often it was Johnny Morris reading a Thomas Story. Tell you what? His "Troublesome Trucks" beat Ringo Starr's or Michael Angelis version into a cocked hat! (but I think I've said that before....................)
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Post by trubble on Oct 2, 2008 22:07:06 GMT
When Mini-T was small, a local pirate radio station used to play a Mr Man story read by Arthur Lowe just at bath time. It was a real pleasure to share that with her, it was fun for her, but I'm pretty sure it was played for the benefit of skanged out students getting stoned.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 3, 2008 19:50:27 GMT
Mr Mean is the first Mr Men novel I ever read...literary dynamite. AH
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Post by motorist on Oct 4, 2008 8:30:57 GMT
Mr Mean is the first Mr Men novel I ever read...literary dynamite. AH I wish you'd stop posting things like that. You're making me think you ARE me! Which one of us is Mr Hyde is open to debate though
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 4, 2008 9:48:58 GMT
And I wish that YOU would stop posting things like THAT! I am confused enough without the added burden of wondering if I am in fact somebody else and not me, or possibly somebody else AND me! It's enough to push a man to the brink of insanity and beyond...or a sustained binge at least! ;D AH
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Post by Patrick on Oct 4, 2008 12:50:49 GMT
Now, now, stop these psychological mind games you two - or the Candy Man will get you!. It goes to show that something can lose value if too many are produced - or promoted too heavily. I was just looking at the ebay ad at the top that connected to sets of Mr Men Books for sale - there are 26 available for £10.50! Compare that with books for sale by this author which were only published in short bursts about three times in the last thirty years; .......and if you look at Abebooks - or via the second hand sales on Amazon you could pay up to £120 for just one! From a second hand bookseller!
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Post by motorist on Oct 4, 2008 13:09:05 GMT
Now, now, stop these psychological mind games you two - or the Candy Man will get you!. Pah! I once said "candyman" three times in front of a mirror, and was most disappointed that no hellborn black feller with a hook turned up
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Post by trubble on Oct 5, 2008 14:41:57 GMT
...yet... He might be there, just biding his time..
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