{"id":17631,"date":"2018-04-14T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/powdermonki\/?p=17631"},"modified":"2019-06-16T15:54:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T14:54:40","slug":"teenage-mutant-fantasy-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/teenage-mutant-fantasy-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Mutant Fantasy Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t do a trip back to the homeland (Bath) without perusing the charity shops along Mooreland Road last Monday. I came back with two modern reprints of <strong>Fighting Fantasy<\/strong> books, a <strong>Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles<\/strong> book, and two &#8220;Well-Loved Tales&#8221; <strong>Ladybird<\/strong> books. I also bought <strong>Leon<\/strong>, <strong>Amelie<\/strong>, and <strong>Twilight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\r\n\t\t\t    float: left;\r\n\t\t\t    margin-top: 10px;\r\n\t\t\t    text-align: center;\r\n\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\tbox-sizing: border-box;\r\n \t\t\t    padding: 0.1em 0.3em 0 0;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\r\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #ffffff;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\r\n\t\t\t\tfont-size: 0.7em;\r\n   \t\t\t\tline-height: 1.2em;\r\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0 0;\r\n \t\t\t\tmargin: 0;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\r\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-17631 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\r\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\r\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"900\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/My-Finds-2018-04-Apr-09-19-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\r\n\t\t<\/div><br style='clear: both' \/>\n\n<div class=\"google-inline\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; 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<\/strong>[1990].<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think this book was \u00a32.00, so a bit more than I would usually spend but I was on holiday so thought why not?!<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 {\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-item {\r\n\t\t\t    float: left;\r\n\t\t\t    margin-top: 10px;\r\n\t\t\t    text-align: center;\r\n\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\tbox-sizing: border-box;\r\n \t\t\t    padding: 0.1em 0.3em 0 0;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 img {\r\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #ffffff;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-caption {\r\n\t\t\t\tfont-size: 0.7em;\r\n   \t\t\t\tline-height: 1.2em;\r\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0 0;\r\n \t\t\t\tmargin: 0;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\r\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-17631 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\r\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\r\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"750\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/My-Finds-2018-04-Apr-09-07-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\r\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\r\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"750\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/My-Finds-2018-04-Apr-09-09-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\r\n\t\t<\/div><br style='clear: both' \/>\n\n<p>Based on episode 10 from season 2:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x2glvti\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Fighting Fantasy &#8220;House Of Hell&#8221; 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I have both these and several other original eighties books up in the attic somewhere. The covers of these are different but the illustrations inside are the same.<\/p>\n<p>I took House Of Hell on holiday a few years back and spent the entire week ending up with my head caved in by the old woman in the kitchen. 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I came back with two modern reprints of Fighting Fantasy books, a Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles book, and two &#8220;Well-Loved Tales&#8221; Ladybird books. I also bought Leon, Amelie, and Twilight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[381],"tags":[112,246,271,159,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20475,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions\/20475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}