Thunderbirds: Hidden Danger Diary - Day 2

JEFF: *sobs* She has no money...

*Everyone looks at each other, worried*

SCOTT: Dad, don't worry. I've a feeling we will give our friend money from your bank.

JEFF: Son...what I'm saying is, those cruel peers in the real world give her money, but not us.

SCOTT: But without money, she won't be going to T T Retro ever again, amen!

JEFF: What's more important, buddy? Us...or them?

*Hold a beat*

ALAN: Us, dad. We matter. Especially us.

TIN TIN: And by us, I mean me, Alan and Brains. We're her favourite members of our team, and yet, we still think Brains might be a traitor after the release of the second comic anthology.

*Brains cries in the corner*

JEFF: Something has to be done.

ALAN: Please don't punish him, dad...

TO BE CONTINUED....

Ditch The Dung

"Hello, Tin Tin here. As you know, my friend bought an inappropriate comic for mature readers from T T Retro, named The Dung Boys. Even though she loved a character that looked vaguely similar to me, named Lulu, she and her family still found that comic highly inappropriate.

So, to avoid the ban, ladies and gentlemen, she's encouraging herself and all of you to avoid comics and books in T T Retro with inappropriate content. She calls this technique, Ditch The Dung. All you have to do for this technique is find a comic you like, and if it's aimed for mature readers should you ask the counter man if it has adult content or not, you should go around the shop and find an alternative kid friendly DVD, book or comic of your choice.

Remember: anything horrid with content that isn't for kids is ditched. This is Tin Tin from International Rescue signing off.

Over and out!"

10 Ideas On How To Do Stories Without Ever Actually Writing Them

1. Write your stories as snail mail to a friend
2. Draw love hearts with your favourite parts of the stories inside them
3. Write a playlist themed around your story
4. Keep an imagination diary themed around one of your stories
5. Use an index notebook as a Fandex book...
6. ...or a world building book
7. Read comic books from T T Retro and make a diary around each of your ideas
8. Tell the stories to your soft toys
9. Pick a body wash or perfume scent and tell the rest of the story based around it
10. Write a list of your favourite scenes

X - Files

This I've got to see.

Sure, ReBoot parodied it, and it lead to Bob's death, but now thanks to the lovely lads at T T Retro, I am going to get either the DVD or the books underneath the comic boxes. Aliens, here I come!

TNN Presents, In Association With The Daily Planet:

T T Retro Cures Blog Creator's Hiccups!

Here at the Daily Planet, we are delighted to inform you that T T Retro has officially cured a blog curator's hiccups!

When she went out with her support worker, she got a bad case of the hiccups from eating a big lunch after a horrid storm too quickly. As always, she got a bad case of the hiccups, but who do you call when the chips are literally down? Certainly not Superman, that's for sure.

"The owners of T T Retro definitely cured our friend's hiccups," remarked Tracy Island resident Tin Tin, one of her friends. Being an engineer all her life since 1965, she has been glad to have other jobs as well - her true one is caring for her dear little friend. "I never knew a comic book store would be an unexpected cure for her hiccups, but it was."

"She has been a truly brave soldier, confronting her hiccups through her interests," commented Bucky O'Hare, member of the S.P.A.C.E patrol.

"She's surely found her cure this time, Snarf Snarf!" added Snarf, long time member of the Thundercats.

Here's hoping that whenever one of you comic book fans comes across this wonderful store when you have hiccups, being interested in something would cure you and rid you of hiccups once and for all.

A Video To Welcome Twiki Home...

"The year is 1987, and - hang on, TWIKI! What the heck are you doing here?!"

"Bidibidibidibidibidi. I'm taking over narration duties from now on. After all, S.Y. did buy me and Buck, didn't she?"

"Uuuuuh riiigghhhtt...AAARGH!"

CRASH!

"Ha ha! That served him right! Now where was I? Oh yes! The year is 2026, and T T Retro still has Buck Rogers on DVD for sale. On a delightful shopping trip, S.Y and her support worker arrived at T T Retro to buy the DVD itself, thank God, and returns me to her house 3 hours later.

As an honor to have me as part of her family, here, on behalf of her and her friends from International Rescue, is a video of my favourite music. Bidibidi!"

*He means enjoy*

Changing The Plot

If reading the same old story is becoming tiring and boring, and you find that writing book reviews is getting as dusty as an old library shelf, here's something you can do to spruce things up a bit.

All you do is CHANGE THE CHARACTERS AND SETTINGS! I did it two times: last night, and early this morning.

