Another year, another long overdue wrap-up post…

A huge THANK YOU to everyone that came out to support us at Retro Con 2025 a couple weeks ago!! We once again crushed our all-time attendance record, and from the vendor section, to guest section, to the panel/event room, the show floor was really jumping this year! It’s always rewarding for us to see every aspect of the show getting love. We like to think we give a concentrated amount of show for your $20 daily/$33 weekend admission, and it’s always great to see people taking advantage of everything we have to offer. We always want to foster an easy, fun, and ego-free atmosphere for everyone to enjoy to the fullest, and we’re so pleased to see people staying with us all day (and often weekend) and making it a real party.

Our thanks and appreciation go out to all our awesome attendees, vendors, guests, guest agents, costume groups, car owners, anyone that dressed in costume, our new panel room technician Joe, sponsors like RetroDaze and the Very Best, anyone that helped us promote throughout the year, and to Arnold’s and Oaks Center Cinema for helping line-up afterhours events!

And (you guessed it), our biggest THANK YOU goes out to our staff and volunteers! Conventions are an unpredictable game, and we can only plan/schedule so much in advance. So when things can and do go crazy, you have no idea how much we lean and rely on these amazing folks to keep the show going. All while being calm, cool, and upbeat as they do it. You’re the true heart of the show, an inspiration to us, and the reason we keep coming back for another show every year.

Thank you all again! Team Retro out!!

Appearing SUNDAY ONLY at Retro Con 2025 is the amazing Mr. PoppinTwist!!

Mr. PoppinTwist is a balloon-bending vaudevillian who brings his whimsical style of entertainment to conventions & events all over the northeast. Perhaps you’ve seen him at a show, library, school or even on AMC’s Comic Book Men! His balloon creations run the full pop culture gamut from wrestlers, to superheroes, to retro character icons (and deep cuts)!

Catch him at the show and see what he whips up!

Check out Derek’s website here:

https://mrpoppintwist.com/

Weekend tickets are now available for Retro Con 2025!

Retro Con does things a bit different. If you can only come to the show on Saturday or Sunday, you can simply buy your ticket at the door on your day of choice. Day passes are just $20 either day, and kids 12 and under get in for free with paying adult. We’ll have multiple cash lines open for Saturday morning to help keep ahead of the initial crowd.

If you’d like to buy a weekend ticket however, they can be purchased in advance at the link below! Weekend passes are $33, with NO additional fees at check-out. A weekend ticket gets you a slick Retro Con attendee badge with lanyard, and we start letting in weekend ticket holders at 9am on Saturday (pre-check begins at 8:30am). This is an hour before General Admission begins, so consider this your “Earlybird” pass option! And again, kids 12 and under get into the show for free, and do not require a badge.

Buy your Retro Con 2025 Weekend tickets here:

retrocons.com/purchase-retro-con-tickets/

Can you buy a weekend ticket even if you only plan to attend the show one day? Absolutely! Some people buy the weekend pass simply for the badge and to get into the show early on Saturday. But we’ve got over 300 tables of shopping to check out, plus special guests, free-play arcade games, panels, contests, post-con activities, and a whole lot more. Well worth spending your entire weekend with us!

Back to the retro! Mark those calendars for Retro Con 2025, September 6th & 7th in Oaks, Pennsylvania!

We’ll be back in Hall A at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, giving us a 67,500 square foot show floor (over 80,000 if you include our lead-in hallway and panel room!) with more than 300 table spaces of retro-related collectibles for sale! Expect toy line favorites such as Transformers, GI Joe, He-man, Hot Wheels, TMNT, ThunderCats, Star Wars, MASK, Battle Beasts, Madballs, Real Ghostbusters, and many more! Also video and board games, comics, trading cards, LEGO, wrestling, dolls, diecast, playsets, model kits, 2D/3D art, tabletop games, physical media, and much more. From casual to hardcore, vintage to modern, we’ve got collecting covered!

