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Guest Post: The Ultimate 80s Christmas List!
These days, itâs all about tablets, smartphones and gaming consoles. 15 years ago, it was tamagotchis, Pokemon, and Beanie Babies...what about 25 years ago, in the days of yore? What would have topped the Christmas gift lists of kids in the â80s? Letâs take a look.
â Cabbage Patch Kids: We have to say, itâs kind of hard to see the appeal of Cabbage Patch Kids nowadays. But believe it or not, they used to be the hottest toys around -- Maybe it was their winsomely pudgy faces and sentimentally kitschy birth certificates.
â Charm Necklaces: Charm necklaces had quite the heyday in the â80s. Nowadays, when we think of charms, we think of delicate metal tchotchkes, but back then it was all about colorful plastic charms, along with colorfully chunky plastic necklaces.
â Jelly Shoes: Okay, this trend has already come full circle. They had quite the comeback, flying off the shelves of stores like Urban Outfitters a few years ago. However, they were even more popular back in the â80s, and a lot of their popularity today stemmed from nostalgia. Also notably popular: Jelly bracelets.
The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 77!
Montgomery Burns! It's the Weekend!
So at the back of a bustling busy restaurant amongst stacks of dirty dishes and cutlery let us be your eager to please Kitchen hand, as we hold aloft our scrubbing brush of retro movie awesomeness, let us hose down mounds of crud covered pots with a jettison of cinematic greatness before we stand in awe at a glistening mountain of celluloid wonder.
Have a happy retro weekend!
SATURDAY 23rd NOVEMBER
Cocoon (1985) Film4 2:50pm-5:05pm (2 hours 15 minutes)
Well Wookie Here! Amazing New Star Wars TShirts from Chunk!
What do you get if you combine one of our favourite retro brands with some of the most iconic Star Wars characters AND the most band on trend all-over print style going? Our amazing new Star Wars Chunk Clothing of course!
Yep it's not a dream, the amazing people from Chunk have been busy creating some of the most out there cool designs featuring the biggest and best-loved characters from the Star Wars collection. Featuring some camo Wookies, bandit Vaders and a stylish stormtrooper or two, these latest designs are just the ticket for all you fans out there with their amazing style prints. They really are out of this world!
Now as animal prints go, this is certainly one of the most wild featuring our fury friend and totally wicked Wookie, Chewbacca. How you will find a much cooler Wookie tee we 'camo'nly imagine!
Who doesn't love a good ol' Rebel vs Empire standoff huh! Now you can bring that experience wherever you go with this cool new all over print tee featuring a dastardly Stormtrooper with heroes Chewie and Hans.
Guest Post: 80s Movies Filming Locations in L.A.
You could say I'm a bit of an eighties nerd. I run the world's largest retro websites doyouremember.co.uk, I've written a book all about the 80s and I spend way too much time listening to 80s music and watching 80s movies. So you can probably imagine my excitement when I got the opportunity to jet off to L.A. on a mission to track down the filming locations of some of the very best movies of the eighties.
A business meeting in California gave me the opportunity to stay with some friends in San Diego for the weekend and these good and very patient friends of mine kindly agreed to spend a long day driving me hundreds of miles around L.A. hunting down cool photo opportunities.
When the good people at retro t-shirt store TruffleShuffle.co.uk heard about my forthcoming mission, they kindly agreed to give me the matching movie t-shirts to wear in each location. They have the coolest t-shirts in the world - seriously!
So at the weekend, after all the business meetings were concluded, I threw on my first 80s t-shirt and headed off in search of the first stop on our circular tour - Doc Emmet Brown's house from Back to the Future.
Next up was Elliott's house from E.T. (the Extra-Terrestrial)
The Jumpers of Christmas Past...
The world has literally gone crazy for kitsch, Cheesy Christmas Jumpers (or ugly jumpers as some people like to call them).
We have been hooked ever since Colin Firth fashioned a rather fetching Reindeer Jumper in Bridget Jones Diary, but it doesn't end or even begin there. The cult of the Christmas Jumper has reigned for quite some time now. Ever since grannies decided to take up knitting needles, keeping themselves busy with increasingly intricate, vivid, sparkly and even 3D, festive woolen fantasies, people have been either proudly flaunting this festive fashion or begrudgingly obliged to wear it at family functions.
If it seems all too familiar, you will probably recognise the deliberate fashion faux-pas from some of your favourite movies and TV shows. Remember these?
The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 76!
Call Dr Legg it has to be the blinking Weekend!
So as we dramatically slow motion walk towards our fighter jet, helmet in one hand. So we can coolly but casually adjust our aviator shades let us be your heroic, slick back haired, F-16 Tom-Cat Pilot. As we hit a montage of us high fiving our wingman for retro movie greatness, weâll take off and tail spin for cinematic awesomeness before an aerial assault of celluloid magnificence.
Have a happy retro weekend!
SATURDAY 16th NOVEMBER
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ITV London 3:45pm-6:05pm (2 hours 20 minutes)
The rebels are scattered across the galaxy after the Empire launches a devastating attack on their secret base. Luke Skywalker searches out a Jedi master to complete his training, while Han Solo and Princess Leia are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader's space fleet. Sci-fi adventure sequel, with Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Alec Guinness and David Prowse.