The Annual

Panthro

Well folks,
Remember the good oul days of having "The Annual" of your favourite tv show/etc?
I remember in our house we had:
"Home and Away"
"Neighbours"
"Thundercats" (my very first Annual!)
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"

I also managed to wrangle a Premier League type Annual from a bank one time, don't ask me how!

So, what Annuals are still somewhere in the corners of yer households?
:pac:

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Best annual of all time was the Siamsa annual that you got at christmas at school

abouttobebanned

Big comic fortnightly
Buster
Look in
Shoot :-)

admiralofthefleet

Robert Future Muslin wrote: »

Best annual of all time was the Siamsa annual that you got at christmas at school

wow, i just went back in time. i used to look forward to that for the whole year

OutlawPete

Grange Hill, The Fall Guy and Roy of The Rovers.

Also, there is used to be a magazine called Look-In and I used to have that.

Big Nik Kershaw fan I was :cool:

Panthro

Robert Future Muslin wrote: »

Best annual of all time was the Siamsa annual that you got at christmas at school

Jesus yeah!
Was there another one called Sonas/Solas or something along that line aswell?

Rowley Birkin QC

Zig and Zag annuals used to be muchos excellent.

That Ted was one evil bear.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

papagormo wrote: »

Jesus yeah!
Was there another one called Sonas/Solas or something along that line aswell?

yeah they were briliant, teachers loved them cos when you got them they'd tell you to shut up and do the wordsearch while they had a fag and a cup of tea

Edit : I still remember the covers of some of the christmas annuals
NOSTALGIAC BUZZ

OPENROAD

OutlawPete wrote: »

Grange Hill, The Fall Guy and Roy of The Rovers.

Also, there is used to be a magazine called Look-In and I used to have that.

Big Nik Kershaw fan I was :cool:

Had a great opening choon imo

LambsEye

Robert Future Muslin wrote: »

Best annual of all time was the Siamsa annual that you got at christmas at school

papagormo wrote: »

Jesus yeah!
Was there another one called Sonas/Solas or something along that line aswell?

Solas! My mam was always too stingy to get me and my sister one so we only ever got one and she would have to do all the puzzles in pencil.

(*Note from my depressing childhood.)

ALSO, Bunty and Mandy annuals?! Every Christmas.

OPENROAD

Match and Shoot for me.

Fremen

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

Zig and Zag annuals used to be muchos excellent.

That Ted was one evil bear.

Too true. "The fridge in the denim jacket" was a modern classic.

Panthro

My older sister scribbled all over my Thundercats Annual (ok I lie, just on a page or two) that heartless biotch!

Rowley Birkin QC

Fremen wrote: »

Too true. "The fridge in the denim jacket" was a modern classic.

It really was. As I remember the production values were actually pretty good.

It's more than likely in the attic unless those do-gooders from the SVP got to it first.

admiralofthefleet

kids nowadays have no idea what its like to be a kid

mrsdewinter

The Siamsa et al annuals rocked. Folens shd look at reissuing a greatest hits for next Christmas, a la Soundings

epgc3fyqirnbsx

One of my favourite books is a 1956 Junior Readers Digest Christmas Annual that my granddad gave to my uncle. Tells you how to make a boomerang from plywood and it works!
Loadsa cool stuff in it

Mint Sauce

The Beano and Dennis the Menace. Bash Street Kids had their own Annual as well. Good times.

LambsEye

Robert Future Muslin wrote: »

One of my favourite books is a 1956 Junior Readers Digest Christmas Annual that my granddad gave to my uncle. Tells you how to make a boomerang from plywood and it works!
Loadsa cool stuff in it

Oh man that's awesome. Can you imagine if you gave a kid a piece of plywood and a carving knife nowadays and told them to make a boomerang?

They would definitely just use the knife to knock over a Londis, sell the plywood for soapbar hash and spend the rest of the night teaching each other gang signs.

Rowley Birkin QC

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

kids nowadays have no idea what its like to be a kid

I bet they've never even tied an onion to their belt.

Panthro

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

I bet they've never even tied an onion to their belt.

or mastered the art of playing "conkers".

Unpossible

We had The Beano and The Dandy every year, then sometimes we would also get "Commando", "Roy of the Rovers" and various other soccer or war/battle annuals.

mikom

The Victor
Eagle

epgc3fyqirnbsx

LambsEye wrote: »

Oh man that's awesome. Can you imagine if you gave a kid a piece of plywood and a carving knife nowadays and told them to make a boomerang?

They would definitely just use the knife to knock over a Londis, sell the plywood for soapbar hash and spend the rest of the night teaching each other gang signs.

That made me lol, they would give a damn. It was accompanied with a really cool story about an Abo display for the queen with boomerangs where they could throw it and it would hover in one spot in the air for half a minute which in the wild would spook birds thinking that the boomerang was a wedge tail eagle and they would all fly up and they'd get them with nets then
Or that they would throw it it and i would go a hundred yars and come back and bury itself 6 inches in the earth only inches from their feet and they hadn't moved a muscle.

I've long ben thinking of scanning tis book, it's ridicolously cool

Son Of A Vidic

Jaysus memory lane time in here, I loved the Beano and the Dandy. Many a friend I almost crippled, as I tried to score goals like Roy of the Rovers.

Rowley Birkin QC

Unpossible wrote: »

We had The Beano and The Dandy every year, then sometimes we would also get "Commando", "Roy of the Rovers" and various other soccer or war/battle annuals.

