Flippin' eck, and here's me having spent half the day ensnared in the clutches of that tv.cream thing that Rodddd (a bad influence on _this_ cartoon nostalgic at the least) posted the URL for, and looking for stuff on G-Force (or Gatchaman, as I have learnt the original version was called, or Battle of the Planets as _another_ alternate identity) at the very moment when this email arrived.
Oh...."Battle Of The Planets" was the best thing ever...I remember being about 8, and this girl, Kelly Mulkey, getting a BOTP lunchbox...I was soooo jealous I plotted her death....(never did it tho...my mother promised me a Monkees lunch box if I spared her life...) Anyway...I found a lunchbox way cooler than hers (about a month ago here in LA)....It just has Mark on the front...the people at the store didn't even know what it was..they thought it was Speed Racer. Score! I've got some original Gatchaman videos as well as the tamed down American translation that became Battle of The Planets. The new series makes me ashamed to breathe air. They're all hip hopped out and 90's-fied. Yuk. OH ...speaking of the 70's...not sure if Brits ever had any of this....but over the weekend I met the creators of HR Pufinstuf, The Land Of the Lost, The Bugaloos, The Banana Splits....etc.....they complimented me on my Tinky Winky backpack, and said they wish they would have done something like that....*sigh* It was cool to meet and converse with the men who made the monster... grrrrrrrrr beth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------