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Title: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Cacique Caribe on 16 April 2010, 09:45:47 AM
Hello everyone!

I recently posted a topic about Tarzan in the Pulp discussion board:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=18181.0

However, should I have posted it in the Colonial Adventures board instead?  Basically, where do discussions about Tarzan really belong?
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Hammers on 16 April 2010, 09:55:22 AM
Hello everyone!

I recently posted a topic about Tarzan in the Pulp discussion board:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=18181.0

However, should I have posted it in the Colonial Adventures board instead?  Basically, where do discussions about Tarzan really belong?


Let the respective moderators duke it out between them. My money is on Prof. Witchheimer at the Pulp Board. He's got a wicked left uppercut. :)
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on 16 April 2010, 09:57:17 AM
Hello everyone!

I recently posted a topic about Tarzan in the Pulp discussion board:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=18181.0

However, should I have posted it in the Colonial Adventures board instead?  Basically, where do discussions about Tarzan really belong?


I'd say Pulp, as that's more the genre the stories were written in, but there's no reason why he can't appear in Colonial.

I don't think too many people would complain either way  :)
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Captain Blood on 16 April 2010, 11:17:12 AM
Yes, Tarzan is what, 1930's? So pulp really. Whereas 'Darkest Africa' more broadly is generally late 19th / early 20th Century, hence 'Colonial'. Then of course there's Great War in Africa which is probably WWI properly, but often feels more like 'Darkest Africa' and so 'Colonial', and so on...  ;)

Plynkes will know. He knows everything to do with Africa.  :)
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Steve F on 16 April 2010, 11:22:21 AM
Yes, Tarzan is what, 1930's?

Tarzan of the Apes began in Argosy magazine in 1912.  The character has appeared in pretty much every time period since.
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Orctrader on 16 April 2010, 12:31:03 PM
Good question.

I bought one a while ago.  When it's painted it will go into the Colonial board here, and my Darkest Africa gallery on my Website.  (Now I wonder if it should be in Pulp... ???)

Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Smokeyrone on 16 April 2010, 07:14:23 PM
CC's in the house!

What's up?


You would love my 54mm Dulcop Tarzan playset.  Has like 50 native porters.   And, over the top Zulus, great white hunters, animals, and Tarzan with a knife!

;)
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: ushistoryprof on 16 April 2010, 07:25:25 PM
Pulp
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Thunderchicken on 16 April 2010, 08:31:50 PM
Be a rebel and stick it in the Old West board. 
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Cacique Caribe on 17 April 2010, 12:25:14 AM
Well, here's a timeline of Tarzan's life (according to the novels):

http://www.edstephan.org/Tarzan/tarzlive.html

Most of his activity takes place from around the start of WWI to around the end of WWII.

Dan
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Smokeyrone on 17 April 2010, 02:01:49 AM
Well, here's a timeline of Tarzan's life (according to the novels):

http://www.edstephan.org/Tarzan/tarzlive.html

Most of his activity takes place from around the start of WWI to around the end of WWII.

Dan

I met Ron Eli, BTW.  Really nice guy, loved animals, very charitable.

  He  had a large ranch house  in West Palm Beach, right next to "Lion Contry Safari", the drive through African Animal preserve, curiously.  That's the place where people roll down their car windows (which is against the park's rules) and get eaten by lions every year or so.   (we always let the giraffe poke his head inside the car, and eat snacks we offered up.  :) 
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Plynkes on 17 April 2010, 09:18:42 PM
Timelines be damned. Colonial Adventures' remit includes the 20th Century. All of it.


(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Venn.jpg)

Equally,

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/VennQuatermain.jpg)

It's not worth worrying about: Whichever you like, Dan. Won't move them if you put them in here. Won't be offended if you don't. That's my rulin'. :)
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Westfalia Chris on 17 April 2010, 09:46:36 PM
Timelines be damned. Colonial Adventures' remit includes the 20th Century. All of it.

(...)

It's not worth worrying about: Whichever you like, Dan. Won't move them if you put them in here. Won't be offended if you don't. That's my rulin'. :)

Venn for the win! lol

Great work, Dylan.
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: Cacique Caribe on 21 April 2010, 02:20:31 AM
Thanks, guys!

Dan
Title: Re: Where To Discuss Tarzan?
Post by: warrenpeace on 22 April 2010, 05:49:36 AM
I would say depends on the scenario.  You could have a colonial fight going on in the jungle where Tarzan unexpectedly shows up.  You could also have a WW1 fight happening in Africa in which Tarzan shows up.  Or you could have a Pulp scenario in which Tarzan is the protagonist.  There were Edgar Rice Burroughs books in which Tarzan travelled to Pelucidar (center of the earth), in one via a German zeppelin.  So you could have Tarzan as a main character in something similar to Victorian Sci-Fi, even though Tarzan is technically post Victorian.