Meet the Nasty Boys at Retro Con 2024!
Take a trip to Nastyville! Meet tag team duo Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags at Retro Con 2024, aka… The Nasty Boys!!
Sometimes wrestling as “faces”, usually as “heels”, but ALWAYS larger than life, these brash hardcore punk brawlers have tangled with the likes of the Steiner Brothers, Legion of Doom, the Rockers, Hart Foundation, Sgt. Slaughter, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, and numerous other classic wrestlers of the era! You can catch the boys in matches from the AWA, WCW, and WWF/WWE throughout the 80’s and 90’s.
Meet the duo at Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, PA!
Meet Michael Bell at Retro Con 2024!
Yoooo Joe! If anyone is qualified to take over Neil Ross’ spot on our guest list, it’s this man! Please welcome veteran voice actor Michael Bell to Retro Con 2024!
An actor of more than 50 years, one of Michael’s most popular characters is field commander Conrad “Duke” Hauser on the classic 80’s cartoon GI Joe: A Real American Hero by Marvel/Sunbow Productions! In addition to playing Duke, Michael also voiced Major Bludd, Scrap-Iron, Xamot, Clutch, Tollbooth, and Blowtorch on the show. He reprised his Duke role for the very last scene of GI Joe Renegades in 2010, and for a hilarious GI Joe parody episode of Community in 2014!
Michael was also a big part of the original Transformers cartoon, celebrating its astounding *40th Anniversary* this year! Michael voiced such well-known characters on the show as Prowl, Scrapper, Sideswipe, Bombshell, First Aid, and Swoop! “Me Swoop no see nothing!” He also reprised the characters of Sideswipe and Scrapper for the Transformers: Devastation video game in 2015, and Prowl for a recent 40th Anniversary re-recording of the very first episode of Transformers!
Other notable characters Michael voiced include Lance and Sven on Voltron, Zan, Gleek, and the Riddler on Super Friends, Drew Pickles and Chas Finster on Rugrats, the title character in Ruby-Spears’ Plastic Man cartoon, “The Fear” in Metal Gear Solid 3, Raziel in The Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver series, Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy on The Smurfs, Bruce Banner on The Incredible Hulk, Allstar Seaworthy on Snorks, Mark on Speed Buggy, Lawrence in the Ratchet & Clank series, and way too many more to list!
Michael also provided dubbing work on the original 1977 Star Wars, voicing General Willard on Yavin 4, and he overdubbed Peter Criss’ dialogue in the infamous TV movie ‘KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park’!
You may have also see Michael Bell on-screen! Look for him on classic tv shows such as Three’s Company, Star Trek: TNG and DS9, the Monkees, CHiPs, Get Smart, Mission Impossible, M*A*S*H, and Charlie’s Angels!
Meet the man behind the characters at Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, PA!
Follow Michael Bell Online!
Website: http://www.michaelbellvoices.com/
Cybertronic Spree Concert Tickets Now On Sale!
The esteemed bots of rock are ready to unleash their power on Oaks, PA!
Tickets are NOW AVAILABLE to see The Cybertronic Spree live in concert!!
Venue:
Arnold’s at the Factory in Oaks
(Water Tower section)
2200 West Dr
Oaks, PA 19456
Website: http://arnoldsffc.com/
Concert Date: Saturday, September 7th
Concert start time: 8pm
**Please arrive between 7pm and 8pm for concert check-in**
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*CONCERT TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!!*
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Please read concert details in full:
You DO NOT need to pre-register for (or even attend) Retro Con itself to buy tickets for the concert. But likewise, purchasing a concert ticket does not grant you access into Retro Con. These are separate events.
These are considered “Will Call” tickets, which means physical tickets will NOT be mailed to you (we will email you manually to let you know we received your purchase). Please bring along your ID or a print-out/screen cap of your Paypal transaction receipt. Our staff will use it to check you in at Arnold’s.
Tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE. However, in the unlikely event the concert is cancelled, full refunds will be given.
Please note you should enter through ‘The Water Tower’ entrance at Arnold’s Family Fun Center, which is just to the right of the main entrance at Arnold’s (look for the blue lower roof). Arnold’s itself is located directly next door to The Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks.
