Super RetroCon 2024 At Tampa Fairgrounds- Pop Culture Convention / Michael Jackson Show & BMX Stunts
Super Retro Con 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here this
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is the second day in a row I've started
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my intro from this very spot yesterday I
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was here with my buddy Greg from Greg's
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game room I'm wearing his appropriate
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t-shirt I will be meeting up with him on
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the way to
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Tampa and him myself and probably some
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other friends will be out there who
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knows who I'm going to bump into at
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super retro
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con which is taking place at the Tampa
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Fairgrounds and it it's a two-day
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convention or yeah two-day convention
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starts today it ends tomorrow this is
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the only day I will be going to I'm
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inviting you to join me as I step back
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into the past some 80s 90s goodness I'll
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probably buy some physical media some
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other items and who knows what the heck
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else the day will be Stow join me shall
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you H hopefully I4 westbound won't be
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too bad it's 11
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48 right
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now on this Saturday as I'm filming this
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see what happens and a little merge lane
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Bumper to
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Bumper congestion arriving now the
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Florida state Fairground switch vehicles
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I'm now in the Greg's Game Room mobile
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we met up and now we're here all right
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we're going away from the main
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Fairgrounds
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building going around the back back past
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the place it looks like where Norman
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baates would
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live cruising
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around the backside gate number three
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super R not just a retrocon but a Super
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retr Con got the cassette tape got the
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NES controller got the old car oh that
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is is windy right here at the Florida
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State
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woo
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get blown away Greg and Blown Away Blown
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Away by the excitement how fun is I4
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traffic right now after we met up it's
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about as fun as uh I'll let you finish
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that
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sentence it's not fun no it's it's just
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it's just not fun all right sorry no we
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just came to the $30 Mission oh it's a
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it's a toy show uh well it's not
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necessarily a toy show it's more like a
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ComiCon um we've got an arcade inside we
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got
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retro toys all right I can already hear
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they're announcing some stuff they got a
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good they got a good one right walk in
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the door a big GL here's Robert here
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what are you what are you doing here
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Robert guys hey Adam what's up man hey
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it's Robbie retro we're at Super
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retrocon and check check out Dylan right
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here
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whoa BMX trick star check that
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wow and that that was Dylan and here's
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Dylan
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again
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yeah
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awesome thanks Dylan all right the whole
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convention well except for the BMX stuff
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it's they're going to be doing a full
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show at 3:30 I missed the first one but
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inside this building is where super
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retro con you want to explain what the
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convention is and how long you've been
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doing it all right so this is like I
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think our fifth fifth retro con we're on
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our fourth uh show of super Retron and
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this is our second 2day at Tampa okay
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and we've grown it um this year we have
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a DeLorean we've never had that been
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working on that for a few years so was
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it originally Retron then it became
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super retro originally retro toy um and
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uh right before Co actually okay had
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retro Toyon and um and then the next
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year is when I started to bring
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connections I had together with with
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games I'm an arcade collector and uh
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myself and then so um we brought the
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bikes you got all the arcade games here
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yeah we got arcade games all fre all
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free play so and for the money you know
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there is a free play Florida it's a
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little more I've been to that too yeah I
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assume it's more I don't remember how
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much the ticket is yeah I I usually
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bring my food fight there because that's
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you know that's a kind of a rare game in
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the arcade collectors along with paper
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that's hard to find
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me um this year I I got a little bit
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more so you had this here last year it
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was in the other area right no no we had
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it here last year but what what it was
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it was half the size we had the stage
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out here oh it was in this building it
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just set up differently y yep we didn't
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have the whole building we only had half
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the building so we had like the stage
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right here and then the games were right
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okay I came out last year too I did come
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out last year also yeah yeah and I mean
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it's it's ever changing it's ever
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changing spudge McKenzie down here nice
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spudge McKenzie blow mold from the
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80s yeah
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yeah that's awesome yeah just we did
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theor got the Ghostbusters over here and
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like I said we were working on a photo
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booth over here but it just ran out of
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time yeah Ghostbusters these guys came
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South Carolina there yeah Terry and ol
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Oliver yeah very yeah I ended up
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purchasing a a bag from the guy who
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waves at things oh but there's a guy
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over here that specifically waves at
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things he's waving at things now from LA
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to visit us he just loves to wave at
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things but usually if you do it like
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this you can't like whenever you do your
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Instagram you can't see anything except
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that so you're waving at everyone
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walking into super retro con over on his
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Instagram he's a greeter like at Walmart
