The Happy Thought Thread Part 4 - Page 561

Stuart · 04-07-2014, 13:10

My little Nephew's reaction to Morph (the 70s kids TV show).

My little Nephew loves shows such as Waybuloo, In The Night Garden and Sarah & Duck. Yet, yesterday, he was sitting at home watch Waybuloo on Cbeebees, and I was reading online about Aardman Animations' Kickstarter campaign to bring it back being successful enough to make three more episodes than they planned.

Feeling a little nostalgic, I looked up the trailer for the new series. All of a sudden, my nephew lost interest in Waybuloo and looked at my monitor with an amazing look of wonder on his face. So, I looked up Morph on youtube. Found a few old episodes. He loved them. Bought back some happy memories for me too.

Personally, I think that Morph (along with a lot of kids TV shows) had a sort of magic that is a little bit lacking in modern shows. Yes, modern shows have state of the art animation that can be very realistic, but I think a lot of old animation techniques have a charm that CGI doesn't. Not that Morph had bad animation. On the contrary, Aardman were excellent at stop motion animation even then.

nashville · 04-07-2014, 13:52

Thanks Weenie

joglynne · 04-07-2014, 14:01

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Originally Posted by Stuart

My little Nephew's reaction to Morph (the 70s kids TV show).

My little Nephew loves shows such as Waybuloo, In The Night Garden and Sarah & Duck. Yet, yesterday, he was sitting at home watch Waybuloo on Cbeebees, and I was reading online about Aardman Animations' Kickstarter campaign to bring it back being successful enough to make three more episodes than they planned.

Feeling a little nostalgic, I looked up the trailer for the new series. All of a sudden, my nephew lost interest in Waybuloo and looked at my monitor with an amazing look of wonder on his face. So, I looked up Morph on youtube. Found a few old episodes. He loved them. Bought back some happy memories for me too.

Personally, I think that Morph (along with a lot of kids TV shows) had a sort of magic that is a little bit lacking in modern shows. Yes, modern shows have state of the art animation that can be very realistic, but I think a lot of old animation techniques have a charm that CGI doesn't. Not that Morph had bad animation. On the contrary, Aardman were excellent at stop motion animation even then.

I had exactly the same reaction to Morph from my 18mth old Grandson this Wednesday. There was a short report on the TV about the new Morph videos due to to be released on YouTube and young Jack sat entranced. Later in the day I found a couple of the old videos on YouTube and again he sat mesmerised by this animated lump of clay. Though he was upset when Morph broke into little pieces. ( the ice cream episode)

I have just received a DVD, Morph: The Morph Files which I ordered on Wednesday as part of the 4 for £10 offer from Amazon and look forward to a morning of reminiscences watch that DVD and the 3 others Bagpuss, The Clangers and Frankenstein's Cat. Happy days.

MadGamer · 04-07-2014, 14:02

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Originally Posted by Stuart

My little Nephew's reaction to Morph (the 70s kids TV show).

My little Nephew loves shows such as Waybuloo, In The Night Garden and Sarah & Duck. Yet, yesterday, he was sitting at home watch Waybuloo on Cbeebees, and I was reading online about Aardman Animations' Kickstarter campaign to bring it back being successful enough to make three more episodes than they planned.

Feeling a little nostalgic, I looked up the trailer for the new series. All of a sudden, my nephew lost interest in Waybuloo and looked at my monitor with an amazing look of wonder on his face. So, I looked up Morph on youtube. Found a few old episodes. He loved them. Bought back some happy memories for me too.

Personally, I think that Morph (along with a lot of kids TV shows) had a sort of magic that is a little bit lacking in modern shows. Yes, modern shows have state of the art animation that can be very realistic, but I think a lot of old animation techniques have a charm that CGI doesn't. Not that Morph had bad animation. On the contrary, Aardman were excellent at stop motion animation even then.

Aardman, were great at stop motion, my favourite was Wallace and Gromit

Uncle Peter · 04-07-2014, 14:09

If you like Aardman then check out A Town Called Panic. Hilarious

MalteseFalcon · 04-07-2014, 14:43

Morph. Was he the plasticine one who was on the art programme with Tony Hart (think I have the right person)? If so, I loved that myself and watched every episode. I don't think they make children's TV like they used to. I still find myself enjoying watching Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry.

04-07-2014, 14:51

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Originally Posted by MarkC1984

Morph. Was he the plasticine one who was on the art programme with Tony Hart (think I have the right person)? If so, I loved that myself and watched every episode. I don't think they make children's TV like they used to. I still find myself enjoying watching Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry.

VisionOn first

edit actually looking it was after when Tony went solo. Fond memories of both

denphone · 04-07-2014, 14:54

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Originally Posted by MarkC1984

Morph. Was he the plasticine one who was on the art programme with Tony Hart (think I have the right person)? If so, I loved that myself and watched every episode. I don't think they make children's TV like they used to. I still find myself enjoying watching Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry.

Yes that was the one Mark and l must admit like many others that l was a big fan of Tony Harts art programme and sadly TV companies don't make them like they used to.

l get up early in the morning as l am not the best sleeper and l have been catching that old cartoon Topcat lately and that brings back many memories of when l was younger.

04-07-2014, 14:56

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Originally Posted by denphone

Yes that was the one Mark and l must admit like many others that l was a big fan of Tony Harts art programme and sadly TV companies don't make them like they used to.

l get up early in the morning as l am not the best sleeper and l have been catching that old cartoon Topcat lately and that brings back many memories of when l was younger.

Did you know Top Cat was originally called boss cat in the UK cuz the bbc did not want to endorse a cat food

denphone · 04-07-2014, 14:58

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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

Did you know Top Cat was originally called boss cat in the UK cuz the bbc did not want to endorse a cat food

l learn something every day tiz.

MadGamer · 04-07-2014, 17:44

Here you go Den: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-Cat-Comp...ywords=top+cat

denphone · 04-07-2014, 17:56

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Originally Posted by MadGamer

Here you go Den: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-Cat-Comp...ywords=top+cat

A bargain in my book MG but the biggest shame is there were only 30 episodes.

dilli-theclaw · 05-07-2014, 10:48

I got the first letter addressed to the new place this morning it was a hospital one but even so it's all feeling very real now that we're nearly all moved in. I may post a couple of pictures when we're done.

nashville · 05-07-2014, 18:30

Nice for you Dill, I bought Ink cartridges for my Epson printer, Not Cheap.

heero_yuy · 05-07-2014, 18:34

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Nice for you Dill, I bought Ink cartridges for my Epson printer, Not Cheap.

I refill my Epson 680 ones with kits from Trago Mills (Jet tech) for £3.95 (Colour) and a chip resetter.

The price of pukka Epson carts is truely criminal.