As someone who has been actively enjoying and researching retro stuff for many years, and runs a retro website, it can be hard for me to get that ‘nostalgia hit’ as strong as I used to. Just because a lot of things have become ‘fresh’…
We’ve had some fun 80s-inspired adverts lately. The MoneySupermarket.com ones involving He-Man and Skeletor, were… interesting. The Walmart movie car ones were great. But this latest effort from Renault Brazil is superb. The Dungeons & Dragons cartoon from the 80s was awesome, and it was…
I’m a huge fan of the Asterix books, and I was very excited one day recently when I saw a poster on the tube advertising an Asterix exhibition. Very excited indeed. Asterix just isn’t the sort of property to get lots of things like that….
The whole ‘reboot thing’ in general is something I want to address properly in a future post. Is it good? Is it bad? Does it keep franchises alive and allow our children to appreciate a property we loved? Or does it ruin or dilute our…
Another difficult list here. If you ask me next week I might change the order of this list. And if I was focussing on best intro sequences I might order it a bit differently too. But for this one I was focussing on the music…
Panini sticker albums were a huge part of my childhood. I had this Masters of the Universe one as a child but I never managed to complete it and I didn’t hold on to it. I picked this complete one off eBay and it’s all…
This M.A.S.K. poster is huge. And it’s amazing. Just check out that artwork. If I had gotten this when I was a kid it would most certainly be adorning my bedroom wall. Not sure my wife will allow it just now though. One thing M.A.S.K….
Transformers Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging. This book was first advertised about 9 months ago as far as I remember. And it got delayed once too. So the pressure was on for it to be worth the wait, when it finally arrived a couple…
We all love our cartoons from the 80s but what would these cartoons be without villains? How can you have goodies without any baddies? Here is my own personal rundown of the meanest, scariest, terribliest villains from the cartoons that we’ve loved over the years….
I love magazines. There’s just something about them that I love. It’s a medium which gives you a glossy interface into a niche interest which, when done well, can feel like you’re enjoying a conversation with like-minded friends. Your Sinclair is probably my all time…