Great toy club
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Great toy club |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1999–2005, since 2017 |
| Production company |
Endemol (1999–2001), Grundy Light Entertainment (2002–2005), UFA Show & Factual (since 2017) |
| length | 22-32 minutes |
| Broadcasting cycle |
Saturday evening (1999–2005), Friday and Saturday evening (since 2017) |
| genre | Game show |
| Moderation |
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| First broadcast | October 23, 1999 on Super RTL |
The Super Toy Club is a children's and youth game show on the Super RTL broadcaster , which premiered on October 23, 1999. The last first broadcast took place on December 3, 2005 with the 122nd edition. Until the end of 2006, Super RTL repeated numerous episodes of the show on Saturday morning. For the time being, the last time the Super Toy Club was broadcast on television on December 30, 2006. A new edition of the show started on September 22, 2017.
Concept and worth knowing
The show, which at times had a market share of over 30% among children, was hosted by David Wilms as "Commander David". Florian Ambrosius has presented the new edition since 2017 as "Flomander".
In the show, two teams with four children each, boys and girls, play against each other. You should achieve as many points as possible in four out of six / seven possible games per season.
Then shall the end, the group that achieved the highest score for three minutes in the Super Toy Race a parcours like made-up toy store of Toys "R" Us "empty evacuate," meaning that the children so much in the cart must tackle as is possible for them. If the participants reach the goal within this time, they will receive additional games and prizes. In some editions, the participants first had to crack the lock at the finish with four colored chip cards (in red, yellow, blue and green) collected during the final. In the new edition, the shopping carts must be unlocked by stars collected during the finale. The Super Toy Race was recorded in a Cologne branch.
It was characteristic of the 6th and 7th season (2003 and 2004) that presenter David Wilms did not call both candidate teams to the front at the beginning of the program. Instead, they stayed in the audience among the fans. Wilms came over to them and chatted with them there before going down to the first game.
The 100th episode, part of the 7th season (broadcast on October 24, 2004), was celebrated as an anniversary broadcast. The very first broadcast was looked back in brief excerpts. The winners of these episodes were also guests on the show and after the Super Toy Race , Wilms and the winners of the 100th edition came back to the studio to slice a birthday cake.
Characteristic for the final 8th season (2005), the 10 issues of which were only broadcast on Saturday morning, were some radical cuts, which negatively affected the attractiveness and quality of the show in particular. From then on, the broadcast did not last 30 to 32 minutes, but only 22 to 25 minutes. The introduction and presentation of candidates by Wilms was much shorter, almost rushed; Games like Galaxy Tennis (get 3 instead of 5 points), Kosmokado (balls were no longer counted by Wilms during the game, but only at the end of the on-board computer) and Astroslide (only 5 seconds of time per throw) were shortened. The Super Toy Race was also shortened by 30 seconds to 3 minutes. In addition, Wilms' explanations of the game were omitted before each game, with the exception of Monstopia , as this game was new and therefore logically had to be explained to the candidates, the audience and the spectators.
Games in the show
- Verrengo (1999-2001): In this game, which is almost comparable to the game Twister , you had to be acrobatic, for example place your left hand on a red surface or your right foot on a blue surface and move forward at the same time. Whoever reached the opposite side first and pressed the buzzer won the game. The game could end before that if someone lost their twisted posture and fell. In this case, his team lost the game. Verrengo , who played only one candidate from each team, had been there from the very first show. In the 4th season (2001) it was played for the last time and later replaced by Meteorido .
- Planetoido (1999–2002): In this game, which is based on the game of Four in a Row, the candidates had to line up four round circles ("planets") in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row in order to win. Planetoido is also a game from the very beginning and last appeared sporadically as the opening game in the 5th season (2002) before it disappeared completely from the 6th season.
- Colorion (1999–2002): Based on the game Simon, the participants had to set a sequence of colors (e.g. red-yellow-green-blue) with a tone on four colored surfaces (red, yellow, blue and green) that came from the colored areas. At first the tempo of the melody was leisurely, then faster and faster with each order. The game was over if one of the participants jumped on the wrong colored surface. The winner was the group with the most correct sequence (10 points were awarded for each successful new note). Colorion was mostly played as the first game in the first few seasons, but was also often forgotten from 2002 and was later replaced. In rare cases, Colorion was also played as the fourth and thus final game of the show in the third season.
- Kristallica (1999–2005): The classic of the Super Toy Club par excellence and mostly the final, all-important duel. Here you have to knock artificial ice blocks out of a large area with an oversized hammer without causing the crystal in the middle of the area to collapse. The party that caused the collapse loses the game. Only in a few issues in the first few years did Kristallica not appear and was replaced by Colorion as the final game in these broadcasts .
- Galaxy Tennis (2000–2005): A game similar to table tennis , except that a laser was used as a "ball". At first the laser moved slowly, then back and forth faster and faster. Whoever reached five points first (season 8: three points) won the game. Galaxy Tennis was first played in the opening sequence of season 3 (episode 19; year 2000).
- Doktronik (2000–2005): In this game of skill, which was also sold in a smaller form under the name of Doctor Bibber , the participants had to use pliers to remove "swallowed" objects from an oversized figure, but not to touch the edge. If this happened anyway, there was a loud whirring sound and the pliers had to be passed on. The team that removed the most items in the end won the game. Also Doktronik was just like Galaxy Tennis introduced at the beginning of the third season (2000). Both games appeared sporadically up to the last edition of the last season.
- Meteorido (2001-2004): Shortly after the turn of the millennium, Meteorido was included in the long and multiple split 4th season and was always played as a second game, especially in 2002 in the 5th season in almost every issue. In 2004 it was still occasionally played as the first game. In 2005, in the last season, it was finally replaced by the new game Monstopia .