Now, last night since I had gotten used to Thunderbirds Are Go (2015) at last, I had changed Andy to Parker, the giant evil duck to a giant evil pug and Andy and Mel Gibbons to Scott, Virgil and the rest of International Rescue - the CGI versions who are so evil we don't even know what's going on! BOOOOOOOO!!!

And this morning, I changed Daisy into me, her mum into Lady Penelope, and all her friends into my favourite characters plus the school into T T Retro, as we try to ponder and discuss why T T Retro is more fun than any average shop in the high street it's set up in.

And tomorrow morning, everything will change. It's a completely random activity where you can do whatever you like with a boring average story, so anything can happen...

...unlike Saturday Mash Up constantly having Strictly stars appear as guests and no one else. [CENSORED]!

The Transition

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but to keep things light and simple on my blog, thanks to a support worker, I've turned my attention to poetry. I hope it makes you happy to notice that poetry melts away stress and makes the world a better place - not just for me, but for everyone. You, me, and my new friend up here, HeroBear.

He Man Vol.1: A Review

Ha ha, Orko, you beat the loser He Man to it! With snow powers like your's, you could cool down a hot day in double quick time - even one I was out in. It was so hot yesterday, I could do with some of your powers. Anyway, this comic is AWESOME!

And I rank it 10 out of 10 Power Swords.

Howard The Duck #21: A Review

Howard the Duck #21 by Steve Gerber
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Howard The Duck was surprisingly new to me.

As a kid I have enjoyed such kid friendly Marvel heroes such as Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, Hulk and of course, everyone's favourite, Spider Man, but this? This one is different.

Before I met him, I knew little about Howard...but then, I got this vintage comic, and things went over the hill and over the moon - literally.

While I put on a Donald Duck style voice for Howard, I put on beefy, wideboy, geezer and funny voices for the other characters, including the unmistakably creepy Soofi.

A must have for new grown up Marvel fan readers!

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A T T Retro Review: Doctor Who: The Horns Of Nimon

At first glance, The Horns Of Nimon might seem like a very boring vintage Doctor Who story to you guys, with just the Fourth Doctor, Ramona and no one else to accompany them. However, once you see K9 with them, you're SO IN! And that's what makes these kinds of Doctor Who Tom Baker DVDs so special to me - not only is Baker great as Doctor Four, and John Leeson as K9 too, but this studio-bound story is much more soothing than the later filmed-on-location stories starring David Tennant. The Blue Peter documentary that accompanies it makes it much more fun, as it brings us back to a time when CBBC wasn't all about algorithm, and they weren't like "WATCH IPLAYER OR WE'LL RIP YOUR HEAD OFF!"

And I rank this DVD 10 out of 10 Jelly Babies.

A T T Retro Review: Doctor Who & The Macra Terror

Using lost audio files from the archives, the missing Doctor Who four part adventure The Macra Terror featuring The Second Doctor and his pals Jamie, Ben and Polly, is lovingly crafted and animated by Sun & Moon Productions, aka the studio behind those ripoffs of Hey Duggee and Yakka Dee. However, I have to admit that the mix of modern animation and old studio-recorded dialogue recorded live back in the '60s is a bit eerie and creepy, but enjoyable. If you've had enough of Creature Comforts and want an action adventure animation with voices recorded on set, then this is the cartoon for you!

And I rank this DVD 5 out of 5 Macra pincers.

A T T Retro Review: Thunderbirds ft. Brains

It's nice to see Lady Penelope and Parker play a major role in Brink Of Disaster and The Duchess Assignment, and comparing the Duchess Of Royston's elderly age with Lady Penelope being a pure young woman contrasts human beauty easily. However, in the next two episodes, Alan and Tin Tin play roles, mainly Tin Tin's father, Kyrano, as they deal with aliens and giant crocs.

And I rank this DVD 5 out of 5 Croc Prints.

A T T Retro Review: Thunderbirds ft. Alan

The absence of Lady Penelope and Parker on this DVD really puts me off a bit, but hey, at least we still got Brains, Alan, Tin Tin and especially John, who fills in for Alan on Earth while his brother is aboard Thunderbird 5. At least he still cares about his little baby girl.....me, presumably....

And I rank this DVD 4 out of 5 International Rescue patches.

A T T Retro Review: Thunderbirds With Lady Penelope & Parker

I think this Thunderbirds DVD goes really well with that Nice & Easy CD of Irish pop songs I got from the charity shop - THAT GOT 8,000 VIEWS ON GMAPS! Anyway, one episode from the DVD that stuck out to me was The Cham Cham, because Lady Penelope and Tin Tin acted like best friends on this DVD, as if Double-T were Lady P's daughter and she was her mother.

