{"id":10561,"date":"2012-11-06T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2013-10-03T00:38:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T04:38:46","slug":"retro-con-optimus-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/retro-con-optimus-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Con Optimus Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, there's a toy and memorabilia show called <a href=\"http:\/\/retrocons.com\/\" target=_blank>Retro Con<\/a> happening in Philadelphia. It's dedicated to all the properties of the '80s that nerds like us love, as you can tell from the Retro Con logo on this Optimus Prime that they're giving away as a door prize:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rcop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rcop-300x187.jpg\" title=\"Retro Prime\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You read that right: you buy a ticket to the show, you have a chance to bring that bad-boy home with you for free! <!--more-->Can you recognize all the letters in the logo?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transformers<\/li>\n<li>Ghostbusters<\/li>\n<li>Voltron<\/li>\n<li>Tron<\/li>\n<li>Ghostbusters again<\/li>\n<li>Pac-Man<\/li>\n<li>Paper Boy<\/li>\n<li>Mega Man<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Really? Ghostbusters is on there twice? You know that \"GI Joe\" and \"He-Man\" both have E's in their logos, right? Pretty distinctive E's, even.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Retro Con is on November 11, from 9 to 5. If you're near Philly, check it out and tell us how it was.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Sprinkleberry D'uhnut review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/transformers-botbots-sprinkleberry-duhnut-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Sprinkleberry D'uhnut review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' Through Previews - April '11\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/flippin-through-previews-april-11\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' Through Previews - April '11<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Slimer the Hutt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/slimer-the-hutt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Slimer the Hutt<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"This is why...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/this-is-why\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is why...<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Stinkosaurus Rex &#038; exclusive Bum Sprout reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/transformers-botbots-stinkosaurus-rex-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Stinkosaurus Rex &#038; exclusive Bum Sprout reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, there's a toy and memorabilia show called Retro Con happening in Philadelphia. It's dedicated to all the properties of the '80s that nerds like us love, as you can tell from the Retro Con logo on this Optimus &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/retro-con-optimus-prime\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,130],"tags":[54,125,197,14,82,93],"class_list":["post-10561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shows","tag-ghostbusters","tag-mega-man","tag-pac-man","tag-transformers","tag-tron","tag-voltron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13719,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions\/13719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}