Weekend Reading 10/09/23

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.

In the News

• Mattel Mounts Crowdfunding Campaign For Epic Masters of the Universe Eternia Playset (The Toy Book)

• Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon Classics Are Coming From Hasbro (Toy Tales)

• A Movie Musical Based on The Oregon Trail Game is in the Works (Mental Floss)

• Nacelle Reveals Plans For Sectaurs Wave 2 (The Toy Book)

• Hasbro Announces NERF’s First Official Sport – Nerfball! (Awesome Toy Blog)

Retro & Nostalgia Stories

• When Fox Aired its Infamous Alien Autopsy in 1995 (Mental Floss)

• Hulk Hogan and the AWA Championship: What if He Won? (Pro Wrestling Stories)

• 10 Things You Might Not Know About the Twilight Zone (Listverse)

• ‘Cheers’ Turns 40 (A Shroud of Thoughts)

• 5 Spooky Things on eBay This Week (Plaid Stallions)

Halloween Nostalgia

• Retro Commercials: Halloween Monster Cereals (The Retro Network)

• Halloween Pranks of an ’80s Teenager (Rediscover the ’80s)

• 5 Worst Halloween Treats (Retroist)

• Some Memories of Halloween Past (20 Years Before 2000)

• The Blair Witch Project Opening Night 1999 (Middle-Aged Fat Kids)

• Obscure Freddy Krueger Merch (Dinosaur Dracula)