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yeah he went to the pyramids and waved
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at the pyramids he was showing me his
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Instagram I take this guy everywhere got
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J James Brown I Noti that oh yeah my
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James Brown space man and you recreate
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all the old Chuck-E-Cheese stuff
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yep Pizza Time theater here ShowBiz
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Pizza too y these are good these are so
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he started out with I want to call it a
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crude version of the showas that I have
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at my it was just little LEDs in a in a
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wooden side and he's molded these now
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he's got the money to have them CNC
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pretty awesome
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1980s retro size 1980s retro size there
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we go there we
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go got it cool there we go I could have
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just read
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that does he just wave at you all day
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while you guys are sitting here he does
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just
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waves the guy that waves at thing
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sometimes
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I yeah you now you don't want to be
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labeled as the guy who nods at thanks
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you got to stick you got to got to stick
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to the guy who waves it than great movie
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at some point I would love this is a
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bike this bike is really hard to find
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Marty from part two right there part two
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oh even oh there you go very nice love
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it all right we got a little Night Rider
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kit C over here as well I really like
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this t-shirt
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here so this is a Custom Creations here
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what's the name of your company again
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k&t Customs k&t Customs that is pretty
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cool so you said you drive this from
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your house over here it's not your daily
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driver but you drive it from place from
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place to place from show to show pretty
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great right there
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Night Rider
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action love it and it's right across
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from the DeLorean that's over
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there all right scroll around here take
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a look at it
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there a lot stuff here there's a lot of
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vendors that have it but this one it's
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got some Super Mario
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3 get five screw
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gyromite oh yeah you talking about the
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screws different screws on there some
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five some four yeah you'll notice that
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the uh the five screws like this don't
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have the Clips in the front like the
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three screws do okay so usually the five
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screws are a little bit more
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valuable there's a bedtime Bubba right
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there bwing
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fighter need Ninja Turtle we got another
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super retro con and almost like a little
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uh glass box right there then you get
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into the main room which is where all
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the vendors are a lot of vend bun of
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Masters of the Universe you got some gii
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Joe a lot of carded Star Wars figures
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through here as well some adats Tie
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fighters things like that oh let's see
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oh man these are in pretty good shape
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through here too as well bib Fortuna
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deorian guards rank cor keeper Vader all
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right going over here now have a quite
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an assortment of different items in
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these cases here got Batman Robin
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there
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there's just so much retro goodness the
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Seven Dwarfs down here are these like
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are like candle holders or like salt and
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pepper shakers but like little
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figurines right there and you also got
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the the the matchbooks someone gave me
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some a vintage Epcot matchbook which
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I'll show later when I show the hall
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yeah there just a lot of vendors a few
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hundred vendors if I had to guess just a
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just a ton of vendors through here who
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we got some uh Puppet Master figurines
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over here some uh full moon features the
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certificate of authenticity from Puppet
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Master look at Chucky's head right here
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oh wow Charles 3 right there Freddy
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Krueger
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Leatherface Tony Stark Michael back over
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at the booth now but what are the F some
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of the some of the your favorite items
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here that I should look at I have the
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Urkle I don't have the Peewee though no
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that was the
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PeeWee the one a from 1986 it's still
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brand in the Box in the Box new really
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there's a lot there's a lot of Dusty
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Rose okay nice look at the the Paul
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rubin's mask the Peewee soup down there
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yeah there a lot of good stuff bugs
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live
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Menace oh yeah when they were giving the
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the soda the soda cans out I kept those
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for years and then the soda like
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demolished the cans and all the it all
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leaked out same the bottles the bottles
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did that ones just suck up
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in I was like why are these leaking and
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then I remembered oh yeah they're just
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they're going to decompose after a while
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I found a you remember L8 drink L8 and
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share with your girl share with your
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girl squirrel late I found it one and a
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half for years and I I love this drink
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so I put in refriger got a cold I opened
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it oh my goodness didn't didn't work out
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the way you thought know about V with it
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everywhere I love this owl that's
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cool they always have some of the best
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stuff yeah
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there L of stuff The Last Action Hero uh
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figure deck later
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yeah good St Tracy stuff you're welcome
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come back
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here oh I can come back there oh this is
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awesome look at this this few master I
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love Dick Tracy stuff Dick Tracy view
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Master dang that's
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cool look at this Ronald McDonald like
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dancing down like the yellow brick road
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of sorts right there with Grimace and
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the other I remember that guy's name