The concert start time is 8pm, though you can arrive for concert check-in any time after 7pm. But feel free to get to Arnold’s Family Fun Center early! They have a numerous fun activities such as go-carts, mini golf, lasertag, arcade games, bowling, eats, and much more!
The concert will run about one hour and fifteen minutes. Maybe longer if you charge up the band with your positive energy!!
Attendees can purchase band-related t-shirts and other merch at the venue before the show if you want to watch the concert in style! Time permitting, the band will also be available for a meet/greet immediately after the concert. But to ensure you get the full band experience (and first crack at their merchandise), please come to Retro Con on Saturday morning!
Please note that this is a General Admission/Standing Room Only concert. This means that there will be no chairs in the main audience section, and there will be no assigned positions. The staff at Arnold’s will of course do their best to accommodate attendees with disabilities.
There is a full bar in the venue, where attendees 21 and older can purchase drinks.
There are no age restrictions at this event, though all ages require a concert ticket. We do not recommend bringing very young children to this event, as it is a rock concert played at full volume. Please also keep in mind the concert will be held in a bar setting.
We want to keep this event fun and safe for everyone! Anyone found to be disorderly will be asked to leave without refund.
If you need to make a name change on your ticket reservation, please drop us a line at screamers85@gmail.com!
We will NOT allow ticket scalping or hoarding of any kind! We compile the concert attendee list ourselves, and reserve the right to cancel any sale that raises red flags for us.
Missed our original announcement about the Cybertronic Spree ? Read all about it HERE!
Meet the Cybertronic Spree at Retro Con 2024!
Fashionably late, but the party bots and cons have arrived!! Help us celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Transformers with the REAL Rock Lords… The Cybertronic Spree!!
Join Hotrod, Arcee, Rumble, Unicron, Soundwave, Bumblebee, Shockwave, and all 5 faces of the Quintesson as they prove they’ve got the power to light your darkest hour! These rockstars in disguise play music from Transformers: The Movie (1986), plus songs from hit movies & shows, cartoons, classic rock, video games, plus their own original tunes! They blend their love for 80’s and 90’s pop culture into an energon-fueled, unforgettable live show that just might transform you back into a kid again!
The Cybertronic Spree will be attending Retro Con as convention guests early on Saturday, September 7th. Meet the band, snap some pictures, and pick up band-related merchandise at their table! Tentative meet/greet times are 10am to 1pm.
And of course, the Spree will also be performing a LIVE CONCERT that Saturday night next door at Arnold’s Entertainment Center in Oaks! Tickets for this concert/after-party will be separate from Retro Con proper, and will go up for sale TOMORROW!! Keep watching the Retro Con and Cybertronic Spree pages!
We’d like to dedicate the concert this year to the memory of Jason Gross, a friend and longtime supporter of Retro Con who we lost late last year. His presence will be felt at the show.
Meet Catherine Mary Stewart at Retro Con 2024!
“Starlite, Starbrite… The place where Alex and Maggie left for the stars!”
We’re celebrating the 40th Anniversary of The Last Starfighter in style… Please welcome Catherine Mary Stewart to our guest list for Retro Con 2024!
Catherine played Maggie Gordon in the 80’s sci-fi classic The Last Starfighter, fellow resident of Starlite Starbrite trailer park, and sensible girlfriend of Alex Rogan. “Mags” shared several heartfelt scenes with Alex, as well as several comical scenes with Alex’s simuloid Beta Unit (also played by Lance Guest). Endearing characters such as Maggie helped elevate what was ostensibly a “copycat” of Star Wars, to a beloved 80’s staple with an identity and personality all its own.
“Here’s Chuck… *pours dust out of shoe*” Catherine also starred as Reggie Belmont in the sci-fi horror comedy Night of the Comet, another cult favorite from 1984! A comet wipes out most life on Earth, leaving two sisters from the Valley to survive against cannibalistic zombies and a sketchy group of scientists. It’s a fun romp, and an unapologetically 80’s time capsule of a movie!
You can also see Catherine in the hit 1989 dark comedy Weekend at Bernie’s, where she played Richard’s office crush Gwen Saunders, who inadvertently gets caught up in the melee. She was also in the trippy movie The Apple (1980), had a longtime role as Kayla Brady on Days of Our Lives, and continues to be active in the entertainment industry today!
