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     Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
If you register on the website (it's easy) you can download a pdf of issue #3. http://www.starburstmagazine.com/ It covers STAR WARS and a review of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. There's also mention of a film being green-lit called ALIEN. For those who complain about DVD releases, have a look near the back of the magazine - a mail order form to buy STAR WARS on 8mm. The cheapest version is b/w with no sound and lasts 6 minutes. The most expensive runs for (gasp) 20 minutes, in (double-take) full colour and (swoon) sound. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.156.233.176 |
I have LOADS of these in the garage - including number 1. I remember my friend used to have a projector and had many of these films. My Favourites were Black Hole and Texas Chainsaw Massacre (curiously more frightening in the tiny form I saw it in.). It was great, watching them. 'Put it on again!' we'd cry. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
I thought they were better when they were Opal Fruits | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
They still are Opal Fruits. And Marathons are still Marathons. Anyone remember Old English flavour Spangles? My favourite sweets in the whole wide world. Wish they would bring them back...  | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.24.19.204 |
That's the world record for the speed with which a thread goes off topic, but I can't resist joining in. I was at a screening of TOTAL RECALL last night (a poor film made great fun by the audience cheering and laughing and doing creditable impressions of the lead actor throughout) and just then noticed the particlar type of choclate bar he fed to the rats in the cement factory. Guess. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.24.19.204 |
I've never been that impressed by people running marathons. Historically, it's not a true marathon unless you drop dead at the end of it with a message clutched in your stiff fingers. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.145.84.31 |
Talking about Topics, do they still make them? Does anyone else remember the old advert? "WHat has a hazelnut in every bite?" to which children all over the country would shout "Squirrel shit!" | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.145.84.31 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF9A5ryNbUU just to prove my point - look at the first comment | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.156.233.176 |
Jesus - 'Funny how you always remember right at the end.' I'd forgotten that. I can feel my old house around me again, watching that. Sigh - sorry Proto - I tried to join in. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
They do still make Topics - and they're still bloody lovely. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
That caramel really ups the calorie count, though. Marathons make you fat, perversely. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Hmmm... favourite chocolate bar? The one I always come back to? Probably the nobbly pleasure of a Picnic. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
Star Bar. Do you have Star Bars in Britain? I like water too. Do you have that? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I'm curious who's heard of these: Macaroon, Wham, Catch. I know you have Trigger bars because they featured on The League of Gentlemen. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I love nibbling on a Macaroon! Ruffle bars too, especially the dark chocolate ones. Is anyone else affronted at the way Refresher bars (love em) virtually halved in size this last couple of years while doubling in price. Most infuriating! | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
>>Star Bar. Do you have Star Bars in Britain? << We do indeed. Probably my favourite chocolate bar, although it's a close run thing with a Double Decker. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
Do you have Moro? It's a cousin of the Star Bar. This conversation is not happening in a playground. I am a 40 year old man in an office. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I've watched that LOG sketch, and it's MAVERICK bars that they mention. Still no news on whether TRIGGER bars still exist, | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Can anyone remember what the flavours of Old English Spangles were? I loved those sweets. Never tasted anything quite like them since. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
You swines! A chocolate thread! That's not a nice thing to do when there's a chocoholic like me around the board - and one who desparately needs to lose a few calories too.  Has anyone tried those gorgeous Swiss chocolate bars, Milka? They are absolutely devine. Oh dear, now I'm drooling ... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I hate the Spot/Stripes advertising campaign but that choccie bar they put out is great. Anyone remember Cadbury's tried a variant of Dairy Milk a few years ago which had something like fudge inside the bricks of milk chocolate? It disappeared. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.19.205 |
I Do! I liked. I used to like Aztec. I still want to talk about Starburst magazine. Bradbury's review of CE3K was just like mine, in my mind. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.143.140 |
Was that CE3K review in SB#3 by Ray Bradbury? Gosh. You can feel the excitement in the magazine from sci-fi films becoming "A" pictures for the first time. And there were only two of them at the time: STAR WARS and CE3K. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.109.21 |
I haven't been able to open that link, but the review I remember was quite a big deal to me at the time, and his name was attached. I remember reviews of Alien being a bit sniffy at the time - 'An Old Dark House in space', 'it's just this/that'. They dind't seem to like the simplicity, not realising you take awe for its own thing. 'Bricks of milk chocolate' - I think I need to lie down at that image. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.109.21 |
That summer just blew us away, didn't it? I couldn't sleep, those days. Hearing there were going to be Star Wars toys was just so exciting. We'd spend hours just talking about what they might look like. It was almost a shock to find they looked like McDonalds freebies (still liked them, though). A friend of mine bought the lot thanks to cash from his warring divorcing parents. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.109.21 |
The bastard. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.203.224 |
God, I got the worst of both worlds. Parents fighting but NOT divorcing. No guilt prezzies. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.183.1 |
Sad thing, we were jealous of the toys but gave the divorce not a scrap of thought. It just seemed ordinary from the outside. Poor you, Proto - fighting parents is the worst thing a kid can go through. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.253.126 |
Don't worry. I had my Starhurts. I mean Starbursts. *sniff* |