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openToddler animated shorts Western Animation
I remember watching a series of short animations when i was young that, the animals would always be a hybrid of at least two animals, and, i'm pretty sure each one would be a couple minutes long and be like a music video almost. I'm not sure what channel it would have been on. I found it on comcast's on demand service years ago.
I can't really remember the details of any of them besides one that had a mix of a cat and a bee (i think) in the main focus and i think he was singing about missing a friend or something like that
openSuper Speedy Teen Live Action TV
Hope the Tropers here are not too young :-) I'm looking for a series where the hero was a teen who could move at (nearly) light speed. He had a physics buff as mentor. The series ran in some German TV station, at about the same time as Out Of This World (so I immediately pondered what would happen if Evie tried to gleep him :-) And no, it's not Johnny B from the Misfits who is muy cooler. (I already searched the Super-Speed list and found nothing.)
openDungeons and Dragons Animated Film? Western Animation
This one is making me feel crazy—I can't help but wonder if I just had a random dream of a scene in a nonexistent movie.
I can't remember a proper plot, but I have a vague memory of a scholarly looking (skinny, glasses, modern attire) man talking with one who had an air of mystery and magic. Considering I mentally associate this memory with D&D, I can't help but think of the mysterious man as the Dungeon Master. He had the scholarly looking man in his personal library of unfinished books—in fact, he took the scholarly fellow's own unfinished book off the shelf to demonstrate. I think the scholarly guy tried reaching for the book, but was gently chastised by the DM as the book not truly being his yet, or something like that. Furthermore, I think the DM sent the scholarly man to a medieval fantasy world?
I know for certain this isn't the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon with the main villains being Venger and Tiamat, but there might be a connection—some kind of adaptation. When I try to picture the scholarly man I mentioned, I think of Presto the wizard as an adult in a casual suit. When it comes to the DM though, for the memory I don't picture a short and squat man like the one that guides the kids in the show. He mostly comes up blank, but in typing this I'm now getting a vague notion of a typical wise wizard appearance (long beard, grey hair, a robe).
I could be entirely wrong about the association with D&D though. It might just be another animated medieval fantasy film. Still, I want to see it—I have no idea what it was about, but that one scene kind of speaks to my own as of yet unrequited dreams of writing a book.
openGiant magic bird cartoon?
I'm trying to remember the name of a cartoon I watched in the mid-90s, although the cartoon itself may well have come from the late 80s I suppose. Essentially it was about some kids who (I think) read from a book and summon a magical bird - imagine Big Bird (bipedal, big body, long neck) only rainbow coloured and with a bill similar to that of a toucan. The bird could take the kids with him to different universes, or maybe different stories, I forget. The bird had a ridiculously long name but used a shorter version which I think was the name of the show.
Any thoughts? Probably a long shot, I've asked before in various places with no luck. The theme tune ended on "something something something something Magical Dodo Bird!" or something like that.
Edited by Ulysses21openNo Title Film
A movie or Made for TV movie about a hispanic(?) migrant worker teen, who moves around with his family as the crops are needed to be picked and such. A white man takes a liking to him and tries to help him improve himself & get out of that life; but I think at the end of the film the white man goes to the teen's place and discovers that the family has moved away.
I think the white man was played by Brian Dennehy. At one point he has a monologue about how he escaped his own family destiny of working in the mines all his life like his father & father's father, etc.
openSome weird British show from Noggin Live Action TV
There was a show on Noggin in the early 2000s about a family whose parents wake up with the minds they had when they were children. So, the kids have to take care of the parents and try and figure out why this happened. I remember it as a British show. Any ideas?
open3D cartoon from before 2010
All I can remember is that it was about a girl that had tree braids and had a talking animal.
openWeird fighting show.
