Swamp Thing Public Service Announcement

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Saturday World

I love bad cinema. I also love movies based off of comics and cartoons. When I have the ability to combine the two, it makes for some interesting adventures (or torture…sometimes I get the two mixed up).

I was watching The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) on DVD the other day (there was nothing on TV and it had been years since I watched it), and I decided that I would check out the special features. I’m glad that I did, for I had found one of the greatest hidden treasures that such a horrible movie could give me…Swamp Thing in a PSA for Greenpeace.

I think the greatest part is the pun at the end. I can’t help but laugh each time I watch this. It’s so horrible.

Thanks to YouTube user Quackerson for the upload.

Chuck Norris on The Arsenio Hall Show (1991)

Posted on February 9, 2012 by The Retroist

This video covers Chuck Norris’ appearance on the Arsenio Hall show from October 22, 1991. Norris talks about his movie “The Hitman” but more interestingly about his early career (including a long story about his Missing in Action rat scene).

[via] YouTube

I Want To Believe…in Star Trek

Posted on February 9, 2012 by The Retroist

Trek fan and digital artist, Rabittooth has mashed up two of my favorite TV shows, The X-Files and Star Trek in this “I Want To Believe” poster. The source image is a very large 5514×7000, so if you are interested in printing it out and making your own poster, I think that should have you covered.

Remember Planters Potato Chips?

Posted on February 9, 2012 by The Retroist

I seem to recall eating these at some point in my life even though my family was usually a strict Pringles household. They tasted pretty good and I especially enjoyed the ones with ridges. I have no idea why the ridged canned chip never caught on, the plain ones are fine, but ridged is the express train to flavor town. Where was I? Oh yeah, Planters Chips.

So I was looking for info on the chip and the web is actually pretty void of details. Even the Wikipedia page fails to mention them. Conspiracy? Perhaps? It could just be that these chips were too delicious. After all, when you polled Nuns. Nuns! They overwhelmingly chose the Planters over that other canned chip. They even compare them to the potatoes they got back in Ireland (sigh).

Act now (if this is 1976) and get 10 cents off your next purchase of a can of Planters Potato Chips.

TSR’s John Carter Minatures Warfare Game (1974)

Posted on February 8, 2012 by VicSage

I’m looking forward to Walt Disney’s John Carter next month, I’m hoping it will at least contain a glimmer of what made me fall in love with Edgar Rice Burrough’s books so many years ago. What I’ve seen from the trailers so far makes me think that I’ll be pleasantly surprised by the film.

Not quite as surprised though as when I stumbled on this post by the esteemed Mike Sterling of the Mike Sterling’s Progressive Ruin Blog. He got his hands on a 1974 Tactical Studies Rule book by THE Gary Gygax and Brian Blume of Dungeons and Dragons fame on how to create miniature warfare on Barsoom.

I was able to find this scanned image online as well showcasing some of the artwork within the rule book.

I can honestly say I’ve never heard of this rule book but I’m going to have to try and get my hands on it now!