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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Izekeal on January 12, 2009, 08:56:51 pm
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http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56718
http://www.casualgaming.biz/news/28089/LazyTown-sprinting-into-games-sector
The makers of the show are shopping around for a buyer to make a game based off of the show. I'm not very familiar with Lazy Town but would it be something similar to Animal Crossing? Or is there enough from the show to warrant a more linear game?
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Expect a horrible and buggy 3D game where you run about doing minigames or some qually horrible game.
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This is a terrible idea and defeats the purpose of Lazytown. It says the "rights owner" is the one trying to get this done, so my guess is Magnus Scheving has nothing to do with this. He made the dang show to get kids to be more active and healthy and play outside so basically this is a shitty idea.
There is enough content to make a more point-and-click style adventure game based around the town but even still Magnus would rather kids NOT play video games all day (this comes up in the show more than once) so there is no reason for this.
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This is a terrible idea and defeats the purpose of Lazytown. It says the "rights owner" is the one trying to get this done, so my guess is Magnus Scheving has nothing to do with this. He made the dang show to get kids to be more active and healthy and play outside so basically this is a shitty idea.
By watching TV? Yea that makes sense
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By watching TV? Yea that makes sense
Hi this actually works. You'd be surprised at the parents who, from letting their kids watch Lazytown for the half hour it's on, could get their kids to go out and play for several hours. It's a trade off. Little kids dance along to the show and then go outside and play and then go to bed at 8:08 to be just like Sportacus. It sounds ridiculous when you're an adult but I personally know little kids (and their parents) who have had this work for them. You don't want to eat your vegetables? Sportacus does. Now suddenly you do want to eat them. You don't want to play outside? Sportacus thinks you should. Now you go outside. Sometimes you have to trick kids into doing things that are good for them, and this just helps that. It seriously works, man. Also it started off as a series of books, the TV show just helped it to become international. The original idea wasn't 'watch TV' at all, it just sort of happened and it works really well.
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you're meant to get up and start dancing and shit. Sporticus promotes healthy eating. Whenever the nerd character does anything in the show it all goes wrong and sporticus has to save them all with sports and healthy eating. It makes plenty of sense.
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damn you velfarre, but also I am happy your post about lazy town is much longer than mine. Ya freakin nerd.
EDIT: my two month competition game was going to be Lazy Town:2099(props for those who get the reference), but now I don't know, this has... stolen my thunder.
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A lot of parents were really pissed off that Lazytown isn't on Nick Jr. anymore because now their kids just go back to sitting in front of the TV having Dora treat them like idiots and have Yo Gabba Gabba do who knows what.
WHERE IS BOOTS? SIT IN FRONT OF THE TV AND TELL ME WHERE BOOTS IS.
edit: Also I'm not as big of a Lazytown nerd as I sort of make myself out to be. I have both of the soundtracks but I only ever listen to like two songs from it (both of which are pretty much as good as any other techno music), I only watch it when nothing else is on and it comes on Noggin. I do have a Lazytown shirt that I got from a thrift shop in Iceland but that's just because why wouldn't I.
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If this was a expansion for Wii fit then yeah I can see Magnus (what an awesome fucking name) supporting it but anything that doesn't include physical exertion is pretty contrary to the premise.
but that girl who played stephanie or whatever is now 17 hehehehehehehehe *rubs hands*
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Yo Gabba Gabba do who knows what.
hey yo gabba gabba promotes dancing too!
it's just really trippy and made by some musician who probably smokes a lot of pot and he invites his other pot smoking friends on there like trippier artist mark motherbaugh and biz markie. it's like a stoner show but there's lots of music and "get up and go" moments and it's great
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The big problem with it even if it was on Wii fit is that Magnus always intended it to encourage kids to play outside as much as possible, whereas this would just keep them inside longer than an episode of the show would.
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Yeah, I was figuring it'd be a Wiimote/WiiFit tie in of some sort.
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By watching TV? Yea that makes sense
have you ever seen public television for kids. 90% of every program is "go outside and have fun, explore".
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Nowadays most of the shows are "stay right here and watch this show, you have to participate so you can't leave because I'm talking to you"
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key word public television. lazytown has more in common with the shit on PBS than the rest of Nick Jr if I remember right. whatever it was still a piece of shit SORRY VELFARRE.