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there they're on they're on the end he
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letting me come back around around the
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back here got the Terminator from
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Terminator from
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T2 I was wondering what that was from
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Flip Wilson yeah what was that from
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Alter Ego Wilson show I never watched it
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yeah he's he's passed away now but he
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was had his own show it was good on
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variety show okay then he's Alter Ego he
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dressed up early drag
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really okay that's a deep cut I never
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never watched that show it was on the'
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70s
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you got the Jackson
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1984 wow o speaking of Dick Trac has a
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Dick Tracy plastic thermos and uh look
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at that that's cool Sleeping Beauty Dark
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Crystal this Ronald's like nightmare
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fuel it's like this a balloon blower
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upper right this is McDonald's when the
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heating tank was in
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there Burger King had one too The Kings
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Head yeah but now McDonald's very boring
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restaurant they're good for coffee they
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do have good
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coffee that's $6 million man no those
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are GI Jo's GI Jo my GI Jo's in
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70s look at Freddy looks very unusual
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with that
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face this is still unopened in the
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box or in the
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Box I got one of
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these yeah I got one of those not too
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long ago for like 20 bucks somewhere
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yeah you you find yeah this is the
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bird's Barb is amazing those things are
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really store to Value yeah chippy hedrin
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Y is that George Burns yeah he
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was nobody knows who he is anymore yeah
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I know G I do oh God you devil what was
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the sequel
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called oh God you devil then there was
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se but he lived be were almost he almost
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made it to
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100 evil evil bag what is that oh that's
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cool much is that it's one of the
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reaction figures
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yeah kind of
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Co oh it's mini yeah it's mini oh that's
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cool to
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gizo I got to be picking a Choy about
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what I get cuz you start running out of
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room you know yeah I got to
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wear
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this is made all these cardboard cutouts
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oh this look at this holy
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cow got a kick in the head Tom giv me
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advice how to pick up wom wow as if I
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could you
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know surpris like Eddie grow a mustache
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right I used to have the Darth Vader one
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of these when I was very young there's
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also a 3PO version where you can put
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your Star Wars figures
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on ah
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Michael some little Disney stuff here
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too as well and the shy bear first from
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a distance I thought it was a miniature
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Teddy rxman but it's not it's the shony
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bear tiny tune Adventures Return of the
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Jedi poster got the Pillsbury dough booy
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right there ooh Vader on the Return of
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the Jedi look like a little uh book and
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record right there take a look at that
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thing back in Big Lots had these for 15
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cents
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speaking of Jedi got some Ewok items
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here you got obviously you got Jaba here
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in the mug you also got Ewok coffee mug
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but look at this little Ewok like a soap
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dispenser of sorts an
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R2 sing people there look at this big
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oversiz well it's funny because this is
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a pitcher for Empire Strikes Back and
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this is the size of like a large soda
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now if you go to like a you know
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7-Eleven or a movie theater
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I just mentioned Teddy ruckman's name
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and look what happens $20 for Teddy
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rxman a pretty good deal section shot oh
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is that why it's 20 yep but it's a nice
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display piece I mean it's clean it's
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great I always I remember back in the
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day we would put like a you know a punk
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rock or a heavy metal album cassette in
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there so that Teddy would sing along
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instead of playing the normal cassette
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tape you put in the back I was going to
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catch you in I was going to catch you in
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the in the moment of there we go
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hey when the super retro Bros where can
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I see the Michael Jackson tribute at
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what time is that happening that's
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happening in 2 minutes on the main stage
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we're doing a Michael Jackson tribute
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it's not the Hologram there's no Tupac
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hologram we didn't have that in the bus
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but we got a real Michael Jackson
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tribute coming 2 minutes Captain IO
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where's bubble where's bub bubb all
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right I think the Michael Jackson
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tribute artist is now showing up now
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definitely interesting I he where the
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free play games are all located seeing
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Michael jacks just full on going a full
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Michael Jackson impersonator doing the
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songs dancing it up interacting with the
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crowd was definitely a sight to behold I
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was thoroughly entertained now obviously
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the closest equation I would see to this
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was seeing Cory Feldman in his band a
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couple years ago or a year ago at spooka
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which spala was was happened and it
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ended up after the Michael Jackson
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impersonator went outside and watched a
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little BMX that was happening they ended
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up having the BMX trick Stars and they
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were doing some some certain tricks now
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I did say that today and tomorrow is
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this convention I will not be here
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tomorrow neither will the BM BMX trick
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Stars will not be here tomorrow either
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but they were doing a lot of really
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really really cool stuff that was taking
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place and as soon as the trick Stars was
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over they ended up coming back inside
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where they are going to be doing a
