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Retro Con 2017 Highlights!

October 17, 2017 Screamers Leave a comment

Sharing some of my favorite moments from Retro Con 2017! We had an amazing year along with an amazing concert by Cybertronic Spree! It’s the fans that make the show so great!! Follow Retro Con on Facebook, Twitter and on Instagram! Follow Cybertronic Spree on Twitter and Instagram, I highly recommend following Rumble the Drummer too!

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A Must Go To Convention

For you Retro Fans, have I got the Convention for you! Retro Con 2018! For more information go to retrocons.com!

Purchase Retro Con Tickets!

Retro Con presents… The Cybertronic Spree!

Tickets are NOW AVAILABLE for the Cybertronic Spree concert, happening Saturday night October 13th at Arnold’s Family Fun Center!

Concert start time: 8pm

Please arrive between 7pm and 8pm

Purchase Concert Tickets!

Favorite YouTubers!

Adding My Favorite YouTubers to the site! If you’d like to be added, feel free to message me on Facebook! I’ll start this collection with one of my own! Yes, it’s been years since I’ve blogged!! [Photo below belongs to the amazing crew of Fandom Spotlite!]

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Must Follow YouTube Channels!

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MegaPodTastic Podcast!

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Fandom Spotlite produced by Captain Kyle!

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Another personal favorite is Weird Paul, an original Vlogger from the 80’s!

I’ll be adding more YouTube channels soon!

Our Retro Con Family

Spotlighting Our Favorite Retro Con Attendees & Sharing Our Favorite Retro Con Memories!

Nick Govosdian

Kevin Jones

Rosemary Ward -Tuski

More Fan Blogs Soon!

In Loving Memory

This blog is in Loving Memory of my Dad, who always was a big kid himself! If not for him, I wouldn’t be the person I am today.

In Loving Memory Of Shadow & Big Daddy.. This blog is also dedicated to the two beautiful kitties, we lost over five years ago. Both lived to be very old kitties, and brought us lots of joy.

Insert Coin

Those cartoons and shows I’ve listed, would have been nothing without the talents that directed, voiced and acted through out these shows, not to forget those that wrote each episode as well! This is that section of my website where I honor those talents and I tell a bit about what their doing now!

Some of my personal favorites!

Asteroids released in 1979 by Atari Inc. Asteroids was one of the most popular and influential game of the Golden Age of Arcade Games!

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Berzerk was released in 1980 by Stern Electronics. Probably the best remembered feature of Berzerk was that the robots talked, this was one of the first video games to use speech synthesis.

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Breakout by Atari, introduced on May 13, 1976. Breakout was influenced by the 1972 arcade game Pong, also by Atari.

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Bubble Bobble was an arcade game by Taito in 1986. The game becoming very popular and led to a long series of sequels and spin-offs!

BurgerTime a 1982 arcade game created by Data East. The game’s original title, Hamburger, was changed to BurgerTime before its introduction to the US.

-Centipede
-Contra
-Defender
-Dig Dug
-Donkey Kong
-Donkey Kong Junior
-Dragon’s Lair
-Gauntlet
-Galaga
-Frogger
-Joust
-Mario Bros
-Missile Command
-Ms. Pac Man
-Outrun
-Pac-Man
-Pac-Man Plus
-Pitfall
-Pole Position
-Pong
-Popeye
-Punch Out
-Q*bert
-Space Harrier
-Space Invaders
-Star Wars
-Super Mario Bros.
-Tempest
-Zaxxon

Retro Toys Blogs!

I’m just starting on these blogs.. You’ll find links attached these titles, as I write them!

This is that section where I spotlight my favorite toys and yes many of these toys do mix in with my favorite cartoons! [Above: Baron Karza from the Micronauts line had been a villain favorite in the late 1970’s!]

A-Team

Battle Beasts

Battlestar Galactica

Big Jim

Big Trak

Bionic Six

Black Hole

Bravestarr

Buck Rogers

Captain Power

Centurions

Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos

Comic Action Heroes

C.O.P.S.