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hey yo gabba gabba promotes dancing too!
it's just really trippy and made by some musician who probably smokes a lot of pot and he invites his other pot smoking friends on there like trippier artist mark motherbaugh and biz markie. it's like a stoner show but there's lots of music and "get up and go" moments and it's great
fun fact I secretly wrote the entire soundtrack to yo gabba gabba
it took about 10 minutes too
also japs gotta start making games based on popular franchises again and not their own shit ones either. Weren't like all the TMNT games the shit and it didn't just seem that way at the time
Edit: And like every Disney game that Capcom did. Who did the Lion King game?
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Edit: And like every Disney game that Capcom did. Who did the Lion King game?
virgin software or something but yes disney games used to be the shit (duck tales, castle of illusion, mickey's madness or whatever it was called) and all the franchise games were great.
then they discovered they could use anime as an inspiration for video games and thus the Tales of _______ series was born.
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Tales of _______
Games?
a beatles song Noterday?
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key word public television. lazytown has more in common with the shit on PBS than the rest of Nick Jr if I remember right. whatever it was still a piece of shit SORRY VELFARRE.
it's cool dude it's not like i'm going to be pissed SOMEONE DOESN'T LIKE A CHILDRENS SHOW I LIKE...OH..OH GOD....
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Games?
a beatles song Noterday?
the sad thing is you can place anything in the blank and it'll sound better than whatever namco puts out. i laughed for a good 10 minutes when i heard they released a game called tales of innocence. i'm waiting for the inevitable TALES OF TALES where it's a story within a story.
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Tales of Dysentery
Send that to them, they don't care what the words mean and it does have a nice ring to it. Let's make this happen in '09
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It has to contain Li'l Jon telling Stephanie to rub that shit and grab his dick (because it's hers, bitch) or else I'm not playing it.
I was about to warn him for it too but that video is pretty hilarious.
Edited now. Sorry, last time I was active on here (freakin' years ago) comments as offensive as that used to be the norm :P
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They do make catchy songs. Here's the awesome tune Psi is referring to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o5-qmdLCbw
As far as game play goes, I figure the objective of the game will be keeping kids active. So wii is the ideal console here. Like a few people have said, it's probably going to be mini-games that get increasingly more difficult. It's music will be great though.
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You Are a Pirate has pretty much burrowed its way into internet culture.
I kinda like Lazytown as far as kid shows go; it doesn't assume your kid has no brain. That being said this will probably be some terrible licensed shovelware that is instantly forgettable.
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They do make catchy songs. Here's the awesome tune Psi is referring to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o5-qmdLCbw
As far as game play goes, I figure the objective of the game will be keeping kids active. So wii is the ideal console here. Like a few people have said, it's probably going to be mini-games that get increasingly more difficult. It's music will be great though.
I was about to warn him for it too but that video is pretty hilarious.
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i'd have to get high first at least to even lookat this game
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What happened to the "eC"(early childhood) back in the 90s, giving it an "E" rating makes no sense :|
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Aslong as I get to be a pirate.
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they still use the ec rating for games, i've seen games on shelves with them. maybe the guys making it want it to be more widely purchased. the only real difference between ec and e rated games is the producers kinda going hey esrb this is for kids give us an ec and the esrb goes ok, it qualifies no bad language, possibly semieducational.
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i mean as far as like offensive content goes. comic mischief is a dumb category that doesn't really exist because hey it's a game comic mischief just basically means funny conflict, and okay.
basically e rated games can have mild language and violence, ec has to be non-violent with no bad words.
also i'm pretty sure ka doesn't exist anymore but that's what i think this would go for.
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What happened to the "eC"(early childhood) back in the 90s, giving it an "E" rating makes no sense :|
The only EC games I can remember are things like Elmo teaching ABC's (don't remember the exact title but I had this for the NES) and other games targeted towards really really small children. Lazytown is targeted towards children, but it's targeted towards generally older children, more in the I guess 6-10 range. I don't know if that's exactly the age group that watches it but that was the general idea. EC means more a long the lines of kids as young as 3 (according to the site), whereas E is more 6 and up. I think it might take into account how difficult the game is, obviously a game meant for kids 6+ isn't going to be very enjoyable to a 3 year old. It's supposed to be a general indicator to parents, not just "what are the bad things in this game".
