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[challenge entry] Crap themepark, never bloody open

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(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:49, archived)
# *ahemcompoitifitsforthecompo*
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:50, archived)
# is done
although barely worthy
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:51, archived)
# heheh!
I miss it terribly.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:51, archived)
# It was always interesting
Along with How 2 and that program about inventions that always had the Shindogu stuff. Scottish bint.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:52, archived)
# I preffered The Tomorrow People
*reminiscent fwap*
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:53, archived)
# I think I'm too young for that.
was it good?
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:54, archived)
# at that age the Argos catalog was good
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:55, archived)
# Nobody seems to remember
Children of the Dogstar.

It was ace.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:56, archived)
# ooh
i remember that!
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:56, archived)
# Hurrah!
A partner in Dogstar!
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:58, archived)
# That was an Australian thingy wasn't it?
*possibly has very vague memories*
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:56, archived)
# It was.
It's my most nostalgic show of all time, purely because I was totally captivated by it.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:57, archived)
# there are 2 programs that I remember that nobody else does
1) Betty's Bunch - really shit show from new zealand

2) This animated thing on a sunday morning where there was an old man who had a beard down to the floor, and they flew around space on a pirate ship - and the end theme music was atomic by blondie
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:00, archived)
# I vaguely (very vaguely)
recognise your description of the animation.

I'll have to do some hunting now.

*edit*
Was it Pirates of Dark Water?

Also I've just remembered Ovid...
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:02, archived)
# it was really early in the morning
i usually saw it because I'd fallen asleep with the telly on

edit: it was on before jayce and the wheeled warriors
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:03, archived)
# jayce and the wheeled warriors
now that was an odd cartoon....
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:12, archived)
# I've found the name of the one I have been thinking of for years and years
Once Upon A Time... Space

and there was also:
Once Upon A Time... Man
Once Upon A Time... Life
Once Upon A Time... The Americas
Once Upon A Time... The Discoverers
Once Upon A Time... The Explorers

they were all shit
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:15, archived)
# Just found this:
80scartoons.net/toons/index.html

Might be worth a look through.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:14, archived)
# this is the production company
www.procidis.com/

edit: they have clips that you can watch in the catalogue section
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:18, archived)
# It was ace.
Although I've not seen any since I was a kid so it might be terrible.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:56, archived)
#
youtube.com/watch?v=xez4o1ujOPI

edit: fuck, that intro is hard on the eyes
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:58, archived)
# not safe for work without headphones and eye bleach
www.milkandcookies.com/links/50986/

Made by our very own blackmoon.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:08, archived)
# I always liked Johny Ball reveals all
that was ace
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:53, archived)
# Before my time I should imagine
I'm more Zoe Ball era.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:55, archived)
# Zoe Ball reveals all?
I'd sign up for that
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:01, archived)
# I always thought he'd come on starkers to present that.
Never happened.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:55, archived)
# I liked the old beardy bloke and his gadgets.
What was the Shindogu stuff on now?
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:54, archived)
# I can't remember
I was hoping someone else would.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:54, archived)
# was it "It'll Never Work"?
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:55, archived)
# :O
I think it may have been.


You, sir, are a genius. I owe you twice now, I've been trying to remember that show's name for AGES.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:56, archived)
# yes
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:56, archived)
# Was that the thing
with Sally Grey (I think)?
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:57, archived)
# Scottish bint?
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:59, archived)
# that's her
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:01, archived)
# She looks like Noel Fielding there.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:09, archived)
# Yes! Merci beaucoup.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:57, archived)
# i know the one you mean
really lazy shit kid's show
with a spring in the logo, and lots of diamond plate
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:55, archived)
# Well I liked it.
:P

*ruffles face* Cheer up, Bernard.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:57, archived)
# I too
love old beardy blokes' gadgets.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:54, archived)
# *grows beard*
*buys gadgets*
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:55, archived)
# *lurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrves*
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:56, archived)
# oh my
*polishes spectacles*
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:59, archived)
# i remember that
they had to make boat shoes. and had a japanese bloke that dried his washing on an umbrella
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:56, archived)
# although the last couple of series' managed to fuck it right up
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:52, archived)
# Peter Snow
ruined it.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:53, archived)
# ^This
And then some
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:54, archived)
# Adam Hart Davis didn't help.
The problem was that they got rid of the live tests that always went wrong.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:54, archived)
# Like the CD one?
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:55, archived)
# Remind me...
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:00, archived)
# They were testing the indestructibility of CDs
by smearing them with jam, sanding them, putting them in the washing machine etc.

Needless to say they didn't play.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:10, archived)
# Oh yes!
Clearly one of them had a finger-print on it...
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 17:23, archived)
# yup
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:55, archived)
# Hahaha
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:51, archived)
# hahahaha
excellent
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 16:52, archived)