OMFG!!!

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » 2003-02-23 09:28am

salm wrote:so, what is TMNT?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-02-23 09:45am

I was too old for TMNT toys but their original black and white comic kicked ass. Rapheal was psychotic.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-02-23 12:31pm

Mark S wrote:TMNT isn't cool anymore? *goes to find video copy of the movie*

Masters of the Universe is actually trying to make a comeback. They have a new saturday morning cartoon.

I find it funny when you hear a song on the radio that kids think is so great and new and all you can do is shake your head, realizing that it's a remake of an 80's song that's actually a remake of a song from the 60's.

Uh, you do know that TMNT is also making a comeback. They have a new cartoon and toy line and everything.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-02-23 01:47pm

neoolong wrote:
Mark S wrote:TMNT isn't cool anymore? *goes to find video copy of the movie*

Masters of the Universe is actually trying to make a comeback. They have a new saturday morning cartoon.

I find it funny when you hear a song on the radio that kids think is so great and new and all you can do is shake your head, realizing that it's a remake of an 80's song that's actually a remake of a song from the 60's.
Uh, you do know that TMNT is also making a comeback. They have a new cartoon and toy line and everything.

I heard that they were trying to get a grittier animated movie made but that was a while ago.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-02-23 01:49pm

Still doing it...supposedly John Woo is heading the project.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-02-23 02:40pm

Ghost Rider wrote:Still doing it...supposedly John Woo is heading the project.

Yup, CGI as well. But it's been years since anything has been talked about the project really.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-23 02:53pm

Mark S wrote:I was too old for TMNT toys but their original black and white comic kicked ass. Rapheal was psychotic.

"Those FREAKS stole my Truck!"-Casey
"It's Just a car."-April
"I lost my -"-casey
"Casey!"-April
"in the bed of that truck!"-Casey

Casey Jones and April O'neil from a black and white comic, when Raphel stole (& Ruined) Casey's Truck to chase after someone.

Atlan · Post by **Atlan** » 2003-02-23 04:06pm

I still remember being angry because my parents wouldn`t let me stay up to see the very first shuttle launch on TV.
Pong and tennis and a shooting game with a shitty gun, all hardwired in a box with a dirty brown color. When the Atari 2600 came out it was a damn revolution.
I went to see Tron when it came out in the theater.
Chernobyl is still a vivid memory for me...
I still have a stack of records, but no player for them any more. It broke down last year.
Memories, memories....

Johonebesus · Post by **Johonebesus** » 2003-02-23 04:32pm

No-one under 25 should be allowed to post on this thread. Going on about Power rangers and the Challenger and the Communist Fall like it makes you old is silly, not to mention depressing. It's bad enough that people my own age have no clear memory of Reagan and John Lennon getting shot, or watching shows like "Battlestar Galactica" and "Buck Rogers" and "Starblazers" and the old "3-2-1 Contact" and "G Force."

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-23 04:51pm

I remember the teacher bringing in a TV in the classroom so we could all watch the first successful shuttle landing. I remember Ronald Reagan being shot. I remember when trendies thought break-dancing was cool. I remember the Commodore PET, and the Apple II. I remember when they used to show cheap kung-fu and sci-fi movies on late-night TV instead of goddamned infomercials.

I remember when Marilyn Chambers was the world's biggest pornstar, and Burt Reynolds was not considered a national laughingstock. I remember when "Highway to Hell" was a new song, and those metalhead Judas Priest and Iron Maiden rock T-shirts with the white sleeves were popular. I remember seeing John Riggins run like he had a damned 427 under the hood. I remember watching Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers beat Dan Marino and the Miami Dolphins in a game that approached poetry.

I remember finding out that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father in a movie theatre for the first time, and refusing to believe it. I remember the Iranian hostage crisis and Lee Iacocca's TV commercials for the Chrysler K-car. I remember when teenaged hotshots drove Camaros instead of souped-up Hondas. I remember when little kids had to learn to tie up their shoelaces because they didn't have velcro straps.

I remember watching the Cold War accelerate under Reagan, not knowing that it would someday break. I remember when compact discs first came out. I remember a lot of things. Someday, I believe I'll look back and remember that all in all, this has been a pretty good time in history to be alive.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-02-23 05:06pm

Johonebesus wrote:No-one under 25 should be allowed to post on this thread. Going on about Power rangers and the Challenger and the Communist Fall like it makes you old is silly, not to mention depressing. It's bad enough that people my own age have no clear memory of Reagan and John Lennon getting shot, or watching shows like "Battlestar Galactica" and "Buck Rogers" and "Starblazers" and the old "3-2-1 Contact" and "G Force."

G-Force! G-Force! I remember playing G Force on the playground. I was always Mark... Anyone remember what the gimpy little guy was named? Wasn't he actually a robot?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-02-23 05:10pm

The thing that only spoke in clicks and beep...brain not remembering
.
.

Keyop...that's the dumb things name...and nope not a robot...That was the American addition called Seven Zark Seven for Battle of the Planets.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2003-02-23 05:17pm

Johonebesus wrote:No-one under 25 should be allowed to post on this thread. Going on about Power rangers and the Challenger and the Communist Fall like it makes you old is silly, not to mention depressing. It's bad enough that people my own age have no clear memory of Reagan and John Lennon getting shot, or watching shows like "Battlestar Galactica" and "Buck Rogers" and "Starblazers" and the old "3-2-1 Contact" and "G Force."

