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I had fun playing this with friends BITD. I remember half the fun was building the cars.

Ike was also from Witch Mountain.

It’s Scotty’s nephew!

Don’t forget pyramids and pet rocks!

First! I watched it when it came out. I want that magic wrench!

I have the same game, but mine is the version with Sean Connery's likeness, what was the reason for the 2 different versions?

I have Ziggy's Christmas film on DVD. I also have a huge collection of Ziggy characters. I LOVE ZIGGY!!!

you know the show Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (1987) ? 80s sci-fi Cyberpunk show

Dude, we must be the same age because you summed up my experience with (and feelings about) the Star Wars Holiday Special to a tee. Being a kid in that generation when all we had was the first Star Wars film, and the only way to see it was at the theater. Which had us starving for more Star Wars and made seeing those characters on TV (in ANY context, even on when they appeared on The Muppet Show) seem like a special occasion. I love what you said about how our generation was used to variety shows (which were normal in the 1970s but must be huge part of the culture shock for younger generations only seeing the Holiday Special for the first time now) and how we developed a skill for tuning out the parts we didn't like. SO TRUE. But the thing you said I maybe related to the most... How you didn't see the Holiday Special again between the ages of 6-40. And how, when you finally did see it again at 40, that moment you'd completely forgotten about, where the Stormtroopers ransack Lumpy's bedroom, really hit you... DUDE. I had that EXACT same reaction. The moment when they rip the toy Bantha's head off almost made me misty-eyed because I literally hadn't see that since I was six and it drudged up my childhood reaction. Crazy the way the human brain works with stuff like that. Anyway, great video, you described the Star Wars Holiday Special experience - from a 1970s kid's point of view - perfectly.

I think Ann-Margret stole this movie. Unlike Elvis she went on in her film career to be a highly accomplished actress but Elvis is Elvis!!!!

I love the Kid Crimson series!

Chris Evans showed us how easy the Super Skrull would be. I still remember this Alpha Flight when Sasquatch was one on one with the Super Skrull. It was a lot like Carpenter's The Thing. One of my favorite comics by John Byrne. Alpha Flight # 10

This is a very charming old movie. Strong human values which are timeless are in this movie that any family around Christmas time right up to today can relate. Also Cary Grant, David Niven, Elsa Lanchester and Loretta young and all supporting actors many of them children do a marvellous job. As the taxi driver in the movie says when you watch this movie .."your faith in humanity is restored" Well we all feel like the taxi driver after watching this great movie. Should be a movie that should be shown every year close to Christmas time.

CAG - Commander of Air Group.

I'd say this was definitely his best movie. Blue Hawaii a close runner up.

Yes I still remember watching Dave! Dave ! Dave! Dave the barbarian! Loved this song from this amazing cartoon show!

ugh, I HATED that verson of the Justice Leaque.

I was just telling my daughter how when reading Superman 2020 back up stories how i thought that seemed impossibly far away, let alone 2025. I love this run, great humor and art.

And yet again I have woken up to a world where I have to ask where is the Sea-Hag merch!? Looks great! I'd have to get them all if I got even one ....that Wimpy is calling me though!

Popeye is the reason i only smoke corncob pipes. I love the old comic strips, cartoons and arcade game.

Very cool packaging and branding! Born in 1982 here so I was on the tail end of this kind of thing. I think mostly I had cassettes growing up. Great choice of Rankin Bass Hobbit to test it with! You are a brave man testing/opening things on camera. I opened a CGC case for my channel once and got a nasty surprise. I did not post the video 🤣 I have a nice clean & boxes Hannah Barbara "Give -A-Show" and slides I need to test!

if you are interested in a very good but overlooked classic submarine movie, Run Silent Run Deep (1958) with Burt Lancaster and Clark Gable

I saw this on Tubi sometime back and marked it among my favorite’s and finally took the time to watch the first episode yesterday and then binged watched the next few episodes during the day. To my surprise it was a marvelous little show that I had never seen during its original run. Matheson and Hicks played off each other beautifully. And the supporting cast was solid too. I agree the network really put it on the wrong night opposite Dynasty, which just killed it. Nice to know that it’s finding a new life on Tubi and is offered on the Roku app too. There is a goof in the opening credits where they misspelled Catherine Hicks name as Cathrine, how that was not caught is beyond me.

You know I'm a fan of the channel when I'm turning my ad block off to watch the videos!

I wish they did a sequel to this story. The Tree people were so interesting and could’ve been the team’s The Brood to their X-Men.

