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Crazy Childhood Memories
Aug. 13th, 2008 11:15 pmSo I found out tonight that Trav has never seen most of the HOMG AWESOME movies that I grew up watching as a kid.
I mean, I knew he hadn't seen The Princess Bride a couple years back, but we rectified that one almost immediately.
But he hasn't seen Willow, or Watership Down, or The Secret of NIMH or The Last Unicorn, and a whole other list of stuff. *cracks knuckles* So now I've got a fantasy-and-animated -movies-of-the-80s-and-previous-years marathon to get started on.
Any suggestions for the list? I've got a bunch down, but I want to make sure I don't forget any!
In related news, you can get a signed (by the author of the novel) 25-anniversary edition of The Last Unicorn for 25 bucks, with over half the money of the sales going to him. Apparently he's had problems getting royalty payments - the folks at Granada, who own the animated rights, pretty much decided to ignore the contract he had with the original studio (since bought out by Grenada). Conlan Press, his publisher, is offering the DVD through their website to try and rectify a bit of that damage.
Alas, I am poor, so I am merely going for the 15-buck unsigned edition.
In less-related news, a couple of times in the past year I've been reminded about a fantasy show I remember watching when I was... shit, I dunno. Between 4 and 8, so likely sometime in the early nineties. It aired on YTV and had puppets in it, and it was not Groundling Marsh (I also remember watching that one, but it came later).
The big part of why I remember it is because it was kinda dark in tone. Very early on in the show, someone - a prince, if I remember at all correctly, but someone important, anyway - was killed. By stabbing, I think. This served quite a lot of purpose in moving the plot along.
So, we have darkish fantasy puppet-oriented TV show that was somewhat aimed at kids and had a kind of brutal murder onscreen in the first few episodes.
I can't for the life of me remember its name, and all of my searches into shows aired previously on YTV, or shows with puppets, or anything of the sort has led me absolutely nowhere.
Either I'm imagining things, crazy (which is probably true, but for different reasons), or the show exists and no one remembers but me.
I'd really like some confirmation of its existence, if only to find out a little more about the plot and such again; I only saw two or three episodes of it whenever it aired, and I remember it being interesting, but the details (except for the aforementioned murder) have all fled from my mind.
Help?
I mean, I knew he hadn't seen The Princess Bride a couple years back, but we rectified that one almost immediately.
But he hasn't seen Willow, or Watership Down, or The Secret of NIMH or The Last Unicorn, and a whole other list of stuff. *cracks knuckles* So now I've got a fantasy-and-animated -movies-of-the-80s-and-previous-years marathon to get started on.
Any suggestions for the list? I've got a bunch down, but I want to make sure I don't forget any!
In related news, you can get a signed (by the author of the novel) 25-anniversary edition of The Last Unicorn for 25 bucks, with over half the money of the sales going to him. Apparently he's had problems getting royalty payments - the folks at Granada, who own the animated rights, pretty much decided to ignore the contract he had with the original studio (since bought out by Grenada). Conlan Press, his publisher, is offering the DVD through their website to try and rectify a bit of that damage.
Alas, I am poor, so I am merely going for the 15-buck unsigned edition.
In less-related news, a couple of times in the past year I've been reminded about a fantasy show I remember watching when I was... shit, I dunno. Between 4 and 8, so likely sometime in the early nineties. It aired on YTV and had puppets in it, and it was not Groundling Marsh (I also remember watching that one, but it came later).
The big part of why I remember it is because it was kinda dark in tone. Very early on in the show, someone - a prince, if I remember at all correctly, but someone important, anyway - was killed. By stabbing, I think. This served quite a lot of purpose in moving the plot along.
So, we have darkish fantasy puppet-oriented TV show that was somewhat aimed at kids and had a kind of brutal murder onscreen in the first few episodes.
I can't for the life of me remember its name, and all of my searches into shows aired previously on YTV, or shows with puppets, or anything of the sort has led me absolutely nowhere.
Either I'm imagining things, crazy (which is probably true, but for different reasons), or the show exists and no one remembers but me.
I'd really like some confirmation of its existence, if only to find out a little more about the plot and such again; I only saw two or three episodes of it whenever it aired, and I remember it being interesting, but the details (except for the aforementioned murder) have all fled from my mind.
Help?
