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by jtbo » 04 Jul 2006 03:29 pm
Don't know, these modern series seem to miss something, usually I'm getting sleepy, like this remake of Galactica for example, it is not actually so bad, but when comparing to old serie it defineatly seem to lack some stuff, it is more like talk show or something
Feels like story is lost behind some relationship stuff, which I really could not care less, I prefer old ones as there was story to follow and action
Oh, now I remember, when I was kid we rented often Thundercats and Cobra animations also Bud Spencer & Terence Hill movies were enjoyable to watch

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MJ
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by MJ » 04 Jul 2006 04:31 pm
Spooks was good at first, but a bit too serious now.
Hustle deffinetly. Great show, and although you always know they'll get away with it, excep once or so, you never know how. Very clever.
CSI. Sadly I don't have channel 5 here, but I loved it at uni.
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by garethreece » 05 Jul 2006 12:55 pm
Knightrider is cool but do you reckon they could of fitted the gear to a 360 cos to be fair the standard Pontiac Trans-Am isnt too far away performance wise!!
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by jtbo » 05 Jul 2006 03:18 pm
garethreece wrote:Knightrider is cool but do you reckon they could of fitted the gear to a 360 cos to be fair the standard Pontiac Trans-Am isnt too far away performance wise!!
I'm sure they would, only reason why they did not must be because 300-serie were never sold in US
Ok, it would been quite small car, well narrow compared to other cars that there was.
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by 5lab » 05 Jul 2006 05:43 pm
redline wrote:life on mars was great apart from the cock up with the cortina ,
they used a 76 2000E and changed the grille for the twin headlight set up to make it look like a 73 2000GXL, shame the interior was pure 2000E
the only reason you know that is because you watched topgear.
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by garethreece » 05 Jul 2006 06:29 pm
jtbo wrote:garethreece wrote:Knightrider is cool but do you reckon they could of fitted the gear to a 360 cos to be fair the standard Pontiac Trans-Am isnt too far away performance wise!!
I'm sure they would, only reason why they did not must be because 300-serie were never sold in US
Ok, it would been quite small car, well narrow compared to other cars that there was.
Okay then but they did sell other volvos, a 200 would of been more practical

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by jtbo » 05 Jul 2006 06:41 pm

I'm just no good with photoshop, but black 242 with that red kitt thing going in volvo logo as I tried to make, maybe would been good

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by Chris_C » 05 Jul 2006 07:08 pm
Jani you are a genius

Don't think I have any normal grills here to try it though. The ricer knightrider bars you can buy all look wrong as they use LEDs and not lamps, need a lamp if you are going to get it right!
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by jtbo » 05 Jul 2006 07:30 pm
Chris_C wrote:Jani you are a genius

Don't think I have any normal grills here to try it though. The ricer knightrider bars you can buy all look wrong as they use LEDs and not lamps, need a lamp if you are going to get it right!
Don't know about genius part (at least now after brain damage) but I still get tons of crazy ideas
Yep, need lamps or then those should be huge leds with funny optics, much easier to get lamps
If I would have 242 model, I could make that in 3d, maybe some animation too, also would be possible to make it to rfactor too, but that is quite lot of work and I have having bit vacation from computers or at least trying

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by MJ » 05 Jul 2006 09:24 pm
Sorry, I keep meaning to work on the model, but struggle to concentrate on it

I got a dds plugin sorted for Paint Shop Pro today though

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by jtbo » 05 Jul 2006 09:31 pm
MJ wrote:Sorry, I keep meaning to work on the model, but struggle to concentrate on it

I got a dds plugin sorted for Paint Shop Pro today though

Np at all, I'm bit of vacation from modding anyway, altough I tested to get 850 to game, but then it would not like to have center point where I did set it so I did left it to another time, also could not find photos from instrumets.
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by MJ » 05 Jul 2006 10:47 pm
I could get some guage pics from my dad's 850 sometime if you like
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by d3k4y0 » 07 Jul 2006 02:17 pm
I've always been a fan of comedies more than anything else, so Family Guy, Scrubs and The Mighty Boosh are current favourites with pretty much anything starring either Steven Fry, Ronnie Barker, John Cleese or Rowan Atkinson being fine by me too!

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by redline » 07 Jul 2006 04:12 pm
my family were friends with Ronnie Barker when we lived in Harrow and he lived in Pinner .
He was one of the funniest and nicest guys I ever met,
He was actually funnier off screen than he was on tv.
It was through him I met Bernard Cribbens ,Barry Fryer ,John Junkin, Kenneth Connor ,Bella Emberg and loads of other famous 80's comedians socially ,funnily enough he never seemed to socialize with Ronnie Corbett though even though he was his comedy partner.
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by MJ » 07 Jul 2006 07:36 pm
I'll totaly agree with Dekay, except, I've never seen The Mighty Boosh.
I'm a real fan of ABC1 on freeview, comedies from 6am to 6pm everyday

Scrubs, 8 simple rules, Home improvement, Less than perfect, Rodney...
Standard American sitcom type stuff
