I decided to turn over a new leaf and create a new game for my Animal Crossing GameCube town, The town's name is now called Bugaloos and its been 2 weeks since I created the town, I currently have apples as my town fruit, but I created a second town and got peaches from that one
Since also, we are in a pandemic at the moment, I'm going to be blogging once a week the adventures of myself in Bugaloos and it is also the upcoming 50th anniversary of The Bugaloos a favorite television show of mine from the 70's
My villagers are Alli, Sidney, Sprocket, Grizzly, Bertha, Bob, Boots, Pinky, Truffles, Cashmere, Pate, Vladmir, Betty, and two more villagers whose names escape me at the moment, I will update as soon as possible on that
For now though sit back and read the adventures of Bugaloos
until then
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Friday, October 25, 2019
Phantom Manor Recap
I am very surprised to be writing this review! However, since Halloween is 6 days away, I figured I'd review the updated version of the Haunted Mansion's cousin, Phantom Manor at Disneyland Paris which was given a proper update and reopened this year.
The major difference is the dialogue is French and English, the English is narrated by Vincent Price, yes, you heard me! The late Vincent Price recorded dialogue originally intended for the Phantom Manor but French officials wanted the dialogue in mostly French, so they hired the guy who dubbed Vincent Price in his movies in French.
The original backstory, was that there was a very rich settler called Henry Ravenswood who settled in land that was protected by a Thunderbird, He struck gold and became very wealthy. In time, he married and had a daughter Melanie who of course was very beautiful and Thunder Mesa (the name of the town) grew and pretty soon the gold started to run out which caused the miners to dig deeper into the earth.
Melanie grew up from a young girl into a beautiful woman and became engaged to a local train engineer who played to take her away from Thunder Mesa, Henry did all he could to stop and prevent the wedding! However, before the wedding, a earthquake struck the town and killed Henry, his wife Martha, and many of the townspeople causing Thunder Mesa to be damaged. It seemed the stories of the thunderbird were true as local natives claimed the earthquake was inflicted to the town by the legendary thunderbird who was protecting its treasure. Melanie meanwhile continued plans of her wedding.
However, on the day of the wedding, a mysterious phantom snuck into the mansion and led the groom up into the attic where he was hung on the rafters. Melanie did not know this and spent the entire day searching for her groom. Many people gave up the missing groom for loss, but Melanie vowed to never remove her wedding dress and was said to have said someday he will come for me. Today, she roams the mansion looking for her bridegroom, as time passed, the mansion fell into disrepair and Melanie was never seen again. Many believe that the girl's poor soul is trapped in that house to wander for eternality. The phantom of course invited his undead friends who reside in the house. Thunder Mesa became a ghost town haunted by all killed in the destructive earthquake.
The new storyline was changed with the part of her fiancee was remove and instead she had many suitors who were murdered by Henry under mysterious circumstances.
When you first walk into Phantom Manor, you see a portrait of the phantom (Henry Ravenswood) and Melanie in her wedding dress and it looks so goth and depressing,
The portrait changes from doom and gloom into what once was an elegant mansion and a happy Henry Ravenswood and Melanie who is dressed in a lovely blue gown
We then go into the stretching portrait room where we see Melanie with each of her four suitors, Captain Rowan D. Falls, Sawyer Bottom, Berry Claude, and Iggy Night. Melanie is dressed in a different outfit with each man. Suddenly the portraits with Melanie vanish and we are shown the grisly unfortunate deaths of each suitor.
It's interesting that each man died under mysterious circumstances, and their names give a reference to how they died, example is Rowan D. Falls, he rowed out into the falls, a waterfall. Berry Claude also had an unbearable death, he was mauled by a bear, Sawyer Bottom got sawed in half, and Iggy Night was blown up to smithereens by dynamite, all work by Henry Ravenswood
I am confused as to how this plays out in the original storyline, is that one fiancee no longer cannon. If Melanie didn't marry any of those guys, why is she still wearing a wedding gown. I recall an imagineer who works for Disneyland Paris said that Melanie went insane due to the loss of her lovers. My head is still scratching.
