The Ramblings of Guise Dugal

Guise looks at the legendary helmet weapons of MASK and VENOM, and ponders on how much of it is actually feasible these days. Luckily, Guise is lazy and also failed Craft, Design & Technology in Secondary School.

I recently touched on my desire for my own personal recording device in the form of a robot camera that could follow me around and capture all those little moments that always seem so awesome and worth sharing, but which never come across as any more than a “eh, you had to be there” in [...]

Ninja Night! Ninja Night! Ninja Night! Ninja Night! Ninja Night! Ninja Night! Ninja Night! So for Friday night I decided that I was going to have a night of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and wanted to write about something that always stuck with me about the movie. No, it isn’t a review of the movie, [...]

NaBloPoMo: Day Nine (Delayed to 16/07/09) I’ve mentioned before my love of the Dreadnoks from the GI Joe toy range, so thought I’d just provide a simple overview of the guys and girls that make up one of the best gangs in anytown. Zartan The leader of the Dreadnoks and fairly out of place in [...]

NaBloPoMo: Day Seven (Delayed to 14/07/09) As a bit of a filler for the day, I thought I’d share some British comedy with you. Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller carry on the tradition of british comedy duos – something that has become almost institutional in the county and a source of much success for entertainers [...]

NaBloPoMo: Day Five (Delayed to 11/07/09) I’ve mentioned before about how my brothers and I grew up on Action Force, the UK re-brand of GI Joe, and about my support for COBRA and the Dreadnoks over the good guys of the series – for one thing, Cobra actually had a uniformed military organisation and supporting [...]

As I’ve previously stated, I loved the Dreadnoks when I was younger, and still hold a soft spot for them to this day. Though the cartoon version of the ‘noks portrayed them as brainless, incompetent goons who were more like childish bullies than a deadly gang, the comic portrayed them in a different light. All [...]

Being born in 1981, I grew up in what I’d consider one of the Golden Ages for children’s toys. As a child there was always a new fad to get in to and a new idea just emerging to take over from that one. Regrettably, there were two things standing in my way from fully [...]

One of my favourite tropes in horror and thriller productions – be it in a film, television show or even video game – is the use of Creepy Little Children. Granted, this has at times been overdone, especially where companies try to reproduce the success of a story in either a shoddily made sequel or [...]

Bow down, bow down before the power of Santa Or be crushed, be crushed by His Jolly Boots of Doom Santa, Invader Zim So, Christmas Day is drawing to a close. Presents have been had, food has been cooked and consumed, and I’m actually now eager for another Christmas next year – this is something [...]

In the 1990s, BBC2 ran a television show that some might remember called Glam Metal Detectives which was a sketch/sitcom style show that contained a sort of channel-hopping theme throughout the show. Amongst the channels was Bloodsports TV which featured yobs taking part in car park fights and ram raiding, with play-by-play commentary. There are [...]

The first book of the Discworld series that I ever read, my favourite of the series, the book I re-read at least once a year and the book I often either recommend or give as a present to peple, was and is Hogfather. Hogfather as a book is as chock full of humour, cynicism and [...]

With the launch of another I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here, I got in to discussion with Andy from the office about new show ideas (akin to my suggestions back in February 2004 What’s (Not) On TV) and came up with a few. I’M A CELEBRITY’S BIG BROTHER SURVIVOR – GET ME OUT OF [...]

Yes, I am slightly behind the crowd, but I finally got around to watching Pirates of the Caribbean – Curse of the Black Pearl. I hadn’t really spared the time to catch it in the cinema, and didn’t have the inclination to buy or rent it on DVD, however, when I saw Heth she mentioned [...]

It was quite a good episode, I was wondering what was going to be in the Genesis Ark the Daleks brought, especially when it was Time Lord technology. The confrontation between Cybusmen and Daleks is something I’ve longed for since, well since there were Cybermen to want it for. I did like a few key [...]

Last weeks episode of Doctor Who, though providing an interesting point of view and a fair few laughs, was a very weak link for taking the series. This was remedied with Fear Her, an episode that follows a few really basic suspense points that have always scored high: children are scary when they are strange; [...]

The Ood race from Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet Originally uploaded by BBC. Last nights episode of Doctor Who, a Doom-esque two-parter, was both a mix of good and bad elements. The overall story of a planet in a locked position before a black hole, that has an evil force contained within, was very nice. [...]

Ok, so I’ve really seen some fun stuff lately. A canadian kids show called Monster Warriors and new Doctor Who. MW is a series that takes cheap B-movies with crap special effects, dodgy scripts and bad acting, it pumps them full of modern-age zazz and technology. The end result is a fun show with dodgy [...]

Ever since becoming aware of the beauty of CTRL+I in Windows Media Player to cap images, instead of having to use a different piece of software, I have slowly begun my cap-fest of things I love that I have the recordings of. I started it with the MagiRanger episodes and some key points to music [...]