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BLISTERING BARNACLES! All Tintin's adventures?!

Advantages: All the gripping Tintin cartoons in one smashing box
Disadvantages: The theme tune will get stuck in your head

...books written and illustrated by the famous Belgian 'Herge'. These delightful stories are about a young reporter called Tintin and his faithful dog / sidekick Snowy. Tintin and snowy alway appear to get themselves into all sorts of sticky (and dangerous) situations with mobsters, the mafia and other such criminal ruffians. Highly entertaining stuff, with a few highly entertaining friends thrown in for good measure. Friends of Tintin that feature ...
...the memorable Captain Haddock (who is a little slow witted sometimes, and says a range of colourful, yet suitable for young ears, expletives). This is an absolute MUST for all Tin tin fans. This most excellent box set contains the cartoon series in its entirity, that is over 14 hours! It's presented in a set of 10 DVDs all in slimline cases with a Tintin biography booklet bound in a charming outer case. The outer case is made of sturdy cardboard ...

JuzzaNg 07.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of The Adventures Of Tintin 75th Anniversary (Box Set) (DVD)

Good for kids & a trip down memory lane

Advantages: Good value for money, 13 hours of cartoons! can choose which individual cartoons to watch,
Disadvantages: None

A blast from the past, you could call this. I'm not sure quite how much I can say about this but considering how often I've thought that as I start to type out a review and end up surprised how long it ends up being, I'll give this one a go as well! This definately brings back memories to me, back when I was a young child at the weekend, Saturday evenings during the late 1980s to be more exact, I remember sitting down in front of the living room ...
...our room. The cartoons may have been old even then but I quite clearly remember my eyes being fixed on the TV, waiting to see what this cool character would do next and how he would infruriate that guy with the big nose every time (you know the one!). This DVD set is certainly good value for money, in my opinion, costing less than £20 and giving you over 120 (124 in total) of the original cartoons (which everyone seems to think are the best, I can't ...

IzzyS 21.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection (Animated) (DVD)

Speed of Your Penceload Must Defeat My Eyebold

Advantages: Bravely boring exit point for Anderson's puppet career.
Disadvantages: It doesn't really work.

...deservedly almost completely forgotten is the final project of Gerry Anderson's highly lucrative Supermarionation franchise of the late sixties, continuing in the tradition of its predecessor 'Joe 90' to distance Anderson's work from the action-packed science fiction clichés of his more popular projects. It was also allegedly Anderson's personal favourite of his puppet series in a prime example of the "I have done other things" frustration often ...
...silly show is better than the classic 'Stingray' are quite clearly unreasonable, but watching this series back as an adult (or something in that general area), it has a lot to offer as a self-conscious commentary of Supermarionation in its twilight year. Even owning the video as a child, I found it amusing for somewhat different reasons than I suspect were intended. Where Thunderbirds, Stingray and most of the other, previous, better series focused ...

Frankingsteins 21.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Secret Service - The Complete Series (DVD)

choo choo!

Advantages: keeps them quiet while you make dinner!
Disadvantages: they will want ALL the merchandise!

if this was my 2year old writing the review then it would get an excellent. he loves it. as soon as he comes down in the morning he says choo choo dvd. of course i dont let him watch it first thing in the morning! the dvd has a good selection of episodes though im sure they used to last longer. they almost seem cut short to make more stories out of each episode if you know what i mean. I also found some are on the dvd in the wrong order. for example ...
...sent away you are wondering why Diesel hates Duck. then a few episodes along the line (no pun intended) you find out that Duck played a trick on Diesel and got the trucks to laugh at him. It wouldnt have taken much effort for them to get it in the right order! that wont effect your little ones im sure, but if its a rainy day and you are stuck watching it too it will bug you! each episode lasts 5 mins or so and the music starts to bug you too. but ...

helenwhitaker 26.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - The Very Best Of (DVD)

Thomas on track?

Advantages: Hours of fun.
Disadvantages: Difficult to watch what you want to!

...Thomas and his friends star in the first of five DVD`s,comprising of 26 episodes all previously shown on T.V but put together for one compilation. Thomas and his friends (introducing Gordon, Henry, Edward, James, Percy and many more) live and work on the island of Sodor, surrounded by sea it boasts a timber yard, flour mill ,coal mine and of course the docks!. Over 2 hours of adventures will have the children entertained (and many adults!). Find ...
...1/ Thomas and Gordon - Thinking he is the most useful engine but undoubtebly being the cheekiest Thomas`s teasing of Gordon comes back to haunt him! 2/ Edward and Gordon - Edward goes out for the day and pulls coaches much to the annoyance of the bigger engines, but Edward proves his worth when he pushes Gordon up the hill. 3/ The Sad story of Henry - Its been raining so as not to spoil his smart green paint he hides in a tunnel and wont come out!. ...

dazmufc 20.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Classic Collection - Series 1 (DVD)