Gathering Of The Gargoyles

Today we are going to tell you about the epic cartoon series Gargoyles. It was a Disney cartoon like no other, it was darker and edgier and was unique. Many of it was based on Scottish mythology and shakespearian plays.

Gargoyles used to air on Disney Channel during the 90's and this was way before Disney became a hum drum teen bop network. You can get the first season of this epic show on dvd now, and hopefully some day Disney will release more seasons of it on dvd as well.

These creatures do indeed exist - in fact some can be sighted in places like St Augustine - but do not worry, these creatures do not attack people it is not their nature.

This show was parodied in Freakazoid as a segment titled Lawn Gnomes.

Our friends in stone are often called grotesques as this is said to be the correct term for these guys.



The Manhattan Clan of gargoyles are actually rather friendly despite their rather menacing appearances. They're the good guys.


If you ever get the chance to, you can watch episodes of the show on Youtube.


You can find out about the show here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyles_(TV_series)



There's also some pretty cool Gargoyles stuff on this site here including information, fan stuff and memobillia info:
http://www.gargoyles-fans.org/




Here is another good Gargoyles site that is worth taking a look at:
http://avalon.gargoyles-fans.org/




You might want to take a look at this site too:
http://www.loony-archivist.com/gargs/




This link has an article about the stone gargoyles we see during the day:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle



Gargoyles are stone by day and warriors by night.



From 1994 - 2009 there was often a Gargoyles fan event called the Gathering. The last one took place near the end of August last year. They have stopped doing these now for some reason, you can find out more about these here:
http://www.gatheringofthegargoyles.com/




My brother and I often went to these big Gargoyle gatherings especially in 2007 and 2008 - we also went to last year's one.

Sci Fi Action and Fantasy Fun

Hello Earth. Do you love science fiction? Then you'll love the Sci fi wing of our museum/theme park.

The Sci Fi Wing: Rides and Attractions

The sci fi wing is a hi tech futuristic area designed to look like the inside of a moonbase. There is a robotic tour guide named Bob and his job is to show you around.

• Star Wars Flight Simulator

Pilot one of the spaceships from Star Wars on this fun ride and go to a galaxy far far away. Save the galaxy and be a hero like Luke Skywalker, or you can take part in a pod race like Anakin did in Star Wars episode 1.

• Buzz Lightyear Space Quest

Attention earth, Buzz Lightyear wants YOU to help him save the galaxy from the evil Emperor Zurg. Here you can hop inside Buzz Lightyear's spaceship and be apart of Buzz's crew. You can also befriend the LGMS and take one of them home with you.

• Talk With The Aliens

Ever wanted to have a friendly conversation with E.T? Then this handy attraction gives you the chance to talk to the aliens, it uses special voice manipulation technology so you can make your voice sound as alien-like as you want.

• Darth Rangoon's Sith Challenge

This interactive attraction is Darth Rangoon's Sith Challenge, where you get to take part in a series of challenges provided by our friend and future sithlord Darth Rangoon including lightsaber battles.

• Ben 10 Morph Chamber

Similar to the Face Morph part of the A Christmas Carol train tour, this attraction has a photobooth where you can get your picture taken, then you can morph it into one of Ben's many alien forms.

• Dr Who Time Machine

On this Dr Who ride you can travel back in time and help the good Doctor save the galaxy, you can also befriend friendly Cybermen and Daleks.

• Terminator Robot Battle Spectacular

This is a spectacular robot showdown featuring our very replicas of the robots from the Terminator.

• Star Trek Voyage

This Star Trek ride places you right in an episode of Star Trek or one of the movies, you can choose to be any race from the show or films including Klingon and Romulan.

• MST3K Experience

This fantastic attraction gives you the chance to appear in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, you can also meet Mike and the bots.

• MST3K Theatre

This is a fantastic 3d MST3K style theatre that has all sorts of sci fi films from the 70's/80's/90's. And now to pay tribute to the late Michael Jackson, Men In Black II and Captain EO be added to the big selection of movies.

• Michael Jackson's StarQuest

This stage show pays homage to Captain EO and is fully interactive. You'll also meet a lot of friendly aliens too.

• Back To The Future Adventure

This ride is inspired by Back To The Future, take a car ride into the distant future and see what marvels it has.

The Magic And Fantasy Wing:

This wing of the museum is made to resemble a fairy tale kingdom. A magical cat-like character named Merv the wishling serves as the tour guide here.

• Into The Labyrinth

This attraction is an interactive maze inspired by the movie Labyrinth, it's a lot like Disney's Alice In Wonderland maze except it's a lot more fun because of all the tricky traps, monsters and suprises. See if you can make your way through the maze. The narration for this ride is done by Tyrone The Terrible doing his impersonation of Jareth the Goblin King.

