2003...A Toon Zone Year in Review [Archive]

The Falcon

12-23-2003, 12:16 AM

Chris Sanders MSX

12-23-2003, 02:49 AM

hey gang

blue falcon here wondering what you remember about toon zone that happened during the year of 2003. do you remember funny things happening to certain members, certain members being banned, certain members joining, etc? well, let's hear it!

it feels like i've been here forever but i joined back on january 10th of THIS YEAR!!! wow. i'll have more later

Falcon

I remember the new look for the Cafe. I was so against it, still am. Haha. I also remember in influx of new members taking over as some of us older members became more busy with college and work. Summer will be our time to reclaim !! :D Viva La Revolution !

anime_babe

12-23-2003, 10:11 AM

I remember how fun the TZ dance was and how crazy everybody was about asking someone to go. *sigh* Good Times. I too remember the new Cafe look *coughstarbuckscough* and the reaction it got. But, in my short time here I would have to say that I enjoy the company of the members here better than I did the members at the AS boards. You Guys Rock! :anime:

Conekiller

12-23-2003, 12:45 PM

ahhhh

JWL and Duelist Goku

and their subsequent bannings.

life is good

don't you think?

Boy Wonder

12-23-2003, 01:09 PM

Waggytoon's eye bleeding posts are R.I.P
The logo things at TTTP about insultng CN

SlyBoy

12-23-2003, 01:10 PM

ahhhh

JWL and Duelist Goku

and their subsequent bannings.

life is good

don't you think?

Oh yeah...

Jaguar

12-23-2003, 01:15 PM

I joined, and began my master plan to take over.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it. :sweat:

Beat

12-23-2003, 01:52 PM

Oh yeah...

And their subsequent dumpings onto Toonami Infolink. Goku's cleaned up his act, jwl... :mad:

Sora Takenouchi

12-23-2003, 03:44 PM

ahhhh

JWL and Duelist Goku

and their subsequent bannings.

life is good

don't you think?

Ah yes, good times...good times... :)

Eddie G.

12-23-2003, 03:47 PM

I remember that guy who just kept making threads with the male reproductive organ repeated over and over again.

I remember that guy who left Toonzone, insulted everyone, and then ended re-registering.

I remember when that super hottie Blue Wolf came, and he was all smart and sexy, and became the best poster ever.

DianaGohan

12-23-2003, 04:22 PM

2003 Was A Great Toonzone Year (And I'm not just saying that because I joined it).

But to name everything that was great about it would take to long. I'll just list the bad.

- The members who insulted others for no reason

- Threads like "OMG YOU SUCK I HATE ANIME!!!!"

- Posts that had nothing to do with the topic and just badmouthed the person there.

- Losing Corrado

- Almost Getting Banned

But overall, it was still a great year.

Zorakfan

12-23-2003, 06:08 PM

- The members who insulted others for no reason

- Posts that had nothing to do with the topic and just badmouthed the person there.

http://home.comcast.net/~girz/potkettle.gif

Mek

12-23-2003, 06:20 PM

LOL @ Zorakfan

How true. XD

Aniwho... nothing really significant happend for me this year. :sweat:

PowerZord

12-23-2003, 07:01 PM

A few stuffed happened:

The new look for the cafe
My temporarily leaving
My own Toonzone friends invading my message board and using names of Good well respected mods.

The announcing of my graduation and acceptance into college

Dianagohan crazy parodies in the Poke YGO reviews.
and a whole lot of stuff

purplehairedwonder

12-23-2003, 07:07 PM

Well, let's see.

I started posting at the Cafe
I started posting at boards other than the Toonami board:sweat:
New look for the Cafe
I've almost made 1,000 posts (there's still time:p)

DianaGohan

12-23-2003, 07:19 PM

I've almost made 1,000 posts (there's still time)

At latest count you have 928. In order to make it to 1000 by 2004, you would have to average about 8 posts a day, and then you could clain that 1000 goal. I wish you the best of luck if you decide to go for it.

