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Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
My favourite childhood show and therefore my first ever fandom. If it's possible to have a fandom when you're four years old and have no idea what the internet is, let alone know how to use a computer, I dunno (and no one could really get the internet in 1990 could they?). What I do know is that Thomas the Tank Engine was the most awesome thing ever to be conceived and I was absolutely obsessed with it. It's a wonder that my VHS tapes of the series weren't melted as a result of how much I watched them, marvelling at the fabbo model work and Ringo Starr's memorably laconic narration. It was a shame the show basically went to shit when Ringo left and they started to make up their own stories rather than base them off the original books, but I was far too old for it by then. One of the main appeals was the violence, with trains involved in gruesome crashes and high-octane chases almost every episode. Any episode that didn't involve such a thing invoked an immediate fast-forward. I was a bloodthirsty little git. Still, this infused in me my lifelong love of travelling in trains, so, er, go Thomas.
And while I'm here, have a poll:
Poll Help me choose!
My favourite childhood show and therefore my first ever fandom. If it's possible to have a fandom when you're four years old and have no idea what the internet is, let alone know how to use a computer, I dunno (and no one could really get the internet in 1990 could they?). What I do know is that Thomas the Tank Engine was the most awesome thing ever to be conceived and I was absolutely obsessed with it. It's a wonder that my VHS tapes of the series weren't melted as a result of how much I watched them, marvelling at the fabbo model work and Ringo Starr's memorably laconic narration. It was a shame the show basically went to shit when Ringo left and they started to make up their own stories rather than base them off the original books, but I was far too old for it by then. One of the main appeals was the violence, with trains involved in gruesome crashes and high-octane chases almost every episode. Any episode that didn't involve such a thing invoked an immediate fast-forward. I was a bloodthirsty little git. Still, this infused in me my lifelong love of travelling in trains, so, er, go Thomas.
And while I'm here, have a poll:
Poll Help me choose!