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| 1507 | Article | Vaporman87 | I'm interested in the BraveStarr figures/guns. Thinking about checking Ebay for some of those. :) | Nov 14, 2014 |  | |
| 1511 | Article | Vaporman87 | This article is right in my wheelhouse! Around the mid to late 80's, I got my first video camera. This camera, however, was not the standard VHS camcorders we are all familiar with. The first camera I got was the infamous Fisher Price PXL 2000. <img src="http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/x/www.retrothing.com/retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/17/xpxl_prod_shot.jpg.pagespeed.ic.tZxlCWyvc1.jpg"> The camera that now has a cult following <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000">cult following</a>. I mostly used it to record dumb things like my hamster pooping on our kitchen table and such. In fact, I still have some of the cassette tapes with the video on them. However, I lost/sold??? my PXL 2000 years ago, and have no way of viewing any video that may still be on them. If I am to buy another PXL 2000, it's going to be costly (as they fetch $200 to $500 on Ebay). Later on, I got a REAL camera for Christmas... and the rest is history. We made movies like they were going out of style. Most of them were just dreadful and stupid. There were the occasional "above mediocre" films that we did. One of them I have uploaded to the site... <a href="http://retro-daze.org/site/video/id/96">The Lost Few</a>. That particular version of the movie is a remastered one. The original cut was so bad! Watch the remastered version, then try to imagine how it could be so much worse. Then try to come to the realization that it is. LOL We would mostly film silly comedy stuff. Filming something serious would require a budget and effects unless it was a drama, and since we hated dramas, we rarely made anything outside of comedy stuff. I have whole collections of VHS tapes with our videos. I've put some of them to DVD for the sake of preserving them, while adding a few touches to help improve some of them (with better audio quality or some better editing and such. We would probably agree (we, as in me and about 2 or 3 of my friends) that our signature characters were LongBlade and Dark Wrath (from The Lost Few). But we did do some funny characters like Perv Deathwave or the brothers from the Day Series (a series of shorts where I and my brother fight to the death with weapons that are harmless, yet somehow cause us as much pain as real weapons, lol). I could go on and on and on about this. And I probably will in the days ahead. ;) Now, time to go watch the Rakeman series. :) | Making Movies on VHS | Nov 17, 2014 | |
| 1513 | Article | Vaporman87 | Great job on the Rakeman movies! There were some really good jokes in there. You are especially good in them. I can see Weird Al Yankovic in you... like you could be related, and even share a similar sense of humor. LOL I dug up an <a href="http://retro-daze.org/site/thread/id/61">ancient thread containing DVD and Menu art</a> from Lost Few for the remastered version, for your perusal. ;) | Making Movies on VHS | Nov 18, 2014 | |
| 1516 | Article | Vaporman87 | I played Allister and Marc Drake in The Lost Few (the guys that both die, LOL). There was much more dialogue between the characters in the original version, but it was so poorly acted and full of convoluted story elements that it all had to go. It was far better to rewrite the important parts and place them in as narration spoken by one of my friends (who was also in some of our movies back in the day). I would like to have had John Holsinger do the narration, but as you saw at the end of the movie, he passed away in 2007 from complications from diabetes. That was hard to swallow, even though we hadn't really been in touch for many years. | Making Movies on VHS | Nov 19, 2014 | |
| 1517 | Article | Vaporman87 | During the 90's, when Image Comics was sweeping through comic book stores, I became a fan of Ripclaw from Cyber Force, Union, and Savage Dragon. But prior to that, I was a big Iron Man and Ghost Rider fan. Iron Man being my number 1 fav. I had a long running subscription to Iron Man, and always looked forward to getting a new issue in the mail. In the 80's, Iron Man wasn't exactly a hot property. He was basically a B team guy, usually playing on bit parts in any big story arcs and on television. But I always thought he was cool. Plus, his name was Tony, my name was Tony... it was just natural. LOL Then when Iron Man became THE name in Marvel Comic movies... I was really pleased... and Robert Downey Jr. is awesome as Stark. I really loved the Iron Monger storyline in the first film, because that story was playing out in the comics during my comic book reading heyday. | My Top 5 Favorite Comic Book Characters | Nov 19, 2014 | |
