{"id":115,"date":"2026-07-23T21:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/?p=115"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:03:48","slug":"flippy-the-laserdisc-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/flippy-the-laserdisc-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Flippy The Laserdisc Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026or when I take passing toots far too seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The LaserDisc Turtle (real version)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IvqzBQIVMwc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not really a LaserDisc person! Largely the extent of my LaserDisc experience was during the mid to late nineties when a then *ahem* close friend *ahem* had a relatively small collection of films stashed away on the things. Well. One of their family did anyway. Mainly, we watched cartoons like the grown ups we were but I still remember them showing me both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0115759\/\">Broken Arrow<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112851\/\">Desperado<\/a> across a couple of afternoons and well, that\u2019s about as far as my LaserDisc experience really went \u2014 yet they were very much the right films at the right time and so, I still remember watching them with a fondness (and a genuine surprise at the size of the discs). And y\u2019know, I still fucking love them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, I am also incredibly easily led and love cute mascots! And with apologies because I forgot to keep the specific toot archived anywhere so I forget who was directly responsible here, when someone mentioned people should draw more art of Flippy The Laserdisc Turtle, I couldn\u2019t help but agree. Plus, I was incredibly bored that afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aaaaand that\u2019s how we end up here with two drawings of Flippy. The second one for the age old Rob reason that it made me laugh thinking about it and after that, there was no going back really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0878.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0878-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0878-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0878-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0878-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0878-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0878-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0878.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0877.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0877-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0877-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0877-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0877-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0877-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0877-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0877.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026or when I take passing toots far too seriously. I am not really a LaserDisc person! Largely the extent of my LaserDisc experience was during the mid to late nineties when a then *ahem* close friend *ahem* had a relatively small collection of films stashed away on the things. Well. 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