Outlander00

12-23-2003, 07:26 PM

I will remind everyone (that inludes you, Zorakfan) to mind the Rules around here and be respectful to other users. I thought those types of images were cute at first, however now they are getting tiresome and do nothing but cause trouble.

As for me...

- Meeting and becoming friends with a few people on here was a good thing.

- Taking responsibility for the Drawing Board Workshops.

- The Drawing Board website.

I think thats about it :)

PaQ

12-23-2003, 07:31 PM

ToonZone 2003 for me:
Started lurking the Toonami board in January. Quotes from members like the Infamous Waggytoon, kept me coming back.
Finally joined in March, posted solely in the Toonami Board, started to lurk on other boards, added TZ to my favorites list.
Summer came and TZ became one of my daily visited sites. Started posting in more boards, started to get to know some of the great members and mods here.
Now TZ is startpage when I log on, I keep it on in the background while I'm at the computer.
I've met a lot of great people here.
Always an interesting time whenever someone goes on "ban me" spree, even though it's extremely annoying.
I think the only change I remember on TZ in 03 was when the TT board turned into the WBC board.
Overall TZ 2003 was a great year and I hope 04 is even better.

Mek

12-23-2003, 07:36 PM

I will remind everyone (that inludes you, Zorakfan) to mind the Rules around here and be respectful to other users. I thought those types of images were cute at first, however now they are getting tiresome and do nothing but cause trouble.

*pffft* Killjoy. :p

*is smacked by Outlander*

Ow. Okay... I'm sorry... >.<

Roger Smith

12-23-2003, 08:19 PM

The Dominus of Toon Zone was Born =)

Duelist goku got banned...

i hate anime threads those times...

SlyBoy

12-23-2003, 08:38 PM

And their subsequent dumpings onto Toonami Infolink. Goku's cleaned up his act, jwl... :mad:

They went there? Show me more...

EDIT: Once again, I start ANOTHER page.

SlyBoy

12-23-2003, 08:44 PM

The Dominus of Toon Zone was Born =)

:confused:

Pilmedium

12-23-2003, 08:55 PM

Bad Memories of 2003 at Toonzone
-The short-lived invasion of the "Hit or Miss" threads at the TTTP
-The confusion and uncertainty during the reconstruction of the Fun and Games board
-Waggytoon was banned.
-Most recently, I was told by three people in three days that the quote from Matt Wilson: "Closes Like Moses" was not funny. Even someone who I seem to dislike thinks that was funny!
-I further established my habit of random, sudden absence.
-The worst of all will not be mentioned publicly.

I might come back with good memories later, if I can think of enough.

wrenchien

12-23-2003, 09:19 PM

i'll dwell on the positives.

all those destabilized threads with humor and pictures. mmm.

the ever- growing flcl threads.

the fun owl mania.

i can't remember anything else.

hope the ice cube maker works soon. my chocolate soda needs to get in mah belly!

Alex Toon

12-23-2003, 10:36 PM

Let's see.

1. I join, along with Samurai Karasu, Roger Smith, DianaGohan, SlyBoy, crimson_lynx, and Blue Falcon.
2. I made my first ToonZone friend, Outlander00.
3. I go from "newbie" to "known person" because of my Homestar costumes thread.

Chad Bonin

12-23-2003, 11:10 PM

I was mod-ified, starting using more avatars...

David the Joker

12-23-2003, 11:31 PM

I joined this site in Oct, and found this is the best toon zone forum online, it has some of the most interesting characters, who like what I like like comic characters and stuff which is very rare to find (unless you go to conventions). I never stop posting on this site, because here I can express myself in the stuff I enjoy without people looking at me odd, as an example the JL episode "A Better World" and how it has to do with all the aspects of duelism. I would like to thank all the creaters and all the guys that work on this site, to tell them they did an excellent job, keep up the great work, and thanks for making this site for us "geeks".

