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resolved Alien dogs Film
I think it was Disney, about a kid that finds a dog, but then the kid can understand dogs. And the dog explains he came from another planet to make sure a plan to dominate the planet is going through.
resolved Children's book about a sentient ocean wave Literature
I recently recalled a kid's book I once read as a kid but for the life of me can't remember its title. I wonder if any of you guys would remember it?
The basic premise is that this kid who loves being at the ocean manages to take a sentient ocean wave back home with him after a vacation. The book then details the kid and the wave's antics until the wave gets homesick for its ocean home and becomes depressed. I distinctly remember it raging in the kid's bedroom (while the kid watches in horror) and either it or the kid having a nightmare depicted in a full spread illustration of freaky sea monsters.
So...anybody else remember this book or its title? Repeated Google searches for kid's books about ocean waves didn't really turn up anything.
resolved Chinese Zodiac Warriors Western Animation
There was this series, I think it was on Nickelodeon, where there were some warriors that got power from some armbands that represented the chinese zodiac, and the main character had the dragon armband. But there were also a dark version of each one, and the Big Bad used the protagonist's twin sister as a minion, and gave her the dark dragon armband.
resolved Scenes from a Disney (?) SF series/television film (early 90') Live Action TV
A few scenes I believe belongs to the same work :
- A scene in the begining : In the near future, great cities are subjected to bouts of acid rain. There is public announcement when a shower is coming for bystanders to take cover. Our hero (a twenty-something young boy) has his "Save the cat" moment by helping an elderly woman trapped under the rain, and taking her to a shelter.
- The hero, among other people embarks on a vast spacecraft/ space platform. An automated sondtrack informs the newcomers there is a "multiconfessionnal chapel" aboard. (We don't get to actually see it, I think).
- The spacecraft/platform is attacked. An eccentric handyman propose to build a cannon. "A Cannon? This prehistoric weapon?!" utters the hero. (They build it eventually).
Does any of this ring a bell ? Thank you.
resolved Is there anything called FortunesPeak?
Is there anything called Fortunes Peak?
'Cause I found Characters.Fortunes Peak, which has no work page with the same name...
And no wicks to it either.
resolved Danny and the Dinosaur Literature
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Edited by dieseldragonsresolved Disney's dog movie Film
I think it was Disney...is about a kid and his military older brother. They end with the dog of the school principal and try to exhort him to take it back and later force him to do various humilating things.
resolved TV show about Human looking robot from the 80s and/or early 90s Live Action TV
As a child back in the mid-nineties, I can recall seeing an episode of a TV Show originally on the air (I believe either 80s or early 90s) about a robot that resembled an average human. The robot in question was played by an adolescent man (so no, this isn't Small Wonders). I can recall one moment in the episode in which the robot was trying to go through a metal detector, but obviously being made of metal, he kept making it go off. The robot even went down to his boxers and set it off and by that point the security guards assumed something was wrong with the metal detector and let him go.
Anyone know the title of the show?
resolved Young Teens' Book About Race Around World Literature
An American (Californian?) middle school-age boy is drafted into a race around the world, alongside several other children, including a girl named Susie (or Sara or something) from the Seychelles. The racers are sponsored by wealthy royals from monarchies that no longer exist; the protagonist's sponsor was a sheikh/caliph/etc. from a country that was swallowed up by the desert. The losing sponsors had to relinquish their royal claims; the main villain, a poacher (from Europe?), would therefore lose his diplomatic immunity. The protagonist told his mother he was going to summer camp, first traveled on a bus across the US, crossed Russia by train, and, in accordance with game rules, was detained for a day in Japan after trying to enter a subway train without paying (alongside his white drifter companion). The race was titled something like "the Great Global Game", and the initialism was reused differently throughout the book. For example, the protagonist told his drifter friend that "It's the Great Goosey Game, and I've just been cooked." during said subway incident.
resolved Probably the wrong lyrics but Film
There was this song I heard that had a female singer and the chorus sounded like "game on, gamer" (or maybe "gamer, game on", I can't remember). I'm pretty sure that's not right and I could barely hear it over the noise at the store, but it's the right number of syllables. I can't say what genre maybe pop?
resolved mecha anime Anime
I'm looking for a mecha anime, it aired during in the Netherlands but I'm not sure how old it really is. Here is what I remember there were three pilots with individual mecha. Naturally they combined in the regular way where each robot transforms either the arms legs or torso and head but they also had something I think was unique.
There was a fourth mecha separate from the three individual ones and they basically flew into from an opening in the back and transformed into their limb modes before it closed up again. Both combined forms typically required all three pilots or at least two of them to control.
At one point the pilots of the mechs that formed the arms and legs were in trouble without mechs and were saved by the four mech combined form assuming the remaining piot did all the work. In truth a support character, who I think was being trained as an emergency replacement for any of the three and who had messed with the settings of the mechs to make it easier for him, was acting as the second pilot.
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved A student becomes a princess Anime
I've seen this anime on Animax around the late 00's, where an ordinary high school student becomes a princess after wearing a crown that can't be taken off and has to carry the burden of being the princess. Joining her is her parents as servants, the crown thieves, a foreign prince trying to woo her, and a little girl claiming to be the wearer of the crown.
resolved [Solved] Black Jack Episode Anime
I was going through the Black Jack page, when I remembered the episode where a spoiled brat crashed his car and a guy who was innocent, but was made guilty. Dr. Black Jack operated on them both by himself where the guy who was innocent had his face and hair to look like the spoiled brat, who died. In the end he meets his mother and gets his face operated again and they flee Japan as the father would be looking for his son. I tried finding it on Wikipedia and the wiki but none of the episodes listed seem to fit it. Any help to which episode it could be would be much appreciated.
Edited by Animaltamerresolved No Title Live Action TV
I saw it in Russian, not sure what the original language was. It was probably a part of non-interconnected series (not long enough for a movie). The plot was that a woman hires an assassin to kill her brother. They go to the house where he is supposed to come next day and spend the night there (together). The next day, the brother arrives... in a wheelchair. The assassin says he can't do this, to which the woman replies it's fine - the plan wasn't to kill the brother. It was to kill the assassin, who was the one to put him in that wheelchair.
Edited by Omeganianresolved hero network Anime
I'm looking for a manga from the '10s. It's about a group of hero's, all from different worlds who give each other advice and help through a computer network.
resolved animated shorts, a moose getting sick Western Animation
trying to figure out a cartoon short i saw when i was a kid. i think the animation style was claymation, but i’m not positive. i remember a moose was playing catch with (i think) a raccoon. the raccoon has a cold though and the moose got some germs in him while playing. there might have been a scene with the germs singing. anyways, the moose got sick. for some reason, he went to a junk yard where some other animal was that tried to help him rest to get better. i think the moose mad a joke about not wanting to lie on a bed because he always tells the truth. i think this might’ve been part of a compilation of shorts because i remember a few details of different stories too... the other things i remember is a short about a boy caveman who was made fun of because he invented utensils and a story about someone locking death/the grim reaper in a chest so no one died. thanks in advance!
Edited by donatello-is-the-fellowresolved (non anthropomorphic?) dogs Western Animation
During the 90's I used to watch a show about, I think non anthropomorphic dogs, which could of course talk to each other. I don't think humans could understand humans could understand them though. In one episode in particular the leader got the idea to show that a diamond was fake by having all the howl high enough to break glass which of course caused it to shatter. It's possible the show is actually older since I saw in the Netherlands and it was definitely subbed
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So I'm looking for a themesong (I think) for something web orginal. Literrally all I can remember is the line "You won't even believe all of the hijinks that he did". Can anyone help?
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