Happy new year!! Great video

"We are family" The brother of a lunatic. The intern to aforementioned lunatic. The daughter of a vile supervillain. The "new" Sasquatch. And the leader who would just as soon abandon teammates as she would plasma-blast them. They are the new ALPHA FLIGHT. Every bit the equal to the old ALPHA FLIGHT...so it says. They will protect and defend Canada (and the world). From a villain's lair. In the North Pole. Wait a second, let me stop laughing. What? We're supposed to take this seriously? Are you kidding me?

Thanks for another lesson in obscure pop culture. And congrats on that banging T-Shirt

Thanks for your work in 2024. It has been a Marvelous trip down memory lane. I bought the title monthly from the start up to about the ending of the Dream Queen storyline when I moved away from comics for a long time. Byrne's art is what drew me in initially, but the story of a super team that didn't have a great leader, the backing of their government, and a soap opera full of flawed and interesting characters who knew what they wanted to be but didn't quite know how to just up and become "The Canadian Avengers" sucked me in and kept me onboard long past Byrne's departure. Thanks again for the trip!

I'll miss these. I hope you'll consider picking it back up someday. Canada totally deserved its own team, and it was pretty good.

This playlist is gold.

That's the good stuff! You're missing Dragonlance Adventures & Greyhawk Adventures.

Just found your channel. Subbed. Good overview of 2e. Thanks for sharing your memories. I also left the hobby during the 2e era, but I returned much later & went right back to AD&D.

I had a few issues with the story. It felt like I read it a hundred times before in comics. The vigilante character wasn’t very smart. The dialogue of the first few pages was basically a waste and didn’t carry much weight to help the overall story. Now if the Horseman spent the first few pages fighting the ninjas because they threatened his sister after the horseman became a problem to their operations then that would have been an epic motivation to move to Texas and a good use of making ninjas a real threat. It would also help the reader empathize more with the main character. But the overall story was meh and the main character felt 2 dimensional. The art was good

Y'all are a little too hard on the writing and continuity. I was 16 when I read this comic book and haven't read it since. I still remember the scenes of Roger revealing his new body and Walter returning as Sasquatch turning into Snowbird with Aurora in his arms. That is complex! So, for all it's problems, this issue left an impression on me with stunning reveals and a resurrection that made more sense and took more creative storytelling than most Marvel resurrections. Walter's resurrection was many issues in the making, and it reminds us that nothing ever quite works out for Alpha Flight!

Yeah I really like this book and all of his new releases.

I remember Star Wars Droids. At the time, i didnt like the cartoony way that C3po and Artoo deetoo were drawn or animated and I didn't care much the juvenile storylines either that seemed to be for toddlers. As for the gun aspect, well they used laser guns on both GIJOE and Transformers in which never seemed to ever hit anyone. It wasn't until many years later in which i saw the 1978 Star Wars holiday special cartoon segment did i recognize the same style of overly cartoony animation that was used in this dreaded cartoon. I remember giving up on it preferring for more mature adult cartoons like GIJOE, Transformer or even Spiderman and His amazing friends which I can still watch and enjoy this day.

REQUIEM FOR CANADA'S GREATEST SUPER-TEAM From the HULK-sized dump that was attributed to the John Byrne run, to the exposition that unconvincingly tried to pass itself off as genuine dialog and thoughts, to the unreliable narrator who couldn't keep his own storyline straight, through Elizabeth being depowered and all but forgotten, all the way down to VINDICATOR plasma-blasting SNOWBIRD in the back, and the original members being uncermoniously kicked out of the series that---at one time---they helped popularize, the MANTLO-world version of ALPHA FLIGHT has been a farce, at best, and a complete and total hit job, at worst. A team that was supposedly highly-trained to deal with unconventional threats routinely failed to protect the public (and themselves) from the malevolent forces that confronted them, constantly being bested and out-witted by solo adversaries who should not have kept an upper hand on a properly-portrayed ALPHA FLIGHT. AURORA, who had 3 cracked ribs tended to by DR. MICHAEL TWOYOUNGMEN/SHAMAN and who was restored to youth [off-panel] after PESTILENCE turned her into an old hag, called LIONEL JEFFRIES a "Miracle Worker" because he used his flesh-mutating power to make ROGER BOCHS, Sr. look fit and trim, superficially---and not for very long. PUCK, who was treated by DR. MICHAEL TWOYOUNGMEN/SHAMAN and a hospital staff of sane, competent medical professionals after nearly being disemboweled by MARRINA, believed LIONEL JEFFRIES "cured" him of his pain and injuries. PUCK should have known the difference between a real doctor and a fake healer, having been a soldier-of-fortune and a secret agent---professions that would necessitate recognizing unsavory people. Moreover, MARVEL bent over backwards to give PUCK an origin story that had a mystic-demon causing his dwarfism and longevity. Yet, we are supposed to believe that PUCK not only considered himself "powerless", but RAZor/RAZer/RAAZOR did nothing to protect the host-body that housed his spirit. Either PUCK has some helpful side benefit for housing the mystic-demon inside him or he doesn't: MARVEL can't have it both ways. What was done to MICHAEL, ELIZABETH, and NARYA is just a straight-up travesty. Given what was done to the original members of ALPHA FLIGHT, I commend the readers who stopped reading at # 28, cold turkey. In the middle of a story. As if they KNEW what was to come. I don't know how they knew it was going to be bad, but they did. And given what was done to the original members of ALPHA FLIGHT, it is no wonder that JOHN BYRNE has tried to distance himself from characters that he created. Which leads to this question: would ALPHA FLIGHT have been better off if the MANTLO run had not been published?