Duke Psychology

12-24-2003, 12:06 AM

there was this dude who joined called Shadowy Figure who was totally awesome and became the best forum poster there ever was. :p

Samurai Karasu

12-24-2003, 12:21 AM

Samurai Karasu

VICTORY IS MINE!

I remember coming here. I only changed my avatar five times. Blue Falcon eat your heart out.

The Falcon

12-24-2003, 01:14 AM

VICTORY IS MINE!

I remember coming here. I only changed my avatar five times. Blue Falcon eat your heart out.
can i borrow a fork?

let's see. what has toonzone meant to me in this past year...

1. i've become known as the "avatar pimp", but then other posters wanted to become avatar pimps so somebody (i think it was lu) called me the "avatar king"
2. i bought a scanner and finally got myself to join in the fun over in the drawing board forum
3. tried and failed at an internet romance
4. i managed to get two of my friends to join also. one of them was banned within two hours of his joining
5. i met a lot of cool people here who seem to understand my humor and who know never to take me seriously unless the first five words of my post are "i am being serious now"
6. i've used at least 60+ avatars this year

Falcon

Karl Olson

12-24-2003, 02:02 AM

lets see:

1. Start the year as a fairly average guy here on TZ.

1.5. http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=821387&postcount=21

2. Get noticed by Twage for my love and knowledge of anime, get position as a TZ reporter/reviewer.

3. Overanalyse the heck out of FLCL, end up with position as an Anime Forum Moderator because of it.

4. Finally get to write my first review for TZ on Someday's Dreamers.

James

12-24-2003, 04:52 AM

Well for me a lot. :)

I think the Dark Knight Adventures comes first - having started the planning for it last December on Flash's request. Now I'm working - both on script and artwork for issue 6 - it has come a long way... :p

The Drawing Board.. time becomes a messy pulp, but I think I started modding early this year and took over running the thing from Frozen (who has had to take extended leave through most of the year) from April. The expansion of the Drawing Board has been something I'm greatly proud of. As Outlander said, the website was a great achievement both in design and content, but the all stars have been a riot too. Also, working on Workshops with the likes of Dave Alvarez and Ty Templeton has been cool (look out for one with Christopher Jones in the near future! :))

Working for the news team has also been pleasurable. I like to talk, so having been able to review (and also getting to see the shows early) has been great!

Starting modding on the Video Games Board has been interesting. BirdBoy requested some help for the board and I've enjoyed working there. The Gamer's Attic's have been rather fun to do!

Finally, the interviews for TZ. I've had the chance to talk to and enjoy working with some cool writers and illustrators. All of which have been beyond giving in time and effort to the articles. The comic industry has some great people working for it!

Finally finally, I must mention getting to talk and on one occasion meet some of the wonderful people who lurk here. I hope next year is as fun! :)

Corrado

12-24-2003, 08:59 AM

For me it was joining, doing the "Clone Wars" talkback, then almost leaving, and coming back.

Chad Bonin

12-24-2003, 09:18 AM

This has always been a source of humor...

Were the Clone Wars Talkbacks such a prized position for you? You came to the Toonami board just for it.

Corrado

12-24-2003, 09:24 AM

"Were the Clone Wars Talkbacks such a prized position for you?"

Well, considering how "Clone Wars" turned out, yes.

Chad Bonin

12-24-2003, 09:44 AM

It was still JUST A TALKBACK.

It's not like I'm putting the Transformers Armada "The Unicron Battles" Talkback in my sig, despite a good 300 posts coming from it...

DianaGohan

12-24-2003, 12:01 PM

Yeah Knux Five, but you have to understand how much time Corrado put into the Clone Wars thread. He made sure he was the one to do the talkbacks a week in advance, figured out the best way to do it, posted a review for each seperate episode (along with a synopsis straight from Cartoonnetwork.com as well as who the VAs were). That (along with the "Corrado quote of the day") his most succesful thread, and he is really proud of that thread. I think he has right to be.