Catherine Mary Stewart joins her Last Starfighter co-star Lance Guest at Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, PA! She’ll be available for autographs and photo ops all weekend, and she and Lance will be having a Q&A panel together at the show (day and time TBD)!
Follow Catherine Online!
Personal Website: www.catherinemarystewart.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/catherinemarystewart
Instagram: www.instagram.com/catherinemarystewart
Twitter: twitter.com/cmsall
Meet Lance Guest at Retro Con 2024!
“Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada…”
Get ready to unleash Death Blossom! Meet the Last Starfighter himself at Retro Con 2024… Lance Guest!
Lance is of course best known for playing Alex Rogan in the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter! An ambitious young man living in the Starlite Starbrite trailer park, Alex beats the record on the local Starfighter arcade game one evening, and is unwittingly drafted into a real-life battle of intergalactic proportions! Coming out in the wake of the Star Wars series, The Last Starfighter is one of the earliest films to use extensive CGI for its vehicles, space settings, and battle scenes. Though antiquated by contemporary CGI standards, the scenes still have their visual charm today!
The movie wasn’t the franchise-starter that Universal Pictures wanted, but later found its audience on home video and cable tv. With endearing characters, cool tech and alien designs, a triumphant soundtrack, and a fun lighthearted tone, the movie has gone on to become a perennial 80’s classic, and celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year! This is a personal favorite of the Retro Con crew, and we have fond memories of watching the movie constantly on the local cable channel “PRISM” back in the day (deep cut for you Philly natives).
You can also catch Lance as paramedic Jimmy in Halloween II, Mike Brody in Jaws: The Revenge, as well guest starring on tv shows such as X-Files, The Wonder Years, House, Jericho, and many more!
Meet Lance Guest at Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, PA! He’ll be available for autographs and photo ops, and will also be having a Q&A at the show!
FREE PLAY Arcade at Retro Con 2024!
Our corner arcade is returning for Retro Con 2024, and this year we’re supersizing it!! The Game is Afoot Arcade will be bringing in 18 full size arcade cabinets this year, some with dedicated games inside, and others featuring thousands of titles to choose from. From 70’s to 90s, they’ve got your retro favorites covered!
No need for quarters or tokens… all cabinets at Retro Con will be set to FREE PLAY!!
So once you’re done shopping and meet the guests, stop by the arcade to exterminate some centipedes, blow up some pookas and fygars, grab a burger with the Bad Dudes, liberate Metro City from the Mad Gear gang, drive your Ferrari coast to coast, flee from Sinistar, and uh… deliver newspapers.
This arcade expansion is possible through a very generous donation by RetroDaze! A fantastic website celebrating yesteryear, they’ve been stepping up their content in a big way on youtube. Check them out and and give them a sub here!
Meet Lindsay Wagner at Retro Con 2024!
It’s a bionic reunion! Please welcome the always lovely LINDSAY WAGNER to Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, Pennsylvania!
Lindsay Wagner first rose to prominence with her iconic Emmy award-winning role of Jaime Sommers on both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman! A professional tennis player critically injured in a skydiving accident, Jaime was rebuilt with cybernetics to give her bionic legs, bionic right arm, and amplified hearing. And much like Colonel Steve Austin, was utilized for secret high-risk government missions using her special abilities.
The character was only intended to have a brief run on the Six Million Dollar Man, but proved so popular that she was immediately brought back to the show and greenlit for her own spin-off series! With famous tv producer/writer Kenneth Johnson at the helm, The Bionic Woman show had a slightly different flavor to it’s Six Million Dollar Man counterpart. While dozens of episodes had a serious tone and emotional punch, the show also frequently embraced sci-fi fantasy elements and campiness at times. Mad scientists, aliens, ghosts, supercomputers, doppelgangers, and of course multiple run-ins with Fembots… this show was a lot of fun!
Lindsay has also starred and guest starred in numerous feature films, TV movies, mini-series, and tv shows over the years, such as The Paper Chase, Nighthawks, The Fall Guy, Ricochet, Warehouse 13, NCIS, and Grey’s Anatomy. And she even reunited with Lee Majors to film a trio of “Bionic Reunion” tv movies in the late 80’s and early 90’s!
