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The Perfect Way To Rainbow Brite-n Up Your House!
Remember growing up thinking....when I'm older I'm going to create the most amazing, bestist, most awesome house full of all my favourite things! Put up that wall paper your parents wouldn't let you have, hell even put a fireman's pole into the kitchen or have a slide for stairs! Why not right?
For most of us this will sadly remain a dream for the most part, but there are some unsung heroes amongst us who keep that dream alive...not only that, they take the jump and make it reality!
Yep one superfan has been busy creating her very own Rainbow Brite themed house that is every 80s kids dream!
Receiving her first Rainbow Brite doll for her fifth birthday, Katy Haile, from Apex in North Carolina, was hooked and has kept her passion alive in true style!
Katie has worked tirelessly and has transformed her home into The Rainbow Land Museum which boasts some amazing and oh-so colourful decoration as well as a whole host of amazing retro toys and memorabilia. Take a peep....
Classic Movies Made 8-Bit More Retro!
As huge lovers of everything retro, our eyes widened and our mouths dropped when we spotted these amazing movie GIF images!
That's right folks! Some of our favourite films and characters ever have been given some retro 8-Bit treatment and have been brought to life in old school style with these fantastic images and we just had to show you guys.
Check out some of our GIF-tastic piccys below....
Back To The Footwear..... Great Scott, They're Coming!!!!
As a massive Back to the Future fan sometimes owning all the Back to the Future T-Shirts you can get your hands on isn't enough. Only one thing would satistfy this apparel-fuelled craving.... Marty's Nike Air Mags from Back to the Future II!
Now, you may know that in 2011 Nike did actually release Nike Air Mag replicas, but were only a limited run of 1500 and didnât feature the infamous power laces. In the Doc Brown featured TV advert Nike hinted at the power laces making an appearance in 2015....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU-okJIgafg
10 Things You [Probably] Didn't Know About...Transformers
Transformer fans unite! To celebrate the release of our amazing new and exclusive Transformers clothing, we've been searching the interwebs high and low for some amazing nuggets of retro information about the coolest Alien robots around. We just love to keep you clued up huh! :)
For over three decades, our lives have been influenced, impacted, transformed by giant robots from the far away planet Cybertron. For them, it has been millennia of civil war, fights and trouble, but for us, it has been decades (scary!) of watching, playing and loving these iconic Autobots and Decepticons.
However you came to love these guys, sit back and enjoy our perhaps slightly hidden treasures of some of the most iconic retro characters ever!
1. According to Bob Budiansky, the writer for the Marvel Comics series, Hasbro originally thought the name Megatron sounded too villainous. Budiansky pointed out that was the point and Hasbro went along with the suggestion. Thank you Bob. The evil Decepticon could be known as nothing else!
2. Fans of the cartoon Robotech found an odd similarity between the Valkyrie jet-transforming-robot suits and the action figure of Autobot Skyfire. In Japan, they used the same model to produce both toys. In the cartoon, the Decepticon-turned Autobot giant jet didnât look like the alien-killing Robotech vehicles. But when kids received Skyfire the toy, many little heads were scratched.
3. The Transformers began with the 1980s Japanese toy lines Microman and Diaclone.
4. Optimus Prime's original name before he became Autobot leader was Orion Pax in the television series. Orion is the mythological Greek hunter while Pax is Latin for peace. In Latin, Optimus means "best"; "Prime" comes from primus, meaning "first".
Top Retro Video Games: Then Vs Now!
Hello retro gamers! No doubt if you're reading this, you're one of those lucky few who have grown up through one of the most exciting ages for gaming.
Yep new gamers these days enjoy their HD graphics, online streaming and uploading, international seamless multiplayer, as well as wireless controllers and now even no controllers at all! We love all of these things, but a classic retro gamers, we've been able to really see just how far things have come first hand and for every new game, upgrade and accessory that is available, see our 7 year old self's wildest dreams come true in more ways that we could imagine!
To help show what we mean, we thought we would take a few moments to look back at the classic games we all loved from the 80s and compare them with their modern day counterparts (sort of). It's amazing how far things have some and just think of where they'll be in another 20 years when we're playing our PS10's in our rocking chairs :) Enjoy!
Wolfenstein (1992)
Battlefield 4 (2013)
20 Ways You Know You're an 80s Baby...
Growing up in the 80s/90s was the best! Everything was simple and fun, life wasn't too serious and being cool was actually a thing that people could be. With no mobile phones or amazing internet to keep us busy we had to make our own fun, which typically meant heading to the park or a friend's house, to see who was out or in so we could get them out!
Being surrounded by soooo many amazing 80s T-Shirts, it feels like we are always on a retro nostalgia trip here. Thinking back over some of our best childhood memories, we decided to put them all together and create our ultimate list of what it meant to be growing up at this special time.
Pack your bags folks! We're taking a short trip down memory lane, likely to include a healthy mix of nostalgia, perhaps a few painful memories and of course as much 8O's awesomeness as we can carry! Sit back and enjoy our top 20 Ways - You Know You're an 80s Baby if....
1. You still think ten years ago was in the 90s...
2. You hoped one day be as cool as the teens in John Hughes movie...
3. You have ever played with a Skip-It....