Corrado

12-24-2003, 12:13 PM

"you have to understand how much time Corrado put into the Clone Wars thread. He made sure he was the one to do the talkbacks a week in advance, figured out the best way to do it, posted a review for each seperate episode (along with a synopsis straight from Cartoonnetwork.com as well as who the VAs were). That (along with the "Corrado quote of the day") his most succesful thread, and he is really proud of that thread. I think he has right to be."

What she said.

PowerZord

12-24-2003, 12:20 PM

What do people find wrong in duelist goku? I got to admit he was a little pervert sometimes, but he was a cool guy

The Falcon

12-24-2003, 12:23 PM

oh man. back on topic, please. i don't want this getting closed. thanks

Falcon

DianaGohan

12-24-2003, 02:51 PM

Okay then, here were some top greats

Meeting people like Corrado, Blue Falcon, Duke, anime guy and KinG of PaQ (among other such wonderful users).

The Parodies of Justice League by Matt Wilson

The Silly Question, Silly answer Thread/Say Something Nice About You Thread

Becoming Number 8

All The Various News Annoucements Made (Well Most Of Them anyway)

There are many others, but I'll let the others tell about them.

Zombies8MDingo

12-24-2003, 06:05 PM

Well, after occasionally visiting from other sci-fi/movie news sites I ended up visiting every day just to check the latest news, then tried the excellent sites such as World's Finest, got hooked on Gotham Girls and am patiently stalking the GG website now for a new series, then discovered the forums and a whole new side to TZ.

Now going into posting rehab over the holidays.

"Hi everyone, my name's not really Zombies8MDingo, and I'm a post-a-holic. http://forums.toonzone.net/images/smilies/rosey.gif"

Post-a-holic definition: Posting on Christmas Eve

Parallax

12-24-2003, 06:13 PM

I did stuff.
I changed my name twice.
I did more stuff.
I got to know the "cool kids".
I really didn't do anything at all.
I posted in this thread.

Corrado

12-24-2003, 06:27 PM

More good stuff:

Making friends with DianaGohan, Anime Guy, and others.

Also interacting with famous people like Joe Alaskey, Bob Bergen, and Jerry Beck.

Creating the Fantasy RAW/Smackdown threads, and SNL Behind The Scenes.

Reading DianaGohan and Matt Wilson's very funny parodies.

Being mentioned in the AS FAQS as a contributor.

pabcool

12-24-2003, 07:21 PM

Best of 2003:

-jwl's short-lived time at TZ, producing randomly hillarious spam
-DianaGohan joins
-Matt Wilson, particularly his Justice League parodies
-Kirby's last stand
-FUNIMACTION
-the FLCL talkback
-ToonZone's 10th anniversary
-sl4 is added to my IM buddy list
-I reach 1,000 posts
-The short-lived semi-spam avalanche in the Testing Forum
-High Score
-Karl Olson increases his l33tness
-Blue Falcon and I become allies
-Lucky Bob's "ladybug" speech
-Being an AS FAQ contributor

Leaping Larry Jojo

12-24-2003, 07:45 PM

The passing away of one of our members...and my pity at the fact that few people knew him well enough or realized it when he was gone.

DianaGohan

12-24-2003, 07:48 PM

I remember that LLJ. That was Lupin Wolf right? That was very sad. To bad no one knew him that much. Oh well, still a tradgedy.

The Landstander

12-24-2003, 07:48 PM

I think all will agree this (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=96185) was the year's highlight.

SlyBoy

12-24-2003, 08:35 PM

I think all will agree this (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=96185) was the year's highlight.

And he called me "LaughingBoy", a weasel, scum, and a jerk. :D Yay! I'm hated!

Alex Toon

12-24-2003, 08:51 PM

And he called me "LaughingBoy", a weasel, scum, and a jerk. :D Yay! I'm hated!

