Every weekend, I like to share a curated list of retro & nostalgia-themed articles, stories, and posts that I’ve come across in the last week. It gives you a chance to escape the daily grind, and just sit back and pass the time reading about the good old days. So with that in mind, here are some things I wanted to share with you this week.
To start this week’s Weekend Reading selection, I want to direct you to two new things I’ve written over at The Retro Network in the last week. In the first pieces, I wrote about how CBS dismantled their primtime lineup of “rural” shows in the ’70s to make way for the new era in television that they were planning. And in the second piece, I share with everyone my top picks for this year’s crop of retro-inspired ugly Christmas sweaters. Since you’re here at Retro Ramblings, I feel like you’d enjoy both of those features. The links to each is below.
In the News
- Kevin Conroy, Voice of Batman, Passes Away at 66 (Action Figure Insider)
- Lucasfilm and Disney Are Developing an Indiana Jones Series (Superhero Hype)
- The 2022 Toy Hall of Fame Inductees Are… (The Toy Book)
- UNO Says We’ve Been Playing the Game Wrong This Whole Time (Do You Remember)
- Wendy’s is Debuting a New Peppermint Frosty (Brand Eating)
Retro & Nostalgia
- 11 Movies to Get You Into the Thanksgiving Spirit (Mental Floss)
- A Thanksgiving Tradition: The 1987 WWE Survivor Series (Nightmare Nostalgia)
- Memory Jogger Podcast: Transformers and GoBots (Rediscover the ’80s)
- How Batman: The Animated Series Changed Cartoons (The 13th Dimension)
- My Gallagher Story (Mark Evanier)
- Magical Music Thing by Mattel (Retroist)
- A Welcome Return to Holiday Traditions (The Toy Book)
- Toy of the Week: Mr. Sketch Scented Markers (The Retro Network)
- 5 Awesome Things on eBay This Week (Plaid Stallions)