Category: Tags: badges Notes: I love badges. Always have done. So I was very excited to get my hands on a bag of retro 80s and 90s badges recently. There are some absolute gems here. Weetabix, Marvel, DC, A-Team, Wimpy, He-Man, Transformers and many more.
This is a tough list, and one I’ve had to think about for a while. There are just so many cool movie and TV cars. I’ve certainly had fun researching this one and admiring all the beautiful vehicles that we have had adorning our screens….
There has been some recent debate about physical media v streaming media lately on the internet, such as this thread. I haven’t actually seen much of it myself but I’ve heard about it and that just made me think about how my viewing habits and…
I’m the kind of guy who daydreams a lot. I just enjoy daydreaming and thinking ‘what if’ sometimes. Quite often I wonder what I would spend my money on if I had a cash windfall. It’s fun and can be a bit of an escape….
Time for another Top Ten list. There are many great TV show theme tunes, but for this list I’m focussing on ones that have spoken intros. These intros are a great way to summarise the overall plot of the show, or introduce the main characters,…
Many of you may already know of Ally Hogg, aka @TheRetroHunter, from Twitter. I’m proud to call him a close friend, after we first met a few years back during a Retro Asylum £20 Carboot Challenge involving Andy Godoy, Dean Swain and Paul Davies. We…
Next up for #Johnuary is the excellent They Live. This was the other Carpenter movie that I had seen before. Mainly because I loved Rowdy Roddy Piper from the WWF, particularly as I’m Scottish and he always wore a kilt. I love the title screen…
My next movie for #Johnuary was Escape from New York. Again I had never seen this before, but obviously I had heard so much about it and knew the name Snake Plissken very well. One thing I was looking forward to was seeing Kurt Russell…
I’ve just finished watching Stranger Things and I’m still recovering from how great it was. I didn’t think I would be totally jumping up and down about how great it was, due to all the hype that I heard about it in the last three…
They say that every good thing has to come to an end. It’s a bummer when it happens though isn’t it? I’m a heavy podcast listener. I spend four hours each day commuting and podcasts keep me company for a lot of that time. I…