But not by me! Yay!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

The Lizard

12-25-2003, 03:10 AM

I remember when I joined in January, and all of Roger Smith's posts (joke there)

-The Lizard :D

Samurai Karasu

12-25-2003, 01:20 PM

.....that son of a ***** Kirby wouldnt call me a weasel....I lose :(

Karl Olson

12-25-2003, 03:26 PM

-the FLCL talkback
-Karl Olson increases his l33tness

Aw shucks. You deserve a pizza trophy for that. :)

Anime Guy

12-25-2003, 07:42 PM

Good things
-Making friends like Corrado, DianaGohan, KinG of PaQ, Eddy, Sampo, Hyper Luigi, and wrenchien.(you're all on my buddy list)
-being accepted by most people here at Toon Zone.
-having fun at the Fun and Games Board, Cafe Toon Zone, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, and more.
-Corrado deciding to stay (just wouldn't be the same without you, buddy)
-getting along with the mods thus far

Bad things
-being disliked by some members for reasons unknown (Aurochs)
-having the post counts turned off at the Fun and Games Board(it's not that bad)

So all-in-all, it's been a pretty good year. Hope the next one's good too.

DianaGohan

12-25-2003, 08:40 PM

Thanks for including me in your friend list Anime Guy. And I include you in mine.

Other Good Things Of Toonzone 2003

- Reading The Stories In The Story Board
- Seeing The Drawings In The Drawing Board
- Playing The Fun Games In the Fun And Games Board
- Uh.... Cafeing in the Cafe Toon Zone Board?

Corrado

12-25-2003, 10:30 PM

"Making friends like Corrado, DianaGohan, KinG of PaQ, Eddy, Sampo, Hyper Luigi, and wrenchien.(you're all on my buddy list)"

Cool, thanks.

"Corrado deciding to stay (just wouldn't be the same without you, buddy)"

Thanks, again.

Narfpinky

12-26-2003, 07:08 PM

Well, being at TZ for four years, I became a mod this year. :)
(Hehehe, I'm watching everyone, narf. :D ;) )

sag_2002

12-26-2003, 07:28 PM

-This has already been mentioned, but Toonzone's 10th anniversery.

-The opening of the Disney board. (Which segues nicely into my next highlight)

-I appointed myself the master of the "Kim Possible" talkback threads. (It started during the summer run, when Disney Channel gave us the 8 new KP episodes. I've only missed one talkback since [Only because I had some computer troubles])

-Power Rangers Ninja Storm (I did a few talkbacks there during the season, and I plan to do at least one for Dino Thunder in Feb.)

-RAW bringing back Mick Foley and the Rock in two consecutive weeks.

-The "Scenes from a Hat" threads at Fun & Games.

DianaGohan

12-26-2003, 07:35 PM

DianaGohan joined.(TZ would never be the same)

No it wouldn't.

It would be better.

INSAN- Oh, that was just me.

*Sigh* I miss her.

Xfox

12-26-2003, 07:51 PM

Since I joined this year, my big thing was being part of this group.

What do I remember best?

-The trivia threads- I always had a blast trying to see what I knew about animation and realizing I knew very little.

-Blue Falcon's constant changing of avatars- So many cool ones to choose from. I still liked that Mega Man one best (If he even remembers it).

-My pretty much blending into the background- As I thought would happen with such a huge forum, not that I'm complaining. It means I can come and go with my opinions and not get constantly hassled for it.

-All the cool Teen Titans pics- Pretty self-explanatory.

-A few KFC jokes made at the expense of my username- I should think about changing KTF to Kaxxar the fox eventually.

Here's to a great 2003, and (let's hope) a great 2004.

Anime Guy

12-26-2003, 08:30 PM

No it wouldn't.

It would be better.

INSAN- Oh, that was just me.