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what if it's for wiifit
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Yeah. I agree with the other people here: the only way this could conceivably work is if it's a wii fit game. There's not really anything else in lazytown that would be much fun in a videogame anyway.
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The big problem with it even if it was on Wii fit is that Magnus always intended it to encourage kids to play outside as much as possible, whereas this would just keep them inside longer than an episode of the show would.
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By watching TV? Yea that makes sense
75% of the stuff we did outside was based on what we saw on TV. From playing Bowser VS Mario on the jungle gym, to fighting over the role of Green Ranger when playing Power Rangers. So much fun can be derived from television as a kid. It gives the imagination something to use when they're being more active.
I thought something of what you said when I saw how my buddy's sister's kids were being raised (kid tv shows on most of the day). But now I see them, they hardly pay the tv much attention. It's like background noise to them while they run around with toys.
Dunno though, is there children out there that sit on their ass all day watching tv? This seems impossible to me. Too much energy, and more interesting things to do for kids.
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...are there kids who sit around doing nothing...
Much of the increased risk is tied to the continued increase in childhood obesity, which the heart association said is around 17 percent of all children aged 6 to 19. Having a body-mass index at or above the 95th percentile for the child's age is considered being obese.
and that's OBESE, not overweight.
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I've definitely seen some kids that really do just sit around watching TV or playing video games, it is really sad!
But yeah I do agree with the "TV as just background noise", me and my neighbor would turn on the TV to watch Pokemon but we'd be lucky if we finished the episode before running outside to play Team Rocket (this was our favorite game), I also remember playing Power Rangers way younger than that, the TV was always on but we were rarely watching it (I think we did watch at least most of Pokemon because we were older so we had the attention span for it a little more). And you know, even when we'd play our gameboys we usually played outside! Hell, we even tried playing our gameboys on the trampoline so that we could do both until we realized that was really hard to do. We were always going back and forth between playing video games and playing outside, but nowadays a lot of kids JUST sit inside and play video games or watch TV. It's sad, that's all there is to it.
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I'll buy this as long as you play as stephanie and she's as..flexble as she is in the show
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I've definitely seen some kids that really do just sit around watching TV or playing video games, it is really sad!
But yeah I do agree with the "TV as just background noise", me and my neighbor would turn on the TV to watch Pokemon but we'd be lucky if we finished the episode before running outside to play Team Rocket (this was our favorite game), I also remember playing Power Rangers way younger than that, the TV was always on but we were rarely watching it (I think we did watch at least most of Pokemon because we were older so we had the attention span for it a little more). And you know, even when we'd play our gameboys we usually played outside! Hell, we even tried playing our gameboys on the trampoline so that we could do both until we realized that was really hard to do. We were always going back and forth between playing video games and playing outside, but nowadays a lot of kids JUST sit inside and play video games or watch TV. It's sad, that's all there is to it.
Hot damn! I blame the parents though, before the addictive tv and games. Parents should motivate playing outside. But, heh, Monkey See Monkey Do, I guess.
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I can't believe we actually have people here who are gonna get all OG about Lazytown. Really it's about money, nobody gives a shit about the kids, whom I doubt care whether a video game contradicts the creator's intentions.
Also:
http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2008/026/a/f/Robbie_Rotten_3_by_supernitro.swf
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I can't believe we actually have people here who are gonna get all OG about Lazytown. Really it's about money, nobody gives a shit about the kids, whom I doubt care whether a video game contradicts the creator's intentions.
Yes, it is about money for the company that holds the rights. BUT, everyone that was really involved with the show REALLY gives a shit about kids! Magnus Scheving has dedicated his life to doing good things for kids, and it took him about 7 years to get the Lazytown show going. Stefan Karl Stefansson (the guy that plays Robbie Rotten) runs an organization that fights bullying and he gives a lot of talks at schools. Both of them got these things started without much of a budget to start with. I've seen interviews with both of these dudes, and I've never seen people that give a shit as much as these guys, and so that's why it's sad to see some company decide "nah, fuck that, gotta make money".
