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How do?

Treated myself to a box of Lucky Charms this afternoon, as despite being very, very nearly 40, I remain a massively overgrown child.

And what better to enjoy long side the sugary treat of dubious nutrition than some classic Saturday Morning cartoons? Not only do I have Disney+, but also all of Transformers on DVD, and various other similar fare.

Combine it with a spot of Hobby (building, painting etc) and we might have an interesting group concept on our hands.

Now. It doesn’t need to be on a Saturday morning. We’re grown ups with home media, such temporal restrictions therefore beneath us. But, speaking of temporal restrictions, perhaps agree a set amount of time? Say two hours or so.

I’d want to know your cereal of choice, cartoons of choice (even specific episodes) and what hobby you managed in that sliver of time.

Any interest?

If I got to have such luxurious Saturdays, I would eat Peanut Butter Captain Crunch while watching Robotech and working on model spaceships.

I generally spend Sunday mornings listening to the sunday rewind on my local radio station, where they dig back into their archives and play 2 hours of stuff from the 80’s and 90’s. I usually spend this time doing a little painting, but mostly building hobby stuff over my morning coffee.

I don’t keep sugar cereal in the apartment, but one day of the weekend I try to make something nicer then just a bowl of cereal or oatmeal (my normal fare). Wafles, scones, fried egg sandwitch, coffee cake. Depends on what I have on hand/mood. Also if I have The Boy for the weekend. If I do pick up sugar cereal, which I used to do once a year when The Boy was on school breaks to make them a little special, I was partial to Apple Jacks or Fruit Loops.

Today I clipped spare stuff of sprues and sorted it into my bits box, put a few layers down on a SoB (finishing her) and some RT-era marines. Had an egg sandwich on homemade bread.

After finishing watching the new Clone Wars last week, I’m thinking of starting to re-watch Rebels.

Yesterday I decided that dinner was to be a quart and a half of ice cream while painting Grey Knights and rewatching some season 4 of Star Trek TNG and some Aqua Teen Hunger Force while playing a Clone Wars one-shot RPG session over Discord.

I don't eat cereal too much, usually because the healthy stuff tastes like cardboard, while a box of cinnamon toast crunch will be consumed in a single sitting if it's around me

I swear I'm a responsible independent adult with a full time job

Tub of B&J’s lower fat ‘Cherry Garcia’ was lunch, and part way through building twenty Mortek Guard, with another 20 on sprue. Going for spears so I can field them as a massive area denial block.

Dinner? Flatmate is ordering Papa Johns, but that’s not my bag. Got some Chinese style nibble things in the freezer. May have those.

Oh, and watching Fear the Walking Dead. Finally got past season 2, to the point I’m halfway through Season 4.

Man, you guys are living the dream. The sweetest thing I had recently was some Cheerios Krispy Treats I made out of desperation. Like Rice Krispy Treats, but all you have in hand are Cheerios. Tastes about like you would expect.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Man, you guys are living the dream. The sweetest thing I had recently was some Cheerios Krispy Treats I made out of desperation. Like Rice Krispy Treats, but all you have in hand are Cheerios. Tastes about like you would expect.

I’ve make rice crispy treats with corn flakes before. Add a LOT of green food coloring and some red hots and they make nice looking holly bunches for holiday cookie plates.

I generally don’t keep a lot of sweets in the house. Which is only a little bit of a lie. I will sometimes make a batch of cookies, portion out all the dough, and freeze it. That way I can just take 2-3 cookies out of the freezer, pop them in the toster oven, and have hot fresh baked cookies 10-15 minutes later. Or just eat them straight out of the freezer.

Sometimes I’ll put some cinnamon sugar on popcorn for a fix.

Or a little shot of Fireball or limoncello.

If you need a quick fix, look up chocolate mug cakes. You probably have the stuff to make them in your pantry right now.

Ever since i was a kid Cap'n Crunch was my favorite Cereal, still is. But because i have a bad gap/hurt gums, i cant eat crunchy cereal anymore :(
Can i have saturday morning anime? Watching castlevania.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Man, you guys are living the dream. The sweetest thing I had recently was some Cheerios Krispy Treats I made out of desperation. Like Rice Krispy Treats, but all you have in hand are Cheerios. Tastes about like you would expect.

