The Annual

Panthro · 23-01-2011 02:32AM #1

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 · 23-01-2011 02:35AM

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

abouttobebanned · 23-01-2011 02:36AM

Big comic fortnightly
Buster
Look in
Shoot :-)

admiralofthefleet · 23-01-2011 02:36AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:36AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:37AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:37AM

Zig and Zag annuals used to be muchos excellent.

That Ted was one evil bear.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 23-01-2011 02:39AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:40AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:41AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:41AM

Match and Shoot for me.

Fremen · 23-01-2011 02:43AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:45AM

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

Rowley Birkin QC · 23-01-2011 02:45AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:47AM

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

mrsdewinter · 23-01-2011 02:50AM

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

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 23-01-2011 02:52AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:53AM

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

LambsEye · 23-01-2011 02:54AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:55AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:56AM

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

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

or mastered the art of playing "conkers".

Unpossible · 23-01-2011 02:56AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:57AM

The Victor
Eagle

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 23-01-2011 02:58AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:59AM

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 · 23-01-2011 02:59AM

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 · 23-01-2011 03:00AM

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 · 23-01-2011 03:08AM

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 · 23-01-2011 03:10AM

mikom wrote: »

The Victor
Eagle

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

Jesus Wept · 23-01-2011 03:12AM

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 · 23-01-2011 03:22AM

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

The Annual

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