The wrath of the dragons

Advantages: Makes great viewing
Disadvantages: YOu don't get to see what goes on after the offer, how true to life it is is questionable

...I?m sure most of you know what the Dragon?s Den is, who the Dragons are and the format of the programme, but for those of you that do not I think I had better summarise. The Dragon?s Den is a place whereby entrepreneurs can pitch their business or ideas in order to raise cash to get a new business off the ground or grow and expand an existing and current business, and this is televised for our entertainment. The Dragons consist of successful business people with excess cash to invest in new business. The current Dragons are Theo Paphitis, James Caan, Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne. Profiles of the Dragons can be found on the official website http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/thedragons/theo.shtml. My opinion Equity investment is raising funds through selling shares in your company and no...

yackers1 25.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Dragons Den

Magical Dragons!

Advantages: fun story
Disadvantages: none

...Dragon Magic is a cute tale that transports children to a magical world of castles and dragons. It tells the story of a small girl called Jess and her blacksmith father, Big John, who rely on their dragon's breath to soften the iron that they use to make things. Problems start when Big John is making a new gate for the king but Huff, their dragon, has run out of puff. Soon some dragon eggs are found and before long a new baby called Puff hatches. She soon becomes part of the family and sets to work helping to make the gate. However, the king is worried that the gate won't be finished and he has spied strangers heading towards the city. It is a race against time especially when Puff shows signs of becoming ill. What else could possibly go wrong? My daughter really enjoyed this story and kept getting excited about what would happen next...

kingfisher111 25.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Dragon Magic - Pippa Goodhart

TASTE OF THE DRAGON

Advantages: unusual apperance, taste, texture
Disadvantages: expensive, may taste too bland for some

...Dragon Fruit When I was shopping in Tesco's on Thursday I spotted a rather unusual looking fruit which immediately caught my eye; The Dragon Fruit. I had never seen a Dragon Fruit in Tesco's before and being rather curious I decided to purchase one just to see what it tasted like. Now the Dragon Fruit isn't exactly a cheap fruit to buy, one Dragon Fruit will cost you £1.99 from Tescos although the price may be slightly cheaper or more expensive if you purchase it elsewhere. As you can see from the picture at the top of this review the skin on the dragon fruit is quite scaly in apperance and is mostly pink in colour apart from the tips of the scales which are light green. I was actually quite surprised with the feel of the Dragon Fruit at first because it felt quite waxy almost greasy; I thought that it would possibly feel...

just.bcoz 26.03.2008 (27.03.2008) · Read review
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Review of Dragon Fruit

  The Fruit Of The Dragon

Advantages: Healthy, Colourful, Different
Disadvantages: Bland, Watery, Not Cheap Cheap

...My mum bought this item home from Tesco today. She was attracted by the beautiful appearance of the fruit. *~*~*The Fruit*~*~* The fruit itself is a bright pink colour with green scales. It definitely stands out from the other edibles on the shelf. It is an oval sort of shape and about 4/5 inches tall. There are 3 types of Dragon Fruit and they all have very technical names. The Hylocereus undatus, which is what my mum bought, has pink skin and white flesh, the Hylocereus polyrhizus, which has pink skin and red flesh and the Selenicereus megalanthus, which has yellow skin and white flesh. I must stress that I haven't sampled the latter two varieties and therefore this review is solely on the Hylocereus undatus. The inside of the fruit has white flesh as stated above, this flesh is very soft (a bit like a kiwi fruit in appearance...

carysb 11.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Dragon Fruit

Keeping the Bearded Dragon...

Advantages: Lovely sociable reptiles, can be handled, interact well with humans
Disadvantages: Vitamin supplements can be tricky to get used to

...Bearded Dragons (often affectionately called Beardies) are often referred to as being easy to keep. This is true to a certain extent as they do not need such specialist care as some of the other reptiles (such a Chameleons) but you still need to do plenty of research, especially about their diet and vitamin supplements. Price I paid £60 for my Bearded Dragon when he was about 2 months old. I find that locally adult Bearded Dragons are more expensive and can cost up to £120. I always like to get my animals from young and watch them grow into adults. Housing Bearded Dragons are kept in vivariums. My Bearded Dragon is kept in a vivarium made totally of wood, which has glass sliding doors at the front. If you buy a Beardy from a young age then it can be better to keep them in a smaller viv as they will look lost in a larger viv...

daylehall 29.08.2006 (14.01.2007) · Read review
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Review of Bearded Dragons

The Dragon Saga.