• Fairy Tale Ferry

This is a gentle boat ride which takes you through fairy tale land, where you get to see famous fairy tale/Nursery ryme characters like Jack and Jill, Mary and her little lamb, Humpty Dumpty, The Princess And The Pea and the Frog Prince.

• Never Ending Story Dragon Ride

Inspired by the Never Ending Story, you get to ride on the back of a Luck dragon and travel through the fantastic fantasyland of Fantasia.

• Splash Mermaid Show

Fans of the Little Mermaid will love this mermaid show featuring our very own mermaid Mimi and her fishy friends. You'll see her sing and swim about in her tank. You'll also get to pet dolphins and swim with Mimi and her fish friends.

• Dungeons And Dragons Hero's Journey

This ride is inspired by Dungeons and Dragons, transport yourself to a fantastic fantasy realm and join a group of heroic adventurers on their quest. You can choose to be any class you want and you get to battle monsters of all kinds. And now you can choose to play a lycanthrope of some kind too including several of the ones we made up.

• World Of Warcraft Character Morpher

Be apart of the World Of Warcraft, this attraction is just like the Face Morph part of the Christmas Carol train tour except you can turn yourself into one of the many races from the popular online role playing game World Of Warcraft.

• Lord Of The Rings

This dark ride is inspired by the LOTR movies, it uses elements from all three movies and takes you on a journey to Middle Earth.

• Fantasyland Theatre

This is a movie theatre where fantasy movies from the 70's/80's/90's are shown on a daily basis including quite a few Disney animated films like Beauty And The Beast. And as a tribute to Michael Jackson the theatre now shows our award winning animated short Patchwork Michael before movies like Labyrinth and Never Ending Story.

• Michael Jackson's Dream Tribute

This is the ultimate dream tribute to the late Michael Jackson and it's an interactive 4-d movie which makes Disney style animation and live action with great storytelling, songs, and special effects. A cute cartoon character named Little MJ sings, dances, and interacts with the audience and takes them on a fantastic adventure.

Virtual Pets

In the 90's one of the biggest crazes was virtual pets, now they're making a huge comeback. Me and my brother have invented our own range of virtual pets. These ones are unique can interact with eachother, they also come with special passcodes.

• Virtual Villain

This exciting new breed of virtual pet allows you to look after your own Disney villain, there is a massive selection of Disney baddies to choose from, you start off with classic ones like Scar, Cruella, Gaston, Hades, and Maleficent and later on unlock newer ones like the Evil Emperor Zurg, Alameda Slim, John Silver and Yzma.

• HeroGotchi/VillainGotchi

This one gives you the opputonuity to adopt and look after your own superhero/supervillain. But the thing is you have to take extremely good care of them, if the hero one isn't looked after properly it turns into the Hulk, and if the villain one isn't looked after it becomes a brute. There are unlockable characters for each one, for the hero one there's Superman and for the villain one there's a mafia boss. Unfortunately these got recalled after an incident happened, what happened was that one of the hero ones someone had turned into Spawn and the villain one became Violator- the both of them got into a violent virtual battle.

• Millitary Koalas Virtual Squadron

This is the Millitary Koalas virtual pet. You can adopt and look after one of the Millitary Koalas. You start off with Sparky and Sparky Jr, Sidney, Nigel, Elvis, Cher, Blondie, and Elton, you later unlock Falco, Elton, Clark, Mozart, Beethoven and Madonna. Madonna is the most difficult one to look after.

• UltraPet

This unique breed of virtal pet allows you to look after a variety of different animals even mythical ones and exstinct ones such as dinosaurs. The werewolf is one of the ones you can unlock.

• Lemony Snicket Virtual Pal

This one allows you to look after the Baudelaire children from the Lemony Snicket books and movie. Other characters that you can unlock for this are Count Olaf and his acting troupe, Mr Poe, Aunt Josephine and Uncle Monty. You can also unlock various reptile friends for Uncle Monty to play with.

• Family Guy

The Family Guy virtual pet allows you to look after the Griffin Family from Family Guy. You can also unlock characters like Quagmire, Joe, Death, and Mayor West.

• King Of The Hill

Similar to the Family Guy only with characters from King Of The Hill.

• The Simpsons

Kind of like the Family Guy and King Of The Hill ones but with Simpson's characters.

• South Park

This one allows you to look after the kids from South Park. You can also unlock characters like Mr Mackey, Ned, Satan, Jesus, and Chef.

• MST3K

This one allows you to look after the bots from Mystery Science Theater 3000. You can also unlock Mike and Joel.

A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes

Today in the lab we are finishing the upgrades on our MechaGenie 5000 Wish Granting Unit. This machine is one that is capable of making any wish you make come true no matter how silly they are. There are several buttons on the control panel, the one that turns the machine on is a shiny gold one. Once the machine is turned out, a voice will say "Welcome. Please enter your wish!", all you have to do is type what your wish is on the main screen. The voice will then say..."Thank you. Your wish will be now be granted!" , then there will be a countdown followed by a big light display, and before you know it your wish will come true right before your eyes. It's that easy to use. This machine can do many different things but there are some wishes it cannot grant and they are: 1. Any wish that involves death or killing. This means you can't wish for someone you really hate to be killed. We can't be held responisble for anything like that. 2. Any wish involving love. So you can't wish for your crush to fall in love with you or anyone

else. We're not match makers you know. Love is something magic or technology cannot improve on. And 3. Any wish involving ressurection of the dead. This means you cannot wish for a deceased family member, pet, or famous celebrity to be brought back from the dead. It's not a pretty sight. Trust me, when someone used our Raise The Dead Kit to ressurect his dead hamster, we ended up with a George A. Romero zombie movie situation- it was a real nightmare to put up with- we had to call Bruce Campbell to help us fight them off (and believe me, he was a BIG help). We don't want another Zombie Apocolpyse. No matter how much you miss that old pet, family member or celebrity you must promise us that you WON'T wish to have their come back to life from the dead. We can't be held responsible for any damage caused by the undead, trust me, after the massive zombie attack that happened a while back we cannot afford to suffer through another one, trust me....Zombie John Candy was anything BUT jolly, Zombie Elvis was High Octane Nightmare Fuel, and Zombie Anna Nicole is a real maneater. So please, no wishing for someone to be brought back from the dead. Luckily for us we have Bruce Campbell's number on speed dial. So be careful what you wish for.

Magic wishes are a wonderful thing and so are dreams. But what are dreams exactly and what do they mean? Well... according to a song from Disney's Cinderella a dream is a wish your heart makes. And that is true. But what do dreams mean? Here to help us learn more about dreams is our friend the genie from Disney's animated comedy Aladdin. A genie is a magical being that lives in a lamp and grants wishes, this wacky blue genie was voiced by comedian Robin Williams and he sure knows a thing or two about magic. There are other Genie-like characters in pop culture too such as the character Jinji from Power Rangers Mystic Force (Jinji is a cat-like genie with magic powers) and Flabber the phasm from Big Bad Beetleborgs/Beetleborgs Metalix (however unlike the genie, Flabber spent all his years trapped in a pipe organ instead of a lamp). In fantasy stories it is believed that wishing upon a star or throwing a coin into a fountain are ways to make your dreams come true. Dreams have the power to take on a magical journey, to a place where everything you could ever want is right there waiting for you. There are two kinds of dreams, the good kind and then there's nightmares. Nightmares are really horrible dreams filled with fright. Nightmares may be scary but remember, when you're in a dream be it or a good one or a bad one you can do whatever you want. You have the power to control your own dreams, use your imagination- in dreams nothing is impossible. There are limitless oppotunies to be had in dreams, you can have whatever your heart desires. Ever wanted to fight crime with your favourite superhero? In dreams, it can happen. Just think about it and you'll be fighting alongside Superman, Batman, Spiderman or The Green Lantern in no time! Ever wanted to be rich, popular and famous? In dreams, it can happen. Just use your imagination and you'll be living in a palace and you'll have tons of fans in no time. Ever wanted to go on a treasure hunting adventure with Indiana Jones? Just say the word and you and Indy will be off on a fantastic adventure to discover the treasure of the lost tomb. Not only can you DO whatever you want in dreams, you can also BE whatever you want too. Ever wonder what it's like to be a cat? Use your imagination and viola....you're a cute little kitty cat! Ever wanted to be a superhero with amazing powers like flying, shapeshifting and heat vision? Just say the word and tada......you're a tall, strong, heroic superhero with amazing superpowers and a lantern jaw of justice. Ever wanted to be the next Elvis Presley? Put that imagination to good use and before you know it, you're Elvis baby, uh huh huh! Nothing is impossible in the dream realm. Me and my brother have invented a machine which enables us to record our own dreams and watch them in dvd format, it also comes with an early warning system that warns you of any nightmares that may be waiting to happen. We call it the Dream Weaver 6000. f

Here are some of the things the Dream Weaver 6000 does:

