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| 1344 | Article | NLogan | Nice. The Evil Horde Slime Pit created slaves/zombies/slime monsters. Whoever was slimed inside the pit, became under the control of Hordak to do his bidding. | Sep 29, 2014 |  | |
| 1356 | Article | NLogan | Watching an episode of the Goldbergs a little bit ago I laughed as Adam and his dad had a run in with the proprietor of the video store. It was like he had stolen a page out of my life. Except instead of being banned for life because of the missing tape my dad banned himself but not before he got vindicated. We were told we owed nearly $300 bucks for a missing tape and late fees. My dad said he would just buy another copy at another store for $20 but they could not accept a non store copy. My dad blew up at the guy and demanded to know how many copies were in their inventory. "One", the clerk timidly replied. My dad then went to the shelves and found it on the rack and threw it at him. "If I never returned it then what the hell is that?" After that we always rented from the mom and pop stores and other seedy little dives with bead curtains and sun faded pictures on the rental tapes. | Timewarp: Blockbuster Video 1996 | Oct 02, 2014 | |
| 1365 | Article | NLogan | Hoju, good read. Got the old memory burners started. I never ever bought the overpriced candy at the check out desk. I had forgotten you could rent a system in a suitcase. I never did. We stuck with Nintendo we had and occasionally rented games. Incidentally in 1989 Nintendo sued Blockbuster to prevent them from renting out the games instead of people having to purchase them to play (first sale doctrine exception to copyright act). They had done the same thing in Japan and won and were trying to block game rentals in the U.S. too. Another reason was Nintendo didn't want the competition to be able to demo their games and pirate them which was unlikely at best. They brought the suit under the guise of their trademarked instruction manuals being copied and distributed with the game rentals. Nintendo lost and Blockbuster continued to rent out their games paving the way for all future game rentals and future used game buybacks and sales with Nintendo seeing nary a penny. Nintendo did get the consolation prize however that Blockbuster could not photocopy the game manuals to include with the rentals as they were doing because the manuals were under copyright for purchase only and could not be redistributed, so the main thrust of their suit was successful even if they couldn't prevent rentals outright. I seem to remember some contest in the early 90s maybe 1990, 1991, or 1992 where you got a redemption code various ways on different products like under the caps of soda pop bottles or candy bar wrappers etc. You took the code to a scanner at the blockbuster video and did an in store redemption for free rentals, free Coca Colas, candy, shirts, hats, mugs, water bottles, etc. The adult (wasn't a kid) started yelling at my dad first, but all I remember was standing there wishing that awkward moment would pass. My dad's temper was legendary. They were both in the wrong he easily could have sorted it out without yelling and acting like kids. My dad received a bill in the mail for it and came unglued. He promptly went down to have it out with the manager. He was pissed that he was being charged late fees when he had in fact turned it in but their employee had not entered it. The actual cost of the video had been subtracted because they had "found it". When the manager looked up his rental history they tried to win him back by dropping all the fees and giving him free rentals but my dad is a principal of the thing kind of guy and we rented from various other places before Hollywood video opened up a store near us. My mom and dad were divorced and we stayed with him every other weekend it was standard operating procedure, go food shopping, rent videos, get dinner somewhere, rinse , repeat. Or as my dad would always say, "Let's go rent a pizza, and buy a couple of movies." Purposely said that way to annoy me. They lost out on a ton of money from my old man. | Timewarp: Blockbuster Video 1996 | Oct 02, 2014 | |
| 1370 | Article | NLogan | Simply Awesome. | Flannel Cornucopia | Oct 04, 2014 | |
| 1375 | Article | NLogan | @Hoju I didn't know they did Hondo in 3D on TV in 1991. I had to use my googlefu to see what the glasses looked like. Did you have the ones with the Duke on it or the Apache? I hope you still have the Haunted Mansion record. I would be digging through attics and basements for that little beauty. @Vaporman I wanna see photos of this year's Scooby Doo gang in the forums or something. The important part is that you are doing it together. That alone makes it worth it. The kids feel they are a part of something memorable. Group costumes can be awesome and are usually funny but it is so hard to get everyone in a costume they like while staying in the theme. I saw Tetris piece costumes once that interlocked it was pretty cool. Without any girls in the family except my wife that makes it difficult to find the right group costume as well. @vkimo I wish I had a photographic memory. My googlefu is exceptionally strong and I can always look for brand names etc on the stuff i have. Even your reference to a telephone sized book is fast becoming retro as phone books are going extinct. You have retro in your blood. | NLogan's Retro Halloween Overload | Oct 04, 2014 | |
| 1376 | Article | NLogan | Yeah if one has not experienced the explosion of fall colors in the forests or mountains it is definitely worth a trip. I used to go on little trips to see the leaves up the canyons all the time as a kid. Those Halloween weapons are straight up dangerous! My little brother was running with a scythe in his hand one year and tripped on it breaking it with the jagged edge of the staff end going right into his mouth and impaling the roof of his mouth. Stitches were required at the E.R. thankfully it was not on Halloween itself. I wish I could be the guy that decorates all out every year. Right now my kids are still trick-or-treat age but in a few years maybe. I have done haunted walkway themes in the past, I am sure there are more in my future. I also donned the dented helmet of a certain merciless bounty hunter one year, no one laughed when I won the limbo contest with my rubber boots, helmet and a blaster earning a 5 lb pail of bubble gum! | Flannel Cornucopia | Oct 04, 2014 | |
| 1380 | Article | NLogan | At my house there are usually a few trick-or-treaters that show up before we go out ourselves. We put up a graveyard in the front yard with a color wheel light bathing the house in yellow, green, blue,and red in a slow sequence. Unless someone stays at the house to pass out candy like a grandparent, we usually turn out all the lights because we are out trick-or-treating ourselves. | Flannel Cornucopia | Oct 05, 2014 | |
| 1381 | Article | NLogan | @Fulton thanks! Which costumes do you still have? You can always start saving stuff now. We went and got square pumpkin kids meals the other night that had Halloween flashlights for prizes, a skeleton, ghost, pumpkin, and witch that are pretty cool. Then we went to see the Addams family play at the theater. | NLogan's Retro Halloween Overload | Oct 05, 2014 | |
| 1383 | Article | NLogan | @Vaporman87 they are only available from Arctic Circle a hamburger joint in the western United States sorry! <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_sYdwsZs0hGE/StU3Zd_N1lI/AAAAAAAAE9I/kAIzZ7zmLOM/10-09 013.jpg"> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_sYdwsZs0hGE/StU3aVYke7I/AAAAAAAAE9M/JNmVWAzpXEM/s640/10-09 014.jpg"> <a href="http://www.platypuscomix.net/fpo/videos/squarepumpkin81.wmv">http://www.platypuscomix.net/fpo/videos/squarepumpkin81.wmv</a> | NLogan's Retro Halloween Overload | Oct 05, 2014 | |
| 1388 | Article | NLogan | The football jock might have been a brainless monster but Frankenstein's monster wasn't, at least not in the book. He taught himself how to speak and read in German and French, and can speak English. | Flannel Cornucopia | Oct 07, 2014 | |
