The Hive!

[Angel Tarragon]

Last month the kids found one of my boxes of videos from the 90's. They watched Mermaid (ack!) and then discovered I had some of Taz's shows taped somehow after that. The kids enjoyed that more than the Tom Hanks movie.

Splash?

 

[hafrogman]

Did you never see the TV show? You should look it up - it was made by the same people that made Animaniacs, and had a very similar sense of humour.

Now that you mention it. . . it is bringing something to my mind. I can hear his voice I think, but it's not something I specifically remember. I'll have to go digging.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Found the Opening credits on YouTube!

[ame=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2PuKM-oZxLk]YouTube - Taz-mania intro[/ame]

Heheheheheh.

 

[megamania]

Yeah, I'd love to see what you have for it.

Much of this is shallow sea themed but....


The "island" of Moradin. Imagine the world's largest volcano filled with heavy metals (iron & adamantine). The mouth of the volcano was over 5 miles wide. It cools then becomes exstict. Now dwarves find it and begin to tunnel in it and creat a roughly round SOLID IRON island kingdom stronghold. Below it under the water (miles below) are gems and secret passageways to other lands that they only know.

Halflings
Floating city. Inspired by Waterworld. They float over sunken ruins and dive for treasure and resources. Then move on to the next one. Generally friendly and open as they do a lot of trade with other island nations.

The Fog
Everyone avoids this area as there is a thick fog bank HUNDREDS of miles wide. The water is much deeper. Strange lights and flying crafts are seen coming and going. Boogieman tales run rampant involving the people / creatures that live here.
This was my "Epic" level area. Gateways to other dimensions are located here along with the Hall of Fallen Heroes. A massive floating island with a permaneant gate to the water dimension. So near the top is a palance surrounded but a float that branches out to other levels. Each level is connected by this "water drainage" system until it finally "rains" below into the fog. This makes the fog even more dangerous as the water is always choppy and there are waterfalls seemily crashing down from no where.

Mangroo Sea

Mangroo are a type of bush/tree that grows in florida. The roots lift the tree out of the water creating mazes on the surface and dangerous mazes below water where aquatic creatures lurk. This "sea" is again 100's of miles wide. No one going in has ever left. This was to be my high level area.

Everywhere under the sea were Sahguine cities. Some good, Some not. There was constant battles and most of the time no one ever knew about it. There is a new king for the "good guys" that wants the surface world to help him. This is creating trouble as many of his subjects don't want the surface involved. The bad guys are spreading bad rumors about the surface and are also recruiting powerful forces from the surface.

Golem city

Warforged basically. It was where everyone was a mage that built things (House Cannith) including their speciality- Golems. And many were treated as family pets given limited intelligence. These "pets" were handed down from generation to generation as an heirloom might. Recently they have been created war-type golems but no one knows why or whom commishened the job.... or was it them themselves that are preparing for war.

Island of the dead-
Long ago it was where everyone buried their dead. It was neutral place from a much more peaceful and unified time. Now the island is full of hateful or at least distrusted undead that are trapped on the island. However there many secrets on the island...including how to lift the restriction of their imprisonment.


any more? These are from the top of my head. I have notes that I began to unbury when cleaning the hobby room.

 

[hafrogman]

Splash?

Joe vs. The Volcano?

 

[megamania]

Splash?

One of Tom Hanks earliest movies that starred Daryll Hannah as a Mermaid. Basically a romantic comedy. John Candy plays Tom's hedonistic brother.

Its okay. Not one I would buy but I had taped it from HBO or something back in the 80's when my parent's had a satellite disk.

 

[megamania]

Joe vs. The Volcano?

Ouch! no. That was one of the worse movies I have ever seen.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I never thought about it but you're right. Makes me want to watch them. The kids found my PVC figures of the three of them. They didn't seem too impressed by how I was describing the show. Maybe if the money works out I'll have to get Wacko, Jacko and Dot in the house (I think that was their names...been like... 15 years )

It's time for Animaniacs!
And we're zany to the max
So just sit back and relax
You'll laugh till you collapse
It's ANIMANIACS!

Come join the Warner Brothers
(And the Warner Sister, Dot)
Just for fun we run around
The Warner Movie lot
They lock us in the tower
Whenever we get caught
But we break loose
And then vamoose
And now you know the plot!

We're Animaniacs!
Dot is cute and Yak bores Yaks
Wacko packs away the snacks
While Bill Clinton plays the sax
We're Animaniacs!

With Pink and the Brain who want to rule the universe
Goodfeathers flock together, Slappy whacks 'em with her purse
Buttons chases Mindy, while Rita sings a verse
The writers flipped, we have no script, why bother to rehearse?

It's Animaniacs!
We're on pay-by-pay contracts!
So just sit back and relax
You'll laugh till you collapse
It's Animany
Totally insaney
Pinky and the Brainy!
AN-I-MANI-AAAAACS!

Those are the facts.

Did that from memory.

 

[hafrogman]

The halflings kind of remind me of the mariner from Waterworld. Throw in a dash of the seagull from The Little Mermaid for flavor.

 

[Blackrat]

Be sure to post the finished work. I'd love to see it.

Well here's the next phase