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Fuzzy Fingers; Funtime with Friends and Fimbles Magazine

With so many magazines covering the television I thought I'd kick out a review on one such literary pressure release before consigning it to the recycle bin. The publication in hand are the issues of ABC's Funtime with Friends Magazine and the Funtime Special, Fimbles Magazine. Straight off I have to wonder what exactly would be on the covers of each of the issues given that not one of my copies have a cover.

After the glossing and inviting contents page, each issue kicks off with a two or four page story using the characters from one of the many programs on the ABC Kids region. The set up of each is triggered well, but along the way they all seem to fall into a sense of rush and in bizarre moves tie up the short, short story without having really gone anywhere with the characters. Take the first story, featuring Merlin the Magical Puppy, it starts with Merlin bored as hell and wanting something to play. Hide and Seek is the answer and goes about with his friend Kizzie. Five paragraphs are taken to the lead up and then shot down in an instant in the last when Merlin gets stuck and figures that the game isn't to his liking. Wishing himself home the moral of the story is that you shouldn't have fun with friends and that staying home is far better than learning about the world outside. Destructive if ever there was a subliminal message to hammer to the kids. But then with them homebound the better entertainment comes to them in the magazine or from the blasting of the waves from the television. Either way, the kids don't move beyond their world and the stories suggest as much, inhibiting even, like the natural flow of a good story.

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