sonichacker's Oddities

Just a little space for me to put things I own or find online, each post will mark if I own the item.

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Last of the Major Magics showtapes to be posted, (they only made 16) this is Party Lights birthday! One I've been waiting for a long time to hear. I have made a Archive.org mirror of all the showtapes!

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New Major Magics showtape showing a proper example of Sgt Pepperoni singing! This is his actual voice as confirmed by a short clip of this show playing in a store.

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Newly released Major Magics showtape featuring Rock the Croc singing Rockin' Pneumonia and Shake Rattle and Roll, this take has speaking dialogue with both Major Magic and Flash the Lion!

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The Major Magics showtape for Dueling Banjos, this is The Honey Bear Holler Backwoods Bear Band VS The Magical Music Machines! the first half of the show has a lot of arguing between the two sides,

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A Major Magics birthday show; a cover of When I'm 64 by the Beatles - if you ask me personally I think this is better than the original song instrumental wise!

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One of the most famous Major Magics showtapes, being on almost every single reel and in most of the test footage from the private band which was restored a while back, here is the cover of Charlie Brown!

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A Major Magics showtape that the current releases accidentally released a day early, this is the two hillbilly characters comparing girlfriends and singing songs about them.

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The Last Duet showtape from Major Magics, this involves a sort of love-hate relationship between Flash and Barbara Stringband. I quite like this song

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The first of the 3(or maybe 4) original recording Birthday showtapes from Major Magics we have, there are a total of 5 birthday showtapes we know of but one of them is just "BIRTHDAY" by the Beatles in a faster speed.

This is Major showing himself being a Major by having a military march birthday song.

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This was the first showtape we got from the current month of Major Magics showtape releases. This is the showtape which introduces all of the Magical Music Machines! It has two names, of The Magical Music Machines and/or Trip Across the World. I'm unsure on which is the actual name, however Trip Across the World is written on a reel for the show. It is important to note that since this was recorded in 1980-81 all of these instrument characters are based off of stereotypes and may be offensive to some audiences, however we cannot preserve history by censoring it.

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The Major Magics animatronic show cover of The Little Old Lady From Pasedena, sung by the bands drummer Flash the Lion.

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Major Magics Animatronic show cover of Do You Believe in Magic, Featuring the Major himself. This is an oddly shorter showtape at 2 mins, the usual is 4 mins.

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Newly released Major Magics Animatronic showtape featuring Burly Hives, Singin' Sam and Bo Jingles!

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Audio from the Major Magics animatronic show featuring Barbara Stringband (One of my personal favorite animatronics) singing The Main Event and Stoney End. Both songs from her name sake Barbra Streisand!

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Newly released Major Magics animatronic showtape of Rock the Croc singing a medley of Chantilly Lace and Great Balls of Fire.

Major Magics show was one I always knew was very high quality but documentation was either gakekept or unknown.

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A commercial for the bootleg "Picnic Train" [피크닉 열차] toy made by Hanshin Enterprises [한신기업], this commercial apparently ran in 1992 on SBS in South Korea. This bootleg is a mixture of Bandai's Departing Now line and Tomy's Plarail line, using mainly Departing Now assets but featuring many Plarail assets as well. Video Source 1992 Year Source

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VHS Covers and Tapes for;

"The Ultimate Archive Steam Series: Volume 120 - The Jim Clemens Collection no.19; South Wales Archive (Forest of Dean & Vale of Neath)" [2006]

The Ultimate Archive Steam Series: Volume 131 - From the Brian Rogers Collection: Passion For Steam Part 2 [2007]

Unfortunately these were left out in the rain by a model railway club (I got them for free) so the paper covers are warped and decayed.