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I'm not sure what I think about this. Bagpuss is a favourite of mine and the idea of a new film with Bagpuss and his friends waking up in the modern world rather worries me.
However, it is being developed by the estates of both Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, so we'll see. I wonder what today's children will make of it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrjwlvxknko
Professor Yaffle will be along in a minute to tell you it will be fine.
Personally I'm not convinced
At 56 yo I'll always love the originals. They still have a genuine feel of magic flowing through them that transports you straight back to childhood.
The new ones? If they give today's kids that same feeling now and when they are 56 it's all good.👍
It'll always be the original ones for me though as they can never be replaced in my memories.
Looks like a job for Ai. Nano Banana;-)
I wonder if Hartley Hare will be as big a **** as he was in the original 🤣 🤣
I always remember the episode where he laughed and talked down to Bagpuss when Bagpuss had said that in a year's time, he'd be the same age as Hartley. ****.
Bagpuss was shit, the mice carried that show. Wish I had a mechanical mouse organ...
This time around,I fear that the mice will be unable to fix it. 😣
Mixed feelings. I'm intrigued to see what they do with it, but there's a real risk of tarnishing the magic with an insensitive remake.
If you ever find yourself in Canterbury, be sure to visit The Beaney and see the Small Films exhibition. Bagpuss is there, along with lots of other childhood memories.
I wonder if Hartley Hare will be as big a **** as he was in the original 🤣 🤣
He wasn't in Bagpuss, he was in Pipkins.
Mrs Bloke breaks a lot of stuff and is in the habit of then dumping it on my garage workbench where she finds it magically bodged repaired the next day. I sometimes can't help myself singing "we will fix it" in a squeaky voice when she does this. I'm 61 years old ffs!
He wasn't in Bagpuss, he was in Pipkins.
Ohh heck - that's right. It was 50-odd years ago I guess :O
I want to see the return of Humphrey Cushion
I'm not sure what I think about this. Bagpuss is a favourite of mine
This is easy.
The originals still exist. If a reboot turns out to be crap then don't watch it. If it's great then yay, more cool stuff. What comes tomorrow doesn't change what came yesterday.
What comes tomorrow doesn't change what came yesterday.
It does make saying things like "i like star wars" a lot harder.
For some reason I have fond memories of all the kids shows from the 70s, except Bagpuss. I must have watched it, as I remember watching tne others, but when people talk about Bagpuss, I have no idea what the show was like, let alone tne affection it still creates.
I hope the revamp doesn't disappoint all the fans though.
CGI with American accents?
I was lucky enough to meet Oliver Postgate and hold one of the original Bagpie (there were a few made.) He did a book reading and signing at Ottakers bookshop. Must have been about 2000ish. Lovely man. He also had with him one of the mice and a Clanger IIRC.
I'm not sure what I think about this. Bagpuss is a favourite of mine
When you say favourite, you mean that you watch the 13 episodes regularly, as an adult? Or just relying on rose tinted specs?
I was six when it was first broadcast. By the time I was seven it felt like those 13 episodes had repeated ad nauseam. I don't think I've ever watched an episode since I stopped watching kids TV in the 80s, and had no intention of inflicting it on my own kids - they thought the original Paddington, with Michael Hordern, was boring. It was, as I found when I bought the DVD for them. It's no Hong Kong Phooey or Roobarb and Custard! 😆
Bagpie
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If a plural of octopus is octopodes then a plural of Bagpus is Bagpodes. Or Bagpi. Bagpie is a saggy old recipe that would traumatise my younger self.
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This is easy.
The originals still exist. If a reboot turns out to be crap then don't watch it. If it's great then yay, more cool stuff. What comes tomorrow doesn't change what came yesterday.
Exactly my way of thinking. The originals don’t go away,* if the new ones are rubbish by comparison, then keep watching the originals.
*One might have thought that about original Dr Who programmes, except the Beeb wiped the tapes in the interests of saving public money… *rolls eyes*.
I have my Bagpuss upstairs along with a load of other soft toys, some originally mine, others that I’ve rescued from the road or foot/cycle paths, or cars that I was clearing out, and had been dropped or left behind.
I’m very sentimental about things like that - someone, somewhere was probably quite upset about the loss of something they were attached to, the least I can do is be a sort of Keeper of Lost Things, and care for them on their behalf. One was a little Orca plushie, that I found lying by the side of the road when I was out on my bike, it still had the label attached, I guess it had gone out of a car window, I couldn’t bear to leave it lying there.