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| 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 |  |
| 1373 | Article | vkimo | If Halloween was an indigenous tribe, you discovered them, enslaved them, and established a top grade rubber facility all in a very short time. Excellent work. So much good stuff here. I'm really impressed at your near encyclopedic recollections. I was floored when you would post some rare merchandise then state that it was from your childhood collection! Most of that stuff is hard to come by as a collector so having it from youth makes it all the more special. I love the personal pics. Seeing your brother and cousins all stuffed on the plaid couch with the fake flowers on the table and the telephone book sized Bible really capture the moment. That must be pretty cool being a twin as well. You guys could really pull off some shenanigans. One of you dresses in normal clothing and the other in a costume and trick or treat at the same houses and have people scratching their heads in deja vous induced trauma. Great article, fun read! | NLogan's Retro Halloween Overload | Oct 04, 2014 | |
| 1372 | Article | Vaporman87 | So much good stuff here... great stuff! The story of Halloween and your family's reverence for it is awesome. And you have so many great items that you can look to to inspire you to recapture the love of Halloween every year. I can only wish that my dad felt the same way about these occasions. For mine, it was more or less a night to relax in the quiet of our absence. My mom made an effort get us in the mood with decorations in the house and something festive to eat but... no. You guys really make it a family affair and that's what I strive to do with my own family. We do the *gasp* family costume thing. LOL. Every year. It's a real treat and I know that my kids will look back on it fondly... the idea that we enjoyed the night TOGETHER. Thanks for letting us experience Halloween through your eyes from yesterday and today. It was awesome. | NLogan's Retro Halloween Overload | Oct 04, 2014 | |
| 1371 | Article | Vaporman87 | Beautiful read. I really feel the spirit of Halloween now! As for poor Steve, I can relate. I recall that, one year, I (by myself) decorated the pathway from our driveway to our door and prepared to scare trick-or-treaters (as opposed to actually trick-or-treating myself), only to find that barely anyone wanted to make the long walk up our driveway to our house. I feel Steve's pain. Living here in Rutland, we are WELL aware of when trick-or-treating starts and stops, because the fire department's siren sounds to begin and end the event. There is no mistaking when you're DONE, and the residents get to chow down on their own remaining sweets. I have to say, I love the layout of this piece. Just love it. It sucks that search engines won't find it because it's an image (well, unless they're LOOKING for an image of course) but it's like finding treasure... those who do find it will be very happy they did. Thanks a bunch for a great read vkimo. You never disappoint. | Flannel Cornucopia | Oct 04, 2014 | |
| 1370 | Article | NLogan | Simply Awesome. | Flannel Cornucopia | Oct 04, 2014 | |
| 1369 | Article | Hoju Koolander | You are as always the king of mood setting layouts, the 8 bit monsters in the borders were great. Poor Steve, it was always special to me when the adults handing out candy were dressed up, it really amplified the spirit of the night. The soda displays were always epic, especially when Elvira and the Universal Monsters were involved thanks to Pepsi and Doritos. Good stuff! | Flannel Cornucopia | Oct 04, 2014 | |
| 1368 | Article | Hoju Koolander | Packed to the gills with Halloween goodness, the Creature would approve! Your love ofnthe holiday ismplain to see. Thanks for that odyssey of great costumes and memorabilia. I would have loved to have enjoyed classic Monster Movies in 3-D on TV, instead all we got were John Wayne films. But I was there at 7-11 to get my Hondo glasses nonetheless. Loved those spooky LPs. I had a Haunted Mansion record growing up that dramatized the ride, I can still hear the Raven's eery caw. Those orange monster books were a favorite for me as well, the one for Murders at the Rue Morgue was the only one I considered boring, so it only got one check out from the school library. Happiest of Halloweens to you and your family! | NLogan's Retro Halloween Overload | Oct 04, 2014 | |
| 1367 | Article | shakin steak | For sure, Vaporman. That's why He-Man gets the checkmark for "good guys". Bow and Razz and Kowl and those purple forest elves are awful! | New Eyes on He-Man and She-Ra | Oct 03, 2014 | |
| 1366 | Article | Vaporman87 | NLogan I think your old man and my old man were cut from the same mold (though he has dramatically mellowed out with age and Effexor. I never really had to deal with a really bad situation at a rental store. Later on, when <url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_Gallery'>Movie Gallery</url> showed up nearby, a friend of mine got a job there and we scored some good deals (and some late fee removal) several times. | Timewarp: Blockbuster Video 1996 | Oct 03, 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 | |