Read that as ‘all you have in hand are Cheetos’. Worried for your sanity for a brief second!

Can really be bothered to cook right now, so a bowl of Lucky Charms will take the edge off!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Man, you guys are living the dream. The sweetest thing I had recently was some Cheerios Krispy Treats I made out of desperation. Like Rice Krispy Treats, but all you have in hand are Cheerios. Tastes about like you would expect.

Read that as ‘all you have in hand are Cheetos’. Worried for your sanity for a brief second!

Can really be bothered to cook right now, so a bowl of Lucky Charms will take the edge off!

BRB, going to go make cheetos based rice crispy treats.

I'm a weird one, as a kid I liked bran flakes and Cream of Wheat. Granted, I'm all in on the brand name staple cereals, but I always go back to those two.


As far as cartoons? All eighties, all the time. What I'd REALLY like is one of the streaming services to pick up The Spiral Zone and then chase it with Starcom.

Funny story. When I was younger the school I went too still did the most evil of things - Saturday Morning School. I've been told (and have a dim recollection) that the Headmaster of the entire school* asked if there was anything wrong and I said I disliked it because I missed Super Ted.

Thankfully they eventually abolished it. Then later we moved schools and we got Saturday School back once again.... urgh. It never made sense and to this day I believe it was only kept so that students had less chance to "escape/avoid" having to turn up to sports matches at the weekend (which as I was never in the team and never had interest in it, of course made saturday school even more pointless).




*it was split into two halves with two heads, but one was "overall in charge"

My cereals of choice as a kid were Ricicles and Sugar Puffs.

Bowl of them and some SMTV Live with Cat Deely and Ant and Dec. Cartoon of choice obviously being Pokemon.

Can still remember Ant and Dec's pokemon battles.

We didn't have the huge variety of sugar coated sugar that the USA calls breakfast cereals over here. We were also on the poor end of the spectrum, so presweetened cereals were a rare thing.

I was more a plain corn flakes kinda kid anyway.
That said, I binged "Gargoyles" on the weekend. So much TNG talent on that show - AND Keith David - who I mostly knew from "They Live" at the time.

I remember way back in the young’un days, I’d wake up at five in the morning every weekday to do this. Gave me an hour to sneak some ‘toons while the rest of the family was asleep. Made it a habit ever since. I think back then it was oatmeal and Digimon. Nowadays it’s toast and whatever happens to be on.

We also had a rule on screen time, where we could only play video games on weekend mornings. That gave us around 2 hours of Harvest Moon or Smash Bros on Saturday and Sunday. Since we had to keep the volume down, it was actually kind of relaxing.

 Nevelon wrote:

If you need a quick fix, look up chocolate mug cakes. You probably have the stuff to make them in your pantry right now.

Hey, you too? Ditto on the mug cake. Takes like ten minutes to whip one of these up, and you just toss it in the microwave. Never quite got it to become cake though. It would usually just become heated pudding.

Honestly, my favorite cereal was/is actually Rice Krispies, with whole milk. Cinnamon Toast Crush was probably second place.

But I can't really drink milk anymore, not related to lactose, but rather an allergy to casein. So, I could drink it, but it doesn't do well for me. I've also developed fructose malabsorption, so I have to skip wheat and a ton of other things.

I certainly was not into the hobby at that time though, unless we count me "triaging" my broken G.I. Joe's though. I can't recall what cartoons I was really watching most of the time, but I did like G.I. Joe, Exosquad, even He-Man when I was a lot younger.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
My cereals of choice as a kid were Ricicles and Sugar Puffs.

Bowl of them and some SMTV Live with Cat Deely and Ant and Dec. Cartoon of choice obviously being Pokemon.

Can still remember Ant and Dec's pokemon battles.

I recall the time before they had SMTV for kids. When you had to expose yourself to This Morning and wait for Mr Motivator to finish the exercise regime before Pokemon started.

The cereal that we had at home when I were a lad was rather boring by today's standards. Not that the fun stuff didn't exist, but my parents didn't have the imagination or inclination to dump super sugary cereal on us.

So, it was Cornflakes, Rice Crispies, Shredded Wheat and Weetabix. Good news was that you could stick 2-3 spoonfuls of sugar on them to make up for the calorific deficiency of that stuff.

