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Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Mine Are My Men

In the year 1983, a young 23 year old man named Regan lives a simple, carefree life of collecting action figures, skateboarding and spending holidays at the local caravan park. His other most favourite interests include the new He Man & The Masters Of The Universe cartoon, and all the action figures, which he's collected right before the TV series premiered. Every day, he watches it on Children's ITV as much as he could, but doesn't tell any of his friends about his obsession, saying 'I'm into knights and Star Wars.'. One night, finding out how lonely he is, he decides to make a wish upon a star for someone to live with him. The next morning, when he wakes up and prepares to go to the skate park to meet up with his friends, he is suddenly greeted by the arrival of Prince Adam himself, alongside his friends Teela, Man-At-Arms, Cringer and of course Orko, his favourite character in the show. The group find themselves spending time together, particularly Orko, who comes to Regan's aid when he finds out one of his friends had died of drug abuse. Regan and his new roommates gladly spend a lot of time together as the young man comes to terms with the loss of his friend.

Hello Tracy

Jane, a 24-year-old woman with downs syndrome, thinks her life in London in the early 2000's is every she could've ever wanted. Support workers who love her, autism-friendly places like the park, the swimming pool and the cupcake shop, and a special interest that she could never break apart from: CBBC and its latest show, The Story Of Tracy Beaker. As the show becomes an instant classic, Jane realises her support workers all have a cold and can't take her out, so she is most surprised when Tracy Beaker herself turns up on the doorstep of her flat with a sign around her neck stating: 'Need a good home - and fast'. Instantly, Jane decides to adopt Tracy and doesn't care about her bad girl attitude. Although she feeds her nice, nourishing food, Tracy still sneaks sweets from the cupboard, and even though they watch Disney movies together, Tracy still wants to watch horror movies and scary things on Channel 4. In fact, Jane gets so scared when she sees Tracy watching a scary countdown special on Channel 4 on Halloween 2003 that she has to hide in the bed until Tracy got tired. Still, the two find that although they have their share of differences, they can embrace the bad girl inside both of them.

Bog off!

Any Halloween Spent With You

Inspired by the Halloween scene in Robot Dreams.
Furaha and Orko are taking part in the Halloween festivities, and Furaha is dressed up as a princess, while Orko is dressed as a wise Trollan king. As they hand out candy to the children outside their door, they relax and share candy together, talking about how fun it is to spend Halloween together. As Orko stands in the shower and scrubs his body everywhere, he thinks about the time Furaha celebrated her first Halloween as a baby.

Friends Away From Home

It's the year 2003, and a shy little autistic girl named Paris lives in a log cabin in the woods near the river with her father and mother. She is quite happy here, isolated from the rest of the world and helping her family with their chores every day. Her source of inspiration comes from the special interests she watches in her free time: The Lion King films, and the series Transformers Armada on Up On The Roof and He Man on Toonami. So it comes as no surprise to the young girl when three visitors, one huge and two small, show up on her doorstep. Upon making friends with Furaha, Orko and Optimus, Paris learns to insert a bit of play and freedom into the working days, and the family even helps build a huge barn to fit Optimus, since he's huge and about the size of a house.

My Little Orko

Jolene is a young 6-year-old girl who is diagnosed with autism. Her mum is truly understanding, as is the rest of her family, but at primary school she gets bullied a lot by her friends. The only comfort she has in her life are her special interests: her He Man & The Masters Of The Universe action figures and the He Man series airing on the then-new Toonami channel (well, it is 2003 after all). One day while she and her mum are walking home from school, Jolene encounters a cardboard box with a little wizard sitting inside, crying and shivering. With her Mum's kind permission, the girl decides to take the wizard home. Finding out his name is Orko and seeing his face is in shadow doesn't harm Jolene a bit, as she spends all her days playing with her new family member and sharing in every moment with her. But the moment they move to a new home and start unpacking, Jolene catches Orko seeing something wrong with his life in Eternia on screen...

