The Crystal Maze

Wonder Pigeon

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Now this was a game show, none of that telephoney boxy Edmondsy nonsense they have today. Richard O'Brien was miles better than the guy who replaced him of course.

Loved how useless the other team mates would be when trying to help someone doing a challenge, they would come out with the most obvious ad unhelpful things.

I say we bring it back.
 
This was amazing before it turned shit. I take it O'Brien was the Bald guy?

It's a fact that he was loved throughout the Universe as the original Crystal Maze guy.
 
O' Brien was indeed the bald, good one, who used to whip out a harmonica for no apparant reason at random intervals.
 
Tudor Pole took over. Crap in comparison, but how could he possible live up to his predecessor

I used to love it. My favourite were always the childrens episodes, because I was young myself, and it meant I could dream of going on there myself

I have a book somewhere, it's pretty good, you can play it at home

Oh and I remember doing 'The Crystal Maze' in Blackpool, not sure if that attraction is still there. Me, my mum, her friend and her two young daughters managed to set the top score of the day :)
 
Apparantly this year he will be voice acting in a film called Jackboots on Whitehall, a British spoof war movie about Nazis invading England, filmed using Action Man-type dolls, and featuring the voices of well-known British actors including Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Timothy Spall, and Richard Griffiths.

Intruige.
 
You would always get some proper weird looking contestants, who looked like the last thing they needed, was to chase cash around after relentless, impractical tasks.

Great times.
 
FranklyVulgar said:
i always got the impression that the actual maze was tiny and they just used a series of camera angles and ran them through the same bit over and over...
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Far from it, one of the biggest sets at that point for a tv show. They bought an abandoned factory and built the sectors around it. Very impressive if you ask me. Loved the show :D
 
I think there's a gap in the market for the "Crystal Meth Maze"

Get a load of tweakers, pump them full of methamphetamine, release them into a massive maze at one of those stately homes and watch them run themselves into the ground trying to get the feck out of there to score their next hit.

Telly gold.
 
:lol:

Or a twist on that Pogue.

You give each Crystal Meth tweaker one sector each. So the Aztec, Futuristic, Ocean and Medieval quarters are now four individual Meth Labs. The first tweaker to successfully cook up a batch without blowing up the lab and killing himself, is then allowed to go to the crystal cash ball.
 
Wonder Pigeon said:
Now this was a game show
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Agreed 100%. Watched it about 2 weeks ago. The missus, being from California, had never heard it. I got all excited because I hadn't seen it in years. Still as good as ever.

It was quite funny to see the hairstyles and clothes they considered fashionable back then. The classic grungy tweed shirts were out in their numbers, along with a number of under-cuts, back-combs and perms
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Hehe. I think you're onto something.

Each lab would have to be themed appropriately, with the poor cnuts in the Medieval quarter trying to free-base in brass goblets, with only a candle flame to heat them up.
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Yes!

Each sector would represent the tools to cook Meth from that era. There's ups and downs for each sector, and team mates work with you in your designated zone, and every side-story task they complete, allows their tweaker to steal a tool from another sector, jeopardizing their batch.
 
Mumsy! Whipping the old Harmonica out, early 90's glasses, Start the fans please!

The show was awesome whilst baldy was on there.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I think there's a gap in the market for the "Crystal Meth Maze"

Get a load of tweakers, pump them full of methamphetamine, release them into a massive maze at one of those stately homes and watch them run themselves into the ground trying to get the feck out of there to score their next hit.

Telly gold.
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Hectic said:
:lol:

Or a twist on that Pogue.

You give each Crystal Meth tweaker one sector each. So the Aztec, Futuristic, Ocean and Medieval quarters are now four individual Meth Labs. The first tweaker to successfully cook up a batch without blowing up the lab and killing himself, is then allowed to go to the crystal cash ball.
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Pogue Mahone said:
Hehe. I think you're onto something.

Each lab would have to be themed appropriately, with the poor cnuts in the Medieval quarter trying to free-base in brass goblets, with only a candle flame to heat them up.
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Hectic said:
Yes!

Each sector would represent the tools to cook Meth from that era. There's ups and downs for each sector, and team mates work with you in your designated zone, and every side-story task they complete, allows their tweaker to steal a tool from another sector, jeopardizing their batch.
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:lol:
 
Fort Boyard was better.

They had midgets in sailor suits, do you realize how fecking brilliant that is?
 
Solius said:
Fort Boyard was better.

They had midgets in sailor suits, do you realize how fecking brilliant that is?
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:nono:

Although the midgets were amusing, "Jack, the door!", Crystal Maze had a bald bloke taking about mummsy and playing the harmonica whilst rambling on about his past with some random woman screaming in the background cause she nearly fell into 3 inches of water.

What more could you want?
 
Xander45 said:
:nono:

Although the midgets were amusing, "Jack, the door!", Crystal Maze had a bald bloke taking about mummsy and playing the harmonica whilst rambling on about his past with some random woman screaming in the background cause she nearly fell into 3 inches of water.

What more could you want?
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Midgets in sailor suits.
 
I also preferred Fort Boyard, though my reason for doing so is slightly different to yours Solius

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