In the show people use these tunnels on an island (which seems to be alive), to travel to different worlds and time periods, there they can scan the inhabitants and back at the base area, use the data to "transform" into the creatures, and then battle with others, I can't remember for the life of me what this show was called...
openYou know that video game with the Bear-Aliens? Videogame
I'm looking for this old PC platformer video game. it's probably a 90's game There's this blonde kid on a pink Marty-Mc Fly hover-board... he's got a pink visor and an energy pistol white shirt + blue jeans he's flying around colorful levels inside an alien craft that invaded planet earth and all the aliens are evil breeds of Bears... with bear insignia and picnic basket paraphernalia
anybody remember that?
openVideo game about wasteland Videogame
I'm jet lagged and can't remember anything, so the video game is one where you play a character who goes into an area that's now a wasteland (rest of the world is normal) to search for things. There are monsters in there, it's illegal to go in there so you sneak in.
openChildren's Tv series
Ok so i remember watching this tv series in the mid-late 2000s/early 2010s, i think it might have been British, where this boy (who doesn't have a belly button because he was actually created in a lab - it's NOT Kyle XY) and his two friends (a boy and a girl) help his 'mother'/guardian woman to fight aliens. I have been searching for it for years because no one believes that it was a real show but this woman was like in her 40s/50s, had shoulder length browny/blonde hair. The boy had dark brown hair. At the very end of the series (i think) he goes off to university/college. If anyone can help it would be GREATLY appreciated!
openAmnesiac/Memory-related game Videogame
I'm trying to recall a game (might or might not be a non-linear visual novel) where the story is focused on a person who last lost their memory or a specific set of memories by choice/force, and slowly recalls them due to another person/force somehow making the memories reappear in their mind again. It's probably a game released within the last decade, and the memories that person recalls affects them /after/ you make a choice. I think. It's not Amnesia, Nameless, To the Moon, or True Remembrance.
openYA novel about an alien on Earth Literature
I can remember only a little about this: It was a paperback, the first of a projected series, the main character was a Human Alien who looked like a sixteen year old girl with metallic gold hair, she was on Earth doing the equivalent of a socials assignment, and at one point, takes a job as a babysitter. The parents tell her that if the toddler becomes too troublesome, she should just tie him to the tree in the back yard. When they come back, she tells them she tide him to the tree, but it seemed cruel to leave him there to be bored, so she taught him to read. They assume she's joking, then go into the back yard. There's a length of rope connecting kid to tree, and the little one is sitting happily, surrounded by a pile of toddler books. He's reading them. Slowly, and sounding out every word, but he's reading them. The parents are torn between reprimanding her and paying her a bonus.
openYA mystery novel about murdered girl. Literature
I found it in the YA section in the library a few days ago. Having been let by YA stuff before, I put it back, but now I think I want to try it. The protagonist is a boy in a high school who, while highly intelligent, has the worst grades in the school. (He may be Brilliant, but Lazy, but the synopsis also kinda gives the impression that he has an Ambiguous Disorder.) His ex girlfriend is found murdered. (It's possible that he is the prime suspect, or has been framed.) He is helped in his investigation by a Punch-Clock Hero cop, who only wants to catch the killer because he wants a promotion. The cover was very flashy, like one of those neon signs in a bar window, or a nightclub.
Edited by n341100openOld NES-style RPG; free download for PC Videogame
I started this game years ago, but deleted it shortly after making some progress. Now I've got the itch to pick it up again! Here's an overview of what I remember:
The title screen is entirely red text on a black background, with messages making reference to a mannequin.
The protagonist is a silent girl who wakes up in a deep cave, with no explanation, backstory, or tutorial; it just drops you into gameplay. The girl gets up and begins to leave the cavern, fighting off bats with her sword and opening treasure chests (I forget what their contents were). Along the way out, a side path leads to an empty room... except it's not empty, since there's a spirit present! It longs for a physical body, a request the protagonist is happy to grant.
Think Dragon Quest for the overworld; a wide-open tile map, with overworld enemy encounters. Once the girl gets to the nearby town to figure out what to do next, another girl greets her and prompts the player to go explore the town. The town shop, in particular, leads to some equipment purchasing... and some surprise plot! There's a mannequin in the corner of the shop — a perfect match for the spirit! But it's too expensive, so to take it off the shopkeep's hands, the girl accepts an offer to kill a monster in a nearby cave.
