This makes me think of the 1985 Transformers cartoon episode "Trans-Europe Express", which featured a car race from Paris to Istanbul. Here's a fun geography test for all my bloglings - imagine you're a Japanese animator, and you've got a script in front of you saying "The progress of the race is shown by a red line growing from Paris to Istanbul across a map of Europe". There's apparently not an atlas available and the internet hasn't been invented yet, and you need to draw the map and label it in English right now. If you can produce a better map than the one that ended up appearing on-screen, then you score ten out of ten:
If you fail the test, then people will be laughing at you on their blogs in 25 years' time.
Hey Ben, i would fail that test for sure. Ed Cooke teaches the countries of Europe in Remember Remember.
ReplyDeleteI used to be a scriptwriter in the 70's for Gobots, Frankenstones and Tarzan animated tv shows.
Well, THAT's completely awesome. I'd love to be a cartoon scriptwriter for Transformers in the 1980s, but modern toy-advert cartoons are so rubbish...
ReplyDeleteAnd I would certainly forget places like Bulgaria, although I would probably have remembered Greece. I need to remember to read Remember Remember one day, it does sound like a good book!