Over all I'll cut the story to the chase and praise the detail and visuals, the portraits were awesome and I liked how they could change. I also like how Henry Ravenswood is now the phantom which makes sense in a way on being overprotective of his daughter. There are some flaws like the Melanie asking guests to marry her and the storyline is all over the place. 8/10
The major difference is the dialogue is French and English, the English is narrated by Vincent Price, yes, you heard me! The late Vincent Price recorded dialogue originally intended for the Phantom Manor but French officials wanted the dialogue in mostly French, so they hired the guy who dubbed Vincent Price in his movies in French.
The original backstory, was that there was a very rich settler called Henry Ravenswood who settled in land that was protected by a Thunderbird, He struck gold and became very wealthy. In time, he married and had a daughter Melanie who of course was very beautiful and Thunder Mesa (the name of the town) grew and pretty soon the gold started to run out which caused the miners to dig deeper into the earth.
Melanie grew up from a young girl into a beautiful woman and became engaged to a local train engineer who played to take her away from Thunder Mesa, Henry did all he could to stop and prevent the wedding! However, before the wedding, a earthquake struck the town and killed Henry, his wife Martha, and many of the townspeople causing Thunder Mesa to be damaged. It seemed the stories of the thunderbird were true as local natives claimed the earthquake was inflicted to the town by the legendary thunderbird who was protecting its treasure. Melanie meanwhile continued plans of her wedding.
However, on the day of the wedding, a mysterious phantom snuck into the mansion and led the groom up into the attic where he was hung on the rafters. Melanie did not know this and spent the entire day searching for her groom. Many people gave up the missing groom for loss, but Melanie vowed to never remove her wedding dress and was said to have said someday he will come for me. Today, she roams the mansion looking for her bridegroom, as time passed, the mansion fell into disrepair and Melanie was never seen again. Many believe that the girl's poor soul is trapped in that house to wander for eternality. The phantom of course invited his undead friends who reside in the house. Thunder Mesa became a ghost town haunted by all killed in the destructive earthquake.
The new storyline was changed with the part of her fiancee was remove and instead she had many suitors who were murdered by Henry under mysterious circumstances.
When you first walk into Phantom Manor, you see a portrait of the phantom (Henry Ravenswood) and Melanie in her wedding dress and it looks so goth and depressing,
We then go into the stretching portrait room where we see Melanie with each of her four suitors, Captain Rowan D. Falls, Sawyer Bottom, Berry Claude, and Iggy Night. Melanie is dressed in a different outfit with each man. Suddenly the portraits with Melanie vanish and we are shown the grisly unfortunate deaths of each suitor.
It's interesting that each man died under mysterious circumstances, and their names give a reference to how they died, example is Rowan D. Falls, he rowed out into the falls, a waterfall. Berry Claude also had an unbearable death, he was mauled by a bear, Sawyer Bottom got sawed in half, and Iggy Night was blown up to smithereens by dynamite, all work by Henry Ravenswood
I am confused as to how this plays out in the original storyline, is that one fiancee no longer cannon. If Melanie didn't marry any of those guys, why is she still wearing a wedding gown. I recall an imagineer who works for Disneyland Paris said that Melanie went insane due to the loss of her lovers. My head is still scratching.
Over all I'll cut the story to the chase and praise the detail and visuals, the portraits were awesome and I liked how they could change. I also like how Henry Ravenswood is now the phantom which makes sense in a way on being overprotective of his daughter. There are some flaws like the Melanie asking guests to marry her and the storyline is all over the place. 8/10
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Here Comes Peter Cottontail 1971, RECAP
Hey gang, tomorrow is Easter and I figured I'd give a recapped review on a underrated Rankin Bass Special that was focused on Easter. It's strange how Here Comes Peter Cottontail never airs on television, I guess the networks think Easter specials from Rankin Bass which there are only three of them The First Easter Rabbit, Here Comes Peter Cottontail and The Easter Bunny is Coming to Town aren't worth airing on the Easter holidays. I purchased the DVD a year ago from Target and I sat down today to watch it.