Fast-forward past the dungeon-exploration, and the girl makes it to the bottom of the cave... to find another girl there, tense for a fight, too! That girl prompts to join forces with the player, then urges the player to turn around and purchase some Fire Arrows from the shop. Fire's the boss's weakness, you see! One boss fight later, and the girls emerge from the cave, provide the spirit her new mannequin body, and find the town greeter girl again.
The four of them discuss the fact that they're on an island away from the mainland (a fact the protagonist doesn't appreciate, since she's pretty lost and all). To get back, they discuss two options. There's buying and using a "Teleport" scroll, and earning the "Portal" skill by defeating a certain overworld enemy.
(Laconic: Lost girl fights her way out of a cave, then goes out of her way to give a spirit a physical body.)
Combat is similar to Earthbound Beginning's mechanics, though with a suitable background Dragon Quest-style and some left-right scrolling in the field to show up to 5 enemies at a time.
I've tried off-site to look for this game here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/comments/4pqqcz/pc2013_nesesque_rpg/
But it's probably better to ask here, since I'm 99% sure I followed a link from a Trope/Work page. I'd appreciate any ideas/extra questions!
EDIT: Found it! The title's "red". You can view it here, if you'd like: http://vault.digitalmzx.net/show.php?id=2032
Edited by IndigoWareopenAIRED ON AUSTRALIAN CHILDRENS CHANNEL BETWEEN 2000-2010 Western Animation
Hi, I have never used this forum, or intact any other forum before so please be patient as I am learning. I am trying to recall a tv show that aired on either abc 1,2 or 3 between 2000-2008. As I recall it, it was about a girl stuck in a sort of magazine/book where she found adventure tearing through pages each episode. A boy from the real world would somehow open the book she was in and was somehow sucked into the book and they would find adventure in it. Then at the need of the episode the boy would come out of the world and she would be left in the book for another day. I need help remembering the name, its been bugging me for about a month now and i'm at my wits end.
The animation style of the tv show was sort of like collage style where the characters and their surroundings look cut out Thanks for the help guys :) and sorry if this doesn't make much sense, I am not born in Australia
Edited by INeedUrgentHelpopenKids book about an ice-breathing dragon Literature
I'm trying to recall the title of a book I read as a kid- the main character was a dragon called Flash (I am almost 100% certain, since he had a little sister who couldn't pronounce the L in his name) who, due to some accident or other, couldn't breathe fire like everyone else, but could only breathe cold air and frost instead. The characters were all dragons, in the broad "anthropomorphised animals" sense, no humans involved from what I can remember. I vaguely remember it being a "one mini-plot per chapter" book- one chapter would be about a sports day, another about a hiking trip, etc. I can't remember the title, author, or any other specific details, which is making looking it up really difficult! Anyone remember this book?
openSome kind of supernatural Batman-wannabe show? Live Action TV
I'm trying to remember the name of this show that had a domino-masked protagonist. Apparently, it involves demons or something. One episode that I can recall is about some girl in a Catholic convent has a magical macguffin that the bad guys (one of them being some kind of BDSM nun?) want and apparently were responsible for her parents' death. And she was half-demon too.
openLooking for this T.V. show episode
Wasn't there this episode in Braceface... - That had a pool at the start and end (Probably not part of the main plot) - Had these 2 enemy girls - Similar to Revenge of the Nerds in plot. - Comparable to The Mighty B! episode "Dragonflies" ? I'm sure it exists, i mean, i've talked to others and they remember it. I think there was one in Lizzie Mc Guire also. Anyone remember it?
Hi, I wonder if anyone could help me remember a book I read in around 1985-1986.
A boy lives in a city in the future (it's a domed city I believe) and with the help of an old man he can time travel. He goes back to be an evacuee in world war 2 but when he returns to the future city he finds the memory fading (he can't remember the colour of the panel on the piano they used to sing around for example).
He also travels to the future where humanity has gone outside again and there are acres of fields. A robot sprays them with a pink spray that they can only remove with gin when they return to their present (the future city).
There is also a brutal gang headed by a girl who is pretty and cruel and their paths cross at various times during his time travel - she is his nemesis.
Any idea what the book was? Many thanks, Timmo
Edited by timmo