My Future Plans

How's everyone doing? Two years ago I started this blog and was very much into it. From the blog I discovered my real passion was for YouTube, created a channel and started making videos. Now, that's mostly all I do and I don't write very often for Matropolis. 

However, I'm not going to stop blogging. There will still be the odd post on occasion but YouTube will be my primary focus. I'm loving it and met a great bunch of people.

The Decline Of The Tuber

Since creating Matropolis I've met a great number of people from YouTube whom I now call friends. The gaming community on the video site are absolutely fantastic and it's been great interacting with everyone.

I've been active for nearly a year now and love filming videos to upload, even though it's given me less time to blog but in a way this blog was a starting point to for me.

It was YouTube where I discovered Rick Idak and have become involved in his Marine Boy fan film. All thanks to a comment left on a video. Amazing how it started all from that. 

Marine Boy Live Action Fan Film Facebook Page!

Greetings all! You remember my interview with Rick Idak a few months ago concerning his career and upcoming Marine Boy fan film? Well the Facebook page is up so please head over and drop it a 'like'.

I'm also happy to announce that I'm now part of Rick's team and I'm involved in aspects of the story and some design. As I'm based in the UK and Rick in Australia I'm his UK President which sounds pretty cool.

The Consistency Of Inconsistencies

Ever since contacting Rick Idak about his upcoming Marine Boy fan film we have kept in touch over email and recently were discussing the inconsistencies in cartoons and TV shows.

For instance, have you ever been watching an episode of your favourite show and suddenly notice something isn't quite right? Is the characters costume a different colour from before? Are they stuck in a situation they easily solved a few episodes back? Shouldn't Spider-man's spider sense have warned him about that danger? How can Superman touch that Kryptonite and not be affected!  

Marine Boy: Splasher Sings!

Here's a clip of Splasher singing after being able to talk due to an invention created by Professor Fumble in the episode 'The Genius Dolphin'. He's manipulated into performing for an audience. Be warned, the voice can be a bit irritating. This video is taken direct off my channel

An Interview with Rick Idak

Meet Rick, the one all the way up there

For those of you who are not Familiar with Rick Idak he owns his own business called Rick's Grips And Camera Hire which specialises in supplying filmmaking equipment to people shooting their films. These include cameras, recording media, lights, sounds and a lot more. 

He has worked with a lot of indie filmmakers and actors who later became famous such as Liam McIntyre who went on to play the title role in Spartacus: Blood & Sand after the previous actor, Andy Whitfield, passed away.

Rick isn't always just supplying equipment though, he's also behind the camera at times and has shot some of his own short films including Niflheim: Blood and Bullets, Sarah's Jihad and Spawn of Evil: Sons of God.

P Is For...Prince Planet!

No one can compare,

To the prince who wears,

A medallion on his chest!

Here's another 60's japanimation and unlike Marine Boy this one was aired all in classic black & white. After discovering MB several years ago and going through my 60's phase I discovered this series online and set about trying to obtain a copy. I was successful although 4 episodes of the collection are missing and I don't think there's many full sets out there.

M Is For...Matropolis! The First Anniversary!

This is crazy. Matropolis is now 1 years old! Wow! I can't believe it's been a year since I began this blog. Happy birthday Matropolis! Have a good one :)

It was when I was in Magic Kingdom, Orlando, last year that I decided to create my own blog. I was watching the 'Celebrate A Dream Come True' parade and as all of my Disney childhood memories passed by in floods I started thinking of those good old days. My first friends, cartoons, video games. I thought to myself that I could write a book on it. Then a few seconds later I had decided...I'm going to create my own blog!

My Fun Trivia Quizzes!

If you read my earlier posts back in August you would have seen me mention these quizzes before. A few years ago I often found myself bored during my lunch break at work so would browse the internet while letting out deep sighs. Then my friend Steve mentioned this quiz website to me containing lots of fun games called Fun Trivia.

So I started frequenting this website and enjoyed earning badges as I played the word games and quizzes. After a while I decided that I would attempt to create my own quiz.

Marine Boy Intro

It occurred to me that when I published my Marine Boy post last year I didn't include the opening of the japanimation show.

In fact there were two openings. Both featured exactly the same scenes however a theme song was later added. Here are both intros.

Marine Boy

Here's some Matropolis trivia for you- Marine Boy is the first ever purchase I made on Ebay. Yeah it's true. I came across the show when I was browsing the Internet and even though it was first broadcast in the 60's I recognised one of the screenshots from the show. Perhaps I saw a clip or an episode when I was really young? Who knows? Anyway it looked different and impressive for an older anime so I tried it out and I'm glad I did.