Corporate bastards ruin another childhood character

**sunhuntin** · 1st November 2005, 18:12

looks like the bear on the uncle tobys porridge boxes....gross.

i remember loving go dog go, and the bill peet books....big bad bruce, how droofus the dragon lost his head, the pinkish purplish bluish egg, lmfao. thanks for the memories guys! brought tears to my eyes.

**Ghost Lemur** · 1st November 2005, 18:37

Let me guess. Another Disney acquision.

Those scumsuckers are at the top of my hitlist.

**Colapop** · 1st November 2005, 18:46

Originally Posted by Big Dave

What were your first books? The first ones that you wanted.

'Go dog go' Dr S
and I did 'Peanuts' - every volume, hard or softback.
That's where i learned what they call 'emotional intelligence' today.

Hardy Boys Adventures, The Cat in the Hat, and Willard Price and the Adventure books.
All the Footrot Flats collections right up to vol 12.
When I was about 8 I read my first Stephen King book. I swear I didn't sleep properly for a week!! Reading is so under-rated these days. I got my daughter the complete Narnia set in one big hardback and she's been reading it everyday for about 6 weeks.

**Riff Raff** · 1st November 2005, 19:11

Originally Posted by SpeedMedic

Gotta put Famous Five on the list. Plus I reckon George was a lezzo!

No, really???

It actually upsets me to see my favourite characters being upgraded and conforming to PC bullshit.

A few years ago I bought the complete collection of AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories and poems - so much better than the Walt Disney crappy version.

My favourite novels when I was a kid were the Famous Five, Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Biggles etc. They were great adventure stories.

**SARGE** · 1st November 2005, 19:38

Originally Posted by Big Dave

What were your first books? The first ones that you wanted.

'Go dog go' Dr S
and I did 'Peanuts' - every volume, hard or softback.
That's where i learned what they call 'emotional intelligence' today.

my first books were MAD magazine.. kind of explains alot actually

Oh.. and Car Craft/ Hot Rod

Penthouse didnt come into the scene till i was 10

read all the Curious George books and Hardy boys stuff too

**Coyote** · 1st November 2005, 19:42

R.I.P. Cookie Monster, Basil Brush and Rupert

**Unit:Me** · 1st November 2005, 19:54

Im a poo bear girl personally, god forbid they f*#k with him, the world really has gone mad.

**Suney** · 1st November 2005, 20:04

Ruperts the man, hes sporting new converse now lol

**Coyote** · 1st November 2005, 20:07

Originally Posted by Duc-Gurl

Im a poo bear girl personally, god forbid they f*#k with him, the world really has gone mad.

They did. The Disney version is a cheap rip off of AA Milne's original

**parsley** · 1st November 2005, 20:24

Originally Posted by SpankMe

Rupert the Bear has been "modernized". Whored is more like it. There was nothing wrong with him in the first place so why change him.

I mostly agree, but there are definitely elements of Rupert that could be, ahem, modernised a bit. Check out this classic (and note the website hosting it):
http://www.aryanunity.com/rupertint.html

**Ixion** · 1st November 2005, 20:39

Modernised? NEVER! What a jolly good tale. And a happy ending to boot. Racist? Humbug and poppycock. I throughly enjoyed that tale. Unfortunately there don't seem to be any others on that site, just a lot of boring stuff. Pity, they'd have been better to put up more Rupert Bear.

**Karma** · 1st November 2005, 23:29

i grew up on The Far Side and Playboys mostly...

kinda explains the appitite for weird porn

**tracyprier** · 2nd November 2005, 07:52

Yes, Disney et al are guilty of many sins of mutilation. I'm still reeling from the genetic mutations they performed on Pooh!

Why the hell does everything that is more than 5 years old have to be "zhuzzed up" ? (damn, that's a REALLY gay word!)

PC it is... and do we know where PC came from children? that's right, the Soviet Union... uncle Karl and Uncle Joe.

**Krayy** · 2nd November 2005, 16:05

MY childhood included a bunch of books from that most un-pc of kiddie writers, Enid Blyton. Used to love reading about how PC Plod beat the shit shit out the Golliwogs while Noddy and Big Ears went off to bed together.

And in most of her stories there was always someone with the most inappropriate name like Fanny or Spankalot. And stereotypes...don't talk to ME about stereotypes. Bears were bad, as were goblins and brownies, but pixies were okay by her. The women were useless and cried a lot (except George, she kicked ass).

Secret Seven, Famous Five, Fab Four (oops, that was the Beatles), Faraway Tree, Wishing Chair, Noddy, hell she had it all.

And to top it off, I know a bloke who looks EXACTLY like Moonface, right down to the pointy lobes.