Wednesday, 22 January 2020

The Little Friends Meet Enid Blyton - 23/1/20


  • Me, You, And...Little Friends: The Magic Of The Faraway Tree - Whenever the Little Friends encounter a dilemma, they head off to the Faraway Tree in search of new lands and adventures to solve each of their problems, with help of Moonface, Silky the fairy and Saucepan Man.
  • Me, You, And...Little Friends: The Adventures Of The Wishing Chair - The Little Friends find a magic rocking chair shaped charm which can transport them anywhere, take them on adventures and give them the amazing ability to fly.

Me, You, And...Little Friends: Say Hola To Enrique...& Amigo Bear!

This title primarily focuses on Amigo Bear, one of the Care Bears and Tenderheart Bear's rival, who finds the magic dragon scale on his birthday and is transported to Dragon Land, where he receives a magnificent birthday present - a Spanish speaking dragon named Salsa, who can use a special radio he wears round his neck to teach other dragons Spanish phrases. Instead of songs and poems in this title, there are short, Say It With Noddy-style passages which feature Salsa using his radio charm to teach Amigo, Emmy, Max, Ord, Cassie, Zak and Wheezie a Spanish word or two during daily situations in Dragon Land.

Lifetimes

I've decided to let Optimus Prime recite 'Lifetimes', the book explaining death to children, during a chapter in 'Me, You, And Transformers Armada' called 'Coping With This Together'. During the beginning of the chapter, a distressed Furaha has memories of her godparents' death back in Africa, and asks a reassuring Optimus why people like Prince and Earthia have to leave whilst people in her world keep on living with their immortality. It is then Optimus begins to recite the book's dialogue to her as they wander through various peaceful natural habitats. Optimus, as he talks, proudly watches Furaha climb a tree and try to hunt a rabbit then a mouse. They lie down in a flower field together, then suddenly butterflies surround them, and Furaha tries to chase one - because I've decided Furaha's favourite thing to do is chasing butterflies. In a stormy background, the two watch a large flock of birds fly over them as the wind blows Furaha's fur. They then approach a river, where Furaha tries to catch a fish, much to Optimus' amusement. But Furaha become saddened once again when the two reach the beach and Optimus tells her how long humans live, as far as his human friend Rad (who isn't featured in the story) told him. Optimus then takes Furaha in his arms and whispers to her:
"That is how things are. For plants, for people, for birds, for fish, for animals, even for the tiniest insects - everywhere."
"Everywhere?" asks Furaha.
"Yes. Everywhere." smiles Optimus.
The two then engage in a loving, warm hug whilst tears stream gently from Furaha's eyes, expressing her happiness and joy about living longer because everyone on earth has an immortality spark.

If it were adapted into a movie, then Rosi Golan's 'Lullaby' would be featured as background music.

Me, You, And...Little Friends: Franklin-Themed Stories

I've decided the lovable green turtle Franklin and his adventures would be part of the Little Friends lineup of stories. In each story, one or more of the Little Friends visits Franklin's hometown to share in his adventures and maybe learn something or two. I've even decided to think up a storyline where young Optimus Prime (Octavius) breaks his leg and Jetfire and Scattershot go to visit Franklin to make a home video to cheer up the hospitalized future Autobot leader.

  • Franklin's Expedition
  • Franklin The Trooper
  • Franklin's Go-Cart Race
  • Franklin's Valentines
  • Franklin's Christmas Gift
  • A Friend In Need
  • A Magic Christmas
  • Franklin & The Swimming Party

Me, You, And...Little Friends: Berry Best You Can Be - Manners Meltdown

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iAxGHZ_gXRkXN5BkMuTML7M5YNwcaD7WE0v9y7ZLUzY/edit
Custard and Pupcake are spending time indoors during the Buggy Ball. Whilst Pupcake has his nose into his dinner, Custard turns on the CD player and spends all her time dancing to the beautiful music that comes out. It seems the two pets are having a ball of their own!

If you're not going to read this lovely story, here's the trailer for the original Strawberry Shortcake film 'Sky's The Limit', the Me, You, And...version I'm going to do sometime soon:


Recapping My Diary

It's been decided: every Sunday, I'll recap my diary entries for this week straight out of it, accompanied by pictures, alongside a picture of my diary every week. I think I made a good choice getting that Winnie The Pooh diary for Christmas last year, as I get to write down what's occurring in each story, and the new ideas that halted what I'm going to do each day, like (spoilers) yesterday when stories related to Me, You, And Transformers: Cybertron's Guess How Much I Love You-War Of The Worlds style. I should've done it in the last few weeks, but whatever. This week, I think this month the pages are accompanied by a picture of Pooh whispering a secret into Eeyore the gloomy donkey's ear.

Worried That CBBC Might Be Causing Epileptic Fits?

I'm extremely worried about CBBC's impact on viewers with epilepsy. You see, CBBC has too much flashing images in their programmes and fast transitions. One of the skits in Diddy TV had flashing images, and I'm worried because all the other CBBC shows, including Scream Street, might incorporate quick, bright, alternating flashes in each of their shows every few seconds, just like in the banned Pokemon episode, 'Electric Soldier Porygon'. If CBBC did an event called 'Can You Make It Through The Week?' it would warn viewers to steer clear away from CBBC due to flashing images all week, because every second throughout the programmes aired, the screen will be brought up by quick flashes of red and blue, like in said Pokemon episode. This flashing might cause an estimated 685 British children to be hospitalized after suffering epileptic seizures - two of which will remain hospitalized for up to two weeks.

It's not just CBBC that's the case - a few years ago, CiTV's former programming block Action Stations had a warning that aired before episodes of Transformers and Yu-Gi-Oh about flashing images, in the case of epileptic viewers. So why can't they have a warning for epileptic viewers before each programme telling them about the flashing images featured in this programme? CBBC, if you're reading this, you've been warned about how you treat your viewers. Some might have epileptic seizures by now, so what if there was a disability-friendly version of CBBC for people who have autism or dyslexia or maybe even epilepsy? It would be great, but then the CBBC logo would be either purple or multiple colours.