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WrestleMania’s Most Unusual Matches
WrestleMania is this weekend and in the over thirty years for this event, this will be the most unusual. Two nights, taped, and in front of zero fans. Many of us are tuning in for CONTINUE READING…
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The House Show 001 – In Your House #1
The best professional wrestling gimmicks are an extension of who the performer is in real life. Now the best professional wrestling podcast is an extension of real life. Stuck at home thanks to the Coronavirus, CONTINUE READING…
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Remembering the 1980 TV Movie ‘Animalympics’
“Farther. Faster. Furrier.” With that, the animal-based Olympics begin. Meant to tie in with the 1980 Winter and Summer Olympics, there is a lot happening within and around this forgotten animated movie. Whether you remember CONTINUE READING…
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Retro Pull List for February 2020
The comic book column with an early Image shipping schedule! The month is almost over and one of these days I’m going to get ahead of the game. But that month is not this one! CONTINUE READING…
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Thundercats Roar! Review
From the destroyed planet Thundara and hurtling through light years of space and thirty earth years, it’s the return of the Thundercats! But, these aren’t your father’s Thundercats. Therein lies the problem and the solution. CONTINUE READING…
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Slaughter’s ‘Stick It To Ya’ Turns 30
While some sites continue to debate when the decade ends (“there wasn’t a year zero”) on this site, I need to debate when the 80’s ended. Hair metal and the decade of decadence go together CONTINUE READING…
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Korn “Issues” 20th Anniversary
Let’s take a trip back to music in 1999. Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears had the biggest albums of the year. Most teenagers up to twenty-somethings were told what was popular Monday through Friday from CONTINUE READING…
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Pokemon the First Movie 20th Anniversary
As two new Pokemon video games were released this month it’s fitting to take a look back at the first movie of this absurdly successful franchise. While I was in my early twenties when this CONTINUE READING…
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Dogma’s 20th Anniversary
One of the things that is missing from our children of the 80’s discussions is what happened after the ’80s? What happened when we were no longer children? The 1990’s to thousands to tens have CONTINUE READING…
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Wednesday Night War Room
The Wednesday night wrestling war just kicked off, and you can follow along with all the action in our all-new Wednesday Night War Room! Get the reviews, opinions, and thoughts on both shows. CONTINUE READING…
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You Fool! The Funniest Episode of Hollywood Squares
Rarely does an episode of a game show reach cult or memorable status. Ken Jennings Jeopardy! streak. The guy that figured out the pattern on Press Your Luck. Usually game shows are made to be CONTINUE READING…
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Remembering H.R. Pufnstuf
“Who are you? HR Shovnstuf?” For most of my generation, myself included, this line from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls is the only reference to not only the work of HR Pufnstuf, but the entire CONTINUE READING…
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GI Joe Operation Dragonfire 30th Anniversary
Elsewhere on The Retro Network is a post with my glowing review for the 35th anniversary of the GI Joe miniseries “The Revenge of Cobra”. A mere five years later and the GI Joe CONTINUE READING…
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GI Joe “The Revenge of Cobra” Review For It’s 35th Anniversary
“The Revenge of Cobra” was the second mini series spotlighting the new GI Joe toy line (along with this cartoon and the Marvel Comics series). Airing over five weekdays, from September 10-14, 1984 these CONTINUE READING…
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Motley Crue’s Dr Feelgood 30th Anniversary
It is shocking to think that this album is 30 years old this month. Even more shocking, every member of the band is still alive 30 years later. Dr. Feelgood was Motley Crue’s first album CONTINUE READING…