How did the mummy carrying his bride from Massachusetts to Louisiana?

This is the first Alpha Flight comic book I think I bought. I was hooked and bought every issue I saw after that for a while.

The Superman story is the highlight of this one imho, loved it back in the day and it hits even harder now, being a few decades older...

About the Box robot's appearance, does anyone think he resembles a little bit in the face, not the body, Box from Logan's Run?

Great overview of the series! I just started watching this show for the first time and was looking for a video like yours. Thanks! And I am a huge huge Avengers fan by the way. My absolute favorite show of all time. Thanks for giving Cathy Gale/Honor Blackman a mention. Most only focus on Diana Rigg/Emma Peel (I don’t blame them!) but no one ever mentions Linda Thorson/Tara King 😞 haha

"We've already fought the storm...and lost!" That pretty much sums up MANTLO's ALPHA FLIGHT in a nutshell. Evil converged all around them and MANTLO's ALPHA FLIGHT could not handle it. Starting with AF # 29, it was clear that the group held out to be ALPHA FLIGHT did not have the knowledge, skills, or abilities to deal with the adversaries they faced. Even though there was a not-to-subtle bias in the fight against The Hulk (PUCK put up a better fight than anyone [for a while] and Northstar had one, brief multi-punch panel that stood out, but BOX and SNOWSQUATCH whiffed, big-time), Hulk IS Hulk. However, not every adversary is The Hulk, least of all LIONEL JEFFRIES, whose only demonstrated "medical expertise" was depravity. There is nothing medicinal about turning hundreds of hospital staff and patients into monsters. Maybe LIONEL mind-wiped his victims to cover up his wrong doing, maybe not. Neither AF # 30 nor # 31 said. He "restored" the people he had turned into monsters, but who knows what LIONEL did to his victims, internally. It is safe to say that the members of AF there were exposed to SCRAMBLE's power, either directly or indirectly. Heather MacNeil Hudson: probability of exposure to and alteration by SCRAMBLE: 100% Mr. Madison Jeffries: probability of exposure to and alteration by SCRAMBLE: 100+% PUCK: initial (indirect) exposure to and possible alteration by SCRAMBLE: likely AURORA: initial (indirect) exposure to and possible alteration by SCRAMBLE: probable NORTHSTAR: initial (indirect) exposure and possible alteration by SCRAMBLE: maybe BOX's "living metal": initial (indirect) exposure and possible contamination: more-than-likely All of core ALPHA were compromised in AF # 30, and none of them saw what transpired during the fight between LIONEL and MADISON. In one of the most vivid panels drawn by Mike Mignola, LIONEL JEFFRIES is shown touching his helmet---not his face, head, or any other organic/fleshy part of himself. The likelihood that LIONEL JEFFERIES did the brain-reordering is high. Which brings up another big problem with this run: the unreliable narrator. Utilized on the very first page of AF # 29---in the very first caption BOX---the narrator says AF went looking for a host-body for Sasquatch. They did not; they went looking for a host-body for WALTER LANGKOWSKI, as SNOWBIRD had already assumed the form of "Sasquatch" in ALPHA FLIGHT # 23...and would do so again later in AF # 29. It was actually a good thing Michael (and SNOWBIRD) weren't in MONTREAL with the rest of AF when they confronted SCRAMBLE because they probably would have been compromised, too.

Bernie’s last name was Rosenthal. I don’t know what happened to her.

I like this cover because it tricks the reader while accurately representing the story.

Is it "WILLIAM Knapp" (see page 10) or "Whit(man)" Knapp? Is it "RAAZER" (see page 22) or "RAZoR"...or "RAZER"? Does it even matter, at this point?

Check out Ghost Rider, volume 2, number 21. The cover is Ghost Rider on an all white background and titled ""SNOWBLINDED!"

other good classic aviation themed movies with spectacular flight scenes - The Blue Max (George Peppard) - The Great Waldo Pepper ( Robert Redford)

japanese did a manga / anime (26 episodes) called Zipang about a modern japanese destroyer ending up in ww2 possibly they lifted the idea from this movie