Fantasy Islands!

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The islands of books and films!

What are your faves??

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

oh well

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Kirrin Island in the Famous Five books - pre-teens roaming free, smugglers, secret science experiments...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

The titular island of the Lilliputians in T.H.White's "Mistress Masham's Repose". Mind you, this probably does exist, as the Palace of Malplaquet was based on the gory architectural follies of Marlborough School.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:25 (twenty-three years ago)

archel, you are the tweeest person on this beeyotch ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:27 (twenty-three years ago)

the Hattifatteners (sp?) Island!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:31 (twenty-three years ago)

All of the islands in the Voyage of The Dawn Treader, but mostly the "democratic" island which Narnians don't think much of at all. It's ruled over by an official called "His Sufficiency".

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:32 (twenty-three years ago)

The Island of Adventure (it had puffins, I think).

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

It had auks too.

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

ahh Kirrin Island. i WELL wanted one of those when i was a nipper.

― katie (katie), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Roke. It has a knoll, you know.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh ooh OOOOOOHHH what was that island in the silmarillion which MOVED between middle earth and ahem THEE CITY OF TUNA? like an ISLAND BUS! that one!

― katie (katie), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Steve, I will NOT be tarred with the twee brush when there's knolls and puffins being bandied about, thank you very much.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Tol Erresea, ktee?

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

There is nowt twee about Roke Knoll!

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread makes me realise how much time I spent reading Enid Blyton or Enid Blyton-style books about islands, seaside towns and plucky young things.

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually my favourite 'fantasy' island when I was a kid was real - it was called Onion Island and was found in the middle of the river at Barcombe Mills. I used to be convinced that if only I could get on it a whole world would open up to me, like Narnia. Or perhaps I would just set up camp there and make friends with the ducks... you get the picture.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

You're not doing this twee reputation any harm Archel.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

the island in Swiss Family Robinson is brilliant... it's tiny, but manages to incorporate several different climatic regions (you know, jungle, savannah, desert, temperate grassland, etc.)

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Grrrr... the one in Lord of the Flies then. That's not very twee is it?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

from http://tv.cream.org/arkl2.htm ...

THE LOST ISLANDS (mid '70s?)

KIDDY CASTAWAY serial (see also Children's Island, The New People, and frankly for too many other sub-Lord Of The Flies efforts) With a memorable Gilligan-like theme song which went something like this - "There once was a wealthy man who had a wonderful idea/ To bring children from all places with all kinds of faces/ Together into a sailing ship there were 40 boys and girls/ They sailed their ship around the globe and they called it 'The United World'/ The ship was just three weeks from shore when the hurricane bore down/ The waves were big as mountains, they thought they would surely drown/ They jumped into a lifeboat and got blown away from the wreck/ They didn't count them they hadn't time - five children were left behind [...] David, Mark & Tony, Anna & Su-Yin/ Are left there on the island, who knows what could begin/Adventure lies before them, danger lies behind/ But as they go on searching what new troubles will they find?" The rest of the lyrics were about the children landing on the island and being watched from the undergrowth. The island was run by a strange (possibly supernatural) leader who was knowingly keeping the (mainly Australian) peasants in an artificially mediaeval world. Some crazy glowing seaweed kept the thing always carried around in a kind of sedan chair thing (was that the leader?)

TV CREAM immortality rating - 4
...SCHOOL HOLIDAY FODDER, SIMILAR IN FORMAT (AND IMMENSE LENGTH) TO THE ADVENTRUES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE - DID IT EVER END?

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

ok, you are all twee buggers ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I was very attached to RM Ballantyne's The Coral Island as a young'un. I suspect if I read it now it would be full of jingoism and rah.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was I child, I'd draw maps of fantastical islands when I was bored. I still discover them deep in my drawers sometimes. They're quite fascinating, really.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I did the same Melissa.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

ohhhh! I have a new idea for a thread! Draw your own fantasy island!

(Carsmile: jel you twee bugger)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes me too.

Greatest fantasy island: Module X1 - The Isle Of Death, as recently lent to me by a prominent poster whose name cannot be mentioned for legal reasons.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

oh dear. you are forcing me to admit about my RPG maps now. i have kept them all. :-( One day i will scan them in and scare you all. i had continental maps, maps of the countryside, a rubbish gazzetteer sort of thing, and even maps of small towns. in brown ink. and poncey calligraphy.

what AM i saying? my wife will kill me! etc

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

wow Alan, is giving me the ph34r! :)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

mm, hex grids

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:49 (twenty-three years ago)

._ was the symbol for desert. I am trying to remember the others.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)

i can never decide if all my rpg stuff was a sign of creativity or just madness. i mean i wrote pages of the stuff, and drew endless maps, but it was all so derivative and transparently lifted from other things, or uninspired. perhaps being too down on pre-adult me, but honestly, what a twat. (i was 26 at the time, etc)

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Creativity, madness...... or MENTALISM?

― Emma, Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't worry about it Alan! Genius is tinged with madness and all that!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I have similar thoughts. I'd be apalled if I saw it now - it was really really elaborate. A lot of it's just a kind of train-set type pleasure at systems generation - it's the same impulse which leads me to Civ III and suchlike I think.

(in other words it's mentalism yes)

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

yes genius is tinged with madness, and so is adolescent twattery. unfortunately.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

It's only madness if you actually did keep them deep in your drawers (and still discover them sometimes).

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh heh, 'deep in your drawers'.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

So glad someone else thought that, Liz :)

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 November 2002 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe noooooone has mentioned TRACEY ISLAND.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 28 November 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Pah SuperMarionation piffle. Mark, I must have been 'channelling' you, as ordinarily I'd never think such smut off my own 'bat'.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 28 November 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracey Island rawked (although a tad dangerous if Thunderbird 1 took off while you were having a relaxing swim). Can't believe no-one thought to make a toy version until I was in my twenties. I sooo wanted a TI of my own as a nipper.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 28 November 2002 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Kirin Island was my favourite too, it had ruined castles, secret tunnels and puffins... what more do you want? Why has no-one mentioned the Battle Royale island yet?

― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

i also made elabrote d and d maps, but i liked dungeons and cities, all of my mad adventures happened in urban palces- growing up in rural canada and all that.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 28 November 2002 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

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