Crack Ups: [Hot Wheels]

Crystar

Diaclones

Dino Riders

Droids

Dukes of Hazzard

Evel Knievel

Ewoks

Filmation’s Ghostbusters

Flash Gordon

Food Fighters

G.I. Joe

Gobots

Greatest American Hero

He-Man: [Masters of the Universe]

Hugo: [Man of A Thousand Faces]

Indiana Jones

Inhumanoids

Inspector Gadget

J. J. Armes

Karate Kid

Madballs

Manglor

M.A.S.K.

Micro Machines

Microman

Micronauts

M.U.S.C.L.E.

My Buddy

My Pet Monster

Power Lords

Rambo

Real Ghostbusters

Ring Raiders

Robo Force

Robotech

Robotix

Rock’em Sock’em Robots

Rock Lords

Rom

Police Academy

Secret Wars

Sectaurs

Shogun Warriors

Silverhawks

Six Million Dollar Man

Sky Commanders

Starcom

Star Wars

Stretch Armstrong

Super Naturals

Super Powers

ThunderCats

TigerSharks

Transformers

TRON

Visionaries

Voltron

Wheeled Warriors: [Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors]

Wrestling Superstars

MEGO FAVORITES: [Action Figures/Dolls]

World’s Greatest Superheroes

Planet of the Apes

Star Trek

CHiPs

Happy Days

Starsky & Hutch

Action Jackson

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RETRO GIRLS

Toys that were designed mainly for the girls! When it came to Cabbage Patch Dolls, I knew of a few boys to own these, but I still list it under girls.]

Spectra wasn’t a well known toy line like Barbie, but it’s always been one of my top favorites!

Barbie

Baby Alive

Bionic Woman

Breyer Horses

Cabbage Patch Kids

Cricket

Donny and Marie Osmond Dolls

Easy-Bake Ovens

Get in Shape Girl

Golden Girls

Hot Looks Dolls

Hugga Bunch

Jem

Keypers

Lady Lovely Locks

MoonDreamers

My Child

My Little Pony

Poochie

Rainbow Brite

Rose Petal Place

She-Ra: [Princess Of Power]

Spectra

Strawberry Shortcake

Sweet Secrets

Celebrity Dolls Include: Sonny and Cher, Lynda Carter, Farrah Fawcett, Diana Ross, and Suzanne Somers!

Retro Stickers!!

Stickers I remember having as a kid, yes I had a sticker book!! Still working on my Retro Blogging site updates, including fun goodies such as these! Remember the Wonder Bread Stickers, Wacky Packages, those puffy stickers, and that Scratch & Sniff stickers? I had them all! Here’s a few favorites!

Spotlighting Fans, Collectibles & More!

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Editor & Retro Collector

For those that don’t know me.. I’m a fan girl that happened to grow up in the eighties! Having fond memories of dropping countless quarters in the local arcade! I’m big into Spotlighting my friends through their Art and Cosplay!

For blogging ideas or if you’d like to be Interviewed/Spotlighted contact me at skids1985@comcast.net

Favorite Links

Follow a brilliant talent and a man I admire, Jack Angel at: www.jackangel.com! My Personal memories of Jack’s work, surrounds both Transformers and Voltron!

Another favorite talent, Neil Ross! I’ve always adored Neil’s work in Voltron and Transformers! He’s an amazing talent and friend! Follow Neil’s work at neilross.com!

Brian Cummings, another brilliant and amazing talent I’m proud to call a friend. Follow Brian’s work on the following sites! www.thebriancummings.com or at www.briancummingsclassact.com

Richard Epcar has always one of my personal favorites, and a talented actor! He’s worked on many of my favorites shows! Including Robotech as Ben Dixon and Lupin the Third as Jigen! Follow Richard and his projects at: richardepcar.com

They Bring Your Childhood Heroes To A Convention Near You! www.celebworx.com

Favorite Talents

Dinner with Hank Garrett & Morgan Lofting, during a Joe Con!

For those that remember the seventies and eighties as well as I do, you’ll remember many of these wonderful talents from the Hanna Barbera cartoons! Who hasn’t watched Scooby Doo or the Flintstones? This part of my archive is to honor those favorite talents who voiced those cartoons and more!

A few of my personal favorites!!

