your childhood mount rushmore

If kid me had been in charge, Mount Rushmore would have etched faces of the following:

Michaelangelo from TMNT
Batman (possibly 66, possibly TAS)
Sonic The Hedgehog
Garfield

Yerselves?

It's hard to think of specifically four without choosing four who are already a matched set, like the Beatles or the Marx Brothers.

Willie Mays
Joe Montana
Indiana Jones
Spock (specifically The Voyage Home Spock)

Max Headroom
Don Johnson
Halo Jones
Dave Gilmour

or the Marx Brothers.

Ok, so obviously Groucho, Chico and Harpo are in there, but...are you really gonna carve a Zeppo up there?

Gummo

Margaret Dumont deserves it more than either of them honestly

could carve her with a shocked expression looking at Groucho

returning sacred landscapes to their original non white gaze beauty.

most famous people in the world

Geoff Capes
Torvill & Dean
Samantha Fox
Shakin Stevens

my favourites

Marty McFly
Willo The Wisp
Kenny Daglish
Michael Jackson as a dog person in the video for Speed Demon

Actually instead of Michael Jackson dog thing I'll go for Paul Daniels.

returning sacred landscapes to their original non white gaze beauty.

yes this was also a major concern of mine age 6

Nolan Ryan (still have an autographed card)
George Harrison (I loved the Beatles in toto, but as a kid George was my fave)
Robin Hood (the Disney fox version)
Han Solo

JRR Tolkien
The Three Stooges
Indiana Jones
James Bond (Connery)

Honorable Mentions:

Joe Montana
Sonny Crockett
Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

Asterix
Mike Oldfield
Ferris Bueller

and Frank Doubleday (but I didn't know his name at the time he was just...)

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Tom Baker as the Doctor
Weird Al Yankovic
My maternal grandfather
Ponch (but not Jon)
Peter Davison as the Doctor Weird

-weird-

Curly Howard
Jim Rice
Steve Englehart
Doc Savage (smooth James Bama version)

At age 11:

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein
Lon Chaney as Wolfman
Alfred E. Neuman
Wile E. Coyote

Terry Bradshaw
Kermit the Frog
Steve Jobs
Kent Tekulve

Elvis Presley
Bugs Bunny
Bobby Orr
Snoopy

At age 11:

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein
Lon Chaney as Wolfman
Alfred E. Neuman
Wile E. Coyote

That is an excellent selection, s/o to 11 year old Aimless

If kid me had been in charge, Mount Rushmore would have etched faces of the following:

Michaelangelo from TMNT
Batman (possibly 66, possibly TAS)
Sonic The Hedgehog
Garfield

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what a strange nightmarish image - I think maybe because the perspective is off? The original art was auctioned off in 2023 (starting bid: $1,180.00)

16.5x19-5/8" thin artboard features mixed media original art by Jim Davis Studio (c. late 1980s), showing the iconic, lasagna-loving, fat cat visiting Mount Rushmore, which has been slightly modified, w/Odie's face added beside that of George Washington. Garfield reacts w/his typical nonplussed expression as a giant stone tongue approaches. Artboard has pin holes at top corners along w/hand-drawn printer crop marks at corners which leads us to believe this art was published, but we could not verify. Art has been signed by Davis at lower right. Exc. Impressive full color Garfield art.

Thomas the tank engine
Anakin Skywalker
Tintin
Calvin and Hobbes

I also liked Garfield, Sonic The Hedgehog and Batman as a child (TAS version anyway, I had mixed feelings about the Adam West version - it annoyed me that they weren't taking Batman seriously enough. I enjoy the 60s Batman a lot more as an adult than I did as a child). I liked TMNT but Michelangelo was my least favourite by some distance, again he was too silly.

Carl Spackler
Snake Eyes
Billy Idol
Don Mattimgly

Han Solo
Garry Trudeau
Joni Mitchell
Aragorn

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Spuds McKenzie
Batman (Michael Keaton)
Bon Jovi

Been trying to formulate the most accurate answer I can (and using 1972, when I was 11, as the end of childhood).

Johnny Bench
Guess Who (band)
John K., my best friend
All the stuff that seemed adult and just out of reach--certain bands, movies, etc.

I was exposed to Batman 66 when I was like four years old, so to me there was nothing silly about it, Adam West was straightforwardly heroic.

Michelangelo was my least favourite by some distance, again he was too silly.

God I hope you weren't one of those disgusting Raphael fans.

Kenny Everett
Rik Mayall
Lee Majors
Bill Bixby

xp my Turtles ranking was Donatello>Raphael>>>>Leonardo>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Michelangelo

Bret Hart
Ian Wright
Homer Simpson
Sir Killalot

Bill Bixby
Jon Pertwee

Donatello stans I can understand,it is cool to do machines, just wish they'd come out of their shells more. Raphael fans just enjoy bullies

Michaela Strachan
Sweep
Tygra
Jason (the Argonauts one)

Barry Windham
Marc Bosnich
Calvin & Hobbes
Treguard from Knightmare
Ryu

(a couple of years earlier it probably would have just been all Ninja Turtles)

The members of Duran Duran (probably)

Snoopy
Garfield
Calvin and Hobbes
Ramona Quimby

Stan Lee – to be true to my ten-year-old self
Stan Laurel - always on TV in the 1970s
Eric Morecambe - more kids at my school watched Morecambe & Wise than Dr Who
Alfred Hitchcock - I pestered my dad to take me to see Family Plot at the Welling Odeon, again when I was about ten

zico
john barnes
adam ant
diego maradona

these probably cover me ages 11-15. although thinking about it my peak john barnes fandom may of come slightly later in which case swap him out for ian rush

Treguard from Knightmare

I tried rewatching some of Knightmare on youtube and it is approximately 10000x more boring than I remember it being as a child, but Treguard is still great. (all the bits involving the dull monotone kids interacting Treguard and the other hammy actors are good)

Treguard, the Interceptor from Interceptor plus Richard O'Brien and Edward Tudor-Pole from the Crystal Maze would make a plausible childhood mount rushmore

Harry Houdini
Amazing Kreskin
Harry Blackstone Jr
Doug Henning

Alice Cooper
Hank Aaron
Karen Black
George Segal

jerry rice
roger craig
ronnie lott
will clark

Garfield
Transformers
Muppet Babies
Roger Clemens

Oh I messed that up

Optimus Prime and Kermit

Madonna
Cyndi Lauper
Pat Benatar
Joan Jett

^ this is the correct replacement for the current carvings

For me:

Carl Sagan
Tom Baker
David Attenborough
Annie Lennox

levar burton
my pop’s friend who was a house painter, héctor
george m. cohen
julia child

Harry Houdini

Oh yeah. I went through a big Houdini phase. I was a little obsessed with how he died, after everything he survived.

looking at this as the undeniable things that shaped me during my childhood years

MTV
Calvin and Hobbes
my parent's Dirty Dancing soundtrack/Eagles Greatest Hits cassette tape
$1 movie theaters
LEGOS

easy seven header: Madness

or:
zordon
danny kendall
basil brush
daley thompson

Basil Brush is such a bro. The only good posh Englisher.