Cartoons that weren't Transformers, He-Man or the Thundercats? How about Galaxy Rangers or the Centurions? Come on, Netflix! Make them happen again!

I have fond memories of the Saturday morning kids TV program called Get Fresh that you had to endure to see those cartoons, although Gilbert the Alien was funny.

Gilbert?

Was all about Gaz Topp, surely

Cereal: Classic Captain Crunch. Those little cubes(ish) hurt the mouth so much... extra hard corn pops I swear.

Cartoons: Robotech (Macross'ish), failing that, "Battle of the Planets" (Gotchaman'ish)

Doing Stuff: #1 favorite is the model build.

Had some Chocolate Krave earlier. Now time to continue building those Mortek Guard.

20 more spears coming right up!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Gilbert?

Was all about Gaz Topp, surely

Gaz Topp vs. a green rubber puppet with alien mucus frequently streaming out of its nose.

I think we both know where the talent was, there.
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As a kid -
Cereal - raisin bran, fruit loops, cheerios - all off brand of course.

cartoon - TMNT, Duck Tales, Aaaah Real Monsters, Batman Beyond

hobby - building legos, playing my brother in WHFB when my parents bought us the WHFB starter set (my dad built and painted our armies until we were out of the house)


Now -

no cereal - just a cup of coffee and occasionally a hard boiled egg

cartoon - Disney+ has gargoyles and a few other cartoons that I wanted to watch growing up

hobby - building Blackstone Fortress models and getting them ready to start some solo play

 Chillreaper wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Gilbert?

Was all about Gaz Topp, surely

Gaz Topp vs. a green rubber puppet with alien mucus frequently streaming out of its nose.

I think we both know where the talent was, there.
.

Topp’s Mullet?

Do I win £5?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Chillreaper wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Gilbert?

Was all about Gaz Topp, surely

Gaz Topp vs. a green rubber puppet with alien mucus frequently streaming out of its nose.

I think we both know where the talent was, there.
.

Topp’s Mullet?

Do I win £5?

My memory was a bit hazy as regards the mullet and I couldn't recall the extravaganza of it.

So, I googled it...

Holy moley... it's worth more than a fiver.

I eat oats these days in the morning, when it comes to TV I watch whatever happens to be on when I roll out of bed. My woman works shifts that are 24 hours long so I have ample time at my hands.
As for hobbies these days I spend on my Pike & Shot army, and reading historical literature for inspiration for the said army.

 Chillreaper wrote:
The cereal that we had at home when I were a lad was rather boring by today's standards. Not that the fun stuff didn't exist, but my parents didn't have the imagination or inclination to dump super sugary cereal on us.

So, it was Cornflakes, Rice Crispies, Shredded Wheat and Weetabix. Good news was that you could stick 2-3 spoonfuls of sugar on them to make up for the calorific deficiency of that stuff.

Cartoons that weren't Transformers, He-Man or the Thundercats? How about Galaxy Rangers or the Centurions? Come on, Netflix! Make them happen again!

I have fond memories of the Saturday morning kids TV program called Get Fresh that you had to endure to see those cartoons, although Gilbert the Alien was funny.

One day I was shopping through Half Price Books with the wifey and found two Galaxy Rangers DVDs. I was literally bouncing. Cool thing was my daughter actually liked it, so it gets rewatched every so often.

No Guts No Glory!

I can tell you I loved that show, but not a thing about any of the episodes!

Time to hunt down those DVDs....

DVDs ordered, Lucky Charms consumed, new Rogue Trader era books received (next up, leaving eBay feedback) and some tidying up done on Mortek Guard.

Pretty productive day, so far!

Let me know what the quality of the DVDs is like, could you please?

I may or may not have a version of Galaxy Rangers sitting around, but the audio is a little reverby, which is something that is simply not tolerable. If there was ever a "skip intro" button on an episode of Galaxy Rangers, I can guarantee that I'd never press it.

From what I can remember, it was a strange blend of near Jar-jar antics and some pretty dark storylines. I always wanted to be Gooseman.

Will do. They’re a German set, but language is English. Hopefully they’re all hunky dorey.

Speaking of boxed sets, also chewing through Taggart. Love that show!