*Sigh* I miss her.
[in the Red Guy's voice]Ohhhhh, I smell the return of insanity. Hahaha.[/in the Red Guy's voice]

The Falcon

12-26-2003, 11:32 PM

Karl Olson

12-30-2003, 12:32 PM

one more thing that happened: DianaGohan banned.

Eddie G.

12-30-2003, 12:52 PM

one more thing that happened: DianaGohan banned.
Beat me to it Karl, was about to post that very thing. I feel little sad, I liked Diana, I know she got in trouble with the mods if you recall her sig, but still wonder why exactly why she got banned. But that's a question that would get this thread closed.

So to be relevent, there was a revolution in the Fun and Games section. And a lot of very popular games are (RIGHTFULLY!) gone. And too add to that nothing nice will ever be said again.

Zapages

12-30-2003, 01:08 PM

I remember the up roar with how bad Transformers Armada was...

Corrado

12-30-2003, 01:32 PM

"one more thing that happened: DianaGohan banned."

sigh.

Zapages

12-30-2003, 01:44 PM

one more thing that happened: DianaGohan banned.

:eek: :eek: :eek: :confused: :( :eek: :( ....

Sad, I didn't know her.... But its sad when an old member gets banned.

Viper

12-30-2003, 04:40 PM

Not much happened here this year for me, except:

1. I started posting in the Anime boards--started watching Yu-gi-oh and posting comments. I don't even watch much anime to begin with.

2. Enjoying the Totally Spies threads.

One of the main reasons I joined was to post in the Delaney sketch polls, they've been delayed a long time but JD still needs his R&R. :)

Anyway, if I see a thread that looks interesting, I'll post. That's pretty much it.

Plus, it's best if I keep to myself here. I've been here for almost 2 years and there aren't many people here I'm familiar with, except for Delia97. I also don't wanna get into trouble for causing a flame war. :eek:

I'll miss Diana Gohan. :( :( :(

Well, that's about it. I only hope 2004 will be a little better. Not just here in TZ but in real life. My mom went through Non-Hodgekins Lymphoma Cancer early this year and went through 8 months of chemo-therapy. You can just imagine how much stress and anguish I've been through during Jan.-May of this past year. She's much better now though, but she still makes me go insane. Sorry if I had to go off-topic, but I had to mention it.

I only hope I don't get banned too for what I just said.

--Erik Zmajkovic aka Viper

Corrado

12-30-2003, 06:07 PM

"She's much better now though, but she still makes me go insane."

Glad to hear that. That must've been very hard on you, Viper.

Jave

12-30-2003, 07:10 PM

DianaGohan, we hardly knew ya... wait, that's not true!

- jwl reviewing Futurama.
- Waggytoon comparing Runonin Kenshin to Timon & Pumbaa.
- The "Caption This" threads at TTTP
- The LT DVDs discussions at TTTP

And...

"Scenes From a Hat: Rejected Titles From Harry Potter Books" I'm REALLY proud of starting that game.

All the people I thank are currently on my fanart (see my sig)

Ben

01-01-2004, 11:23 AM

Damien

01-01-2004, 01:38 PM

one more thing that happened: DianaGohan banned.

When the heck did that happen?

Anyway, 2003...

Damien becomes a member in January 2003, since then dabbeling in Fun&Games, lurking around World's Finest Fan Fics., kickin' it at the Entertainment Board, chatting in the Cafe, and poppin' up once in awhile in the DVD and Comic Book Boards. Along the way, some funny things have happened.

Here's to another year. :cool:

Karl Olson

01-01-2004, 03:31 PM

Anime Forum was born and I came back to Toon Zone to moderate it. Helped with the new forum rules. Got on the news team. And am now doing something suuupahseeecret. Yay.

And Karl, thanks for reminding me. That NieA Matrix post never, never gets old. :D

I can't wait for the suuupahseeeeeecret project to come together. Speaking of which, you might need re-IM me the info.

and if you liked niea matrix, check your PM for the best aBE related thing I've ever seen...