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This weekend we've offered everyone the chance to save 20% on all our TruffleShuffle branded retro t-shirts, hoodies, jumpers & jackets. All you need to do to claim your 20% discount is simply enter the voucher code GETEXCLUSIVE at the checkout.

Be quick though... This offer ends TONIGHT! (Midnight 02/02/14 GMT).

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This weekend you can save 20% on all TruffleShuffle t-shirts, hoodies, jumpers & jackets. All you need to do to claim your 20% discount is simply enter the voucher code GETEXCLUSIVE at the checkout.

This offer ends midnight 02/02/14 (GMT) so be quick!

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Cowabunga! It’s the weekend

So like the humble fuzzy tailed Squirrel, let us go foraging for you as we jump from tree to tree looking for retro movie madness, we’ll collect mouth falls of cinematic magic before we store them away in an old hollowed out tree while we sit back and enjoy the celluloid wonder.

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 1st FEBRUARY

Happy Gilmore (1996) Sky Movies Comedy 6:20pm-8:00pm (1 hour 40 minutes)

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That's right Roald Dahl fans! The amazing childhood classic Charlie And The Chocolate Factory turns and amazing 50 years old this year!

A bedtime staple since its first publication back in 1964, this story has been a part of almost everyone's childhood and has become hits as films (1971 & 2005), operas and as a hit West End musical!

To celebrate this Whipple-Scrumptious occasion, the wonderful people at Roald Dahl have put together an amazing change for you to share YOUR Wonka memories.

To get involved, simply upload a picture or video of yourself with your favourite copy of Charlie – maybe even the one you read as a child – as well as your name, age and location and they will share their favourites on their amazing new RoaldDahl.com website blog as well as on their social media pages and profiles. Just like some of the celebrity fans...

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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 didn’t 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".

5. The first Transformer to appear on the series was Wheeljack.

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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)

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