{"id":2298,"date":"2004-08-07T02:50:30","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T02:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2009-09-02T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T21:56:04","slug":"flashahhhhhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/flashahhhhhh\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash&#8230;.ahhhhhh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saviour of the universe!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M216Bf4pXGc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M216Bf4pXGc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>A full year before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080745\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Flash Gordon movie <\/a>appeared on the scene&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078662\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">The New Animated Adventures of Flash Gordon <\/a>hit Saturday mornings.<\/p>\n<p>I vaguely remember episodes from the animated series.  But in true &#8216;net form, somebody out there did and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcdb.com\/cartoons\/Filmation_Associates\/H-R\/The_New_Adventures_of_Flash_Gordon\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">made a list for the rest of us<\/a>.  Also true to form, DVDs for the animated Flash aren&#8217;t available.  You can, however, purchase <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1566055067\/groonk-20\">Flash Gordon<\/A> in VHS.<\/p>\n<p>It kills me that you can buy <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/6305842027\/groonk-20\"> limited 2-disc Special Edition<\/A> edition of that atrocious flick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/6305842027\/groonk-20\" class=\"external external_icon\">Supergirl<\/a> but you can never find the vids you love released on DVD.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>This search for interesting Mr Gordon factoids wouldn&#8217;t be complete without delving into his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingfeatures.com\/features\/comics\/fgordon\/about.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">comic history<\/a>, info on the <a href=\"http:\/\/flashgordon.ws\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">30&#8217;s mini serials<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/SoHo\/5537\/hist.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">history of the comic book<\/a> itself.<\/p>\n<p>Some even consider Flash Gordon to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/comics.cro.net\/e-flash.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Sci Fi Comic strip <\/a>of all time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d go that far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saviour of the universe! A full year before the Flash Gordon movie appeared on the scene&#8230;The New Animated Adventures of Flash Gordon hit Saturday mornings. I vaguely remember episodes from the animated series. But in true &#8216;net form, somebody out there did and made a list for the rest of us. Also true to form, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,49,72],"tags":[88,103,31,4942,283,287],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation-art","category-comics","category-tee-vee","tag-80s-flashback","tag-awesome","tag-culture","tag-dvd","tag-fictionverse","tag-flash-gordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}