Super Retro Con 2022 Nostalgia Convention In Kissimmee Florida - BMX / Video Games / Cosplay & More
Super Retro Con Kissimmee Fl 2022
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today's adventure brings me to super
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retro con as a recording of this march
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6th
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2022 i have arrived at osceola
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heritage park and i am noticing
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because i am familiar with this property
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they have torn down
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the building that once sat right here
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it's been erased
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from existence
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it was just like a little little welcome
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center now where the convention is
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happening is in the big building over
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there
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but i am going to drive just a little
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further around the back of the property
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and show
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where the houston astros used to spring
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train
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and i worked for a short time many years
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ago in the late 90s
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as a food vendor
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right here the osceola county stadium
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they no longer use it for baseball
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which right now there is no baseball
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because the mlb lockout but i always
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wanted to show it wearing an appropriate
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t-shirt
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for a super
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retro
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car welcome everyone adam the woo here
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and i'm gonna drive my car
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over to where the event is taking place
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but i decided to do the intro right here
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with a piping hot
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caffeinated
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beverage
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no bart simpson simpson is super retro i
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went to this event
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last year
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but they're having it again
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kind of a smaller convention not the
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magnitude of like a comic-con or a
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dragon con but sometimes
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those can be a little more fun
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a little more personal plenty of elbow
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room i'm inviting you
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to join me
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shall you
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as i'm heading over to the parking lot
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i'm zoomed way in
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above the fairgrounds i'm not having a
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fair here right now
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where i'm heading is kind of right below
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the parking area
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is right below all those birds
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someone would be very proud
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hitchcocki would be proud just realize i
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can't go that way so i gotta loop back
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around another look at the osceola
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county stadium here the back side of the
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fairgrounds
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looks like someone else
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has to turn around and go the other way
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too not the only one
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this is on the same property though but
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they no longer play baseball in here
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last time i was here they had a
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exhibition soccer game going on
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completely remove the the baseball
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diamond directly ahead at the event
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center super
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retro con
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in that building right over there
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a few cars pulling in quite a
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congregation of vehicles
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right here as the doors are opening at
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10 am on the dot
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also if you notice off in the distance
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that is not a real
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tree
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that is the cell phone tower disguised
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as foliage
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oh it looks like there is a knight rider
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kit car over there as well check it out
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there's kit
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right there see up kit right over there
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in the corner in the shadows oh there's
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a old-timey boom box over here and
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here's like some of the t-shirts here
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with the super retro con logo on them
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right there for 25 and this only happens
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one day some conventions will be the
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whole weekend like friday saturday and
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sunday this one is only on as a
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recording of this a sunday so it's a
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one-dayer and
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in advance i think it was fifteen
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dollars but at the door
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twenty dollars
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twenty dollars in cash and there's going
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to be a lot of booths selling different
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items collectibles
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and whatnot there's godzilla right there
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teenage mutant ninja turtles
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and got the ghostbusters over here
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how's it going
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doing good
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slimer here
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never trust slimer with tootsie rolls
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slimer just want you to put your hand in
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there and now entering
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ball
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b
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going in
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oh yeah
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there's a lot of a lot of vendor boosts
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in here
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got some action figures through here and
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some oversized pop you see a lot of
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these like little pop figures probably
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the most common thing you see at
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conventions oh and take a look down here
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these look like the old little small
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vinyls return to the jedi with vader on
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there yeah it's like the read through
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books
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we used to go down kind of a deep rabbit
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hole no pun intended because there's
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bugs on there with these kind of small
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like kind of glasses with the characters
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on them i don't really collect those
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anymore because i never use them but
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there's the emperor right there
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take a look at these teeny tiny
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turn of the jedi cause plastic cups
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oh goodness look at look right there
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that's that's chris that's chris lloyd
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from star trek three i believe
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oh these are so tempting
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so
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tempting
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i love the original trilogy so much i
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think these are the ones that they were
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drinking in uh
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great outdoors and the great outdoors
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they were drinking out of the jedi ones
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i think it was the jedi one that was
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like the talk also where the mic is here
