Paris must-sees for children

The Disneyland Europe is also situated in the surroundings of the city. If you plan a trip to Paris with your children you should definitely spend at least one day there. It is quite easy and quick to get to this amusement park with public transportation. People who book an apartment on www.wimdu.com can be sure of being close to a transport connection and won't lose much time looking for the next station. Children also shouldn't miss the big space that is reserved for them in the famous museum for contemporary art, the Centre Pompidou. Another highlight outside the museum are the street performers, who entertain the people in the plaza in front of the Centre Pompidou around the clock. A Seine river cruise is always a good idea to end a fun family trip to Paris: time to admire Paris' beautiful architecture one last time!

Dimensions

Lego bricks are a set of modular components. As a result, their dimensions are multiples of a base value, called module and component unit Lego, which applies in this case 1 / 8 inch (or 3.175 mm).

If we consider the most common brick, 2×4 studs, it is off 5 / 8 inch (15.875 mm) long, 10 / 8 (31.75mm) high and 3 / 8 (pads not included) three times the height of a plate. A plot radius is 2.38125 mm, more space between two studs is 1 / 8 inch, allowing you to slip a plate. Thus by superimposing 4 plates and a 2×2 tile, one obtains a cubic 5 / 8 side. Most competing products are offered in the same size, compatibility which makes them more attractive to consumers.

Origins

The first bricks, in 1949, were relatively simple: an empty shell with studs on top. There are also two side slits to confer sufficient elasticity to the brick assembly. The patent on January 28, 1958 for the current model, especially with the cylindrical drum disposed inside the shell from the blocks with staggered: for example, the number of contacts between two superimposed elements is increased, and ensures good performance bricks. Later, to the bricks of at least 2×2, the thickness of the shell is reduced and compensated by small veins. Finally, a center rib ensures the good performance of the walls, and limits the mold shrinkage.

History of Matchbox

The company was born when a colleague of Smith, John Odell, called "Jack", made a miniature factory for his daughter so that it could easily be taken to school. The miniature was made to the scale of a matchbox.

Matchbox toys were so named because originally the models were packaged in boxes similar to boxes of matches. The Matchbox name became the generic name for any miniature measuring approximately 2.5 inches (6.5 centimeters) long, regardless of brand. In the 70s, the box of matches gave way to more conventional packaging, made of plastic and cardboard, used by other brands such as Hot Wheels Packaging in boxes of matches has been recently reintroduced to the collector market.

Until the 1990’s, upon Lesney decision, the company numbered its standard models, each series only having 75 models. However, recently, the company seems to have restarted this program.

Factory Matchbox / Lesney was a major undertaking in Homerton, East London, although in 1990 the company moved to Rugby, Warwickshire, in the West Midlands. The company Lesney went bankrupt in June 11, 1982. The property of the company were then sold and resold, and ultimately was purchased by Mattel, maker of Hot Wheels.

Origins of the Barbie doll

Barbie is short for Barbara, the name of the daughter of Ruth Handler. Initially, Barbie was a copy of an adult German doll named Lilli, Ruth Handler had given to hes daughter Barbara after observing that children preferred playing with paper dolls representing adult women. Her measurements, initially hypertrophied, were reduced to normal proportions over the years.

From 1959 to 1960, Barbie was only black and white: her hair was platinum blonde, the apple of hes eye was white and she wore a striped shirt. The reason is that advertising Barbie mobilized a new medium at the time: television. She had to be at her best on the small screen that did not yet broadcast in color. In addition, from 1959 to 1970, the Barbie look slightly downwards and right. Since then gently bent the doll's head, it gave the false and mischievous eyes of women of the time.

In 1971 Malibu Barbie (the "Malibu Barbie"), blonde heady tanning impeccable finally looks straight ahead. From that moment, Barbie dolls will have their trades, professions and leisure accessories multiplying a perspective of more and more explicit diversification in the roles of women nowadays.

Ken

If since 1980 the ethnic type of Barbie has so much more diversified, it is not so much of her original companion Ken that he has changed little over the years. In 2005, Barbie has also severed its connection with Ken for Blaine, an Australian surfer, but Mattel Ken relaunched in February 2006 against the indifference of young buyers for Blaine.

