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 [...]
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Audi 5000 all over again!
February 12, 2010
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!
Rare NES Game Brings in Over $13,000 on Ebay
February 12, 2010
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 [...]
USA’s Cartoon Express
February 10, 2010
Upon checking out the wiki page for USA Network’s Cartoon Express, I discovered a really odd factoid…Keith Olbermann, of MSNBC and who some consider one of the last real journalists, was the narrator of Cartoon Express during the mid 1980’s! Hearing of this I headed straight to youtube to locate any videos that might demonstrate [...]

February 14, 2010
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