I think I read lately that "Fatty" from the Bash St. Kids isn't allowed to be called Fatty anymore in case it makes fat kids upset and normal kids call fat kids Fatty.

It's like messing with evolution.

LambsEye

Some classics, (a million cool points to the peeps that remember:)

Ivor Lott and Tony Broke
http://www.toonhound.com/ivortony-1.gif

The Four Marys
http://blog.newsarama.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/normal_bunty-four-marys.JPG

The Numbskulls
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/110/312020241_4c4195e8a4_b.jpg

Billy Whizz
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/b/billywhiz1.jpg

The Bash Street Kids
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AkrZ09GYiws/Ru5JhFgVONI/AAAAAAAABMc/MtTAEbdU2iw/s400/bashstreet.jpg

The Comp
http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/262/wm/pd2501868.jpg


Man! Good Times.

scientific1982

papagormo wrote: »

Well folks,
Remember the good oul days of having "The Annual" of your favourite tv show/etc?
I remember in our house we had:
"Home and Away"
"Neighbours"
"Thundercats" (my very first Annual!)
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"

I also managed to wrangle a Premier League type Annual from a bank one time, don't ask me how!

So, what Annuals are still somewhere in the corners of yer households?
:pac:

Had the thundercats one too. What a classic.

Unpossible

mikom wrote: »

The Victor
Eagle

Ah ha, those names are familiar I think we had some of those too.

Jesus Wept

Beano was a good one.

Robert Future Muslin wrote: »

Best annual of all time was the Siamsa annual that you got at christmas at school

LambsEye wrote: »

Solas! My mam was always too stingy to get me and my sister one so we only ever got one and she would have to do all the puzzles in pencil.

(*Note from my depressing childhood.)

ALSO, Bunty and Mandy annuals?! Every Christmas.

Very vague recollections of these...
Can they still be gotten?

carfiosaoorl

Awww i loved them Sugradh, sonas and siamsa annuals. I never got one in school. We couldnt afford them:( so had to make do with cast offs that had been filled in already. I'm glad they dont do them any more though. Perfect way to separate the have from the have nots.
I loved bunty and mandy and jackie annuals. Oh and twinkle:D

OutlawPete

OPENROAD wrote: »

Had a great opening choon imo

This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIT-UIQr_CY

Jesus Wept

OutlawPete wrote: »

This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIT-UIQr_CY

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=292958908437&v=info

deathrider

For some reason I remember reading my older borhter's annuals more than mine. He had the cool sh!t- Dan Dare and Eagle.

Panthro

(following on from a chat this morning)

Was there Annuals for the Irish tv shows, "Fair City", etc can anyone remember?

Feeona

Ah Beano, Dandy, Bunty, Whizzer and Chips, Beezer, and Jackie! And Viz for the more adult audience-they always ripped the piss out of the photo stories in Jackie

Feeona

papagormo wrote: »

(following on from a chat this morning)

Was there Annuals for the Irish tv shows, "Fair City", etc can anyone remember?

I can't believe there would be an annual for Fairly ****ty- what on earth would they put in it! Although I do remember getting a Wanderly Wagon annual and being fairly disappointed that the pictures of O'Brien, Grandmother, Judge and Crow looked different to the real articles.

EverEvolving

Man that takes me back, I used to love those Siamsa books, hours of fun!

Guinness book of records was always knocking around ours too, I remember reading about the guy with the longest toe nails in the world and thinking why, just why?

xzanti

Mandy and Bunty ftw.

Tar.Aldarion

Thanks for reminding me of those school books, I loved the excitement!

Princess Peach

I have Muppet Babies, and Rainbow, and the Bunty and the Mandy, and a couple of my Little Pony ones! Think we have a Tots TV one and a few Beano's lying around too.

Oh I'm gonna read them tonight

Sure I could root out a few of those Irish Spraoi ones if I had the energy, I got them every year sure!

--LOS--

I never had annuals but I remember everyone else in school having those siamsa/sonas ones

Irish Halo

Fremen wrote: »

Too true. "The fridge in the denim jacket" was a modern classic.

I do not still have:
Fridge In A Denim Jacket
Dial D For Dustin
Kangaroos In Bikinis
Zig & Zag in Strawberry Jelly
Chilli & Chocolate Flavour
In Yer Face
Revenge Of The Nellies

OK so I do ... in my defence they are class ...

We also used to get Beano and Dandy ones but also the Calvin & Hobbes' collections (not really annuals but they used to turn up at Xmas).

Vicxas

The Beano and Dandy albums, love them

also i found a Man Utd Annual from 1995.... bwahahaha

davrho

Brought up in Glasgow so Oor Wullie and The Broons would be lying about the house.

Beano, Dandy,Roy of the Rovers and the Celtic year book would be there too.

Ruu_Old

Several Beano ones, Roy of the Rovers, one from WCW, Back to the Future and others mentioned here.

chakotha

papagormo wrote: »

Jesus yeah!
Was there another one called Sonas/Solas or something along that line aswell?

I think it went Sugradh, Spraoi, Siamsa then Sonas.

I used to get Buster and Whoopee annuals. And the comics plus a mix of Whizzer and Chips, Jackpot, Victor, 2000AD. I think I had a few Hotspur annuals from a jumble sale.

o1s1n

I can't believe nobody has mentioned 2000AD or Judge Dredd annuals. I got one every christmas in my christmas stocking.

Ultra violent sci fi and fantasy FTW!