Here is the Pro Photo Schedule for Retro Con 2026! Please arrive at the Fandom Photo Ops booth about 10 minutes before your scheduled session time.

You can find more info about Pro Photos and how to buy them here:

retrocons.com/pro-photos/

**If you’re looking for Pro Photos with our Knight Rider guests Rebecca Holden and Peter Parros with the semi truck and KITT, those will be handled at the show by the Knight Rider Historians directly! Simply visit their booth to purchase those.**

Hit rewind, press play, and don’t forget to adjust your tracking- Retro Con is back for 2026! Join us September 12th & 13th at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania for a weekend jam-packed with pure nostalgia!

Retro Con is an unapologetic celebration of pop culture from the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s— the “good old days” of toys, comics, games, movies, and TV. We’re taking over Hall A, unleashing its 67,500 square-foot show floor (over 80,000 square feet if you count the lead-in hallway and panel room) on the masses. That means over 315 vendor tables, stacked with retro collectibles just waiting to follow you home!

Expect popular toy lines like Transformers, GI Joe, He-Man, Hot Wheels, TMNT, ThunderCats, Star Wars, M.A.S.K., Battle Beasts, Madballs, Real Ghostbusters, and many more. Add in video and board games, comics, trading cards, LEGO, wrestling, dolls, diecast, playsets, model kits, 2D/3D art, tabletop games, physical media, and other assorted nostalgia you forgot you needed. From casual browsing to full-on grail hunting, from vintage to modern enthusiasts, we’ve got collecting covered!

Retro Con is more than just a toy show though— it’s a full-tilt pop culture event! Enjoy special guests, Q&A panels, contests, costumes, pop-culture vehicles, games, and an atmosphere you won’t find anywhere else. Whether you’re planning a day trip or a full weekend, Retro Con delivers.

Tired of wallet-draining geek cons? We’ve got you. Admission is still just $20 at the door on Saturday or Sunday, or grab an advance weekend pass for $35- with zero surprise fees at checkout. Kids 12 and under get in free with a paying adult, and parking is always free at the expo center.

Crank your nostalgia up to 11 and join us! We’re already lining up incredible themed guests and features for 2026- keep an eye on our pages so you don’t miss a single announcement!

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View our upcoming Guest List HERE!

Vendor Table Info can be found HERE.

CONTACT US Email: screamers85@gmail.com

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

Our 2026 Facebook Event Page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/904207465356017/

A huge THANK YOU to RetroDaze for sponsoring us!

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!

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!