Here Comes Peter Cottontail is about a rabbit called Peter Cottontail who was voiced by the late Casey Kassem (the original voice of Scooby Doo's Shaggy) and he wants to get the job of being the chief Easter Bunny from Colonel Bunny (Danny Kaye) an evil rabbit named Irontail voiced by the late Vincent Price wants the same job and cheats the Easter egg contest that both rabbits had to give all their eggs away in one day by feeding Peter's chicken alarm clock bubblegum which blocks the chicken's crows from making a sound. Because Peter was irresponsible by going to a party and got to bed later, Irontail wins the contest for delivering only one egg and Peter goes back in time in a flying balloon time machine with the help of an eccentric Willy Wonka character named Seymour Sassafras (Danny Kaye) and a talking caterpillar named Antoine. However Irontail has his spider minion rig the time travel machine, the whole premisis has Peter visit different holidays like Independence Day, New Years Eve, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Mother's Day and Saint Patrick's Day while trying to get back to Easter. Irontail changes Peter's eggs to green and Peter delivers the eggs to a Saint Patrick's Day parade. He wins the contest and becomes the chief Easter Bunny bringing joy and happiness back to April Valley.
The songs are very memorable, I like If I Could Only Get Back to Yesterday, In The Puzzle of Life and Improvise, but Vincent Price's song The Easter Bunny Always Sleeps is great too.
Danny Kaye voices the narrator Seymour Sassafras, Antoine and Colonel Bunny, he does great impersonations of Peter and Irontail as well and I enjoyed his characters very much. Vincent Price was a great villain and as Irontail you could tell he enjoyed playing a character like Irontail, I remember Vincent Price from The Ten Commandments and also The Great Mouse Detective but here he brings to life an evil rabbit who despises children and gives a great detailed backstory on the reason why he wants the Easter Bunny job in the first place.
I also enjoyed the stop motion and thought this was a much better crossover story than when Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July attempted years later.
Overall if you are looking for a Easter special for your children and grandchildren to enjoy this is highly recommended, the storyline is pretty fast paced, the songs are catchy and memorable as well as the timelessness of how well done this special was. 10/10
Here Comes Peter Cottontail is about a rabbit called Peter Cottontail who was voiced by the late Casey Kassem (the original voice of Scooby Doo's Shaggy) and he wants to get the job of being the chief Easter Bunny from Colonel Bunny (Danny Kaye) an evil rabbit named Irontail voiced by the late Vincent Price wants the same job and cheats the Easter egg contest that both rabbits had to give all their eggs away in one day by feeding Peter's chicken alarm clock bubblegum which blocks the chicken's crows from making a sound. Because Peter was irresponsible by going to a party and got to bed later, Irontail wins the contest for delivering only one egg and Peter goes back in time in a flying balloon time machine with the help of an eccentric Willy Wonka character named Seymour Sassafras (Danny Kaye) and a talking caterpillar named Antoine. However Irontail has his spider minion rig the time travel machine, the whole premisis has Peter visit different holidays like Independence Day, New Years Eve, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Mother's Day and Saint Patrick's Day while trying to get back to Easter. Irontail changes Peter's eggs to green and Peter delivers the eggs to a Saint Patrick's Day parade. He wins the contest and becomes the chief Easter Bunny bringing joy and happiness back to April Valley.
The songs are very memorable, I like If I Could Only Get Back to Yesterday, In The Puzzle of Life and Improvise, but Vincent Price's song The Easter Bunny Always Sleeps is great too.
Danny Kaye voices the narrator Seymour Sassafras, Antoine and Colonel Bunny, he does great impersonations of Peter and Irontail as well and I enjoyed his characters very much. Vincent Price was a great villain and as Irontail you could tell he enjoyed playing a character like Irontail, I remember Vincent Price from The Ten Commandments and also The Great Mouse Detective but here he brings to life an evil rabbit who despises children and gives a great detailed backstory on the reason why he wants the Easter Bunny job in the first place.
I also enjoyed the stop motion and thought this was a much better crossover story than when Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July attempted years later.
