80'S Movie with a digger in an old pit

[badfan]

Hello... can anyone help with this one?

I remember a film with a young lad (i thought it was the ET guy but imdb proved me wrong) he lives near an old disussed flooded pit, which he believes contains a monster.... during the story i think there is a shaman type bloke.... the ending is that the lad goes out on to the lake and gets sucked into the monster.... the monster turns out to be an old digger....... annyone??

thanks and marry christmas

EDITED: because i can't spell!!

[badfan]

FROG DREAMING

i got it....

[Oggy]

Never heard of it to be honest

[SmartBomb]

In the UK, it was called The Go Kids, which might be why you didn't get it, Oggy?

I'm in the UK as well, but my Google search gave me both titles.

[Oggy]

Ok Smarty, like your Hector pic by the way.

[SmartBomb]

'I'm a great big brave old Hector!'

I used to adore it when I was a child, and picked up the DVD last year. Puts a lot of contemporary children's titles to shame...

[Oggy]

Old, awwwwwwwww i'm ancient if you're old.........lol. I got the complete Trumpton, Camblewick green and Chigley for my kids, brough back loads of memories.

[KromeDome]

Re: 80'S Movie with a digger in an old pit

The "Donkegin" was the name of the "monster" - the Donkey Engine. I've seen the film here in the USA - Frog Dreaming doesn't sound like the title, though - "our" release, I mean...

Here we go -

Frog Dreaming (1986) - IMDb user comments

Great film!

[Danny]

Re: 80'S Movie with a digger in an old pit

My mind must be out of synch - when I read 'an old digger' I just thought right away of a fat Aussie shearing sheep!