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Hehe yup, I wish I still had the letter, but I remember reading it for the first time like it was yesterday. : D

Um...this guy just figured out that Sesame Street is left leaning?...Where has he been? Lol Well, I have to somewhat disagree; I think both the right and the left create a great deal of evil together, just by insisting on taking sides like that, heh.

I wrote to Sesame Place when I was a kid and drew pictures of all the characters; a very ambitious undertaking, lol. I got a letter back saying how much Big Bird and Grover and the others loved the drawing, lol, and an "autographed" photo of Big Bird. Not Carrol Spinney, literally it said "Big...

This site has a few images from the novelisation of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Particularly amusing are some of the attempts to simplify the dialogue for the photo captions, lol: Yeah...don't quite recall Ferris putting it that way, lol. http://www.80s.com/saveferris/novel.html

That was probably the one thing I felt they really did get right. :)

I think The Cosby Show has stood the test of time, one of the few shows from back then that doesn't feel too dated, at least for me. Fat Albert remains, I think, a very inspirational work for children. But the movie attempt had almost nothing to do with the show, and not in a good way. The...

A few Fat Albert fans at the time did express concern that Cosby was so focused on setting good examples for kids that he ended up making the Fat Albert characters more goody goody in the film than they really had been in the actual TV series.

Actually the book version of X-Men II had a completely different ending than the one in the film. I guess they wanted to keep it a surprise?

Thank you for saying that; kids today need to know that libraries can still be very useful places! ;)

Oh and my mother pointed out that fan magazines were a huge resource for addresses! :)

Well I think they used to have addresses included on the TV screen during or at the end of programs. Or parents could have just sent the letter "Care of ABC Networks." Perhaps the Yellow Pages helped out in this area as well. Love that story about Simon, btw, he was always my favorite! : D

Well like what was said earlier, it's mainly to hype up publicity for the movie, especially when you were waiting for it to come out on video or DVD. No merchandising angle is too weird or too unnecessary, lol.

Well you know, back in the day it was agony waiting for your favorite movie to come out on video. So novelisation was one way to relive the moments. :) Lol, true. I also remember our 5th grade group reading the line, "Then the T-rex struck!",then turning the page and realizing the chapter was...

Exactly. I was much more of a TV/movie person; reading always felt like a chore. Unless it was a book about something I already enjoyed, like a movie, then I could read it all day long, lol.

That's like novelisation inbreeding isn't it? Haha Oh wow I'm having a flashback! I remember this one part in the Jurassic Park junior novel, talking about the bad guy: Trying to sneak in some lessons for the kiddies there, lol.

I know, I'm so ashamed! :o Lol I also remember reading the junior novelisation of Hook, not for class just for fun. I remember reading it at breakfast before school, lol. I remembering having the junior novelisations of Dick Tracy and also The Rocketeer. Good old early '90s; Wow, that makes...

Well actually, our teacher did let us read the junior novelization of Jurassic Park in 5th grade, lol. The class was split into groups and could choose between various books and that was our group's choice. We read it out loud in a circle together, taking turns. Our teacher was fine with it...

Oh yeah I know the story; I'm not saying it's not true. Just further speculating as to his motivations. :)

Well on the other hand it could also have been Richard wanted to give Terry a main character so he could get the experience. :)

Fat Albert had a couple of sweet moments, but just suffered from some really clumsy writing. The jokes had potential but were continually executed incorrectly and just resulted in crickets chirping, to speak, heh. Kenan Thompson actually did a great job, IMO, but a lot of the other characters...