Back into the deep freeze
Feb. 2nd, 2009 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoLet's just say today wasn't a lot better than Friday was. I don't need this kind of stress.
So I didn't do anything useful tonight. Just sat and watched The Legend of Bravestarr, which I'd never seen before. It was released in 1987 and appears to be mostly traditional hand painted animation. Real art for the win. Cheesy plot, typical Saturday television stuff, but some good characters just the same and I have to agree with everyone who thinks 30-30 is really a cool idea.
Gary's at class yet again, won't be back for another hour and a half. I probably won't be able to stay awake so long.
So I didn't do anything useful tonight. Just sat and watched The Legend of Bravestarr, which I'd never seen before. It was released in 1987 and appears to be mostly traditional hand painted animation. Real art for the win. Cheesy plot, typical Saturday television stuff, but some good characters just the same and I have to agree with everyone who thinks 30-30 is really a cool idea.
Gary's at class yet again, won't be back for another hour and a half. I probably won't be able to stay awake so long.
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Date: 2009-02-03 05:22 pm (UTC)What gets me about it is the strong colors and the profoundness of it all. I mean sure, Bravestarr himself is a cookie-cutter "good-guy" with all the nasty tendancies of 80's law enforcement, but the other characters are pretty cool. Even that horrible deputy, with the future-hindsight that he's actually "Cow" of cow and chicken. You can catch some fairly filthy things he says under cover of innocence, just like in C&C sometimes, hehe! "He sneaked up and got me from my bee-hind!" >:)
Anyhow thanks for introducing me to it, however indirectly, it was a treat!
And what can ya say about 30-30... Other than "I want one!!". He's got the most engaging personality of any of 'em, despite being a mechanical horse. :)
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Date: 2009-02-03 06:04 pm (UTC)I could do without the cookie cutter villains though.
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Date: 2009-02-03 07:04 pm (UTC)As for the villains, at least Tex looks cool. But WTF is up with that THING he rides on! That's so awful even the animators couldn't make it work.
A real tragedy of Bravestarr is how horrid the toys were. I checked on Ebay to see if there's a plastic version of 30-30. There IS. But it looks like somebody described him over the phone to the toy folks, saying "Yeah make a silvery crabby-looking robot horse."... That's the extent of the resemblance. No "big hair", no antenna, and hideously deformed. The plastic Bravestarr's even worse, in terms of hideous deformity, plus they made him a white guy.
As far as the series goes, my favorite is one called simply "Rampage". 30 washing his hair for the win!
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Date: 2009-02-03 07:08 pm (UTC)I guess I'll have to see if I can get the whole series. My mate dare not complain. He had to have the whole Thunderbirds series...
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Date: 2009-02-03 07:21 pm (UTC)Bravestarr 1 Tunnel of Terror (30 panic's awesomely)
Bravestarr 33 Rampage (30 goes looking for missing Bravestarr)
Bravestarr 34 The Haunted Shield (worth it for general oddity)
Bravestarr 35 Fallen Idol (a villian with an actual deadly weapon!)
Bravestarr 36 Nomad Is An Island (dom chick with whip steals 30!!)
Bravestarr 39 Handlebar And Rampage (cool mechanical bull)
Bravestarr 41 Trouble Wears A Badge (I wish they'd have put spinner-tassles on his badges)
Bravestarr 42 Bravestarr And The Three Suns (You can store them underground?!)
Bravestarr 53 The Bounty Hunter (Man that dude's so bad he's cool)
Bravestarr 63 The Blockade (Air in outer space!)
Bravestarr 64 Thirty-Thirty Goes Camping (30 stuck with the boyscouts)
That's the "best of" for 30-30 fans such as myself, with a few oddities thrown in. :) Let me know what ya think!
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Date: 2009-02-03 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-04 03:47 am (UTC)