The Rugrats are a bunch of babies from three months to three years old. Once parents have their backs turned, they escape from their fleet to explore the world and live great adventures, both imagined and real.

Spin-offs

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series, Klasky Csupo has produced a special episode of an hour where the Rugrats could be seen as pre-teens. This episode will then result in a spin-off series, All Grown Up (All Grown Up!). In July 2005, another spin-off has emerged in the United Kingdom: Angelica and Susie's Pre-School Daze. This series focuses on the beginnings of Susie and Angelica in kindergarten. It has currently made up only 19 episodes.

After a break after the twelfth season, the Rugrats have reappeared in a series of films available on video and DVD entitled Tales from the Crib (Tales from the Crib). Currently, the first episode of a duration of 72 minutes, Snow White (Snow White) is available in Zone 1 from 27 September 2005 and since 1 December 2006 in Zone 2. The second episode Three Jack and the Beanstalk (Three Jacks & a Beanstalk) is available in Zone 1 from September 5, 2006.

Franquin described it in 1952 by the pseudo-scientific name of Marsupilamus fantasii, the fiction wanting that the Fantasio was the first to put his hand on the animal. In 1997, the album Banana Houba, tribute to the deceased Franquin, renamed the animal Marsupilami Franquini. From a nomenclatural or taxonomic order, no requirement for a new name, therefore Marsupilamus fantasii remains the default (pseudo) scientific name. The marsupilami appears for the first time in Spirou and the Heirs (1952), written by Andre Franquin.

The animal will return very frequently in the following adventures, until Franquin decides to leave the adventures of Spirou Jean-Claude Fournier. Franquin chooses to retain its rights to the animal, which he considers one of his most successful creations. However the script already written by Fournier sees a role for marsupilami, and respectfully requests the use of latter from its creator. Franquin accepts provided he could draw the beast himself. Chronologically, The Maker Gold (1970) will therefore be the last appearance of the Marsupilami in Spirou's adventures. However, it still appears in an album later: Tembo Tabou, whose events take place chronologically right after Spirou and men-bubble (and therefore well before The Maker of gold).

Marsupilami’s Series

While Franquin jealously guards the rights since 1970 on his favorite character, Jean-François Moyersoen finally convinced him in 1987 to make a full series. The series starring a family of wild Marsupilami is drawn successively by Batem and written by various authors, including Greg and Yann. It is published by Marsu Productions. The first album was a commercial success, with over 600,000 copies sold. This success will not falter.

In 2002 an album came out numbered 0 containing short stories created by Franquin. In 2008, Le Figaro Magazine "has proposed an anthology of Marsupilami's adventures in" Capture a Marsupilami. During the 1990s, the Disney company had an operating license of the Marsupilami. A dozen pages of comics and has been conducted by Gladstone Publishing, U.S. publisher.

Plot summary

SpongeBob is an energetic and optimistic sponge that lives in a pineapple at the bottom of the sea (in the Sargasso Sea in the City episode Bob King Day) with his snail Gary (it meows, but he speaks in a few episodes). Bob works as a cook at the Krusty Krab (Krusty Krab), a restaurant run by a crab, a veteran of the war, greedy, stingy, yet sympathetic, Captain Eugene Krabs, whose specialty is a hamburger with crab better known the name "crab pate”. Living next door to Bob, his friend Patrick Star, a nice pink starfish which uses a rock as his house. Right between the two friends is Carlo Tentacles, a little arrogant squid of the Moai of Easter Island that deeply hates its two neighbors (especially SpongeBob) because of their immature behavior. He loves to play the clarinet and paint his self-portraits.

Another close friend of SpongeBob is Sandy Squirrel, a squirrel from Texas. Sandy is an expert in karate and lives in an underwater dome. When under water, she carries a kind of combination of astronaut suit to breathe underwater. Bob and Carlo are used (often as slaves) at the Krusty Krab. Mr. Krabs has a daughter whale, named Pearl, a teenage cheerleader. The reason Krabs is the daughter of a whale remains unknown. The enemy of Mr. Krabs is named Sheldon Plankton, a small green copepod that has a low-end restaurant called the Bucket of hell across the street from Captain Krabs. Plankton spends most of his time trying to steal the secret recipe Krabs, but his plans fail every time.