I rank this DVD 10 out of 10 wine glasses......milady.🤣

A T T Retro Review: Thunderbirds, With Tin Tin Kyrano

All the stories on this DVD were as charming as Tin Tin herself - Alias Mr Hackenbacker was quite soothing and soft as Lady Penelope, I found Tin Tin's dancing in Ricochet to be a bit wobbly but still kinda fun, but the one that stood out to me was Give & Take A Million, the Christmas episode, because it ended the original puppet shows on a low stakes note - just how I like it.

And I rank this DVD 10 out of 10 tiger stripes.

Thunderbirds & Captain Scarlet: A Review

 

Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds Annual by Anonymous
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Such soft, gentle reading.
The comics were an easy read, but I am afraid the long pieces of text were not. I had to stop just after the Thunderbirds 'Mind Machine' strip because it made me go all dreamy. My true favourite bits were the funny cartoons, which included a racist reference that would not be acceptable today - the joke involved Space aliens, and it should spark outrage if it were published today.

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A T T Retro Review: Stingray With Troy Tempest

Stingray is just as awesome this year as it's always been! My favourite episode on the DVD was 'In Search Of Treasure' - Phones and Oink were so cute together. Although, I prefer Oink with Marina and Phones with his little puppy Bertie.

I rank this DVD a ten out of ten starfishes.

Orko Is Strong, Like King Kong!

Orko is strong, like King Kong!

He Man is weak, throw him in the creek!

Hi there, I'm Orko! I don't suspect you have seen me on this blog for a very long time, not since last night. Well, every afternoon is tech time for me and Furaha, and tonight might be a good time for me to tell you about how our friend [SWORD SHWING TO AVOID MY REAL NAME] found me and took both me and my new friends, Atlanta and Marina, home!

So first off, she and her support worker stopped off at Tesco to get a special picnic feast to get 8,000 views for her photos of the Highland Charity Shop on Google Maps. Yeah, you heard me, 8,000 views! It was a landmark achievement. When Furaha and I heard that, Furaha cheered as our carer Optimus swung her around over his head, while I magicked up confetti which fell out of nowhere and I blew a noisemaker like it's a trumpet. Anyway, they bought sausage rolls and chicken poppers and Coke and Babybel and a Galaxy Choc Bar.

And guess what else?

A Bluey Fleece Blanket! I bet she's gonna use it in bed tonight, and rub her cheek against it to remember this day. I rub my non-exposable cheeks against Furaha's fur to get me to sleep when I have nightmares of He Man. Talking of which...

When my friend arrived at T T Retro, there were more exciting things! British made TV shows, Walking With Dinosaurs on DVD, Doctor Who and Transformers comics, and guess what else? 2002 Masters Of The Universe comics! You heard me, 2002 Masters Of The Universe comics! This is not a drill, it's for real! And the comic she chose was Power Of Fear, something Mattel did for the 2005 Dream Halloween event for children with AIDS. She was so lucky to have bought both of them, and her Mum agreed she could buy a DVD AND a comic! Believe it or not, this kid's walkin' on air!

Then it's off to the newsagents, and the bad news is: there were kids in there. So they ordered a kids' puzzle magazine, and hot-footed it outta there. They were originally supposed to go to the sweet shop, but there was nowhere - I mean, nowhere at all - to park on a Friday. So they went to Home Bargains, and that was when my friend read about me trying to save He Man, who along with his friends threw racist remarks at me like insult-filled water balloon dodgeballs.

The funny part about this is Stinkor being chased by items that may suggest he needs a bath because of how stinky his bottom is. Bleaurgh! But not only was I her highlight of the comic, the main highlight was the hopeful last few pages, with He Man giving us a Children Living With AIDs message and those auction adverts, plus, an exciting advert for the then-new He Man website. I wish I could go on there...

...AND HIJACK THEM!

SSSSHHHH!

Oh, Furaha. It's you.

FURAHA: *whispers loudly* Of course it's me. And I have something else to tell. My friend slept for two whole hours, until 2:36. And now she's online, typing all this up in our voices.

ORKO: So....you think we're still friends?

FURAHA: Of course we're still friends.

(Both of them hug softly, sighing gently)

He Man's Power Of Fear: A Review

Masters of the Universe Power of Fear Dream Halloween 2003 by Val Staples
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This comic is actually such fun to read!
The part where Scare-Glow makes Stinkor visualise having a bath and running away from it is hilarious, but Orko's role in this battle makes it worth it. Having it support a Halloween event from 2005 for children with AIDS makes it more heartwarming.
Definitely reading again.

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