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Archive for September, 2011

6th Annual Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention Show Report

The 6th Annual Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention was held this past weekend at the The Marriott Hunt Valley Inn in Hunt Valley, MD. The show was held Thursday through Saturday and is aimed squarely at those who appreciate classic television shows and movies. Many celebrities were on-hand including Michael Constantine (Room 222, The Twilight Zone, The Outer [...]

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Who?

On this week’s season premier of Community, series regular Abed (Danny Pudi) mourned the not-till-January return of his favorite TV show, Cougar Town. Abed seemed to cheer up pretty quickly once he discovered Inspector Spacetime, a British sci-fi series on-air since 1962. Featuring an intergalactic inspector who travels in a red British phone booth with [...]

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Wacky Packages Eyeglass Cases

While at the Chicagoland Show last weekend, a dealer showed us a case of 25 Wacky Packages eyeglass cases. They showed silk-screened images of Wackys from series 1 through 4. They were not all alike and 14 to 16 different products were used. The dealer obtained them from the wife of an optometrist and since [...]

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New Card Review: CBLDF Liberty Trading Cards

Late last week, Cryptozoic Entertainment (CZE) released its very first product in the non-sport trading card category: CBLDF Liberty Trading Cards. If you have read the pages of Non-Sport Update (or this blog), you’ll know that we are excited to have the new company on the scene and it’s high profile licensed properties populating our [...]

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