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cosplay that in my but looks like we got
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a good FR give it up for the contestants
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come on up look at
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that all
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day that's great the col
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Sanders I know who I want to vote
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for some music and yeah you get up here
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if you would just take a moment yeah
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there probably seven or eight nine 10
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people in the costume contest I am
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hoping that the Colonel wins out cuz he
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has the colel definitely is looking
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pretty good
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here he was a scientist that was trying
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to capture her and got
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hold very nice that's Splash from 1984
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Classics so again your name is Jamie and
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you're basically Daryl Hanah and your
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name is I'm Alex for spell a l e
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h okay and I mean wow how of that's very
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impressive Godzilla oh Godzilla oh yeah
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yeah Godzilla yes MRA right I get it I
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get it yeah no yes Mother of monsters I
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got it I got it well Colonel I've been
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seeing you around the show today and uh
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you you defitely to bring smiles to our
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faces but tell us about you what is your
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name Tony brano and crpl Colonel
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Sanders please
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oh so you are in this costume to impress
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your boyfriend and your boy your
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boyfriend is here in the show all right
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Splash cosplay okay I thought Splash
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needs a little more than that right yeah
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okay Marty fly future future Marty okay
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okay Puppet
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Master Jim and the
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Sanders
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colel love that colel fing you're
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looking good right
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Mario and it's uh gwy Gwyn right from
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and that's a Spider-Man across the uh
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spiderverse it was hard for us to
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decided but third will be mfly yeah
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there you go thank you for your
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creative second will
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be
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Mathra thank you so
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much and this decision was Anonymous um
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he was in character all day all day guys
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so
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KFC that's what I wanted to got that
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bucket of chicken thank you everybody we
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appreciate
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it okay I will got I will say super
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retro has BR it with Michael Jack
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Jackson impersonator round number
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two round number two of BJ lots of
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costume changes lots of different
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different eras of Michael Jackson I got
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to say I am here for it the crowd has
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dissipated a little bit again it's it's
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it's similar to to Feldman's performance
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except uh this Michael impersonator does
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not have a full band he has a backing
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track I'm kind of hoping he ends with
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thriller or bad one of the two haven't
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heard either one of those
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yet all right heading out now here at
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the special event center at the State
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Fairgrounds T just on the outskirts of
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Tampa is in this
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building winding it up for the day I got
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a few items in here which I'll show when
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I get home the bag I purchased from the
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guy who waves at things he was wav even
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waving at Michael Jackson when he was up
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there with the Michael Jackson
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impersonator right here next to the
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Florida Learning Garden heading out of
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gate three going to head back
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celebration
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area a good
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time okay thank
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you on the way out ended up getting a
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little sticker pack for $5 $10 more I
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could have got the T-shirt fig i'
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support the call of super retro con add
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to
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the add to
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the support of the newer convention he
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said it's the fourth year the first year
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it was just retrocon and then second
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third and fourth year super retro con
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interesting to see as the how it
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progresses what other impersonators they
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have over there what other BMX
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festivities and the vendor the vendors
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were great right they were yeah there
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was a lot of vendors a lot of good stuff
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there um I like the BMX show myself I
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thought that was pretty cool bikes and
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everything yeah have you ever seen rad
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no I need to see that I need to let you
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borrow the Blu-ray okay it might be on
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streaming though
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too all right leaving Gate 3 super
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retrocon
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completed I'll see you the next video
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the
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Vlog it's
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over oh yeah there'll be some bonus
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footage when I get home and I'll show
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just a few things that I got
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here and the guy who waves at things
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shirt in uh bag hey do you remember
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where we parked oh is that a it's
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ano right here bonus
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footage look at
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this oh there's a there's a a ghoulish
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creature in the passenger
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seat
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uhoh I ain't afraid of no ghost all
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right made it home just want to show the
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few things that I got I didn't really
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spend too much money got a couple items
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people gave to me I ended up purchasing
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these bumper stickers right here from
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Back to the Future 3 also the super
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retro retrocon stickers as well and this
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little fan here from Back to the Future
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also and this is kind of cool so this is
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the Night Rider kit car the guy that
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owns the kit car gave to me it was
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really nice of him to give me that and
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then also I met a guy walking around
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that gave me this matchbook right there
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so that's kind of neat all right that's
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going to do it for today super retro con
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2024 was a lot of fun I'll see you the
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