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Eric I'm pretty sure magnus scheving gives a shit about kids and that you're a homo
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whoa better take mark seriously from now on
ps. sorry to have offended, I have never heard of the creator, and I assumed this is another dime a dozen kids show. Velfarre how do you know so much about this?
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because honestly describing velfarre as an OG FOR LAZYTOWN is the most apt way to put anything ever. when that cake song came out...she got on webcam...
and injected the song into the pink part of her eye.
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It's not OFFENSIVE I mean you'd be right in saying that most people behind any show, including childrens shows, don't give a shit and are trying to make money. Lazytown just happens to be one where the people behind it really care. Also I want to point out that I've not done extensive research about this stuff, I've just watched a few videos on youtube (maybe two or three interviews, seen clips of the original public TV Lazytown with about zero budget) read the Wikipedia page and maybe one other article, this is about an hours worth of content I don't hunt this shit down. You don't have to take much time to learn a whole lot about any given thing when you have the internet, you know? Really, you only have to watch one interview with Magnus to realize that he really cares. I mean, if it was about money for him I doubt he would have spent all this time pushing for it and go so far as to be in the show himself, direct it, etc.
edit: Apparently it is Lazytown Entertainment itself looking into making this game, but going by the press statements it sounds like it's more someone in a marketing type department pushing for it. After all, video games sell. Still, it really defeats the purpose.
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yeah you watched an interview sorry this is a bit of effort.
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It's not like it was an hour long biography, it was a short morning TV segment. I mean I am admitting I care about Lazytown more than most people (I am wearing a goddamn Sportacus shirt right now, mostly because it's one of my warmest shirts and it's cold out). I'm just saying Lazytown isn't some huge part of my life like it's made out to be. I do this with almost anything I have the vaguest interest in, I know tons of shit about Carmen Sandiego as a character that other people wouldn't, it's just because I like trivia and shit. If I like something, I want to know things about it, and I'll take the few minutes it takes to read about it on the internet to find it out.
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velfarre trivia is knowing which album biggie released while he was alive or what alfred nobel invented or even a recital of the state capitals, not buying shirts and watching interviews of actors for a children's tv show or really knowing anything beyond cursory knowledge of something that only lasted two seasons that was also clearly intended for CHILDREN face it you are one weird motherfucker.
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things velfarre knows:
an absurd amount about
-doraemon (dvd set)
-lazytown
-carmen sandiego
things she does not:
-jim carrey was in a movie called Liar Liar.
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Man I did not say any of these things! What I meant is that if I like something to any degree I will learn trivial knowledge of it, not that I was doing it IN SEARCH of trivia that I would actually use. I know it's a children's TV show and I treat it like one. I'm not trying to make it out to be something WE SHOULD ALL BE WATCHING I'm just saying it's a really cool thing for kids and the people behind it are really cool people. I already admitted I really like it, I was just saying that I'm not a dang weirdo about it, it's hardly a part of my daily life. I have a shirt of it, so what? It's rare that I even wear it in public (it's covered by a hoodie right now like I said it's really warm), I just saw it at a thrift store (hint: it was really cheap) and went "heh I like Lazytown, why not?" Yeah, it is pretty weird, but it's not like I'm on Lazytown message boards or upload videos or some shit, it's just something I kind of like! I have a Breakfast Club shirt, that doesn't mean I love the Breakfast Club all that much. I know more than most people about hyenas, that doesn't mean I'm some kind of hyena furry. It's just a mild interest that looks like a huge interest because I talk about it in a topic that has everything to do with it. I really don't care all that much, it just really seems like I do. I know a lot about a lot of things, this is just one of them.
Also man I don't really know shit about Doraemon, sorry! I know the basic premise and I didn't even watch much of that DVD set.
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You say that but then you'll just end up blowing £300 on a Sportacus statue or something. I know how this works.
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just bought nine dvds and an ipod with doraemon. dont really care about it.
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it's okay velfarre i have original cels from disney's the black cauldron and i made custom boxes for my digimon collection just telling you you're not alone in your fanaticism I STILL HAVE TMNT UNDERWEAR
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Man the Doraemon iPod wasn't much more than a regular iPod so I thought "hey why not".