Overall if you are looking for a Easter special for your children and grandchildren to enjoy this is highly recommended, the storyline is pretty fast paced, the songs are catchy and memorable as well as the timelessness of how well done this special was. 10/10
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Leprechaun's Christmas Gold RECAP
Thanks to AMC purchasing the rights to many of Rankin Bass's holiday specials, I spent the weekend binge watching a lot of the stop motion specials including some which Freeform chose to not air during the 25 Days of Christmas for the past two years in a row, among the four specials that never aired on Freeform durning the nearly two year run, were The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold, Pinocchio's Christmas, Little Drummer Boy Book II and The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
Possibly one of the most strangest Rankin Bass Holiday Specials, I don't ever recall watching The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold special unless it was 2007 and I was in the middle school at the time. Yet I can see why this special isn't remembered fondly unlike other Rankin Bass Christmas Specials like Rudolph, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Frosty the Snowman and The Year Without A Santa Claus.
The special itself is confusing, it feels more like a St Patrick's Day special than a Christmas special, It's also confusing what the timeline is unless it is supposed to be in the 15th or 16th century Ireland. Anyways a cabin boy name Dinty Doyle goes to an uncharted island to pull up a pine tree for his captain who plans to use the tree as a Christmas tree. While on the island, Dinty finds out he isn't alone as he spots a family of leprechauns peaking through the bushes. Unintentionally Dinty pulls up the pine tree and out pops a banshee called Old Mag the Hag, finally free from her prison she casts a storm that causes Dinty to get shipwrecked on the island. However the storm briefly stops and a rainbow appears that lures Dinty to a secret shamrock patch where it opens to reveal a horde of leprechaun gold.
Dinty starts to go crazy over seeing a bunch of gold and encounters Blarney the head leprechaun who at first gets territorial over his gold, and later invites Dinty for tea and to tell him the story of how Old Mag the Hag terrorized the leprechauns for their gold even causing a part of Ireland to split off the mainland and end up in the middle of a sea until the lord of the leprechauns tricked Mag into turning into tears which of course is how the pine tree was planted to keep Mag trapped there forever. There is also a story of Blarney having an argument with his wife over Mag's disguise as a fairy godmother and they break up. Dinty confesses to having pulled up the tree and releasing the banshee and Blarney is distressed so he drinks his tea which unbeknownst to him was spiked with a potion by Mag the Hag herself. However even though he is drugged he gives the gold to Dinty and makes him promise to never give Mag the gold.
While trying to get off the island, Dinty encounters at the beach a girl named Colleen who claims she was the only survivor of a shipwreck, Dinty is too stupid to realize Colleen is Old Mag the Hag herself as she continuing sheds tears which is a give away for banshees but he tells her about the leprechauns and how he became in possession of their gold. Colleen suggests he give the gold to her so she can give it to the leprechauns and have them build a boat for Ireland. Dinty agrees and gives her the gold and Colleen transforms into her true form as Old Mag the Hag herself, she casts Dinty into a deep sleep of a hundred Christmas and goes to get her Christmas gold but before she can do anything the sun for Christmas morning has risen and her time is up, Dinty awakens from his sleep, Mag transforms into tears and is washed away by the waves, Blarney and his wife make up and the ship Dinty was on appears on the horizon that carries everyone away back to Ireland.
The special itself is forgettable and why do the leprechauns care if Old Mag the Hag takes their gold? Is she going to enslave the leprechauns? Overall it's not a great special, It's cute but that's about it. Many of the songs like Golden Gold of Ireland, the Killarney's shoes etc are forgettable and have nothing to do with Christmas. Christmas in Killarney is alright,
Take it for what it is 5/10
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Maddie moves in
So yesterday I started my game and I had to restart it twice because of a glitch which caused my gamecube controller to move my character by itself. When I restarted it the second time because I couldn't get to the geoid in front of my house I had to face with Mr Resetti the mole man who promptly screamed at me for not saving. Yeah he yelled at me for five minutes and then told me not to do it anymore.