| 1525 | Article | Vaporman87 | I have only participated (at least that I can recall) in church Christmas plays. Even so, the problems are the same. It often seems like everybody involved in preparing/orchestrating the plays are trying to do too much, and with too little help. This pretty much dooms the play. There are often technical issues, parts left unfilled, and all kinds of mistakes. BUT, nobody is expecting Shakespeare, so the problems are overlooked. I have a problem with plays nowadays. They seem too much like a way to entertain adults by parading our kids out there, scared and nervous. Many of them are obviously (and visibly) not enjoying it. So what's the point? I would just assume we have a straight cantata with singing and carols, and leave it at that. Unless the play is being acted by adults who are actually ENJOYING putting on the production. | The Worst Christmas School Production in the World | Nov 24, 2014 | |
| 1529 | Article | Vaporman87 | Awww yeah. This is what I'm talkin' 'bout Willis. Sooo much good stuff in this article. I loved about all of these shows, and I agree with every point you make regarding the styles of animation. I pretty much disliked any and all anime growing up. I didn't like the style, as it was too simplistic and crazy looking. Not to mention that dubbing them over made for some really strange interactions between characters. Unlike traditional American animation dialogue, you would have the weird moments where the characters talk over each other, or say things that really make no sense, or don't flow with the conversation. It is funny how now I can tell just by the style of animation, which studio pumped out a particular cartoon. Look at Dennis The Menace and Heathcliff. You could interchange the characters in those shows and nothing about the character design or animation would need to change at all. The same goes for Sunbow and Filmation. Speaking of Filmation... they get no love here!!! Really? C'mon Hoju! The animators of He-Man himself! BraveStarr? Ghostbusters (the non-Bill Murray led team)? Filmation was really good at taking movements from actual film footage and changing them to animation, then reusing those same animations while fitting in different characters. These animated sequences were repetitive, but also very smooth. I loved Filmation's style. Looking back now at cartoons from Sunbow, it's easy to see that some segments were well done, and some were just dreadful. This was especially true of Transformers. There would be times when a character was not colored properly, or missing a mouth or eyes or some other detail. Times when the animation was so choppy it was as though they had run out of frames and needed to cut a few. Yeah, Transformers could be pretty bad looking at times. I never really noticed it as a youngster, but now I can see it doesn't hold up well sometimes. Great breakdown of 80's classics Hoju. I loved this one. | 80's Cartoons: An Animated Discussion | Nov 26, 2014 | |
| 1535 | Article | Vaporman87 | Man, I miss '88 McDonald's. I want my food served in styrofoam. I my large drink to be the size of a medium (and sometimes small) by today's standards. I want grease, trans fats (okay, maybe not really), shameless marketing to children, McDonaldland characters... I want it all. I'm just wishing I could have brought back some of those flocked Berenstain Bears toys and a few Changeables without causing a paradox in space/time. Work that out, will you good doctor? | Timewarp: McDonald's 1988 | Nov 28, 2014 | |
| 1536 | Article | Vaporman87 | @Hoju - That was something that I was glad Filmation did with He-Man... make his show more than just a half hour advertisement. Mattel probably would have settled for anything as long as they were getting time on tv for their property, but Filmation cared about these characters and took time to delve into their backstories, world history, relationships, struggles, etc. and they did it on a very limited budget and with very limited time. They were expected to pump out 65 episodes a year! How do you do that and still manage to make all those elements work? Ask Filmation, because that's exactly what they did. Mattel didn't place "By the Power of Grayskull" in our vernacular... Filmation did. Filmation made He-Man just as much as Mattel. | 80's Cartoons: An Animated Discussion | Nov 28, 2014 | |
| 1539 | Article | Vaporman87 | I think honorable mentions could be made for The Big Show, King Kong Bundy, Big John Stud, and Earthquake. This is a pretty accurate list I think. I would probably put these guys together in this same order for my own list... though I'd be tempted to put Kane in at third, and move Vader to fourth and Nash to fifth. | Top 5 Best Big Men in Wrestling History | Nov 30, 2014 | |
