It was more performance art than music, with Ron Asheton miking up a blender and vacuum cleaner and his brother Scott banging oil drums with hammers instead of using sticks on a traditional kid.
Quite a mystery for a boy detective to solve, and yet this calamity is dropped quickly, as the musical springs into a celebration of young Billy Argo (a terrific Stephen Gregory Smith), the title character whose exploits are more along traditional kid detective lines: "Extra!
People didn't see me as a traditional kids' TV presenter, for very obvious reasons".
The California Grill in the Disneyland Hotel features an open kitchen that prepares traditional French cuisine (and a traditional kids' menu -- pasta, chicken nuggets and the like).
Only two of them came from well-known traditional kids' brands: Disney Junior UK's channel in 50th place on the Tubefilter chart with 200.7m views, and Lego's channel in 63rd place with 169.9m.
"I'm drawn to small labels, especially European ones, that make traditional kids' items with a little bit of an edge," says Staley, shown here with her son and muse, Fiontan.
It all builds to a rousing climax back in the courtyard garden – though perhaps this final section relies a little too heavily on the kind of lighting effects that would show up best in the evening performances (in keeping with traditional kids' hours, we went to the afternoon show).
With vSLAM, however, Roomba can do this much more efficiently and, given the minefield that is the traditional kids playroom, it will be a welcome addition to our arsenal.
In addition, he believes that traditional kids' media companies, like Disney, have to focus more on the preservation and growth of their large, multi-billion dollar businesses that are in a state of evolution.
[Croatia] With Easter only days away and with it the tradition of egg tapping or egg fighting, the 1337bit team have taken it upon themselves to revive this traditional kids game on – yes, you've guessed it – the iPhone.
Meanwhile, as the networks wage their nostalgia wars, Netflix's expansions into more family-friendly content will see it also taking on traditional kids channels like Disney or Nickelodeon, who today target younger, mobile viewers with on-demand apps (and Nickelodeon more recently with its own over-the-top streaming service Noggin).