My Little Nutty

During a dentist appointment, a young 24 year old woman with downs syndrome named Lori discovers that too much candy and soda causes her teeth to erode, so she has to live off them. Now living on balanced meals and water, Lori tries to calm her worries by watching her favourite show, Happy Tree Friends, on DVD as much as she can. One day, she finds a baby green squirrel wearing candy and screaming in sadness. She realises it must be Nutty and takes him in as her own. She then realises that according to the note, she has to feed Nutty candy as part of his regular diet, but has to hide Nutty's diet from others, including her dentist, in case they get very angry with her.

My Little Furaha

Orko lives all alone in a little house in the countryside. He does all the cooking and cleaning, but is so bored he never has any time to have some fun or play like he used to. Every day he would flick through his photo album of all the fun he had with his parents...but due to all the bullying received from Prince Adam and his friends, he never got the chance to cut loose. One day, he finds a baby lioness cub abandoned outside his doorstep and decides to raise her as her own, calling her 'Furaha', a Swahili word for 'Happiness'. Immediately he abandons his chores and goes all out to take care of his little friend, talking, laughing, playing and being like a little family, under one sheltered blossom tree.

Cocoon

An Australian man who once did the illustrations for the most famous manga in the country loses his job due to one of his co-workers having an accident, and spends all time at home watching anime, particularly Transformers Cybertron and Dragon Ball Z. One fateful day while out for a walk, he comes across a red light in the hallway. Trying to see who it is, he finds a very young Jetfire sitting alone, crying. The manga illustrator decides to take him in and at first uses him to make his own manga, but then decides to teach him how to become a manga artist and embrace the term, 'Be a lover, not a fighter'.

Rarity's Wish Wash

Rarity lives with her human mother in a little house in the countryside, where she feels most at home and has abandoned making dresses to be a countryside girl. One day, it's bathtime, and her mother chases Rarity around the house when she cheekily refuses to have a bath, ending with Rarity grumpily obliging to do so.

My Christmas With The Mane 6

A young autistic girl whose special interest happens to be My Little Pony lives with Princess Celestia and the Mane 6 fillies in an apartment in London. On Christmas Eve, she prepares for Santa's arrival with her family, and then snuggles with her six filly friends in bed, hoping Father Christmas would soon be here. The next morning, they race downstairs to see what Father Christmas had brought them, since they were all good little girls.

My Little Captain Scarlet

A long-time action figure collector feels depressed after splitting up with his abusive girlfriend, who at first seemed interested in what he collects but has soon grown tired of it. His life changes however, when he finds a young marionette puppet boy called Scarlet in a cardboard box outside the local comic book store. Throwing a rock at him, he realises he is indestructible and decides to take him in. As Scarlet grows into an adult, he comes to realise the truth behind why he was left in the real world in the first place.

Football Head Dad

A retired football player finds a new lease on life when he adopts and raises Nickelodeon favourite Arnold to be his own son. Soon, a strong bond develops between the two, though the man finds Arnold strange at first, they soon grow to love each other. When Arnold reaches the exact age he was in the TV series, he decides to do something extraordinary to save his dad's mortgage from worsening.

My Little Furaha & Orko

The year is 2002. A 24 year old autistic woman is obsessed with watching He Man and The Lion King since she is always bullied by her so-called friends, except her best friend Loris, when at the local Youth Hub. When the 2002 He Man came out, she was over the moon, and Orko instantly became her favourite character. One day, a four year old Orko and a baby lioness cub named Furaha end up at her doorstep, with a note telling to April, our young woman character, to take care of them. As she forms a strong bond with them, she becomes honest about Orko's magic and why he's made for Furaha, but hides everything from them when she watches them in private. When the truth is suddenly revealed, Orko is shocked and distraught. Will April make amends to him and find some way to help him and his lioness cub sister with finding refuge from the cartoons?