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here i think you'd be here yeah always
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if it's super in retro we're going to be
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there at a con
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you know who this is
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it's a tricky guy but who is it what
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what actor plays christopher lloyd
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nailed it one thing i do know about star
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trek now here's something you don't see
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too much anymore old laser tag take a
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look at this retro mickey right here oh
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and then rowdy roddy over here take a
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look at this how rare do you see an
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adventures in link in a box over here
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that's pretty rare oh and this is very
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tempting this is this they live doll
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over here like very tempted to get that
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now i have this but
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i do not have a pepsi perfect from back
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to the future too got a grogo over here
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and a rather large a lot of stuff from
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the star wars franchise they're now
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making the
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some announcements
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as well just kind of perusing the sales
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floor
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see what i can find all right in all
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honesty this lincoln hawk oversized
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lincoln hawk might be mine by the end of
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the day that is all over the top they
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got loomis and lori over there and
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speaking of stallone we got rambo and
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also arnold from commando that's right
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don't disturb my friend he's dead tired
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oh doing pretty good just noticing yeah
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miss piggy down here
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got a little stuff on her nose
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all right check out that retro piggy
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yeah all kind of good stuff even some
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comic books over here too
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oh look at this robin hood prince of
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thieves battle wagon also a fun fact the
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ewok village from return of the jedi
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also was also remarketed as robin hood
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prince of thieves
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kind of like sherwood forest
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fun fact oh my
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goodness this would not fit me but holy
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cow look at this freaking e.t
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look at this thing right here
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oh
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lord
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okay i found the first cosplayer of the
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day you mind explaining who you are i am
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chrono from photo trigger um a game that
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came out in
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march 15 1995. a game that came out in
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1995 what was the game again chrono
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trigger chrono trigger nice you're the
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first cosplayer i've seen today
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nice well done
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oh oh goodness little action pose i like
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it
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awesome i would imagine a lot of this as
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the day progresses will not be available
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like this
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from gremlins this gizmo that someone's
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going to pick that up pretty quickly
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that is
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awesome this is like a ronald burger
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king mashup that's like a ronald burger
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king mashup now i no longer have a vhs
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player and collect vhs but for four
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dollars each there are some great titles
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through here if you were a collector of
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vhs
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look at this hell on wheels
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scanners too the ghost tab was filmed on
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the same street as back to the future
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bushnell avenue in pasadena
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true story oh my goodness look at all
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these earnest this is good because this
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is all the commercials that jim barney
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did as earnest and they're all put on v
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i used to rent these my family used to
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rent these back in the 80s from the
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video store and i had seen all of these
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commercials
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way before ernest was kind of like
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someone known in our house very well
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even before
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ernest goes to camp i don't see ernest
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goes to camp on here but yeah and
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speaking of burger king there is the
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king
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himself
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next to
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sea bear
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90s fox fox sea bear for 20 oh look at
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this tv tray
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a little
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fraggle rock up here
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and a perfect tie-in to prague a rock
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you got some leather face
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now here's a movie i have not thought
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about in decades the red balloon
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i forgot this even existed now that i
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see the cover i totally remember that
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the red balloon it was the boy [\h__\h]
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chasing the red balloon down the road
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and speaking of the ewok village right
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over there but this is not the ewok
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villager this is the one from robin hood
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chains that's our website it costs
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nothing to join it's the world's largest
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customer
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all right
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it's a lot of fun
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excellent keg
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is tag k-a-g k-a-g
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it stands for klingon assault group but
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basically it is the world's largest star
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trek costume this is one of my
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characters uh
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starfleet marines international which is
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part of the star trek
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fandom all right i'll check it out
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absolutely
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have fun today
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here we go have you found any ghosts
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today so far
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no ghost yet
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but you're on the lookout right yes
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oh mario's here
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hello mario good to see you and also
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meeting up with tampa jay what's up dude
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and chris the girl which is our first
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time meeting you yes it is it's a
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pleasure and we're going to do a little
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re
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all of us here not just you but everyone
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that is here going to do a little retro
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shopping nostalgia today
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have you seen anything that you guys
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want to purchase yet uh everything
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everything everything so far that's kind
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of my philosophy as well look at this
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you're wearing an appropriate t-shirt
