an explanation of project roundhouse -- by alley
project roundhouse. are you confused yet? well, let me try to clear it up for you. as our main page will tell you, roundhouse was a show on nickelodeon years ago. ten years to be exact. and if i've got my figures right, only fifty two episodes were made and they never showed re-runs. as ivan dudynsky said, that really sucks 16-bit microchips. but roundhouse, like newsies, has an online following that even the cancellation of the show couldn't keep down. granted, the roundhouse following is smaller, and the obsession has been toned down some -- on average, roundhouse fans are older than newsie fans, although the movie and the show came out around the same time. this phenomenon is because it's a lot harder to get a copy of roundhouse episodes than it is to get a copy of newsies. i mean, let's face it. to get a copy of newsies, all you have to do is walk down the road to the videostore and rent the thing. and if you're one of those people with new-fangeled dvd players, you can even catch the widescreen version and the extra features.
but with roundhouse, it's different. roundhouse fans must go to the trouble of writing to one of the very few fellow fans who happens to have an copy of a season or so of the show just lying around their house. such fans are few an far between. and then, you have to try to get this particular fellow fan to make an illegal copy of their tape for you, and then you have to get them to mail it to you. and unless you give them money because you happen to have some lying around your house, the fellow fan has to do all of this for free. so, let's recap. in order to get your hands on a roundhouse tape, you have to be a pretty darn lucky person with some pretty darn good connections.
but let's say you brave the odds and somehow you get your hands on a copy of some roundhouse episodes. good for you! you are now in posession of 12 little magic people who will dance and sing to you from inside your tv screen, occasionally through little cardboard screens of their own. i can almost guarantee it: you are enchanted. in fact, after seventeen or so times of watching your roundhouse tape, you feel like you know those people on the screen, that they are your best friends. now, granted, you probably can't see them very well because your tape is last in a long line of poorly copied illegal videotapes, but the point is, they are yours. and by now, you are so addicted, you couldn't stop if you wanted to.
after you run your tape a few more times, you are obessed, and roundhouse has changed your life. roundhouse is the sort of show that you can watch and watch and watch and never get tired of. in fact, you have, at this point, probably unwittingly stumbled into the online realm of roundhouse worshipping fanatics. and suddenly, you feel right at home. you are surrounded by hundreds of people, just like you. people whom roundhouse has touched over the years. them, you, the world will never be the same. and so you find yourself here: project roundhouse. reading an explanation by a fellow fan and wondering what makes her different.
i, alley, am not different. and jewel is not different. but what we are trying to do is very different. when we started out with project roundhouse, all we wanted was autographed pictures. honest, that was it. we just wanted pictures of four of the guys from roundhouse and newsies so we could hang them on our walls and feel happy that our lives had touched theirs in the smallest way. but once we got started, we realized that we simply wanted to thank them. the 12 on roundhouse and the countless on newsies have done something that people like me and like jewel will never be the same. you're probably here because you are not the same. roundhouse changed the world. and this is why project roundhouse exists.
this is our thank you. this is what the tweleve deserved for all their work. this is two people finally acknowledging tweleve individuals who, through simple singing and dancing, made the world a better place.