Advantages: It is only the beginning
Disadvantages: You have to wait till next week for the next installment

...Many moons ago I added several chapters to the original Dragon Challange. Looking through I found that the lords of Ciao were going to let me write in the category again. So I have reworked the original story and present part one to you today. Enjoy Finding Jake Pound was nine. To say that he was inquisitive would be an understatement. Downright nosy would be much closer to the truth. Perhaps that was the reason that he found it, perhaps that was the reason he kept it, who knows. Nobody knew he had discovered it, not even his parents. Jake was good at hiding things. He knew by experience that things he found and thought interesting were often frowned upon by his parents and often led to getting himself in trouble. The three-foot python he had once found was a case in point. To say that his mother had been less than impressed...

docpov 05.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Dragon Challenge

Enter The Dragons

Advantages: Whacky Inventors
Disadvantages: Whacky Inventions

...If you have ever woke up in the middle of the night, with a revolutionary new idea/invention/design that will change the world, and you need somebody to lend you the money to get you started, then maybe you ought to take a trip to the Dragon's Den. Not so much a dragon's den as a bankers lair, where you will find five eager business types, Venture Capitalists, ready to grill, fry and roast you about your new project in the interests of finding new business propositions to invest their filthy lucre in, with the hope of getting some return on their capital. Dragons' Den gives investment ready entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their idea to a panel of five millionaire business people, all of whom invested a substantial amount of money in the first and second series and are serious about investing their own money again. The BBC are...

jouk04 05.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Dragons

Enter the Dragon

Advantages: Fights!!
Disadvantages: Bad acting, bad plot

..."You can call it the art of fighting without fighting." -- Lee (Bruce Lee) When you watch Enter the Dragon these days, it becomes pretty obvious, almost immediately, where films like Mortal Kombat and Conan the Destroyer got their inspiration from. This, the first kung film to be produced by a major Hollywood studio, and the last completed Bruce Lee film before his death "by misadventure", is credited with popularizing the martial art in America and establishing Lee as a cultural icon. And the reason that the film is considered such a quintessential film of the 1970s is not because of the plot or acting (both are appalling, to say the least) but because of the action. The fight choreography in Enter the Dragon is so good that we needn't bother dwelling on what's bad here. So ignore the paper-thin, James Bond-type plot...

andycarrington 19.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Enter The Dragon (DVD)

Kiss Of The Dragon

Advantages: Great fight scenes
Disadvantages: NOt particularly an original story

...Kiss Of The Dragon was released in 2001 and stars Jet Li (Romeo Must die), Bridget Fonda (Jackie Brown) and Tceky Laryo (Bad Boys) and is set in the beatiful Paris. This blu ray release enhances the setting, quality of clothing, everything basically. Its quite a dark film and the blu ray version gives you those little bits of brightness that give you enough hope that the stroy will have a happy ending. Li plays Liu Jiuan, but is constantly called Johnny, and is a top chinese government agent who is bought over from china to assist Richard (Laryo) a french police officer in a international drugs conspiracy. Little does Johnny know that Richard is a bent copper who is the mastermind behind the whole thing. Richard sees Johnny as a nuisance and sets him up for a murder he didnt committ. Johnny is forced to run in a strange country...

Capodon 27.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Kiss Of The Dragon (DVD)

Here be Dragons

Advantages: Just awesome really.
Disadvantages: Missing a few of the PC features

...Bioware are probably one of the most reputable games companies with work out on the market today - with a pedigree including Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect, and a development team that has members who worked on the original Infinity Engine games such as Baldurs Gate and Icewind Dale. Bioware as a company has a lot to live up to with every major release. Dragon Age: Origins, then, is their latest and it definitely doesn't disappoint. A fairly typical Bioware RPG, you'll begin the game creating your characters looks, class and starting skills and then off you go into the world of Ferelden where you'll make friends, kill beasties and take part in a typically epic story of saving the world. You can decide where in society your character is from, which is where the "Origins" part of the title is derived. Will you play a human...

Goatfoam 28.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of Dragon Age: Origins (Xbox 360)