Lindsay is also a published author, and is heavily involved in causes that are close to her heart, including animal welfare, domestic violence, the environment, and the advancement of human potential. More recently Lindsay has combined her personal experience and many years of study to develop ‘Quiet the Mind & Open the Heart’ workshops and retreats. She also enjoys mentoring younger actors through her classes, which cover acting and camera techniques.
LINDSAY WAGNER reunites with her bionic co-star LEE MAJORS at Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, PA! She’ll be at the show both days for autographs and photo ops (both at-table and pro photo options), and she’ll be part of a Q&A at the show. Prices will be posted up on the website soon!
Follow Lindsay Online!
Meet Lee Majors at Retro Con 2024!
Retro Con is going bionic this year!! Please welcome the legendary LEE MAJORS to Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, Pennsylvania!
Lee Majors’ career has spanned an amazing 60 years, quickly becoming a household name when he was cast as the rugged Heath Barkley on the hit wild west series ‘The Big Valley’ in 1965. The show ran for 4 seasons and 112 episodes and is one of the best remembered westerns of the era.
“We can rebuild him… We have the technology…”
Majors shot to even bigger star status in 1973 when was cast in the lead role of Colonel Steve Austin on ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’! Critically wounded during a NASA test flight, Steve Austin was rebuilt with bionic implants to give him superhuman strength, speed, and vision. *cue theme song with slow motion shots and bionic sound effects* The series was a massive sci-fi hit of the era, and forever remembered for such awesome episodes as Steve going up against doppelganger robots, the menacing Death Probe tank, and of course his epic showdowns with the goliath Bigfoot! And we would be remiss to not mention its popular spin-off show ‘The Bionic Woman’ starring Lindsay Wagner!
The show also inspired The Six Million Dollar Man action figure by Kenner, one of the most iconic toys of all time! With signature red tracksuit, roll-back “skin” on his right arm, bionic lifting action, and of course his wide-angle bionic eye you could look through, this was THE toy to have in the mid-1970s!! Lee even got to voice his own figure for a nostalgia-fueled ‘Happy Honda Days’ campaign in 2018!
Lee headlined another huge hit in the 80’s on the popular action series ‘The Fall Guy’! Lee played Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman that moonlighted as a bounty hunter with the help of a few friends, and of course his souped-up GMC pickup truck! The show’s opening theme, the “Unknown Stuntman”, was even sung by Majors himself! The series is about to get a big budget movie adaptation releasing in May starring Ryan Gosling. Rumor has it Lee may even be making an appearance in it…
And in an inspired piece of casting, Lee was brought on to play Brock Williams, father of Ash Williams, on the cable series ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’! An immediate hit with Evil Dead fans, Majors played a character extremely different to any he played before. The show ended too soon after only three seasons, and is sorely missed, though rumors persist of an animated revival.
“At 7 o’clock! Psychos seize Santa’s workshop, and only Lee Majors can stop them!” And who could forget Lee Major’s role as Santa Claus’ protector in the classic 1988 Christmas film ‘The Night the Reindeer Died’? (If You Know, You Know!)
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to meet pop culture icon Lee Majors at Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, PA! Lee will be signing autographs at his table all weekend (prices to be posted soon), but his photo ops will be *PRO PHOTOS ONLY*. We’ll get those details squared away soon and will post up purchase links as soon as we can.
Meet Anson Williams at Retro Con 2024!
You can’t have Ralph Malph without his partner in crime! Please welcome Anson Williams to Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, Pennsylvania!
Anson is best known for playing Warren “Potsie” Weber on the iconic television sitcom Happy Days, celebrating its unbelievable 50th anniversary this year! Often gullible but also loveable, Potsie was Richie Cunningham’s clean-cut best friend in the early days of the show, later being paired with Ralph Malph as the series moved on. Anson was featured on all eleven seasons of the show, and was also the show’s resident singer, with Potsie often carrying a tune at Arnold’s/Al’s Drive-In and other locales.
Anson is also an accomplished director, helming episodes of Hercules, Xena, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Just the Ten of Us, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Charmed, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch (in which Anson also cameoed as Potsie!).
Anson Williams joins fellow Happy Days co-star and good friend Don Most at Retro Con 2024! They’ll be signing both days and will be having a co-panel together. Catch two cast members from one of the greatest sitcoms from a simpler time!
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