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We watch..

Phineas and Ferb
Any of the Avengers/ Guardians of the Galaxy cartoons
Horrible Histories / Gory Games

I quite liked Ultimate Spider-man, but not enough to change the channel for.

I have a 7 year obsessed with Marvel

Does anybody remember a Tiny Ribinsin show from the 80s (maybe early 90s) called Blood And Honey. He'd narrate bible stories, telling the takes really vividly whilst acting bits out. I think it was just him.

Tiny Robinson

I love Tony Robinson, don't remember blood and honey though.

Maid Marion I remember.

My five year old is obsessed with Ninjago at the moment. It's not too bad, though not something I would watch by choice.

4 lego Ninjas fighting snakes?

If I remember rightly, Tony Robinson used to narrate tales from Fatulips garden. That was a favourite of mine.

Yes, though there are more than 4 really and they fight all sorts of things. It's cool in that each season has a different theme of what they are fighting, and the title sequence changes accordingly (ghosts, robots, snakes, etc).

I have seen 1 or 2 I think

Stuff my son likes

Fireman Sam
Thomas the tank engine
Wallace and Gromit
Tom and Jerry (old school 1940's ones) think he prefers these as he has picked up on my wife complaining about the violence
Charlie and Lola
Ben and Holly
Mr Bean animated

He also made a random request for the Simpsons the other night! Which I refused

Game looks really good, watch a Youtube video of it last night

Thomas the Tank Engine or Thomas and Friends?

Thomas and Friends any episode where there is an "accident" or a bridge breaks

I remember Tony Robinson did Stay Tooned as well, it was an excuse to show and talk about old cartoons.

I think TV needs more Tony Robjnson. Also Johnny Ball.

Bloody hell, I'd completely forgot about that. Well remembered!

Steven Universe is amazing everyone should watch it.

It's kind of a little bit similar to Adventure Time (especially at the start) but it becomes it's own thin very quickly and it is fantastic. It's created by someone who used to work on Adventure Time so you can see some of the shared DNA.

Like Rolfs Cartoon Club...

The first rule of Rolf's Cartoon Club is...

Didgerydon't talk about about Rolfs Cartoon Club.

I never got on with Steven Universe.

Tony Hart > Neil Buchanon > Mark Speight > Rolf. Obviously Rolf would be last anyway because he's evil, but even if he were the beardy nice guy we assumed, he could draw one thing: the Uk that looked a bit like a kangaroo with Rolf's head. Weirdo

Rolf was a brilliant artist.

The Queen's portrait aside. I wonder if they removed that when he became a peado.

Some examples.

Technically, I don't think he'd even started it when he became a peado.

Do you think? I don't think he was. When he would draw famous cartoon characters in Rolf's cartoon club they looked nothing like the characters they were supposed to be. All a bit wonky.

Tunip's subtitling is a glorious thing to behold.

I love you, too Vegi-bot.

One of my greatest achievements of parenthood is managing to avoid 99% of children's television.

That's no achievement when you have stuff as good as Octonauts! You are missing g out, Jdm. It's just full of happy

Why do I gave the subtitles on? Darwin is having his afternoon nap, so I am watching Octonsuts. I've seen this one sbout twenty times already. It's aces.

Oliver fills me in on the goings-on in octonauts. He knows more about the sea than I do.

I've practically learnt enough for a degree in the subject now

Have the same thing with Thomas the tank engine

My son loves playing with the trains, they are so expensive costing £5-8 each and in some cases £50. Think that some adults collect them hence the prices.

So I bought this huge set on Ebay of around 60 for £100, its mad how he knows all the names (each one has the name on the bottom so you can check )

He also has a full set of the 65 books which was another EBay Bargain £15 and I don't think they had ever been used.

We read the books to him constantly so I guess he learns the trains from those.

Also find he is very fussy when watching the TV shows, I scroll down the episodes in the media player and read out the title and he sits there saying No until I get to one that he likes the sound of!

Also find he prefers older versions of shows, he likes the "Clay model" Fireman Sam far more than the more animated newer show.

The most amazing thing comes about if and when children get j to dinosaurs. The ability to differentiate, remember, pronounce and SPELL dinosaur names is mind-boggling. Big ideas sponges.

Have you taken minifish on an actual train yet?

Yes we have taken him on a couple of "normal trains" I go a couple of stops back and forward to a nearby town with him and we go to a café.

Also took him here http://www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/e ... homas.html. its a place where they restore old steam trains, next to Didcot station but separated track wise so kids can run about. They have Thomas days every now and again so I took him to one. Good day out, aside from the Thomas stuff there are loads of steam engines kids can climb on. Also we had to take 2 trains to get there so double fun for him!

Then there is this place https://www.draytonmanor.co.uk/thomas-land

Not been yet as my wife said we should wait until next year as he is just 3.

Does anyone remember this? It terrified me as a kid.



I assumed it was just my feeble child's mind that made it scary.

Nope.

Watch from 1.10.

Still terrifying.

I remember having the same reaction. Quite distressing for an 8 year old. Although I do vaguely remember watching it and thinking "what... That was it?" so perhaps not so terrifying now.

That, and the story about the newel post. Brr.

I don't know, the way he wraps his fingers around her mouth, pretty intense. The camp, waddling dragon goes some way to neutralising the fear factor, admittedly.



No Half Life 3?

Heh. I did some modules as an undergrad. And had some girlfriends who did it a bit more. It seems to be more female weighted than other science.

My mate did a PhD in fish behaviour. He net his wife through marine biology. Good xall.

I mainly remember the melting of the coloured people.


Heh, no. It was some story about a newel post that came to life at night. Made me scared to go to sleep.

It was pointed out to the teacher in question that this was perhaps not an ideal story for 7 year olds.

Oh my God, you can't just say that!

Haha, I was going to ask if you e been to Didcot. We went there when I was wee. It's aces. I got married at Drayton Manor

Brilliantly, the Fat Controller strolled through the hotel's breakfast room!

Great place I found he enjoyed climbing all over the Steam Engines in the sheds that were not Thomas branded than anything else.

They were orange, purple and green. Very vibrant.

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