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Famous 80s Cars

May 5th 2008 08:47
Magnum PI Ferrari
Magnum PI Ferrari (308 GTB)

The 80's had the flashiest cars of all time.
They were in the movies, on the TV, in video games, and in our dreams.

Gullwing doors, racing vents, targa tops, huge spoilers.

Yes, every over-the-top design was put into action.

EVERYONE had their favorite.
Was it a Ferrari Testarossa? The Back to the Future Delorean? KITT?

Heres a few gems:

Ferrari Testarossa
Ferrari Testarossa

911 Turbo
911 Turbo

firebird
Trans-Am Firebird

lamborghini countach
Lamborghini Countach

A Team Van
A-Team's GMC G-SeriesVan

80's batmobile
80's Batmobile

KITT
KITT

'88 Corvette
'88 Corvette

IROC-Z Camaro
IROC-Z Camaro

Delorean
Delorean


"The 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California. Less than a hundred were made. My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love. It is his passion.."

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

April 9th 2008 02:18
TMNT

Martial arts and Ninja mania swept the world during the 80’s due to the popularity of Kung Fu Theater and ninja movies (American Ninja etc.). The Karate Kid became a blockbuster hit film, and raised interest in the arts. The cartoon characters Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became a widely mass-marketed pop culture phenomenon in the late 1980s.

It was probably the biggest pop culture explosion I’ve witnessed in my whole life. Overnight, the Turtles were HUGE. I mean HUGE.
I was the prime age, so the bomb fell directly on me. Yes, I had turtle-mania.

The cartoons managed to successfully combine a combination of goofy comedy, trendy lingo, cool attitudes and ninja moves.

For a short period, you couldn’t walk the streets without seeing Turtles apparel of some kind, or hear a kid yell ‘cowabunga!’

I remember all the hype about the violence (so much so that it was changed to Hero Turtles in the U.K.) and news stories about kids getting lost in the sewer systems.

I also remember everyone fashioning their own ninja weapons. Bo-staff’s, nun-chucks, katana blades – you know, the coolest things in the world.

They also successfully managed to separate each Turtle into his own little stereotype character.

Leonardo

There was Leonardo
The leader, the sensible thinker.
He is honourable and strict.
He wears blue and uses katana swords
He is named after Leonardo Da Vinci.

Raphael
Then there was his counterpart – Raphael.
He is arrogant, aggressive, anti-social and rude.
He is, however, intensely loyal and a fierce fighter.
He wears red and uses Sai.
He is named after Raphael Santi.

Donatello


Donatello is the brilliant scientist, inventor, engineer, and technological genius.
He is perhaps the least violent Turtle, preferring to use his intellect to solve conflicts.
He wears a purple and wields the bo staff.
He is named after the sculptor Donatello.

Michaelangelo

Michaelangelo is the easy-going surfer/skater dude.
Adventurous, fun and outgoing.
He wears orange and uses nun-chucks.
He is named after Michelangelo Buonarroti.


Then there was also Master Splinter, April O’Neil, Shredder and my personal favourite – Casey Jones.

Originally created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman as somewhat of a joke, they never could’ve imagined that the Turtles would explode like they did.

It even managed to spawn 3 live action movies. The first one was a dark and mostly serious affair about a crime wave in late 80’s New York, and as far as 80’s-early 90’s kid’s movies got, I think it still holds up very well – great score also.

Fortunately, the Turtles have made somewhat of resurgence. And although the new animated movie looked great style wise, the story left a little to be desired, but at least kids of today are fighting the powers of evil once again – ninja style.

Who’s your favourite turtle?
I’m a Raph man myself. What a legend.



‘Cricket? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!’
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80’s Teen Idols

March 18th 2008 23:21
Maverick top gun tom cruise

The 80’s WAS the era for teen idols.
Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Scott Baio, Jon Bon Jovi, Johnny Depp, Ralph Machio...

Yes – this one’s for the girls.

Chances are, if you entered a teenage girls bedroom during the 80’s - or you infact lived in one – you might remember the posters.
The endless posters.

The mugshots of every MTV and primetime pin-up boy would be as far as the eye could see.
But back then it wasn’t enough to have the posters. There’d be pencil cases and folders too, plus there was no email or Myspace back then – there was fanmail.

Depending on your tastes, there were the baby-faces:
Tom Cruise
Scott Baio
Jon Bon Jovi
Kirk Cameron
Patrick Swayze
John Travolta
Kevin Bacon
Andrew McCarthy
John Cusack
Matthew Broderick
Ralph Macchio
John Stamos
C. Thomas Howell
Michael J Fox
Steve Guttenburg
Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Matt Dillon
Then there were the bad-boys:
Matt Dillon
Sean Penn
Christian Slater
Mickey Rourke
Rob Lowe
Robert Downey Jnr
James Spader
Kiefer Sutherland
Bret Michaels
Sebastian Bach
River Phoenix
Billy Idol
Emilio Estevez
Charlie Sheen
David Lee Roth

The funny thing is, back in the eighties – even guys had guys on their walls! How often would you see Sly Stallone, Arnie or Axl Rose half naked on your brother’s wall!

Tom Selleck
Hell, even your mother had idols in the 80’s!
Sean Connery
Harrison Ford
Richard Gere
Mel Gibson
Kevin Costner
Burt Reynolds
Tom Selleck
Paul Hogan
Tony Danza
Yeah, the blokes were really strutting their stuff back then.

Two of the biggest teen idols at the time managed to team up. The Corey’s.

Corey Haim and Corey Feldman even managed to co-star in several movies together – and are still best friends to this day (see 2007 reality show the 2 Corey’s).
two coreys
Just the name ‘Corey’ is considered to be the stereotypical cliché name for a teen idol.

There were so many idols back then that they could cast entire movies around them. The Brat Pack (Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy) almost created their own genre.
The Outsiders contained an entire cast of teen idols, as did Young Guns.

Then...the first boy band emerged with New Kids on the Block (NKOTB), consisting entirely of teenage pin-ups so every girl could have their own favorite (Joey...anyone?)

Now most of the world’s teen idols reside in these ‘boy bands’


I know what you’re thinking. - ‘I wonder if Scott Baio is still single...’

scott baio charles in charge




"Nobody puts baby in the corner"
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