If R.L. Stine wrote it

[Chad32]

I don't seem to remember Goosebumps the way you people do. Goosebumps was the first series that I really got into, and I read a lot of the books. I thought he was a great writer.

[AniDragon]

Oh, they were great, don't get me wrong, but they weren't on par with Animorphs.

And yeah, R. L. Stein could give M. Night a run for his money as far as twist endings go...

[Myitt]

It's be like Monster Blood, they'd all find some magical alien goo and eat it in Jell-O form, and then realize they spontaneously turn into animals at uncomfortable times.  And then there are aliens involved who made the goo and want it back, and they're going to find it by infesting every human on earth. 

And yeah I agree, in the end it would be like an even bigger Invasion of the Body Snatchers ripoff...they'd all be back at school living their normal lives but they'd all be Yeerks, dun dun dunnnnn...

Phoenix you're so right, Scholastic's Goosebumps TV show and the Animorphs show have EXACTLY the same production values (hence why they both look like utter crap, and have the same horrible faux-creepy background music)...so very sad.

[estrid]

blue, night in terror tower ended like so:

[spoiler]at the end it turns out her and her bro are sent into the future by some magician, and her family and the life she knows is all fake and she goes back into the past[/spoiler]


the headless ghost was the one and only goosebumps book that truly terrified me to read as a kid. i wonder if itd still do that now................

[SuperBlue]

It's be like Monster Blood, they'd all find some magical alien goo and eat it in Jell-O form, and then realize they spontaneously turn into animals at uncomfortable times. 

did RL stine already do that when these four kids used spray on tan that turned them into dogs but in the end they found out that the spray wasnt what transformed them and that they were born dogs but were used for an experiment that turned dogs into humans. IDK if tht was a book or not but it was in the show

[Yarin]

I do like his plot twists they are cool this isn't goose bumps its from his fear street  series but there was this one book where the main character turns out to be a dog that dreamed he was a human it was weird and awesome.

[estrid]

ya at the end of the series they all would end up being nothlits remembering when they used to be human, and what it woulda been like had they not become nothlits or in the end the whole war was just a crazy dream jake had or whatever

[wolfev]

but then it would end with him going downstairs for breakfast and his mom offering fried yeerk, Kentucky Fried Tobias, or Kandrona.

[KOFSoldier]

but then it would end with him going downstairs for breakfast and his mom offering fried yeerk, Kentucky Fried Tobias, or Kandrona.

LOL, I think you're right on with that!

I thought Goosbumps was good at times (I haven't read any since I was young, but still). I really liked the ones where you could choose your own adventure, I believed they were called "Give Yourself Goosebumps". I had a very vivid imagination (I actually still do), so it was very easy for me to picture myself in those situations.

[estrid]

ya i think it was give urself goosebumps. those were WAY better then the alternamorphs

[Phoenix004]

I think it's safe to say that Stine would have given the Animorphs books a terrible (and completely ridiculous) plot twist ending to the series.

Choose your own adventure books are nice in theory, but in practice I've always found them to be disappointing at best. Even the great KA couldn't pull them off well, but I don't blame her, they're very tricky stories to write. Also they're kinda limited by the fact that even though you're always given a lot of choices, you usually end up with only being able to take one path that doesn't lead to your death.

[JFalcon]

And they don't always give you the option you want when you're given an option, or give you an option when you feel like you need one. I remember in one, the black hole or something, I had the option of eating berries or leaving them and continuing on I thought "Why don't I take some berries with me and eath them while I walk on?"

[Phoenix004]

And they don't always give you the option you want when you're given an option, or give you an option when you feel like you need one. I remember in one, the black hole or something, I had the option of eating berries or leaving them and continuing on I thought "Why don't I take some berries with me and eath them while I walk on?"

lol, good point. The same thing often happens to me on multiple choice quizzes.

[Ash]

Interesting thread. I'd still read 'em if he did. I liked R.L.Stine when I was a kid and didnt know much better

[Myitt]

I loved Choose Your Own Adventure, at least, the original series (not so much the Goosebumps or Animorphs ones)...I was actually looking for CYOA books when I first found Animorphs x3

Dave and I were just talking about Goosebumps yesterday, we were wondering if they're still being written?  I guess the original series stopped in 1997 but there was Goosebumps 2000 and then something called Goosebumps Horrorland which came out this year. 

It looks like there are new covers for the "Goosebumps Classics", too o_O  Weird. 

I still can't get over how similar the production values (or lack thereof) of the Goosebumps and Animorphs Scholastic TV shows are, though.  Right down to the cheesy music and '80s film quality...