After Resetti left I went out checked my mail and visited among my neighbors. My new neighbor is Maddie and she is a dog, I currently now have two chickens, two ant eaters, two dogs, a rabbit, a squirrel, a horse, a zebra an elephant, a wolf, a pig, a bear and an alligator.
I sent some fossils to the Museum and ended my game afterwards.
I'm going to play Animal Crossing on Halloween, wish me luck
After Resetti left I went out checked my mail and visited among my neighbors. My new neighbor is Maddie and she is a dog, I currently now have two chickens, two ant eaters, two dogs, a rabbit, a squirrel, a horse, a zebra an elephant, a wolf, a pig, a bear and an alligator.
I sent some fossils to the Museum and ended my game afterwards.
I'm going to play Animal Crossing on Halloween, wish me luck
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Huggy moves out in Pringles and I visit to Tranquil Island
Today I loaded up my Animal Crossing game on my Wii and I noticed I got some letters in my mailbox, one was from the Happy Home Academy, three were from the Museum, two were from Tom Nook and one was from one of my villagers Huggy, I had forgotten Huggy had moved into my town she is a Koala but I hadn't played Animal Crossing for months until early September. Huggy sent me a farewell letter telling me she was moving on to greener pastures so I will defiantly update on who moves in tomorrow or Tuesday.
I then took Kappn's boat to my island and spent some time talking to my islander Bliss a squirrel. She looks a lot like the villager Caroline in later Animal Crossing games
Villagers who have moved on now from Pringles consist of Puck, Rollo, Coco, Louie, Penny, Winnie, Huggy, Sandy, Vesta and Rhoda
Villagers who still live in Pringles are Bea, Sue E, Elmer, Hector, Gaston, Dizzy, Liz, Snooty, Savannah, Pango, Pecan, Bluebear, Hank and Chief
I had to delete my second town on my Mad Catz Memory Card, It kept getting corrupted. I bought a 59 Nintendo Memory Card for my other gamecube games on Amazon but I will defiantly scrap whatever money I can exchange for a gift card on Coin star to Amazon for another 59 Memory Card. I'm planning on naming my second town Forest, but if any other name pops up I will defiantly consider that.
I then took Kappn's boat to my island and spent some time talking to my islander Bliss a squirrel. She looks a lot like the villager Caroline in later Animal Crossing games
Villagers who have moved on now from Pringles consist of Puck, Rollo, Coco, Louie, Penny, Winnie, Huggy, Sandy, Vesta and Rhoda
Villagers who still live in Pringles are Bea, Sue E, Elmer, Hector, Gaston, Dizzy, Liz, Snooty, Savannah, Pango, Pecan, Bluebear, Hank and Chief
I had to delete my second town on my Mad Catz Memory Card, It kept getting corrupted. I bought a 59 Nintendo Memory Card for my other gamecube games on Amazon but I will defiantly scrap whatever money I can exchange for a gift card on Coin star to Amazon for another 59 Memory Card. I'm planning on naming my second town Forest, but if any other name pops up I will defiantly consider that.
Friday, September 7, 2018
Update in my town Pringles
It's been a while since I updated my town Pringles. Unfortunately I hadn't played Animal Crossing in like 8 months so when I re set up my Wii and put in the Animal Crossing game; I had tons of weeds all over my town. Rhonda had moved out, and so did Coco. My new villagers are Bea a dog and a pig whose name escaped me for a moment. I'll update later on.
The villagers were all wondering about my whereabouts so I spent yesterday running errands for them and also cleaning up the town. It's interesting how much Pringles hadn't changed.
I'll be playing Animal Crossing again but probably less often than I will because I'm currently back at Chabot College. Next semester I might be taking more classes so I dunno.
Oh well, it was fun revisiting Pringles again.
The villagers were all wondering about my whereabouts so I spent yesterday running errands for them and also cleaning up the town. It's interesting how much Pringles hadn't changed.
I'll be playing Animal Crossing again but probably less often than I will because I'm currently back at Chabot College. Next semester I might be taking more classes so I dunno.
Oh well, it was fun revisiting Pringles again.
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