Mash Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Perusing t'internet for something to spend some Crimble money on I stumbled across this long-awaited remastered collectors box set of The Mysterious Cities of Gold - all 39 episodes Hurrah! Ok so it's pricey at around 40 quid but the reviews are excellent and I definitely want to see it again. Just got to justify it to myself now! For those of you who had your childhood in the halcyon days of the 1980s like me, you either remember the series as the best thing on telly evah at the time or just can't recall it at all. My friends tend to fall into one or the other group! So, not car related but a bit of fun. I now predict a thread full of reminisences of Battle of The Planets, He-Man, Thundercats, Willy Fog, Ulysses 31, Jamie and the Magic Torch and the chap in my avatar; Chorlton and The Wheelies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukestar25 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Mash wrote:So, not car related but a bit of fun. I now predict a thread full of reminisences of Battle of The Planets, He-Man, Thundercats, Willy Fog, Ulysses 31, Jamie and the Magic Torch and the chap in my avatar; Chorlton and The Wheelies.I used to watch all of these, Cities of Gold, Willy Fog and Ulysses being my favourites. Did you ever watch Dungeons and Dragons which was around at the same time?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitevanman Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Sadly I'm a child of the 60's and 70's............ so didn't get much kids TVbut I loved Chorlton and the wheelies, Ulysses 31 I do however remember a cartoon called Gigantor in the 60's about a robot controled by a kid with a box with two joysticks on it................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandamonium Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 HAIRY JEREMY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Cities of Gold and Ulysses both seemed to go on F-O-R-E-V-E-R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betaphile Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 http://dardel.info/tintin/index.html Shite-tastic. Herge had a keen eye for detail and realism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reallyloud Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Shite-tastic. Herge had a keen eye for detail and realism.I used to (and still do) love the attention to detail Herge drew in his books, I was usually attracted to the artwork of comics and the plot came second. I recall some scalextrics comics, using stories based on the then current range and roy of the rovers usually had a jag or 2 in it. I also had a quite a few of those Peter and Jane ladybird books, with some very realistic drawings of cars of the period in them. I guess these things were instrumental in my love of drawing cars today.I too watched an unhealthy volume of kids TVshite in the 70's and 80's, again I would be attracted to ones with vehicle content - trumpton and those tufty adverts used to particularly interest me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I'm a bit younger than most here, so my tastes in older cartoons tend to based on what had more enduring appeal (and thus was shown more often). Mysterious Cities of Gold was still on when I was a kid though, memorable themetune, ohhhhh-ohh-ohhhh-ohhhh-ohhh etc.For my era decent cartoons tended to be stuff like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Galaxy High School, Inspector Gadget, Fish Police, Capitol Critters, that sort of stuff, but mixed in with a lot of the more well-loved older things like Wacky Races, Scooby Doo, Tom and Jerry, etc.To be honest I quite enjoyed all the B-grade toss as well - Police Academy (the animated series), Rude Dog and the Dweebs and the bankruptcy-related adventures of Hammerman. I got my own VCR sometime in the early 90s and taped absolutely loads of stuff from then on, there's probably all sorts of rubbish I've saved that isn't available on DVD (for reasons like it not being very good). Should dig out my tapes sometime, I've definitely got a few episodes of Rude Dog hoarded away somewhere for Bollox to slam his eyeballs against.Edit: Come to think of it Bollox, wouldn't you be about 16 or something when Rude Dog started to be shown? Nice to see I wasn't the only one who watched dreadful cartoons by the time I was far too old to. Gotta catch 'em all! etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Mysterious Cities never really caught my attention, however thats not to say it wasnt any good.I preferred Dungeons and Dragons, and Thundercats latterly.Also liked some shiter stuff like Bravestarr (strength of the BEARRR! etc etc) and Defenders of the Earth (catchy theme tune).Clips of them will probably be on some dusty corner of You Tube somewhere or another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Or how about that Supermarionation wild card - Star Fleet? I have the lot on ropey VCD somewhere.Cities of gold was good, but like Ulesseys went on and on and on and on... Someday we will find the shittys of gold, woah oh woahh a wahh..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWPowered Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 ahh days of old... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reallyloud Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Bravestar is news to me, but looks wrong. Very wrong. Because:1. It has a pony.2. I don't like the look of that blokes hat.Enough even for a young Datsuncherry to have avoided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWPowered Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 his horse was hard as nails..fired guns/rockets etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 If it's wrong you're after... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SniqngdvpQE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmann Ghiaman Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 http://dardel.info/tintin/index.html Shite-tastic. Herge had a keen eye for detail and realism.Herge didn't. His Studio artists were the ones who had them! But you're right that Tintin is brillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllyant (specially when he goes to Britain around 1960 in the Black Island and every car, caravan, train & bus is Made In Blighty...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmann Ghiaman Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Another good French one... http://bdlire86.free.fr/cariboost1/crbst_77.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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