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awesome it's modern life and i like that
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hat too go raise raise up man
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we shouldn't be at a baseball game it's
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kind of funny because all three of us
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yeah gravitated over to jar jar right
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here
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he's the most underrated character i
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wouldn't go that far i would not go that
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far tampa j
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i'm just i would not go that far there's
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a there's a an interesting concept that
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he is part of the dark side
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some will say that theory and who is
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this bear right here that looks like the
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country there that's not a country bear
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that's not disney it's a dog actually
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that's a dog
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you are just gravitating to the jar jar
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jar i'm not afraid to admit it do you
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like jar jar better or do you like blue
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more of a loot guy oh look at this
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universal studios like slate card here
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it says 900 with stand oh
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and on top of that
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from labyrinth
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i see you have constructed a new potato
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head
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look at that vader potato house my name
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is
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make an announcement for
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the bike show that's about to happen
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towards california
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he's announcing all the celebrity guests
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that are over here
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a lot of celebrity guests
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he's got the creepy eyes right here h2o
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what's creepy or michael myers or this
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yoda mask over here
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when you wear it or scare you i will and
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over here this oversized rocky balboa
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which has like the movable jaw and
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everything too that's cool all right the
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bike bmx show is taking place and it's
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always exciting to watch anyone that has
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proficiency on a bicycle not only with
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being able to not necessarily do jumps
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but just kind of ride around and do some
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of these tricks
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you know on the ground level it was one
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time i was on a bike slide it did not
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turn out incredibly well so i am
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definitely not proficient when it comes
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to a bicycle i can ride one if i keep my
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hands on the on the handlebars but to do
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something like this just does it isn't
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the case and then doing jumps
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you know in the air doing flips
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all this stuff just amazes me it always
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reminds me of the 80s film rad the bmx
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movie rad
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i don't know why i always think about
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that when i when i think of bmx
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this is how you're in the bmx show
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ladies and gentlemen one more time let's
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get it for the bmx trickstars okay
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creative cosplay i misread it said
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creative for cosplay but you can see you
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could say it creative cosplay of the
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four the fantastic four right so you had
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it where you got it but
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jaws and i'm gonna need a bigger boat
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because jaws has a right jaws is holding
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jaws
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you have
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you got baby jaws down here and very
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creative with the you're gonna need a
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bigger boat oh there you go
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terrifying terrifying jaws babe well
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baby draws i should say
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the lights light up too
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i know
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over here at the retro rat booth got
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skeletor
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up here yeah retro wrapped
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has quite a few items all kind of
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scattered through the area
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all in these little baggies
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as well we got this photograph kind of
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madonna over here
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we got ronald down there we got barbie's
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pool party and over here at this booth
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they make pins
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custom pins and there are quite a few
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down here and this is kristin
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and you have i have purchased from you
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you didn't make these today
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but i have all the adam the woo pens 500
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two different designs i'm just waiting
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on my stickers to arrive so if you need
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custom pins
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check out kristin and all her work so
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this is what i'm going to be giving in
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my po box so there's a couple different
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designs there's this one here the yellow
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adventure pen and then also this uh
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adventure adventure one down here
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as well
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so i ordered a bunch from them
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and how long did it take you to make all
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these
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three days to make all these so as soon
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as i get my stickers i'll get my p.o box
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out and all these will be sent to anyone
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that still sends me a self-addressed
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stamped envelope the graphic goes there
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you put the graphic on the top and the
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mylar which is that plastic they call
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that mylar the plastic yeah kind of like
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how they say mylar balloons ring goes in
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the back of it
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press that down
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then you put the pin in by hand you put
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it in my hand so you have to do all all
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all thousand of the pins that you maybe
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had to do by hand yes
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holy crap
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that's it
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that is that's a lot of work yeah but
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it's fun you know for 20 years i had to
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walk out the one-inch pins out to my car
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but here's the contact info
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and the company name and they're
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priceless so i got some stuff to send
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out i'm going to go back in now super
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con just waiting on my stickers and then
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the p.o box
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i'll post the po box when once i get the
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stickers in the mail now it's not a time
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machine version but there is a delorean
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even though this says right here it says
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time machine restoration but this is not
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a time machined out one even though
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marty's
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yeah marty has his little