In April 2003, the Turner Broadcasting System decided to create a paying channel called Boomerang and specially dedicated to the dissemination of Hanna-Barbera cartoons like Popeye, The Jetsons, The Pink Panther, which disappeared when the antenna for Cartoon Network s installed it on Boomerang. On Tuesday, February 23, 2010, Boomerang is launched on a TV SFR, which is actually the same program but with a time lag.

Up till late in 2005, Boomerang used the slogan, Boomerang: It's All Coming Back To You. This promotional slogan that was used on the channel itself as well as Cartoon Network embodied the programming of that time. In 2006 however, a new slogan, Boomerang: We'll Be Right Back A'tcha! Mostly promoted by announcer John O’Hurley, was used on the channel. September 2009 also saw the emergence of a large number of new Boomerang slogans and commercials. Nowadays, Boomerang airs a bumper as well as two ads between intermission (usually a commercial and a DirectTV ad).

Programs offered

The channel offered a large number of programs. The most popular series that are still airing include The Three Musketeers (1968), Dexter's Laboratory (1996), Ben 10 (2005), The Powerpuff Girls (1998), and Tom and Jerry (1940-67) among others.

Boomerang Spain

Boomerang Spain is a television channel that broadcasts a large variety of old and new cartoons. Programming is generally produced by Hanna-Barbera. This is the sister channel of Cartoon Network Spain, a division of Time Warner. It is only since 2004 that there has been a Spanish version of Boomerang.

Different programmes

Cartoon Network originally broadcast its programs from Turner Broadcasting, 24/24, mainly youth oriented, but also shares during the night, an adult channel called Adult Swim. Since 2003, Cartoon Network broadcasts programs of action, specifically from Warner Bros. branches. and New Line Cinema, both Time Warner properties. Several versions of the channel have been launched internationally, as among other Cartoon Network France (November 5, 1999) since 1993.

From 6 am to 00 am June 14, 2004, Cartoon Network had updated its new logo and its slogan: "This is Cartoon Network!". This was the first time a female voice announced the slogan on the Cartoon Network. The cartoon classics previously released on the channel were moved to its sister channel Boomerang in order to promote new releases.

Cartoons on the Network

In 2006, the channel removes a lot of cartoons from the 1990s (Dexter's Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls, etc..), And broadcast in a program called The Cartoon Show. Some shows like Time Squad, patrolling time (2001) Mike, Lu & Og (1999), Cleo and Chico, Mr. Weasel (1997), Looney Tunes (1930, first aired in 1992), and Moumoute A Sheep in the City (2000) have been completely canceled in the chain.

A new logo was played from May 29, 2010 at 6am from which a new theme and a new presentation. The current theme was created by Brand New School.

In 2010, Cartoon Network starts with more emissions as they have never done 28 years ago and includes: Regular Show, Sym-Biontic Titan, Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Adventure Time, Rex and Robotomie Generator. During the summer of 2010, Courage the Cowardly Dog and Codename: Kids Next Door are rebroadcast again on the channel.

History of the Disney Channel

Before launching a Disney television channel, Walt Disney had planned in March 1950 the production of its own television, a simple diffusion of short animated, an idea proposed to his brother Roy. From Christmas 1950 at the request of NBC, Disney produced a television special called One Hour in Wonderland, which incorporates the principle of Mickey and the Beanstalk for Fun and Fancy (1947) by Edgar Bergen and his puppet Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.

In 1985, John Cooke was appointed Chairman of the string then subscribed by 1.9 million households. During his presidency, until September 1994 when he moved to manage the proposed theme park Disney's America, the chain grew until it reached 8 million households.

In March 1995, the first foreign channel was launched in Taiwan. Since it is present in over one hundred countries and broadcast in twenty languages. Disney Channel began with programming and movies geared for the family.

Current programming

The current programming from Disney Channel, surprisingly, offers only very few of the classic Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto or Goofy. They occur mainly during holidays or for special programs of films like Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas. Since 2003 a show called House of Mouse gives them life in digital animation.