Hey, Battlestar Galactica is on in Canada.

pellaeons_scion · Post by **pellaeons_scion** » 2003-02-23 05:50pm

tMNT not cool anymore?? *cries*
Yup, Im old. I remember Gforce ( damn good show), star blazers (started my love of big starships with big guns), buck rogers and battlestar galactica, Knight Rider and too many other shows to mention. I remeber when spokey dokeys were the thing to have on your pushbike and 3d glasses were all the rage

I watched as the Muhajedinn(Taliban) were touted as the valourous freedom fighters against the evil of communism in afghanistan, I remeber watching as England tried to reclaim the Falklands. I remember Tianenmin square massacre.

Fuck it, Im old. Now I can be as crotchetty and evil as I want and not get in trouble

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-02-23 06:51pm

I remember Watergate, it pre-empted my afternoon cartoons. I remember Vietnam. My earliest memory is my dad pulling up in a new '69 Chevrolet, and not knowing it was him 'til I saw him, I didn't recognise the car.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-02-23 07:25pm

Johonebesus wrote:No-one under 25 should be allowed to post on this thread. Going on about Power rangers and the Challenger and the Communist Fall like it makes you old is silly, not to mention depressing. It's bad enough that people my own age have no clear memory of Reagan and John Lennon getting shot, or watching shows like "Battlestar Galactica" and "Buck Rogers" and "Starblazers" and the old "3-2-1 Contact" and "G Force."

Don't forget A-Team, Airwolf, THE ORIGINAL Voltron (man, I loved them), ZOOM,... when Sesame Street was just fun, not about political correctness,... I remember Regan and Lennon and when John Belushi od'd. I remember exactly where I was when Challenger exploded. I vaguely remember Watergate. And Patty Hurst. Man walked on the moon when I was a young child.

God, now I feel REALLY old.

RadiO · Post by **RadiO** » 2003-02-23 07:34pm

I went to Portsmouth to see HMS Invincible come back from the Falklands War. I was three years old, and I was sat on my Dad's shoulders. And the weird thing is, I do kinda remember it, because "Invincible" was one of the earliest difficult words I think I learned, even if I did mangle it into "Indintible".

When I was five, we went to Portsmouth (again) and watched the USS Saipan come in - probably '84-ish. I remember that, she was frickin' massive! Must be one of the biggest modern warships they can fit into Portsmouth harbour proper.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-02-23 07:58pm

AdmiralKanos wrote:I remember lining up to see Star Wars when it came out the first time.

I remember begging my elder brother to turn on his blacklight, so I could lie on his bed and see the neon colors of his posters on the wall (He was 18).[/quote]

That should be 18

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-02-23 08:02pm

Shaka[Zulu] wrote:
Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:I remember playing the NES, as well as POGs, the Power Rangers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Damnit, I wish I could grow up right now, so I could tell people how I had to walk 20 miles to school as a kid both ways uphill.
you're forgetting about the sleeting/hailing/snowing storms, hip deep snow, total lack of adequate clothing etc... and of course, no celphones!

come to think of it, anybody remember that first generation of motorola celphones... the black bricks?

My dad used one of THE FIRST MOTOROLA cellphones. The same model that Motorola used in it's "Daddy was in the War" ads some years back. It's what many people mislabeled the 'walkie-talkie'. Think boxy cylander with mouthpiece sticking out.

Damn thing still worked.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-02-23 08:07pm

Johonebesus wrote:No-one under 25 should be allowed to post on this thread. Going on about Power rangers and the Challenger and the Communist Fall like it makes you old is silly, not to mention depressing. It's bad enough that people my own age have no clear memory of Reagan and John Lennon getting shot, or watching shows like "Battlestar Galactica" and "Buck Rogers" and "Starblazers" and the old "3-2-1 Contact" and "G Force."

G-FORCE!!!!!!
I was in love with Jason.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2003-02-23 08:08pm

I started feeling old when the people I went to high school with started getting married.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-02-23 08:10pm

Ghost Rider wrote:The thing that only spoke in clicks and beep...brain not remembering
.
.

Keyop...that's the dumb things name...and nope not a robot...That was the American addition called Seven Zark Seven for Battle of the Planets.

Keyop was a little boy, about 9-10yrs old, and susposedly spoke like a sailor, thus the American version 'stuttered'

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-02-23 08:13pm

Make me feel like a toddler. My earliest TV memory is barney.

I love you you love me lets all go kill barney!

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-02-23 08:14pm

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:I started feeling old when the people I went to high school with started getting married.

How to feel old? The people you went to school with have 18 yr old kids... and 2 year old grandkids

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-02-23 08:37pm

My earliest memory that would be a meaningful reference point for social recollection... the fall of the Yom Kippur War, 1973, on a TV news show. I remember seeing an image of three tanks roaring across the desert and everyone was nervous and watching the news all the time. I thought it was down the street and wanted to go see...