Not just a toy show though… Retro Con is a full-fledged convention! We’ve got special guests, panels, contests, costumes, tv/movie cars, games, and an atmosphere all our own. Perfect for either a day trip or a full weekend stay!

The antidote to ridiculously priced geek conventions, we’re still just $20 at the door on Saturday or Sunday, or you can buy an advance weekend pass for $33 (with no additional fees at check-out). Kids 12 and under get into Retro Con for free with paying adult, and vehicle parking is always free at the expo center!

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View our upcoming Guest List HERE!

CONTACT US Email: screamers85@gmail.com

Find Us On Facebook: www.facebook.com/RetroCons

Our 2025 Facebook Event Page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/964178905281111

A huge THANK YOU to RetroDaze for sponsoring us!

Yeah we know, we’re always extremely lazy about the wrap-up posts. Cut us some slack, we’re a couple of aging geeks with regular jobs and we need our rest! 😛

Nearly a month late, but Thank You so much to everyone that came out to Retro Con 2024!! Even with conventions and toy shows cropping up all around us, along with all the craziness that comes along with an election year, and a health issue that kept one of us sidelined for a month or two, we’re still holding our own, and once again managed to beat our all-time attendance record!

And we feel like as the years go on, we’re moving further and further into “convention” territory. We only have the show as a once a year event because we want it to feel special. And while we always aspire to be humble and modest people, we’re also always glad to see so many people treating the show as a “not miss” event. We don’t get a lot of time to enjoy the show at large, so it’s always great to see everyone mingling with friends old and new, shopping the vendor floor, meeting the guests, playing the arcade games, dressing in costume, checking out the panels, and participating in the contests. But ultimately what makes a show fun and memorable comes down to what people bring to it.

Our thanks go out to all our attendees, vendors, guests, guest handlers, Press outlets, show sponsors, anyone that dressed in costume, our panel room A/V man Tom, panel room mods, the Cybertronic Spree, the tv/movie car owners, costume groups, Oaks Expo Center, anyone that supported and/or helped us promote throughout the year!

As always, our biggest thanks go out our staff and volunteers! They are getting too numerous to list here, but we want to let them all know how much we truly appreciate their massive help every year. From hall set-up and breakdown, to airport runs, floor work shifts, food runs, guest assistance, and even giving us help and guidance throughout the year. We can only plan out so much in advance when it comes to a convention, and our staff and volunteers are always willing to jump in to cover our backs when plans change. And we love them for it.

We haven’t made plans for a 2025 show yet, but we do hope to have one! So keep watching our pages. Thank you once again to everyone that attended or supported the show in any way!

LAST CALL FOR WEEKEND TICKETS FOR RETRO CON 2024!! We will stop preselling advance weekend tickets on Wednesday, September 4th!! After that it will cash-only at the door either day.

Full ticket info (including at-the-door pricing) can be found HERE!

Weekend tickets for Retro Con 2024 are now available for purchase!

Retro Con does things a little bit differently. If you can only come to the show on Saturday or Sunday, you can simply buy your ticket at the door on the day of choice. Day passes are a flat $20 either day, and kids 12 and under get in for free with paying adult. We’ll have multiple cash lines open for Saturday morning to help keep ahead of the initial crowd.

If you would like to buy a weekend ticket however, they can be purchased in advance at the link below! Weekend passes are $31, with NO additional fees at check-out. A weekend ticket gets you a slick Retro Con attendee badge with lanyard, and we start checking in weekend ticket holders at 9am on Saturday, an hour before General Admission begins. So consider this your “Earlybird” pass!

Can you buy a weekend ticket even if you only plan to attend the show one day? Absolutely! Many people buy the weekend pass simply for the badge and to get into the show early on Saturday. But we’ve got nearly 300 tables of shopping to check out, plus special guests, free-play arcade games, panels, contests, and a whole lot more. Well worth spending your entire weekend with us!

**Buy your Retro Con 2024 Weekend tickets HERE!**