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"The series shows fictional characters in the background as shadows, and kids standing in front of them, pretending to be those characters. Just looking at them makes me feel like a child again."
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Cool! 8)
love them
Very nice. Great find. Thanks
Quote from: Ithoriel on 21 February 2014, 12:40:18 AM
Very nice. Great find. Thanks
You're welcome.
Hang on - why is not every single user of this forum
not looking at nerdapproved.com then? Eh? Eh?!! :-B :-B :-B
These are excellent, I might be pinching this for my Facebook.
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Link already up on mine Leon. Good aren't they!
Takes me back to making a Darth Vader outfit for my younger son to wear to school when they had a day where you could turn up in fancy dress if you made a small contribution to charity. Probably not the best fancy dress ever but my son and I were happy with it!
Following year he was Angel from the Buffy spin-off. Far easier to do!
So cool 8)
Love the Princess Leah and Darth Vader ones :-bd
Love it - lots, very much my childhood era the clothes and back when kids were allowed to be kids for a while before the government decided they should all be adults at 2...
Love the Boba Fett - and what a novel use for a mastik gun!
takes me back to my youth, great pics.
kids just don't play like this now-a-days. As a parent its partly my fault, if my son wants to dress up as iron man then he has the suit, the mask, the shooter. He has suits for power rangers, turtles, spiderman etc etc no need to pretend, just didn't have that option when I was a kid.
On saying that my son much prefers to run around the woods hitting things with sticks so maybe all isn't lost :D
These are great! :D
Quote from: Matt of Munslow on 21 February 2014, 10:17:17 AM
takes me back to my youth, great pics.
kids just don't play like this now-a-days. As a parent its partly my fault, if my son wants to dress up as iron man then he has the suit, the mask, the shooter. He has suits for power rangers, turtles, spiderman etc etc no need to pretend, just didn't have that option when I was a kid.
On saying that my son much prefers to run around the woods hitting things with sticks so maybe all isn't lost :D
Aha - I've got one of those as well 8)
Quote from: Matt of Munslow on 21 February 2014, 10:17:17 AM
takes me back to my youth, great pics.
kids just don't play like this now-a-days. As a parent its partly my fault, if my son wants to dress up as iron man then he has the suit, the mask, the shooter. He has suits for power rangers, turtles, spiderman etc etc no need to pretend, just didn't have that option when I was a kid.
On saying that my son much prefers to run around the woods hitting things with sticks so maybe all isn't lost :D
My boys, who are now both in their twenties, were living proof of the adage that if you give a kid an expensive toy in a box they'll discard the toy and spend all day playing with the box!
Yep I once bought mine an AA pedal car with trailer, he spent the entire day in the box pretending it was a ................ car. Go figgur!
Quote from: GordonY on 21 February 2014, 11:14:59 AM
Yep I once bought mine an AA pedal car with trailer, he spent the entire day in the box pretending it was a ................ car. Go figgur!
Just shows the power of context. I was quite impresses with an Aniti-Aircraft pedal car. =)
Quote from: fsn on 21 February 2014, 12:36:19 PM
Just shows the power of context. I was quite impresses with an Aniti-Aircraft pedal car. =)
How about a Buick Centurion? :D
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Those are brilliant Nik, so thanks for sharing 8). When the first plastic dustbins came out, sometime in the late 60s, we used to empty them of bin bags and use them as Daleks :D.
Quote from: Steve J on 21 February 2014, 02:15:09 PM
Those are brilliant Nik, so thanks for sharing 8). When the first plastic dustbins came out, sometime in the late 60s, we used to empty them of bin bags and use them as Daleks :D.
Give that young ruffian an ASBO!
I googled the artist and he has some pretty damn fine stuff - I particularly like one with a kid on a chopper and the shadow is an Indian Warrior on Horseback. I can remember exactly the same thoughts and games going through my age growing up in Scarborough ;)
Cripes, what on earth has Star Wars to do with childhood?
At that age, sticks were swords and stens not light sabres and blasters
Cleary far too many of you are far too young :-\
Quote from: get2grips on 21 February 2014, 01:07:34 PM
How about a Buick Centurion? :D
Looks like something Gerry Anderson designed!
Quote from: Zippee on 21 February 2014, 07:55:06 PM
At that age, sticks were swords and stens not light sabres and blasters
I was always Major Howard -"hold until relieved" - at Pegasus Bridge.
Life was so much happier in black and white. I blame colour for the decline in standards - that and being able to get strawberries in winter.
Quote from: Zippee on 21 February 2014, 07:55:06 PM
Cripes, what on earth has Star Wars to do with childhood?
At that age, sticks were swords and stens not light sabres and blasters
Cleary far too many of you are far too young :-\
Hear, hear......Damn young whippersnappers ! ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Zippee on 21 February 2014, 07:55:06 PM
Cripes, what on earth has Star Wars to do with childhood?
At that age, sticks were swords and stens not light sabres and blasters
Cleary far too many of you are far too young :-\
Dan Dare vs The Mekon followed by the Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire. It wasn't all Commando comics or 'Clickey Ba'. Good old "Eagle."
I never really did comics as a kid - I was vaguely aware of Eagle and Dan and Saturday RKO serials but really I moved almost straight from "Peter and Jane" books to Roger Zelazny, one week it was Stig of the Dump the next Desolation Alley - never really looked back, must've been about 7 or 8 - I was fortunate that my local library had a very good SF/Fantasy collection for a small Yorkshire market town.
Oh and the school library had several books by some chap called Featherstone - they were essentially on permanent loan to me throughout 8)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 22 February 2014, 12:43:58 AM
Dan Dare vs The Mekon followed by the Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire. It wasn't all Commando comics or 'Clickey Ba'. Good old "Eagle."
The Trigan Empire! I loved the Trigan Empire in "Look and Learn". Ancient Rome with blasters!
And horses with only two legs, classic.