I can claim some expertise in the juvenile-oriented direct-to-video fare produced in Romania through the late ’90s (and just into the 21st century) by any combination of Full Moon Studios, PulsePounders!, Kushner-Locke, Inc., Castel Film, and CanaRom Productions. So sit up and take notice when I say that Train Quest (2001) is the most banal, paint-by-numbers production to come out of the combined efforts of those usual suspects.
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#1 by Baron Scarpia on August 28, 2008 - 1:26 am
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The train set was made by Davros? Good God, this must be the lamest plan he’s ever come up with.
#2 by Nathan Shumate on August 28, 2008 - 5:57 am
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Are you proud of me for not going off on all the obvious Whovian gags?
#3 by Blake Matthews on August 28, 2008 - 6:20 am
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There was a model train shop located in one of the bowling alleys in my home city, but I never could figure out who went there and bought stuff there (I only knew that people went there to by things because a friend of mine worked there for a short while).
#4 by Joshua on August 30, 2008 - 6:40 am
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You might be surprised at just how many scale-modellers there are in the world. Model train enthusiasts may be declining in number, but they’re being replaced by diorama-ists (or whatever the correct term is).
#5 by Nathan Shumate on August 30, 2008 - 8:38 am
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“Nerd.”
#6 by Joshua on August 30, 2008 - 9:08 pm
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Say the B-movie reviewer…
#7 by Nathan Shumate on August 30, 2008 - 10:28 pm
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Everyone needs someone to look down upon.
#8 by Joshua on August 30, 2008 - 11:18 pm
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Glad to be of service.
#9 by MatthewF on September 1, 2008 - 11:43 am
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Train Quest? Good god, was ‘Generic Kids Adventure Movie Title’ taken?
#10 by Blake Matthews on September 1, 2008 - 12:11 pm
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“Ellen doesn’t recoil from the Stench Of Geek around August, instead thinking that his obsession with model trains and the pedantic tendency to lecture on their mechanics is kinda cute.”
That reminds me of that film “Remote Control” where the kid takes the girl-love interest to an abandoned house (or one that’s still being built), shows off his collection of remote controlled vehicles and whatnot, and she’s so impressed that she kisses him.