- Pictorion (2002-2005): This game celebrated its premiere in the broadcast on August 24, 2002 and was always played as the third game in every broadcast from this edition of the 5th season (2002). Just one year later it was replaced by Kosmokado as the third game in the 6th season (2003) and, possibly due to its lack of attractiveness and tension for the viewer, only appeared sporadically as the first or second game until the end.
- Kosmokado (2003-2005): Based on the game Murmelmikado, Kosmokado was announced in the 6th season (2003), which was broadcast from September 10, 2003, by presenter David Wilms as a new game. It replaced Pictorion as the third game. In the 20 episodes of the following 7th season (2004) it was always played as the second game of each edition.
- Astroslide (2004-2005): In the 7th season in 2004, the new game was called Astroslide , a remake of the classic game Avalanche. Astroslide was used as the third game on each show for the 20 editions of Season 7, which moved Kosmokado forward and continued to be used regularly as a second game. Astroslide also appeared frequently in the 10 shows of the 8th and last season, here mostly in second place. The only innovation this season: the candidates only had 5 seconds per ball.
- Monstopia (2005): Monstopia was the name of the new game in the last season of the Super Toy Club . Unlike in previous years, as a new game, it was not played as the third game, but instead introduced every show of the final eighth season as the first game. The game, based on Monster Mash, was played at computer terminals , similar to Planetoido in the early years . Characteristic was the extremely short duration of this game (duration of max. 2 minutes).
The games of the new edition are not games specially developed for the show, but rather well-known parlor games that have been recreated in oversized sizes. This means that the final game, Kristallica , remains the only game that has already been released as a parlor game :
- Make 'n' Break
- SOS monkey alarm
- Pie Face Duel
- Jenga
- Labyrinthia
- Quadropia
- Chronobomb
- Doctor Bibber
- Balla Balla
- Kristallica
production
Between 1999 and 2005 a total of 122 episodes were produced in eight seasons in the Cologne Broadcasting Center (CBC) in Cologne-Ossendorf. In the new edition since 2017, 39 additional issues have been produced in three seasons so far.
Production companies were / are:
- Endemol Entertainment (1999-2001, seasons 1 to 4)
- Grundy Light Entertainment (2002-2005, seasons 5 to 8)
- UFA Show & Factual (since 2017)
Charisma
| Season | Charisma | Episodes | Game selection (4 games per broadcast) | Remarks |
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| season 1 | October 23, 1999 - December 11, 1999 | Episodes 1-8 | Colorion, Verrengo, Planetoido, Kristallica | In the 1st season there was no time limit shown for the Super Toy Race . From time to time, however, Wilms mentioned that 2 minutes 30 seconds were available to the winners. |
| season 2 | March 25, 2000 - May 27, 2000 | Episodes 9-18 | Colorion, Verrengo, Planetoido, Kristallica | In the 2nd and 3rd season there were no chip cards that had to be collected at the Super Toy Race . If the destination was reached in the given time, the safe door to the electronics department opened automatically. |
| season 3 | September 9, 2000 - December 23, 2000 | Episodes 19–34 | Colorion, Verrengo, Planetoido, Kristallica
New: Galaxy Tennis, Doctronics |
Only in this season was often without Kristallica as the fourth decisive game. Instead, Colorion was used as the final game in these editions . |
| Season 4 | February 3, 2001 - February 23, 2002 | Episodes 35-60 | Colorion, Verrengo, Planetoido, Kristallica, Galaxy Tennis, Doktronik
New: Meteorido |
The 26 episodes of this season were produced and broadcast in several stages. The new game "Meteorido" was only introduced in the middle of the season. |
| Season 5 | March 2, 2002 - March 9, 2002
August 24, 2002 - December 14, 2002 |
Episodes 61–78 | Colorion, Planetoido, Galaxy Tennis, Doktronik, Meteorido, Kristallica
New: Pictorion No longer there: Verrengo |
From this season the Super Toy Club was produced by Grundy Light Entertainment. The first two episodes of this production phase ran immediately after the 4th season. The actual season began on August 24, 2002 with the introduction of the game "Pictorion". |
| Season 6 | September 10, 2003 - December 20, 2003 | Episodes 79-92 | Galaxy Tennis, Doctronik, Meteorido, Pictorion, Kristallica
New: Cosmocado No longer there: Colorion, Planetoido |
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| Season 7 | September 5, 2004 - March 20, 2005 | Episodes 93–112 | Galaxy Tennis, Doctronik, Meteorido, Pictorion, Kosmokado, Kristallica
New: Astroslide |
Fixed schedule: Kosmokado, Astroslide and Kristallica mostly as a second, third and fourth game. Only the first game varied in each edition. |
| Season 8 | October 1, 2005 - December 3, 2005 | Episodes 113–122 | Galaxy Tennis, Doktronik, Pictorion, Kosmokado, Astroslide, Kristallica
New: Monstopia No longer there: Meteorido |
Unlike all other seasons, the last 10 episodes only ran on Saturday morning. Up until the last edition, Wilms asked viewers to apply at the end of the program, probably not knowing that there would be no continuation in the following year.
Significant loss of quality due to a radical reduction in the duration of each issue by approx. 8-10 minutes. a .:
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music
The Super Toy Club music was recorded at the Cologne company Trevista. This is also where the music for Q-Boot - Das Quiz and Toggolino was created .
Web links
- Official website
- Super Toy Club on fernsehserien.de
- Super Toy Club in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DWDL.de : "Playful like never before": Super RTL tries with nostalgia
- ↑ a b Super Toy Club. Archived from the original on May 21, 2014 ; Retrieved June 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Super Toy Club episode guide. In: Fernsehserien.de. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .