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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2007 : 14:35:01
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| You're thinking of the JV recon. I've seen it. It's not bad, but I think the LC crew could make massive improvements. |
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The Black Guardian
Time Traveller
USA
256 Posts |
 Posted - 20 Dec 2007 : 18:58:28
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Originally posted by bingo99
Web of Fear hasn't been done? Oh that next, please.
HAHAHA. Be careful when mentioning The Web of Fear. We would not want DWO to jump to the wrong conclusions and set the internet ablaze with activity again.  |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2007 : 19:46:38
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| LMAO! Is THAT how that happened? LOL! |
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Makkabee
Legendary Time Traveller
1516 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2007 : 19:54:51
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Originally posted by toxicspurge
Yo Makkabee, which would you like the next LC release to be after The Savage?
I'd most like to see "Evil of the Daleks" next.
I need to start ordering recons again. I stopped about the time they announced the Space Pirates revision because I didn't want to get something and then have an improved version come out almost immediately afterwards. Now that TSP is out I can get that though, and there are a few other gaps in my collection it's probably time to fill as well. |
Risus est telum potentissimum contra tyrannem. Nullus dictator cum exercitibus omnibus ridiculum vulgi longe resistare potest. |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2007 : 22:13:08
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| If you haven't got them Makkabee, The Mythmakers V-II and The Highlanders V-II are both vast improvements of the first versions! |
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tygerbug
Time Traveller
USA
198 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2007 : 22:33:58
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Why are the Elaphe (Elephe?) recons so rarely mentioned when talking about recons? They're newish and all, and they use narrated audio, but I've watched 10 Elephe recons for every Loose Cannon I've seen .... so they're certainly out there ....
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Makkabee
Legendary Time Traveller
1516 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2007 : 22:42:58
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I have the redone version of "The Myth Makers" but not "The Highlanders." I should probably get "The Highlanders" because the footage of barechested sailors battling it out (I believe it was taken from Mutiny on the Bounty) didn't look right with the foggy northern setting of the story and I've heard the LC team replaced this footage with something more appropriate.
Besides, I quite like that story even if they do make the Jacobites the good guys. |
Risus est telum potentissimum contra tyrannem. Nullus dictator cum exercitibus omnibus ridiculum vulgi longe resistare potest. |
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Another Ian
Seasoned Time Traveller
United Kingdom
614 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2007 : 22:47:25
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| Never heard of them, but I don't think narrated versions would interest me anyway. |
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tygerbug
Time Traveller
USA
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2007 : 23:40:11
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Originally posted by Another Ian
Never heard of them, but I don't think narrated versions would interest me anyway.
They aren't narrated. They use the original soundtracks. |
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tygerbug
Time Traveller
USA
198 Posts |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2007 : 01:21:29
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| The LC recons are much better than the Elaphes. |
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The Black Guardian
Time Traveller
USA
256 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2007 : 04:31:16
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Originally posted by toxicspurge
LMAO! Is THAT how that happened? LOL!
Actually, DWO ended up giving free publicity to hoaxers.  They heard about the hoax (rumor) through three supposedly reliable sources, and then they printed a recovery story around the hoax. As everybody well knows, DWO kept supporting the hoax (rumor) until it finally sank in that nothing had been recovered. |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2007 : 10:54:31
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| I think this will go down in history as the way "NOT" to deal with rumors. |
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Russ
Administrator
United Kingdom
2213 Posts |
Posted - 22 Dec 2007 : 11:58:55
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Originally posted by tygerbug
Why are the Elaphe (Elephe?) recons so rarely mentioned when talking about recons? They're newish and all, and they use narrated audio, but I've watched 10 Elephe recons for every Loose Cannon I've seen .... so they're certainly out there ....
These are badly advised recons, they use the narrated audio and also are distributed digitally (directly from source), this is likely to cause problems for all recons as this is what the BBC (apparantly) dislike, Using Mark Ayres cd's is likely to send the man into a lather, turns him green and has him ripping his shirt I believe
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 22 Dec 2007 : 13:22:02
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| So they turn people into Primoids? LOL! |
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nix
Newbie
22 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 00:20:17
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| Its hard knowing which recons are best. I've got several ropey Loose Canon version on tape, though that might be that I've got bad copies? |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 10:49:12
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Some of the best are
The Highlanders V-II
The Myth Makers V-II
The Space Pirates V-II
The Dalek Masterplan.
Mission to the Unknown |
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Russ
Administrator
United Kingdom
2213 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 12:33:45
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Originally posted by nix
Its hard knowing which recons are best. I've got several ropey Loose Canon version on tape, though that might be that I've got bad copies?
