The Retroist

Also Available on Patreon Before it was an HBO television series, Tales from the Crypt was a comic book series and a movie.

Lately I have been thinking about all the small toy lines that crossed my path in the eighties that I didn’t have the money to collect.

I was surprised the first time I watched Fade to Black.

I learned about the haunted Toys R Us the same way most other people did.

Over the years a lot of people I have encountered have complained to me about reboots, remakes and continuations of franchises they loved when they were younger.

Also Available on Patreon Usually on the Monthly Update I talk about what’s been going on with the site and podcast, but also some other things going on in my life and some random thoughts I have.

Episode also Available on Patreon I can still remember the first Nerf ball I got.

For Christmas of 1983, I received a toy that wasn’t on my list, a Manglor.

I never got to go to the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, but I really wanted to.

When I was a kid, I tended to stay up late.

A lot of people, myself included, love the non-soda orange flavored beverage that McDonald’s serves.

Joining Columbia House was something I wanted to do long before I really understood how it worked.

I didn’t plan on doing another bonus track like again, but it bubbled up again.

Also Available on Patreon On the August 2026 Monthly Update I talk about what’s been going on with the site and podcast, but also some other things going on in my life and some random thoughts I have.

In the early 1980s, at a comic book shop near my grandmother’s apartment, I saw my first Mars Attacks cards.

I remember seeing Hypercolor shirts down at the Jersey shore the summer they came out.

Diet Coke was a regular presence in our house almost as soon as it became available.

Also Available on Patreon The RCA Studio 2 was a system I knew mostly because it would turn up in discussions of failed video game consoles.

A while ago I posted some ramblings about Rockism and poptimism.

There was a Fotomat in the parking lot of the Acme Supermarket in my hometown.

I am trying something a little different with this episode.

Most people have never eaten a McDonald’s McCrescent.

Also Available on Patreon On the July 2026 Monthly Update I talk about what’s been going on with the site and podcast, but also some other things going on in my life and some random thoughts I have.

Also Available on Patreon The idea of SilverHawks clicked with me immediately.

I do not bake much.

The Bad News Bears made more sense to me after I played baseball when I was young.

My first Colorforms kit showed up when I was four or five years old, and I fell for it completely.

I want to start off by saying I don’t know much about soccer or as I think most of the rest of the world calls it football.

Before I worked at Suncoast, I worked at two mom and pop video stores in my hometown.

Since today is the 4th of July and in most places the beaches are still open, I thought I would revisit, Jaws, with a bonus track.

Also Available on Patreon On the June 2026 Monthly Update I talk about what’s been going on with the site and podcast, but also some other things going on in my life and some random thoughts I have.