Doraemon is a lot like fucking Hello Kitty dude, you don't have to know shit about it to think "hey that's cute I want that", I think Doraemon is CUTE I don't obsess over the story. I have a Doraemon alarm clock that I used for a short time that I got at a flea market for $4. The 9 DVDs are REALLY cheap bootleg DVDs that cost about the same as just buying any normal DVD (not some $100 set or something) and after watching the first DVD or two I realized the episodes were all kind of the same and stopped giving a shit. I only bought the whole set because that's how it came and it was really cheap anyway (couldn't find any individual DVDs at the time). Very little money went into all this (the ipod was expensive because it's an ipod but it was not much more money), it's not a big deal. Also this was several years ago. Like I said, I'm being made out to be a HUGE FAN of things I have a mild interest in!
Also man I was thinking about what I said earlier about looking into everything I vaguely liked and I realized I used to do this all the time as a kid, I would read encyclopedia entries about anything and everything. I think the thing is that other people don't have any interest whatsoever in these things so I'm associated with them for having the interest. If you had to talk about major interests they'd be things like COMPUTERS and DOGS and other shit that no one would associate people with because they're really common, and I think this is why people have this idea of me as spending way more time and money on these things than I really am. It's not that big of a deal.
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Don't listen to him velfarre, I think it's cute. Wanna go to the mall later? :-)
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Srry I'm a girl I like cute tings sometimes :welp:
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fun marcus fact: when i was 13 or something i used to stay up until like 4am to catch hello kitty on toon disney
i had the tv programmed to turn it to espn when i fell asleep so when my dad came down he was like "AHRITE FUTBAHL!!"
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i think that is one of the funniest things ive ever seen you say marcus
*zing*
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fun marcus fact: when i was 13 or something i used to stay up until like 4am to catch hello kitty on toon disney
i had the tv programmed to turn it to espn when i fell asleep so when my dad came down he was like "AHRITE FUTBAHL!!"
hahaha that is amazing
when i was a kid i'd make the effort to wake up at 6 am on weekends to watch mr. wizard :fogetcool:
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I'm having serious trouble trying to remember what mr. wizard looks like, without patrick stewart getting in the way
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(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Don_Herbert.jpeg)
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I used to be really frustrated with my classmates as a kid because they all thought Bill Nye was the coolest and I was 100% on Mr. Wizard's side instead but no one else thought he was as cool as I did because Bill Nye was more flashy :(
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i.... i...
i used to watch hello kitty on toon disney when I was a young child too.... I also remember watching blazing dragons. didn't the guys from monty python have something to do with that show?
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Also:
http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2008/026/a/f/Robbie_Rotten_3_by_supernitro.swf
What the fuck is this, and why can't I stop staring at it?
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What the fuck is this, and why can't I stop staring at it?
You know I can't neither...
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i.... i...
i used to watch hello kitty on toon disney when I was a young child too.... I also remember watching blazing dragons. didn't the guys from monty python have something to do with that show?
It was created by Terry Jones.
That show was on from 96-98... must be a young pup, Tomato.
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or maybe our ideas of young child are different. I'm 20.
i never got a chance to watch mr. wizard as a child, but I watched Bill Nye whenever I could.
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Pfft. Screw Bill Nye and his battle bots or WEATHER or whatever it is he does now. Beakman's World was where is was at.
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Just throwing it out there but there ARE game genres that lazy town could fit into that don't defeat the purpose...
I know I say it to death but hey, on In the Groove (good version of DDR), I have Bing Bang, Cooking by the Book, There's Always a Way, Spooky Song and Twenty-Times Time all on my memory stick to play if I choose.
Lazy Town is pretty much about Music, Dancing and Exercise so I'm pretty sure it fits the scene, they made a DDR Mario Series shit thing after all, they could just as easily do it for Lazy Town.
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Lazy Town is pretty much about Music, Dancing and Exercise and playing outside so I'm pretty sure it fits the scene, they made a DDR Mario Series shit thing after all, they could just as easily do it for Lazy Town.
Fixed, we covered this.
It's better than playing regular video games all day, but it's still not the point.