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what did he do jump ship and also has
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the little cap down there in the seat as
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well look do not touch right there with
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the gold wing doors
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starting to work up a little bit of a
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thirst so i'm gonna get myself a water
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now i had a coffee earlier
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but now it's time for a water these are
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the prices
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here at the snack bar
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oh watch out
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the empire is
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is around the trooper
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trooper is on the on the prowl
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there's some good plushies down in here
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got roger down here
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another roger over here
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yeah it really is amazing how popular
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these pop figures are the ghostbusters
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one over there and these are some rare
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ones collectible ones
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quite a few at every convention you go
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to you'll always see oh here's marty
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mcfly right down there
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oh these are a mongoose
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there's a mongoose there
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actually they're like they're all
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they're all mongooses
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except for these these are blue max
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daisy duke's jeep here a little model
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kit
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i remember a time in my life
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and i would collect these johnny
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lightnings where is it
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yeah the macabre mobile oh there's bart
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bart on my shirt but above bart are a
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lot of different donald ducks
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very retro look i mean this is retro con
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so it makes sense there's a lot of
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kind of old-timey donald's right here a
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whole collection of them
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not the version of slinky dog that you
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would think of but this dog is a slinky
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dog and of course who could forget view
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master as well
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looks like mandalorian has arrived as
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well oh there's grogu down here oh check
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this out there's a indiana jones there
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and there's also look at this there's
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another another uh british little lost
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ark i believe that was the one that had
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the little pull string on the back and
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he would do his little different sayings
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on the pull string
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he used to have one of those back in the
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day they're doing another bmx show also
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ah the age-old argument is it
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frankenstein or frankenstein's monster i
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always call him frankie but i know
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people call him frankenstein's monster
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look this doesn't say monster on it it
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just says frankenstein
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i see you have constructed a new
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lightsaber
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i saw you yesterday at the droid meetup
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you were mandalorian yeah what you were
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the amanda
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check out the new kids on the block down
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the new kids on the
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block
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and then teddy ruxpin for some teddy
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ruxpin action down here this is another
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one
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return the jedi as my favorite star wars
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so i don't i don't know i don't think i
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really need a metal lunch box i think
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that's just so much good stuff here
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there's a gobots collector case
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this is just like a sensory overload
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of products
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the real question is which one of us is
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going to use that thumbnail
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oh here you go up here white bright
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there's another good retro
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oh look at this three hundred dollars
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for the droids 3po and
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r2
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robotech over here
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toxic crusaders toxic avenger
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mad balls this is some good stuff the
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talk boy from home alone
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got masks
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and the aliens on the end
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is this still open and something most
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people would not might not realize that
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they need in their life an ani lamp it's
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on the up here come on come on turn the
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light on come on come on do it
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illuminate the room come on illuminated
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illuminated now come on dude come on
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come on i'm here come on
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always nice to see the ghostbusters on
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patrol keeping everyone safe from ghosts
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this there's a lot of retro merch here
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this is the namesake
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really fits what the booths have
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and i love it
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great great convention
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there's fear of faucet up there oh yeah
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garbage pail kids this right here has my
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name oh i'm not gonna buy it but how's
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my name hold on let me introduce you to
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jeff davis he's the one who runs this
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convention yeah how many years you've
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been doing it jeff three years i was
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doing uh car shows before for this and
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so some of the stuff
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that you see like the bikes and um
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originally the cars um came from that
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like i built a app where you could um
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find car shows based on your location
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so you started as a car show and he said
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i'm gonna get into the retro world
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started the retro concert he started in
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2019. he had like 400 people in a little
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building uh first show august 2019 okay
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and then we did um
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we did two more we had rachel choycon
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here at in 2020. how much point do you
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give to your visuals how much coin yeah
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i'm i'm a little short a little short of
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change
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how much coin should i give
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at least one at least one coin
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and that's gonna do it for today from
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kissimmee florida
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at the osceola heritage park
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super retro con my second year in a row
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attending and probably if i am in town i
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will always
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visit because there's some good stuff
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inside there
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i appreciate you watching thank you so
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much and i'll see you in the next video
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the vlog
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is over