Childhood toys

[Rulez]

As kids, I think we owned Scoop and Dizzy, though Lofty was my favourite of the bunch.

Whoa what the fuck? Here they were literally named after what they are, hahahah.

[Master]

I was reading the Wikipedia article, and apparently, Muck was female in America, odd.

[Rulez]

I was reading the Wikipedia article, and apparently, Muck was female in America, odd.

Yeah, fuck my childhood.

[Bzzit]

Thomas the Tank Engine master race, I used to be scared of that bee that stung James on the nose and also that one episode about a little train that never made it across a bridge and fell to its death and haunted it or some shit, was spooky as hell. Used to collect the toys too. I remember when Bob the Builder first aired on BBC, it was cool, everyone used to sing the theme song in primary. Also Spud was a bad-ass.

[Master]

And then there was Cbeebies, The Teletubbies, The Tweenies, and The Bear in the Big Blue House, amongst others.
Hm, the fact that I watched some of those makes me cringe.

[Bzzit]

Haha I used to watch them all too, Postman Pat, Tots Tv, Fireman Sam and play days were classic. When I was flicking through channels a couple of years ago a new episode of fireman sam was on and it was all vile CGI shit, the charm from the original was lost

[Adsolution]

Postman Pat

it was all vile CGI shit, the charm from the original was lost

I hate it when they do this. My Friends Tigger and Pooh was also like this, and it looked awful:



It's not even good CGI, it just looks strange and alien.

[Haruka]

Oh the CGI. It seems to have become a fashion in these last years for cartoon shows. You almost see everything in CGI now. I remember to have done zapping in my TV a few weeks ago, and I caught up a strange cartoon show completely done in 3D, but the rendering, the textures and the animations were so artificial that I changed channel immediately. It was awful.

[stan423321]

Well, the problem with the CGI is that cheap CGI is way cheaper than cheap traditional animation, but due to some weird scientific effect the name of which I can't remember right now cheapness in CGI is way more visible precisely because CGI is closer to reality.

To be honest, "flash-made" cartoons on TV annoy me far much more than cheap CGI in most cases, and I have no idea why. I guess that most cheap CGI shows I used to step upon used medium-fitting locations and so on; cheap CGI showing alien planets is quite better than cheap CGI showing cities and forests, right?

[Adsolution]

Well, the problem with the CGI is that cheap CGI is way cheaper than cheap traditional animation, but due to some weird scientific effect the name of which I can't remember right now cheapness in CGI is way more visible precisely because CGI is closer to reality.

The uncanny valley?

[Haruka]

Well, the problem with the CGI is that cheap CGI is way cheaper than cheap traditional animation, but due to some weird scientific effect the name of which I can't remember right now cheapness in CGI is way more visible precisely because CGI is closer to reality.

I know that, but it is probably what it makes it feel so artificial. The flash ones seem to be in fashion too, but I guess it is normal with the evolution of technology.

[Shrooblord]

To be honest, "flash-made" cartoons on TV annoy me far much more than cheap CGI in most cases, and I have no idea why. I guess that most cheap CGI shows I used to step upon used medium-fitting locations and so on; cheap CGI showing alien planets is quite better than cheap CGI showing cities and forests, right?

Exactly. For some reason I despised most Flash-made cartoons initially, because I'd before fallen in love with the humour of hand-drawn (or seemingly hand-drawn) cartoons like Spongebob. The images they sometimes put in there are pure brilliance... However, after watching some episodes, I usually liked the cartoon anyway, but never as much as other ones, simply because I got the feeling that I myself could've made them too - and done them better! (I don't mean to sound so arrogant, but you probably know what I'm getting at here.)
Good CGI, in my opinion, are things like Jimmy Neutron, when the CGI thing was still in its infancy and they just made due with what they had - you could usually obviously spot its fakeness, but the level of detail was such that that didn't matter at all. It wasn't CGI because it was cheap, but because it was a cool thing to do. I miss the artform in most cartoons nowadays...

Good flash-ish animations for me were The X's, El Tigre and Fairly Odd Parents - and there was this one cartoon about a young Canadian boy with an old man who was also a spy as a neighbour. I wish I knew what that show was called - I loved it.

PS
As a side note, I just watched the intro to the English version of the X's and for maybe one of the first times in my life, I'm more happy with the Dutch voice cast of at least the House in that series than with the English one. Usually I like the original version way better, but I guess this was a real good dub job.

[Master]

Bumping a thread with potential.

I'm trying to find a charger for the batteries to a Robosapien V2 I own, I'm in the mood to record some of the things he can do.

[BzzitTheMoskito]

Also I remember always playing with these LEGO Trains and racetracks.

[Master]

Oh yeah, I had a Lego ferrari set when I was younger, pity the imbeciles we often had for guests destroyed it. Bloody idiots.

[Haruka]

Bumping a thread with potential.

I'm trying to find a charger for the batteries to a Robosapien V2 I own, I'm in the mood to record some of the things he can do.

Oh cool, I would like to see that later.

I remember being envious as a kid to see others with a Roboraptor. A robot dinosaur.

[Master]

My brother wanted one of those, but him being him meant he was incredibly indecisive, and he always got other things that never would have lasted as long.
As for me, that Robosapien I owned was a gift for my exams in Year 6, I've owned it for around 6 years now.

For OCG, and anyone who missed it, here's the photos of what I currently own:

Bumping again, I decided I wanted to share my own collection:

[Bradandez]

Cool collection there, Master.

My childhood toys consisted of only Toy Story toys. I had a box full of them.

[Master]

Thanks, Brad.
I've also located my old Laser Screwdriver, its trigger is broken, mind you, so I'm trying to fix it.

[OCG]

For OCG, and anyone who missed it, here's the photos of what I currently own:

Bumping again, I decided I wanted to share my own collection:

I cannot believe it I missed it. Nice collection Master. For my Toys, I was a collector of those figures from "Kinder Surprise" (emshomar knows what it is I am sure ) I have a lot of them and they can still be found in some boxes of mine. I also was a Lego fan (mostly Bionicle) and fan of Digimon figures which I already shared pictures of before . I'll probably share Bionicle collection soon as well.