As a boy in the early 80s MOTU was definitely something girls were into as far as our class in primary school went. I suppose there weren’t as many female characters as in Thundercats and it could be seen as…   Read more»

No particular offence taken or intended. Civilised societies will hopefully keep instructional stories that have aged well, there are still lots of those. Plus if you go back to apocrypha such as the book of Daniel there’s some great folk…   Read more»

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Took me a while to work out you meant the Entertainer. Been a while since those news stories and they…   Read more»

It’s interesting (and quite cool and reassuring, in a people-don’t-really-change way) how the same observations crop up in most of recorded history, down to the Romans and Greeks saying things about kids that wouldn’t be out of place in modern…   Read more»

Mmm. I suppose that’s the price of appropriating other religions’ winter festivals and everyone else’s need to do something to cheer themselves up when it’s cold and dark, Coca-Cola and Hallmark will do the same right back. Being in the…   Read more»

True, they did get a lot of publicity that couldn’t have been bought, and I’m guessing (can’t recall if it’s come up in the many documentaries) that MOTU leaning into monster characters had an element of appealing to that kind…   Read more»

Satanic Panic* was more heavily connected with D&D, but part of the deal with deregulation of advertising to kids that Reagan spearheaded was shows having some educational content, and the PSAs tied into that even if not strictly mandated. Parental…   Read more»

Both awesome, and the Faker integrates those recognisable T parts really well.
On the Hiss would suggest maybe there’s still chance to add some pattern detail to the upper legs?

Fantastic stuff. Clean, bright colours and all fits pretty well with the official figures. I think the only choices that seem a little out of scale are Classics accessories that aren’t heads, such as Marzo, and that’s unavoidable. What lines…   Read more»

Gamesmaster (Flint Dille’s autobiography) is worth a leaf through for anyone interested in the conditions 80s shows were created in, ditto The He-Man Effect (which isn’t particularly to do with He-Man despite the name, and is a quick read as…   Read more»

In this case the options would have been upgrading vBulletin (financial cost + time cost) or converting the vBulletin install to something else, probably most practically phpBB and with the additional step of archiving part/all of the existing forums first…   Read more»

Plus probably a few hundred gigabytes of attachments, but yeah with a suitable hosting arrangement storage/bandwidth shouldn’t have been that.

Mmm. There are big gaps in my knowledge, but swords/sorcery/science were huge in the post-WW1 period with escapism being on everyone’s minds — including things like school stories that played on idealised nostalgia. Tolkien was putting together Middle Earth throughout…   Read more»

People are still reading authors such as Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton) and Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent) who wrote very different kinds of pulp fiction circa the 1930s and have had enough revivals since to interest some new fans. It’s the…   Read more»

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Also https://flyingmoose.org/heman/mustard.htm

I’m going to guess it’s down to server software dependencies, with a specific guess of PHP. vBulletin 4.2.5 [url=https://forum.vbulletin.com/forum/vbulletin-4/vbulletin-4-questions-problems-and-troubleshooting/4396478-4-2-5-with-php-7-2]doesn’t run[/url] on PHP 7.2 or later. The site is probably running 7.0.x. or 7.1.x at the moment. 5.6 went out…Read more

Some people flat out don’t like talking about money or asking for help (or dealing with people who mean well but don’t have experience, particularly on technical stuff). It sounds like running out of time to investigate was a factor….   Read more»