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Offline LorenF15

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Kids DO still read these!
« on: March 14, 2013, 09:40:40 PM »
I couldn't contain my excitement when I saw a 10-11 year old boy reading the re-issued version of The Invasion on the subway tonight. I wanted to befriend him and spend hours reading together, but then I realized that could be creepy for a 28 year old to do =(
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Re: Kids DO still read these!
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2013, 12:05:39 AM »
It still wasn't popular enough for a full reboot somehow, but a series never can die.
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Re: Kids DO still read these!
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2013, 05:43:23 AM »
Quote from: Underseen on March 15, 2013, 12:05:39 AM
It still wasn't popular enough for a full reboot somehow, but a series never can die.

Amen!
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« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2013, 08:49:18 AM »
I was in the mall bookstore the other day picking up a few more Animorphs titles when I saw these two girls come over to the rack, point at the books, and one of them even called up her mom to send her money to buy some! I nearly cried :)
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Re: Kids DO still read these!
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2013, 10:30:35 AM »
Quote from: QIfry on March 15, 2013, 05:43:23 AM
Quote from: Underseen on March 15, 2013, 12:05:39 AM
It still wasn't popular enough for a full reboot somehow, but a series never can die.

Amen!

It brought all us together, didn't it?
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Re: Kids DO still read these!
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2013, 05:06:50 PM »
Quote from: CloakedFigure on March 18, 2013, 10:30:35 AM
Quote from: QIfry on March 15, 2013, 05:43:23 AM
Quote from: Underseen on March 15, 2013, 12:05:39 AM
It still wasn't popular enough for a full reboot somehow, but a series never can die.

Amen!

It brought all us together, didn't it?
Yes, that's why we are all here. :)
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Re: Kids DO still read these!
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2013, 07:47:02 PM »
This series will never die! I'm still trying to read them all, I managed to get almost all of the books except for 10 of them. I'm lucky though, I know a huge book store where you can get the books for like 3 dollars and under. :) I'm on book 14 now.
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Re: Kids DO still read these!
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2013, 04:48:16 PM »
Hope they don't die. It was a bloody good series!
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Re: Kids DO still read these!
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2013, 09:11:16 PM »
Honestly, I really don't understand why this series didn't gain a more enduring presence in popular culture.

I guess maybe there was something about it that was just inherently "90s", like the X Files.  It had a brief peak of popularity but it doesn't even really have any cult following to speak of.  Just a handful of nostalgic folks like us.  Sigh....
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Re: Kids DO still read these!
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2013, 03:42:32 AM »
There are plenty of die-hard fans, it's just a niche.  Nowhere on the X-Files scale, that was a big cultural phenomenon.  Animorphs was an adolescent book series which a lot of kids liked, which was curbstomped by Harry Potter after that reared its head.

Maybe not fair, but hey, who'd want Animorphs to have become a big Twilight-style thing anyway?  It still did very well during its time, second only to Goosebumps among the Scholastic stuff before Potter went nuclear.
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« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2013, 11:11:02 AM »
X-Files is being telecasted again on a channel here in India... I haven't missed a single episode since April, and then again I'm wondering if I'm the only person in the entire country watching it.  ::) :P
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« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2013, 12:25:45 AM »
Easily my favorite show ever.
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