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Robot Roll Call: Cambot!

25 February, 2010 (22:03) | Comic Books, Controlled Media, Mecha, Movies, Television, World Domination | By: Guise Dugal

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 [...]

The Youth Club We All Wanted…

21 August, 2009 (23:23) | Comic Books, Movies, Television, Toys, YouTube | By: Guise Dugal

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, as [...]

Know Your Dreadnoks

9 July, 2009 (23:59) | Comic Books, Television, Toys | By: Guise Dugal

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 that role in [...]

British Comedy with Armstrong & Miller

7 July, 2009 (23:59) | Filler, Television, YouTube | By: Guise Dugal

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 – and [...]

Cobra: Pyramids of Darkness

5 July, 2009 (23:59) | Books, Comic Books, Genetic Engineering, Mecha, Television, Toys, World Domination | By: Guise Dugal

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 named [...]

We still want to ride with the Dreadnoks

1 March, 2008 (16:44) | Comic Books, Television, Toys | By: Guise Dugal

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 [...]

We Still Love Cobra

2 February, 2008 (20:06) | Comic Books, Movies, Television, Toys, World Domination | By: Guise Dugal

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 [...]

We’re Scared of Creepy Little Children

17 January, 2008 (14:46) | Books, Games, Halloween, Movies, Music, Television | By: Guise Dugal

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 rival
product, however amongst [...]

My Two Front Teeth…

25 December, 2007 (22:47) | Christmas, Television, Toys | By: Guise Dugal

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 that rarely happens. I am, actually, [...]

BBC Loses Football, Here’s Some More Options

31 March, 2007 (20:02) | Controlled Media, Television, World Domination | By: Guise Dugal

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 times [...]

GlingleGlingleGlingle

18 December, 2006 (22:42) | Books, Christmas, Television | By: Guise Dugal

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 surreality [...]

What’s (Not) On TV – Part 2

13 November, 2006 (19:47) | Controlled Media, Television, World Domination | By: Guise Dugal

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 HEREA [...]

Yo-Ho-Ho

9 July, 2006 (21:07) | Movies, Television | By: Guise Dugal

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 [...]

Doctor Who Season Finale

8 July, 2006 (21:02) | Television | By: Guise Dugal

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 points, [...]

Fear The Little Hellraisers…

24 June, 2006 (20:01) | Television | By: Guise Dugal

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; [...]

Oh, R’lyeh…

4 June, 2006 (11:06) | Television | By: Guise Dugal

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. Granted the [...]

Monsters On The Telly…

15 April, 2006 (21:10) | Television | By: Guise Dugal

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 CGI [...]

Doctor, Doctor…

5 June, 2005 (14:32) | Television | By: Guise Dugal

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 [...]

MagiRanger – The Beauty of Vampiric Japanese Teenage Girls

1 June, 2005 (17:55) | Television | By: Guise Dugal

MagiRanger
Originally uploaded by Guise Dugal.
“But Guise, if you’ve been trapped indoors for several days, just how did you manage not to go crazy from cabin fever!?” Well, I’m glad you asked that, my friend. I’ve been geeky! Boy, have I!
Occassionally Tim tells me stuff about his interests, and more often that not I listen [...]

Red Dwarf : Holoship

19 May, 2005 (21:15) | Television | By: Guise Dugal

Just a few pieces of dialogue I loved from the Red Dwarf episode Holoship on UKG2 tonight. This is one of those episodes I manage to love and then forget the existence of quite quickly, but it has such great interactions between the Dwarfers and the holoship crew that it’s just too good to pass [...]