• Deciphers your dreams and records them while you sleep. So you can watch them the next day in DVD format complete with special features including commentary.
• Allows you to choose your own dreams. With the Dream Maker option you can choose your own dream and have it your way, with everything you've ever wanted in it. Has an exstensive selection of themes, music, people, objects, animals, and other items.
• Has a "Nightmare" early warning system that warns you when you're about to have a bad dream. It also comes with a special glow in the dark dreamcatcher to catch nightmares in. You won't have to worry about bad dreams ever again.
• Can be used during the day as well as at night. You can also use it with our Imagination Tank Machine to make your wildest dreams come true and to liven up a boring a day at work or school. It's great fun at parties.
• Comes with "dream discs" , these disks are recorded dvds of your various different dreams, these are compatable with any kind of dvd playing device and on computers.
• Special software which allows you to make your dreams into a tv show, cartoon or movie.

Disney RPG Club

We have our own Disney rpg club. Each week we have new stuff and new members joining us. This picture here shows us as our characters. The first one is me as Gaston, the one after that is Tyrone The Terrible as Scar, the third one is Master Of Oz as Nigel, the fourth one is Sam Leno as Buzz Lightyear, the fifth one is cousin Johnny as Phoebus, the sixth is my brother as the beast, the seventh one is of our friend Kirsty as Belle, the 8th one is Captain Comedy as Genie, the 9th one is of JoshuaLoius Belushi as Francis the ladybug, and the last one is of Kirsty's old brother as Kronk. Tyrone The Terrible also plays Ratigan. We're looking for some people to play Woody, Basil of Baker Street, Hercules, and the following other Disney heroines: Ariel, Jasmine, Esmerelda, Cinderella, Snow White, Mulan, Pocahontas, and Jane.

Disney Skateboarding

We're playing a game called Disney Extreme Skateboarding Adventure. It's basically a combination of Disney movies and the Tony Hawk games. You can play as characters from Toy Story, Tarzan, and The Lion King. I hope they'll be a sequel to this game. It would be neat if there was. We would love to have the following Disney characters in tbe next game:

Beauty And The Beast:

• Belle
• Lumiere and Cogsworth.
• Gaston.

A Bugs Life:

• Flik
• Dot
• Francis
• Tuck And Roll.

Hercules:

• Hercules
• Phil
• Meg
• Pain and Panic.

Little Mermaid:

• Ariel
• Sebastian.
• Flounder.

Mulan:

• Mulan
• Mushu.

Aladdin:

• Aladdin
• Genie
• Jasmine.

To Infinity and Beyond

We mentioned that our favourite Disney bad guy is Gaston a while back. Our favourite Disney hero is Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story/Toy Story 2 and the Buzz Lightyear cartoon series. There are so many reasons to love Buzz. In the movies (including Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command the Adventure Begins) his voice is done by Tim Allen, but in the cartoon series his voice is done by Patrick Warburton (who also is the voice of our favourite Disney sidekick...Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove). According to Empire Magazine, Buzz Lightyear is number 1 on their list of all time greatest Pixar characters. It's not hard to see why.

This good looking guy is Patrick Warburton. He does Buzz Lightyear's voice in the cartoon series. He's speciality is voicing muscle bound, lantern jawed superhero type roles. He played Puddy on Seinfeld. He provided the voice of Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove and it's sequel as well as the cartoon series spin-off. He also played The Tick in a live action version of the popular cartoon of the same name. He also voices Joe Swanson in Family Guy ("BRIINNNNNG IT ONNNN!" "LET'S DO IT!").

This is Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove. My brother and I think he looks a lot like Gaston.

Wacky Knik Knacks

Looking for a toy that's wacky, kooky and just plain fun? Then you have come to the right place! At Doc's Workshop for The Wacky we have the kookiest, wackiest toys and knick knacks you can think of. This week we're having a sale, 10% off on all plush toys, 20% off on all electronic ones, and 30% on all action figures. That's not all. We've got a whole bunch of new and exciting toys. Sick of the same old boring virtual pet? Then you need Virtual Villain. Virtual Villain is the fun new toy that allows to look after your own Disney villain, it has a wide selection of villains and it is as folows: Cruella, Scar, Ratcliffe, Ursula, Rattigan, Hades, Queen/Witch, Amos Slade, Big Bad Wolf, Pete, Hook, Horned King, Lyle T. Rouke, Clayton, Frollo, Edgar, Maleficent, Jafar, Hopper, Prince John, Shere Kahn, Lady Tremane, Sia and Am, Shan Yu, Madam Mim, Medusa, McLeach, Sid, Yzma, Chernabog, Gantu, Gaston, and even Judge Doom. You can teach them things and if you get more than one of them you can have them interact with eachother, play games and even compete against eachother in battle. All this and many more exciting toys at Doc's Workshop.