When I was a kid, I was terrified of David Bowie!  

A friend of mine had it on DVD and I must have borrowed it thirty times! Then, I was lucky enough to find it for sale on eBay in VHS form. The tape was used, but in good shape, so I really lucked out.
Netflix has it on their rental list too, I rented it from them a few times, so I know the DVDs are out there. I try to find them online though. I've checked eBay and Amazon in the past and they've had it, so I'll probably be getting it on DVD soon.
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I got my DVD from http://www.Amazon.com

plus there is a special edition one that includes the Dark Crystal with it

Awesome, I love The Dark Crystal!! :)
Thanks for sharing that, I'll have to look into it and see if I can get the DVD with The Dark Crystal. I haven't seen that movie in a long time! My kids would love it! I'll check Amazon and see if I can find it on there. Thanks again for sharing that with me!

I think it was the fact that I was like 7 years old, and the costume was pretty good. Not to mention the fact that he's got two different colored eyes and the hair was kind of crazy, plus he seemed ruthless as Jareth when it came to getting what he wanted. I chalk it up as an accomplishment on the part of the writers and David Bowie... he really pulled of a sinister Goblin King!
I had a really active imagination as a kid (still do, in fact).
It might have had to do with the fact that I started reading Stephen King and Dean Koontz around that age. I guess I was a little too young! Thanks for your response.

Yes, I have some of David Bowie's albums now. When I was a kid, though, I didn't know who he was and he just seemed scary to me.
Now that I look back on it (and have recently watched the movie again) I realize how silly I was for being scared, but I was little.
I like talking about old movies too. Thanks for responding.

you haven't heard of David Bowie anymore??? OMG! Do you even listen to the radoi? He's had a new album come out every other year since 1964... some years he had more than one album come out... His last album came out in 2005 so we can expect a new one next year. To date he has 52 non-greatest hits albums featuring original songs, plus over 150 differant greatest hit albums. Altogether he has over 670 differant original songs.

Uhm... he switch from regular rock to heavy-metal-death-punk in 1989, so maybe that's why you haven't heard him in a while?

Yeah, once he made the switch, I really didn't listen to him anymore, but maybe I should. He was always a great artist. I bet if I gave his new style a chance I'd probably end up liking some of it. It's good to know that he's still making albums. I'll have to see if I like his stuff and maybe buy a few of his newer albums (post 1989)... I've got all the others, so I guess it's worth a shot just to see if I like the newer style or not. Thanks for sharing!

Yes, the hair and makeup were definitely great! I think maybe I was too young to have had a crush ( I was like 7 yrs. old). If I had been a little older though, I probably would have too.
Your t-shirt sounds cool. I used to have a plain black one with "Labyrinth" spelled out on the front and a small glass globe on the back, but it got lost somewhere along the way. That was a real bummer. I think one of my friends might have taken it when I lived in an apartment with a bunch of friends back in the late nineties. Oh well.
Thanks for responding.

Yep, that song is called "Dance Magic, Dance" and there is, in fact, a "singing baby" in it. (I've got the soundtrack on my iPod!)
That one is pretty terrible... I usually skip over that song in the play list if I'm listening. I like "When The World Falls Down" and
"Underground" as well as the Title Theme.
I'm no longer scared of David Bowie, but he's still a little eccentric to say the least. (They picked a good Goblin King back then, didn't they?)
Thanks for your response.

thanks for replying - yeah that's the one I was trying to remember. It was on the radio (Virgin 1215) in a late night slot of bad/wierd songs and the DJ often didn't give the artists &/or titles.

Re David Bowie being ecentric - he's claimed he's becoming more normal now.

He was great as the Goblin King - at the time I wasn't even aware that it was Bowie, just believed in the character.

I haven't seen Bowie lately, but I somehow can't imagine him being completely "normal" (whatever that is) :)
I think he was very believable as the Goblin King too.
When I first saw the movie in the theater as a child, I had no idea who he was either... it wasn't until much later that I learned it was him. They picked a great cast for that movie!

Ha, ha..LOL, I have to agree with you on that one... some of his songs are scarier than others though! Thanks for responding!

Thanks for your response.
I've found it increasingly difficult to find merchandise from that movie. For whatever reason, it's scarce, so the novelization was a great find for you! I used to have a t-shirt (one of the original promo t's) but it's since been lost. I really miss that shirt!
I've been keeping my eyes open for any original items, but, as I said, they're hard to come by. So far, I've only been lucky enough to find an original release of the movie on VHS and an original movie poster (which is in really sad shape, unfortunately). I'll keep looking though!

OMG! You are the first person I have found who has the book too! I bought mine at a book store when it was new. It's by A.G.H.Smith, though Brian Froud was the original author of script... the story was based on Froud's 1978 book "Faeries". "Faeries" was a small press book done in an extreem short run, only about 5,000 copies of the book were ever made, so it's very expensive when you find a first edition of it. Both books are next to impossible to find. Thankful the 25th anniversary edition of "Fearies" has just been released so it is back in print for the first time! "Labyrinth" by A.G.H. Smith was a total sales flop, so most copies got sent back to the publisher and were shreaded... it's a super rare book now and has never been rereleased.

I hope the rerelease the original A.G.H. book! It would be great to have! I'm also going to try to get my hands on a copy of "Fairies" since it's such a scarce find. I love collecting rare stuff from the eighties!! Thanks for sharing again, you're a great responder, and very knowledgeable about the eighties!

I agree. I think it would be amazing to see some of Froud's other books made into movies with today's computer animation technology!
Wouldn't it be amazing? I guess there's still hope that they would do that. Maybe they'll even remake Labyrinth or Dark Crystal at some point. I think people would definitely go see remakes of either one of those movies! I know I would!

Nope, never say Return To Oz... maybe I should. I really love those types of movies. I've watched Labyrinth tons of times, and I've seen "Legend" a bunch too. I love fantasy movies. I always did.
I'll have to look for "Return To Oz" and see if I can find it on DVD.
I'd really like to see it now that I'm probably old enough not to be too scared, lol! Thanks for responding!

The Girl who played Dorothy in it was later in "The Craft" it actually was a PG because it's so scary (to kids of course lol).
Let me know if you find it, I found the Wheelers quite disturbing as a kid and mombie was scary.
There's a bit in it right near the beginning I didn't get as a kid, but they are actually going to give Dorothy electric shock treatment because she keeps talking about Oz and they think she's crazy.

Wow, sounds like it definitely would be scary to a kid!
I'm so going to find this movie. I looked on Amazon last night but couldn't find it. Maybe I can rent it from Netflix or watch it online there, I'll check that out tonight. I'm so wanting to see this movie now! I had heard of it but never really thought about watching it because I wasn't sure if I'd like it, but from your description of it, it sounds like something I'd be interested in! Thanks!