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Post by Becky on Jun 9, 2007 20:33:32 GMT
I loved this when it was first shown. Its being repeated on FTN at the moment and it entertains me for different reasons now. Canoeing less than 10 metres across the room to get into the Aztec Zone, dodgy clothes and haircuts, piss easy tasks which the stupid contestants can't do (one of the women last night didn't even know her 3x table), how excited the contestants get when they're choosing which category to play and who to play.
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Post by Ben on Jun 10, 2007 12:16:53 GMT
"Three minutes, and it's an automatic lock-in."
Richard O'Brien was way way better than Ed Tudor Pole.
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Post by al on Jun 14, 2007 19:07:23 GMT
Richard O'Brien was way way better than Ed Tudor Pole. Way way WAY better. But with Ed Tudor Pole came the Ocean Zone, which shat all over the Industrial Zone. Seriously, some of my greatest childhood memories come from me and my sister literally exploding with delight at people falling in during the water-based tasks. We were such evil little fuckers.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jun 17, 2007 1:00:47 GMT
I really don't understand why ITV hasn't resurrected this for Saturday Nights. It would surely have a chance of succeeding.
I would rather they didn't if it involved Vernon Kay though.
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Post by SweatShop on Jun 17, 2007 15:41:39 GMT
Because it wasn't on ITV, was it? It was on Channel 4.
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Post by Bungle on Jun 17, 2007 16:58:43 GMT
Made by an independent producer though (as with all C4 shows) so could be bought by anyone - witness BBC2 showing the new series of Treasure Hunt.
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Post by Ben on Jun 17, 2007 17:53:42 GMT
Should this woman win a prize for Most Stupid Crystal Maze contestant ever?
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Post by Merce on Jun 17, 2007 18:54:05 GMT
I had a crush on Richard O'Brien in it.
I'm not sure what that says about me.
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Post by SweatShop on Jun 19, 2007 16:43:58 GMT
I think the reason they can't bring it back is that it was a huge and fairly expensive set which was completely destroyed when it finished.
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Post by Bungle on Jun 19, 2007 17:27:41 GMT
It's funny how Fort Boyard, despite being essentially identical, was nowhere near as good.
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Post by Muinimula on Jun 19, 2007 19:51:58 GMT
One of my ambitions in life is to have a Crystal Maze themed birthday party - wouldn't that be fantastic?
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Post by Rad on Jun 19, 2007 20:59:11 GMT
Whatever you do at this party, don't play the Crystal Maze board game. I nearly lost friends over its rubbishness.
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Post by Muinimula on Jun 19, 2007 21:02:07 GMT
Whatever you do at this party, don't play the Crystal Maze board game. I nearly lost friends over its rubbishness. I hadn't planned on it, no, but it gives good scope for fancy dress, doesn't it? I had a crap little hand-held Crystal Game computer game thing once. You had to jump up and down on platforms and...that was about it.
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Post by Bungle on Jun 19, 2007 21:30:22 GMT
I had an incredibly bizarre Crystal Maze book, one of those 'make your own adventure' things. Weird. I also had a game for my old Acorn computer that was actually quite fab.
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Post by Rad on Jun 19, 2007 22:40:25 GMT
I still have that book. My flat is full of old retro tat like that. Including similar books for Knightmare (1, 3 and 4, No idea where 2 got to, I used to own it). And there'd be even more if my mum hadn't chucked stuff out behind our backs when we were younger.
I still need to get round to ebaying the bad Crystal Maze boardgame.
FACT. On my COmmunication Studies MA course. one of my tutors used The Crystal Maze in a lesson as an example of how not to communicate. The Brits were in heaven, even though it was Tudor-Pole and we all wittered about O'Brien being better. The international students were bamboozled.
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Post by coxy1979 on Jun 20, 2007 8:59:16 GMT
I can concur that the Crystal Maze board game is shit.
Whatever happened to the Crystal Maze tourist attraction that opened in somewhere like Blackpool. I was never taken there as a child and was pissed off about it.
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Post by SheSaysThat on Jun 20, 2007 14:34:27 GMT
was fort boyard the one where the people had to put up with being swung over lions and stuff out in the ocean somewhere, with melinda messenger? Becuase that really was bad...
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Post by xenomaniac on Jun 20, 2007 15:55:51 GMT
I can concur that the Crystal Maze board game is shit. Whatever happened to the Crystal Maze tourist attraction that opened in somewhere like Blackpool. I was never taken there as a child and was pissed off about it. I actually went there when I was younger. My dad got stuck in a physical challenge and we had to get a member of staff to turn on all the lights so he could get out. My mum made a bad situation worse by laughing so much she fell over.
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Post by polyannapolyfilla on Jun 20, 2007 17:23:41 GMT
was fort boyard the one where the people had to put up with being swung over lions and stuff out in the ocean somewhere, with melinda messenger? Becuase that really was bad... Every time I used to watch Fort Boyard (which was worryingly ofter?), my primary thought was 'how did they build it?' Like, did they just row into the middle of the ocean and drop stones till they ended up with a pile big enough to support a fort? Or was there a perfectly fort-shaped island they built on? Anyone out there who is an expert on mid-sea fort building?
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Post by Muinimula on Jun 20, 2007 18:35:02 GMT
Like, did they just row into the middle of the ocean and drop stones till they ended up with a pile big enough to support a fort? Or was there a perfectly fort-shaped island they built on? Anyone out there who is an expert on mid-sea fort building? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_BoyardAlas, not a fort-shaped island, but constructed by sinking foundation stones at low tide...
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Post by SheSaysThat on Jun 20, 2007 19:38:54 GMT
Look how much history that bloody fort went through, only to be mostly remembered (by a few) as the crappy crystal maze knock off.
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Post by coxy1979 on Jun 20, 2007 20:18:36 GMT
If you thought the Melinda Messenger/Leslie Grantham Fort Boyard was shit, it has nothing on the later incarnation.
For Messenger, read an unidentifiable blonde who looks like that cook Lesley somethingorother who laughs a lot
For Grantham, read DI Burnside
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Post by orphanandy on Jun 21, 2007 20:31:27 GMT
Look how much history that bloody fort went through, only to be mostly remembered (by a few) as the crappy crystal maze knock off. I have never seen this show (because 5 took ages to get coverage where I live) but it says that Crystal Maze came after it!
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Post by Bungle on Jun 21, 2007 20:59:08 GMT
In France, yes, although they were devised by the same person.
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Post by orphanandy on Jun 21, 2007 21:19:26 GMT
Should this woman win a prize for Most Stupid Crystal Maze contestant ever? OMG! I laughed so hard at that!! Her throwing the stick up and it hitting her on the head(at least 3 times) was priceless!!
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