The later ones are usually of better video quality as format confversion is less of an issue these days, The quality of Space Pirates and Highlanders is similar to a shop bought VHS IMHO |
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Newboy
Seasoned Time Traveller
United Kingdom
549 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 17:41:58
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| How do you tell which version you are watching. I have the highlanders and mythmakers LC recons but dunno weather it is the newest version or not. |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 18:02:29
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| I would imagine if it doesn't say V-II, it's the first version. The Highlanders and the Mythmakers are both fairly recent released (last year or so, correct Russ?) |
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tygerbug
Time Traveller
USA
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nix
Newbie
22 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 19:33:03
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| I've got the first editions. Right time to get some blank tapes & send off an email |
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kajaboy
Legendary Time Traveller
United Kingdom
1673 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 19:50:14
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| I am yet to get any recons and with VHS tapes drying up I better get a move on. |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 21:27:36
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Originally posted by nix
I've got the first editions. Right time to get some blank tapes & send off an email
I'd recommend
The Highlanders V-II
The Myth Makers V-II
The Space Pirates V-II
The Dalek Masterplan.
Mission to the Unknown
I have very high hopes for the Savages given how fantastic the preview looks! |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 21:28:27
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Originally posted by kajaboy
I am yet to get any recons and with VHS tapes drying up I better get a move on.
Yup, time to get a move-on! Plus, think how nice it will be to compare the Dalek Masterplan recon to the original once Ash reveal's he's been hoarding it for the last 30 years! |
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Russ
Administrator
United Kingdom
2213 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2008 : 00:10:46
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Originally posted by Newboy
How do you tell which version you are watching. I have the highlanders and mythmakers LC recons but dunno weather it is the newest version or not.
Well for Myth Makers if the recon has full screen text captions its the old version, Highlanders is a lot clearer than the old version but nothing specific springs to mind to tell you, the newer versions have an interview though whereas the old ones didn't |
Has Doctor Who merchandise gone too far?
NEW Dalek condoms - specially produced so at the crucial moment they say "Halt, or you will be impregnated" |
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Newboy
Seasoned Time Traveller
United Kingdom
549 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2008 : 20:02:59
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| Well I have the new Myth Makers then. I dont seem to hjave a copy of the LC Highlanders at all though which is a shame. |
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toxicspurge
Legendary Time Traveller
USA
6700 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2008 : 21:07:04
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| It's way better than the original. |
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nix
Newbie
22 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jan 2008 : 23:42:59
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Originally posted by kajaboy
I am yet to get any recons and with VHS tapes drying up I better get a move on.
I previously though they drying up too. I know some of the big retailers have announced they've stopped selling VCR's and doctor who isn't released on VHS any more, but there are still a lot of people using VCR's to record (most households have DVD-player not recorder). I have a HDD-rec so don't use my VCR to record programs any more, so haven't bought a tape for the last year or so. I recently went out to buy some for recons, and found them in most places you'd expect. Also found some decent prices - Maxell e180 99p and Sony e180 £1.40
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Originally posted by Russ
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Originally posted by tygerbug
Why are the Elaphe (Elephe?) recons so rarely mentioned when talking about recons? They're newish and all, and they use narrated audio, but I've watched 10 Elephe recons for every Loose Cannon I've seen .... so they're certainly out there ....
These are badly advised recons, they use the narrated audio and also are distributed digitally (directly from source), this is likely to cause problems for all recons as this is what the BBC (apparantly) dislike, Using Mark Ayres cd's is likely to send the man into a lather, turns him green and has him ripping his shirt I believe
This one is a hard one IMO. The fact they are illegally using the copyrighted narrated audios means both that it can disenfranchise the Beeb on the idea of fan-recons and that they have a limited audience (as only available on download sites). If you take the recon's themselves and examine themselves, then whether they are a preference to LC is a personal choice. The audio on them is nice and clear, obviously, and judging by the Space Pirates preview clip on the LC site, newer LC's audio is clearer than the old stuff. I do like the narrated (I know some people don't) especially as peering at the TV to read the moving text on my old LC's is a bit distracting.
However Elaphe recons are purely static telesnaps, where as LC are now putting more movement into scenes. That said we may see more in other recons to follow too. I think elaphe recons can appear clearer because they are not limited to VHS and so can be released in higher resolutions, though this isn't always as straight forward as it might seem as some of the telesnaps used are upscaled versions of smaller images. |
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