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tintinophile691
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#1 · Posted: 23 Dec 2009 10:56
What is your earliest Tintin-related memory?

When did you first hear about Tintin? Was it because of rumours, of stumbling upon it on TV, being given an album as a gift, or going on a trip to Belgium?

This is not a thread about your first Tintin album, this is about the very first mention of Tintin in your life.

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As for myself, I stumbled upon Tintin on the ABC2 channel. It was Flight 714. I watched the series for the rest of its run, then I forgot about it until my brother was given The Seven Crystal Balls as a gift from his friend.
Colonel Sponsz
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#2 · Posted: 23 Dec 2009 11:29
For me, it was being presented Tibet on my eighth birthday.
NikkiRoux
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#3 · Posted: 28 Dec 2009 08:46
The series appeared one day on Cartoon Network and I watched it and thought that the appearances of all the characters looked very weird. It's probably beacuse they didn't look like the kinds of cartoon characters I was used to watching.
Ranko
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#4 · Posted: 28 Dec 2009 10:00
Hi everyone.

I was about 7 or 8, I think. For some reason my parents took me shopping and we ended up in a bookshop where as fate would have it, they were running a Tintin promotion. Unfortunately for the life of me I can't remember the particular book (Although I'm sure it was either Black Gold or Red Sea Sharks) I do however remember getting a sticker!
It must have been the cover or the fact that it was a cartoon that drew me to it. (Or quite possibly my parents got the hard sell!)

Anyway, from that point on (1973) I've been hooked.
Irish Kaulitz
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#5 · Posted: 29 Dec 2009 14:56
I first saw Tintin on Cartoon Network when i was 6 or 7. I don't remember why such a cartoon like Tintin would got me hook into watching it instead of Powerpuff Girls, Cow and Chicken and I am Weasel. It must be because of the characters (Tintin is as attractive as Bill Kaulitz for my six year old self) and the stories were so amusing and rather funny. Since then, i became a Tintin fan...
tintinophile691
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#6 · Posted: 31 Dec 2009 02:34
I forgot to mention that the name Tintin sounded familiar even before I saw that episode (Flight 714).

Does Tintin sound familiar to people before they had their first taste of Tintin albums/episodes? Is this considered a trait of natural Tintin fans?
Cornies
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#7 · Posted: 2 Jan 2010 11:36
My first glimpse of Tintin came at about the age of seven, which would have been about 1960. I lived on a farm in Southern Ontario, Canada. When my parents went to town, they sometimes let me roam through the local public library. It had a children's section and a general circulation area. One day, tired of the children's books, I ventured among the adult stacks. In a far corner, second shelf from the floor, I found a dark red hardbound book larger than the rest. I opened it and was immediately swept into the world of Hergé and his cast of Tintin characters. The book was Explorers on the Moon. I checked it out at the circulation desk and then discovered the other titles in the weeks that followed. There was Destination Moon and probably a half-dozen others. I checked every one of those books out countless times in the years that followed. No one in my family had ever heard of Tintin, nor had any of my schoolmates. I was alone with this marvellous character, his friends, and Hergé's beautiful renderings. Sometimes I wonder whether the boy reporter influenced my choice of career: I became a journalist.
little martine
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#8 · Posted: 7 Jan 2010 07:37
I got Tintin in America when my mom bought me one when I was about 10 years old.
And now look at me!
I'm a Tintinologist member!
What do you know~?
Tintin Fan Oman
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#9 · Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:00
My first memory of Tintin and any of the other characters is in the TV version of the Castafiore Emerald. I can vaguely remember Professor Calculus kissing the hands of Castafiore when I was only fouryears old.
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I am a new tintinologist by the way.
Rianna Lauren
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#10 · Posted: 27 Jan 2011 15:23
Ahh, I remember that day very clearly. I was eight at that time. My mom and dad took me to the fancy new restaurant in town that night. We went upstairs and took our seat, and there, they had this mini cinema for the customers. I was sooo excited - you know little kids. When our food arrived, the mini cinema played, and it was Tintin: Crab with Golden Claws, I remember it so well. I was so enjoying the movie, by the time it came to an end, my steak was barely eaten. X] Seeing my interest, my mom and dad told me about Tintin being a famous character around their time. Since then I got really hooked up with it and my mom takes me to the CD rental store down the street every weekend so I can watch more Tintin (it was great to be a fan of something your parents support, not all moms like it when their daughters start to love DC Universe heroes >_>). So I start off from there, and now I'm two books away from having the whole collection of the albums. :D The restaurant was closed down two years after though, my guess was it wasn't quite a strategic place. But I always remember that place. It was special.

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