I recently came across this awesome archive of a cool car catalogue. Carnoisseur is a car accessory retailer that started life in 1979, and published their first catalogue in 1981. They are still going strong, selling a range of performance and styling car accessories online…
Yesterday I was pretty excited to take our kids to go see David Hasselhoff playing Captain Hook in the Peter Pan pantomime at my local theatre. But, let’s just backtrack for a minute for my American friends… Just what exactly is a pantomime? A pantomime…
I was wondering what I could do around Christmas on the blog that was a bit special, so I decided to make a Retromash Advent Calendar. Each day you will get an absolute gem straight from the pages of the Argos Catalogues. Something that you…
I was very sad to hear a few hours ago that Glen A. Larson, the legendary TV producer, had passed away due to esophageal cancer aged 77. Some people are just synonymous with a genre, and when you think of quality 70s and 80s TV…
I recently fulfilled a childhood ambition by getting my hands on some original artwork from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. James Eatock, creator extraordinaire of the incredible cereal:geek magazine was selling off some of his humongous collection of He-Man animation cels and storyboard…
I’ve just seen these awesome new Honda ads which launched on Nov 10th. Personally I really like how companies are latching onto the whole retro nostalgia wave to spice up their advertising. Things like the Radio Shack Superbowl Commercial from earlier in the year. These…
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….
The guys from The Atomic Geeks Podcast this week released their fourth instalment of There Can Only Be One. They are given two items/properties/people etc and they have to choose which one stays and which one gets wiped from existence. There are some pretty interesting…
I’m writing this only about an hour after hearing that The Ultimate Warrior has passed away. I’m still in shock. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame only 4 days ago and appeared on Monday Night Raw, speaking on the microphone in the…
Welcome everybody to the Retromash website. I first thought about making this Retromash site about 5 years ago in 2009. I’ve been slowly building up my archive of lists and retro objects since then and now I have managed to build the site too. You…