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Sunday 11 March 2018

Still watching - Stampy

A week ago Stampy started a new series where he plays minigames in his Funland.  If you watch YouTube videos with your kids and haven't heard of Stampy I don't know where you've been.  (I'd actually be happy watching him without my kid, he's one of the best YouTubers out there!)  He was primarily a Minecraft YouTuber to start with, though he has branched out into all sorts of things lately.

His very early videos are not so child friendly, and not so polished, but his later ones are all 100% clean and child suitable.  He's incredibly professional and a good role model for all those aspiring young YouTubers.  He's used his fame to talk about internet safety - and if you're his target audience and you don't listen to him, I doubt you'll listen to anyone else.  He did a talk on internet safety on his channel, which you can view here.  He's also been on BBC Newsround and other BBC news programmes.  I have a lot of respect for him!

His new Funland series sees him replaying games he's made in his Lovely World.  Often once he's built them you don't see them much ever again, so this is a fun series to watch (plus it has other 'friends' in it, like Sqaishey).  A particular hit with Seb was the first one (there have only been two so far) where he plays crazy golf.  Seb's a bit of a fan of crazy golf.  You might be thinking 'how do you play golf in Minecraft?!', and you're right, you can't really.  But you can thrown an object such as an emerald over some ice so it slides into a hole...



After watching this Seb decided he wanted to build his own golf course, so he's been busily doing that on and off through the week.  He got Dad to build a minecart timer system to control some pistons on his castle hole, since he was attempting to copy Stampy's course.  He's putting his own spin on it though.

I love Minecraft, it encourages kids to be so creative.  :-D

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