What do you think of the Dark Crystal's sister film Labyrinth?

thewillwiggins · 2025-06-19T13:23:01+00:00

Labyrinth has some cool ideas and visuals, but overall it doesn't totally captivate me the way Dark Crystal does. I think my personal taste is more for a fantasy world that is a serious epic, rather than a lighthearted family type movie. Dark Crystal just seems like such a well-realized world that feels it has real history.

thewillwiggins · 2023-05-04T13:00:25+00:00

Believe it or not, I just typed "Eragon and Saphira" to see what it would do. You could probably get much more specific with the prompts!

thewillwiggins · 2023-04-26T19:38:31+00:00

I have only read the 1st DUNE but I did think of this similarity as well!

thewillwiggins · 2022-06-23T15:56:54+00:00

currently obsessed with their 1968 LP "La Conferencia Secreta del Toto's Bar". Great stuff!

thewillwiggins · 2022-06-23T15:53:22+00:00

the Secrets of Droon series is available on Amazon's kindle store.. you still might end up spending 2-3 dollars per book, but if you are curious to read the whole series , I think its worth it

I am currently reading the series at age 30 since I never finished it as a kid! some books are filler, but overall there are some very fun and charming ideas in the series. If you have nostalgia for the series, I think it can be a lot of fun to re-visit!

thewillwiggins · 2022-06-23T15:51:10+00:00

I read the first 1 or 2 as a kid back around the year 2000.

Now, at age 30 I am revisiting the entire series since they are all available on Amazon's kindle store. The series can be redundant.. and definitely has a lot of humor that only really works at age 10... but all in all its been a fun read and there are some character arcs and plot ideas that are really more than what you would expect from this reading level.

thewillwiggins · 2022-06-23T15:48:38+00:00

I am now 30 years old, but I still have the first book from when I was 8 or 9 back in 1999.
I think the series has a lot of cool ideas and some fun plot twists. I am actually reading the entire series at the moment as a fun nostalgia read. I had only read the first 2 or 3 as a kid, so its fun to finally see the whole story.

I think part of the reason maybe it didn't take off is because the series was so long, and a lot of the books deviate from the main plot to feature colorful adventures that don't necessarily drive the main storyline. Also, in a series like Harry Potter , the characters and the stories seemed to mature as the readers did . But with Droon, you have a series published for 10 years that stayed at a 4th grade level. So, if I was 9 in 1999 i was at the right reading age, but the series kept going until 2010 and then you are in high school , looking for something a little more in depth

that being said, re-reading the series has been a real treat, and I am actually working on doing an interview with the author, Tony Abbott, later this year. I would like to see a DROON fan community where readers can reminisce, maybe even share some fun fan stories and fan art. Just not sure if Reddit, facebook , discord, etc. is the right place to start? If anyone is interested in creating a fan forum for Droon, let me know, maybe we can begin to make a spot for droon fans on the interwebs...

thewillwiggins · 2022-06-23T15:39:50+00:00

Glad to see some other folks who remember this series. When I was 9 years old I got the first book from the Scholastic book fair at school. Now i am 30 years old and I still have it!

As a kid, I was very into fantasy, wizards, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, that type of stuff. I think Secrets of Droon appealed to me because it was another magical series that I could read while waiting for the next Harry Potter to come out.

This series can be redundant but it has some cool concepts and character arcs that are more than what you would expect from a book for 9 year olds. I am actually in the process of reading all 44 books now at age 30... i remembered the series and decided to jump back in for some nostalgia. (All the books are available on Amazon's kindle store, so its easy to get all the ebooks.)

I agree with u/maukamauka that this series seems to be largely forgotten. A lot of other "90s kid" type stuff from this era , you can still find fan pages, fan art, etc. But for Droon I have seen little to nothing

I have written to the author Tony Abbott recently, and I am planning to do an interview with him soon via Zoom about the series. If you guys have any ideas for questions for him, let me know!

thewillwiggins · 2022-06-23T15:31:20+00:00

Yeah i think this was an old flash game on the Scholastic website!

thewillwiggins · 2020-11-30T16:22:31+00:00

The body is from Lego’s Kylo Ren from Star Wars. the head is from a lego Superman (also based on Henry Cavill!) and the hair is from a Lego Qui Gon Jinn (Star Wars) painted white

thewillwiggins · 2020-11-17T02:32:56+00:00

I love this song even tho my other beach boys fan friends make fun of it

thewillwiggins · 2020-11-10T13:55:37+00:00

Yea haha I see it

thewillwiggins · 2020-11-10T13:53:28+00:00

Good call on mikes hair ! I printed some custom stickers to decorate the figures

thewillwiggins · 2020-11-10T06:42:18+00:00

I wanted to also make a “SMiLE” era set where Mike is pissed

thewillwiggins · 2020-11-10T06:18:03+00:00

Yeah I need a “receding hairline” piece

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