Retro Geek

An Ode to The Mysterious Cities of Gold

January 4, 2011

One of the greatest cartoons (and memorable cartoon theme songs) of all time. It’s South American history and archaeology, mixed with science fiction! Estaban is a young Spanish orphan who was saved from a ship wreck at sea.  The only clue to his origins is a strange medallion around his neck. He is taken to [...]

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An Ode to Ulysses 31

October 6, 2010

“Great Galaxies!” An epic space odyssey to defy the gods… One of my favourite 80′s cartoons, based on the epic trials of Ulysses, but set in space. Pure awesome! Pro’s: Ancient Greek gods & goddesses -in outer space! One of the coolest 80′s theme songs in the entire history of kids television Expands your everyday [...]

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Fun things I’ve been up to

November 30, 2009

Since I am too busy doing more fun things, here’s a quick report with some of my highlights of the past few months… Gencon 2009: Nerd convention and Cosplay awards. Besides expanding my autograph collection (got me some actors from Battlestar Galactica this year YAY!) This year I taught myself to sew, so I could [...]

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Hmm…

September 24, 2009

Okay, I was trying out this ‘fresh from Twitter’ plugin because I haven’t had time to blog lately but it kinda looks annoying, yeah? Especially since it’s just a rehash of my Facebook and Twitter updates. Although it is kinda cool now having a permanent record of them for the future. Oh- in other news, [...]

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Sweded X-Men film

August 31, 2009

(p.s. Check out my previous posts for background info and behind-the-scenes stuff

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Best children’s TV shows of the 80′s! #2

November 14, 2007

We continue our series of retro-geek-funness, with three more TV shows which SpaceFairy loved when she was a kid in the 80′s. Some are obscure, some are more popular, but all of them ROCKED… enjoy! MASK logoUlysses 31 MASK M.A.S.K. (an acronym for the Mobile Armored Strike Command) was like a hybrid between Transformers and [...]

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Best children’s TV shows of the 80′s! #1

November 9, 2007

I love YouTube! Tonight I had a flash-back-o-rama to the 80′s when I discovered the opening theme to one of my favourite TV shows, Secret Valley. Does anyone remember it? They always had so much fun on that show (do kids these days still have food fights or does that only happen virtually on Facebook [...]

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