Wednesday, September 2, 2015

The Awesomeness of RetroBlasting.

One day, when watching a bunch of old Batman toy commercials on YouTube (It was slow, and I was bored), and I ended up watching a video by a user called "RetroBlasting".

I ended up enjoying the video, and started watching more of their videos. What was RetroBlasting, I wondered? Luckily, I discovered they had a website.

Who are RetroBlasting? Two people: Michael French and Melinda Mock. Two people who grew up on 1980s pop culture. Their mission? To analyze, examine, and deconstruct the pop culture of the 1980s, to be seen in a new light.

Their videos are a blast to watch. Their analyses often comes in the form of two videos: The first reviewing the cartoon series, and the second reviewing the tie-in toyline. They do a great job presenting the histories of the series and their toyline tie-ins, the videos never feeling dull thanks to the touch of humor they add in their videos. Watch for Broken Vader in their videos. He's a Darth Vader figure with no arms, and he is snarky.

They also put up videos of restorations of old toys, which I enjoy watching as it's fun to see how they take old toys that have been worn down by time and play and bringing them back to life.

If you're feeling nostalgic and/or love 80s stuff like I do, and are willing to laugh about it, give RetroBlasting's videos a watch! They're a RetroBlast!

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