Jack Angel: The original voice of Astrotrain, Ramjet and others [Transformers] & King Zarkon [Voltron]

Arlene Banas, the original voice of Carly from [Transformers]

Michael Bell: The original voice of Duke [G.I. Joe] & Prowl [Transformers]

Gregg Berger: The original voice of Grimlock [Transformers]

Sue Blu: The original voice of Arcee [G1 Transformers]

Wally Burr: The original voice director of well known cartoons, such as Transformers, G.I. Joe and Jem!

Corey Burton: The original voice of Brawn, Sunstreaker, Spike and Shockwave from [G1 Transformers] among many other characters!

Cam Clarke: The original voice of Max Sterling [Robotech] & Leonardo [Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]

Paul Eiding: The original voice of Perceptor [Transformers] & Max Tennyson in [Ben 10]

Shannon Farnon: The original voice of Wonder Women [Super Friends]

Pat Fraley: The original voice of Krang & Casey Jones [Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles] among many other well known characters!

Dan Gilvezan: The original voice of Bumblebee [Transformers] & Spider-Man [Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends]

Zack Hoffman: The original voice of Zartan [G.I. Joe]

Neil Kaplan, One of my favorite Primes and amazing at Lightaber battles! [Transformers: Robots in Disguise]

Casey Kasem: Not only had he been big with the Top 40! But also with [Transformers] as Bluestreaker and Cliffjumper!

Larry Kenney: The original voice of Lion-O from [Thundercats] and Bluegrass from the [SilverHawks]

Morgan Lofting: The original voice of the Baroness [G.I. Joe]

Spotlights and links will be added to each actor’s name! Photo above taken with Arlene Banas, The voice of Carly from the G.I. Transformers series!

-Charlie Adler
-Patricia Alice Albrecht
-Norman Alden
-Jack Angel
-Marlene Aragon
-Liz Aubrey
-Robert Axelrod
-Darrin Baker
-Jackson Beck
-Michael Bell
-Jeff Bennett
-Gregg Berger
-Greg Berg
-Mel Blanc
-Cathianne Blore
-Susan Blu
-Steven Blum
-Robert Bottone
-Arthur Burghardt
-Wally Burr
-Corey Burton
-William Callaway
-Bill Capeze
-Len Carlson
-Ted Cassidy
-Gary Chalk
-François Chau
-Tony Clay
-Jeffrey Combs
-Ian James Corlett
-Peter Cullen
-Brian Cummings
-Christian Czingland
-Linda Dangcil
-Maia Danzinger
-Danny Dark
-Laura Dean
-Alan Dinehart
-Richard Epcar
-Bill Fagerbakke

More names and photos to be added soon!

Favorite Movies

I remember going to the movies often through out the mid eighties. Seeing movie favorites such as, Back To The Future, Gremlins and Ghostbusters II!

The toys I had as a kid!

Transformers first released in 1984, and has always been one of my top favorites in toy collecting! I remember getting my first Transformer in May of 1985, the Stunticon Wildrider.

Battle Beast had been another personal favorite of mine, being introduced to the toys in 1986! I received my first in 1985, from my cousin Jodie!

I had been introduced to Strawberry Shortcake in late 1979 as I found a Blueberry Muffin under the Christmas tree!

I remember wanting a Cabbage Patch kid so bad in 1983, but of course with the crazy it wouldn’t happen until Christmas 1984!

Rose Petal Place centers on my cousin Cathy, she had the doll first back in the mid eighties and I had just been so attracted to it, that now as an adult, I enjoy collecting the line!

Personal memories regarding M.A.S.K. During the mid eighties my cousin Jamie had this crazy idea in regards to trading a Thunderhawk for my Rodimus Prime..Of course it never happened! In recent years though.. Thanks to my Tony, I now have a new found love for the toy line and we have every vehicle and action figure!

I remember my Sister having the Second Edition Jem Dolls, myself I was always the Misfit fan, mainly a Stormer fan. Today I have most of the dolls sealed in box, including the 2nd edition dolls!

I hadn’t played with She-Ra much as a kid, although I remember seeing toy line, in my twenties though, I started collecting the toys big time! I have most every figure loose and carded!