I feel lucky to have survived the years of playing with Lawn Darts and Slip ‘N Slides….these and more are on the Popular Mechanics list of top 5 banned toys and games. Check out this commercial for Crocodile Mile. It looks like miles of danger now!

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Fresh off the news of a set of NES games going for over 14k on ebay, now comes word of an even more mint version of Stadium Events going for $41,300!

If you’ve got a copy we should talk!

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One of the most terrifying movies of my childhood is being remade. It looks pretty good. I wish movie trailers did not show you so much these days!

Most of these originated from around 1985 to 1987.

Lots of scratch ‘n sniff, The Goonies, He-Man, Shirt Tales, and McDonalds.

30 Retro Cereal Boxes. Some fun stuff! The biggest omission would be NERDS. I was a big fan of nerds cereal even to the point of collecting enough UPCs to get a special nerds cereal bowl. The bowl was divided in half with a “flood gate” between the two sides. I only wish I knew where this bowl was now. Eating cereal could be fun again.

Want your own box of Ghostbusters Cereal? You can actually buy one…I wouldn’t recommend eating it though.

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I had forgotten about the holograms on cereal boxes craze!

Here’s a look at the height of winter sports fashion circa 1986. This is a page from the Sears Christmas Wishbook of that year. More here.

A good Monday morning video and song.

Footloose – In Need Of New Dance Partners
You can now breathe a sigh of relief, it looks like we don’t have to worry about this 80’s classic being remade with two left feet. It’s been announced that the new Footloose has been taken off of Paramount’s production schedule. This following the loss of the director, Kenny Ortega and the earlier set back of Zac Efron turning down the Kevin Bacon role for fear of being typecast, ha!

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National Lampoon’s Vacation – Have Station Wagon Will Travel
New Line is working on a “reboot” of the series with a story line focusing on Rusty. This time around it will loose the National Lampoon’s credit and is said to be more of a “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” style cross country journey with Rusty taking his family to Wally World before it closes forever. The film will be written by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.

No word on if Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo will reprise their roles as grandparents.

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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas – Renovations at the Chicken Ranch
News is Universal has signed writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith (The Ugly Truth, The House Bunny) to write an update of the musical, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas which was based on the 1978 Broadway musical of the same name. The new version will also be a musical but no indication has been given if any of the original songs will appear. We can only hope for a cameo by Dolly Parton and her cash cow of a song, “I will always love you.”

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The article below draws parallels between Toyota’s current recall problem and the disaster that was the Audi 5000.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-04/audi-1980s-scare-may-mean-lost-generation-for-toyota-sales.html

If you’re not into reading. Check out this great commercial for the Audi 5000!

An old Nintendo NES system and five games sold for $13,105 on eBay. It wasn’t the console that was wanted but a rare game and even more rare that game’s box. Stadium Events is the name of the rare game. Read about it here. It was the first to utilize what would later be called the Power Pad.

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