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Good Morning, Young Storybreaking Dungeons and Dragons Astronauts

Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, History, Marketing on July 10, 2010

It’s a little crazy for us to remember this exact newspaper flyer back in the 1980s. Back then, we were the intended Saturday Morning demographic. The only shows of interest to us back then was Dungeons&Dragons and CBS Storybreak. You would think The Young Astronauts would have been on our radar. It must have gotten bumped by Mighty Orbots or a show equally awesomer.

Hell, even Internet doesn’t remember Young Astronauts.

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Good Morning: Future Day After Doc Brown’s Altered Chronal Dimension Total Film Tricksters

Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness on July 6, 2010

Have a full quote for reference.

in ‘back to the future’, doc sets clock in the delorean to a day 25 years in the future. today is that day.

via @verso & @smalltimegenius

UPDATE: So Total Film fessed up and admitted the above time clock was a bit of photoshopping. Through several clever cut and pastes Total Film managed to give a small measure of geek joy and snatch it away like some mean embittered uncle with an unknown point to prove. Also, they’ve revealed yet another gap in our once extensive movie trivia mental knowledge base.

Disconcerting, that is.

It’s not the first time we’ve been tricked. It is the first time we wished the trick was reality.

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