My Astro Boy collection on the telly!
June 2nd, 2009 by Fiona
This is a bit off topic for my blog, but I just have to tell you how excited I am that my treasured Astro Boy collection will be seen on the ABC TV show Collectors this Friday (June 5th, 2009) at 8 pm.
The film crew came to our house in late March to shoot the segment, and I haven’t seen the finished result yet. They were here for about 4 hours, and the edited result will be around 3 minutes long, so goodness knows what they’ll have kept in the finished piece, but I’m really looking forward to checking it out, nevertheless! It is quite possible I may have made a bit of a ninny of myself….but that’s OK. It was such fun to do the segment, and it is always a pleasure to do some show-and-tell with my Astro Boy stuff.
I have loved Astro Boy since I was just 7 years old – and I remember seeing the very first black-and-white cartoon version on TV. It took just one episode for me to be hooked! There’s something very appealing about a cute boy robot who can save the planet, yet still be emotionally fragile at times.
I like to collect the weird Astro Boy bits and pieces more than the expensive stuff made especially for collecting. My most treasured Astro Boy possession is my mismatched pair of children’s toilet slippers from Japan….. I suspect I am the only Astro Boy collector who has a pair of these! If you miss the show on telly, or don’t live in Australia, go to the ABC TV’s website (www.abc.net.au) after Friday and you should be able to download the show to check it out. Collectors is one of my favourite TV shows – I look forward to it every week. So you can imagine how thrilled I am to know I’ll be on an episode too.
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