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It's that time again TruffleShuffle fans!!

Yep for a few weeks now we've been going around the office picking on people selecting a lucky member of staff to take the plunge and answer some hot burning questions on here our wonderful retro blog.

This week is the turn of a TruffleShuffle veteran Lee to take the hot seat and tell us all about himself an what he does here in the weird and wonderful world of TruffleShuffle. Sit back and enjoy everyone!

What do you do here at Truffle Towers?

I’m the in house Product Photographer.

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Calling all Supermen, Calling all Wonder Women, Calling all Spider-Men, its National Comic Book day. It’s time for all of us Nerds and Geeks to Unite and march to our nearest comic book store and buy all the comics, all the graphic novels and all the super merch you can carry, to celebrate our united love of all things comic book related. To celebrate this day I’m not going to shout about Superman, I’m not going to blab on about Batman or waffle on about Wonder Woman. I’m going to give you a little insight about the underdog heros, The ones who (thankfully) never made it and fell into comic obscurity.

Check out some of our top not so super, Superheroes......

The Legion of the Superpets

In the late 1950s and the early 1960s DC just kind of got weird. They kept introducing all these super intelligent animals with the same superpowers as Superman who all wore red capes. The first was Krypto the Superdog who was sent to earth by Superman’s father Jor-El in a test rocket before he sent Superman to make sure it worked alright. Superman and Krypto were reunited on earth when Superman was a teenager and they fought crime together.

Next was Beppo the Supermonkey. Beppo had pretty much the same story. Jor-El also sent a monkey to make sure the rocket would work. Everybody knows that comics need a chimp, so Beppo provided comic relief by wearing a Superman costume.

The next was Streaky the Supercat. Now Streaky wasn’t sent from Krypton in a rocket but was infected by something called X-Kryptonite which gave earth animals superpowers. Finally came Comet the Superhorse. Comet was an alien horse that was really a centaur who had a curse put on him by some scorned goddess (or something like that) and turned human once a year when a comet passed through Earth’s atmosphere and would romance Supergirl in human form, but the rest of the year was nothing but her pet horse (holy Catherine the Great Batman!). Anyways, these animals eventually joined forces to become the Legion of the Superpets. I swear to god. Ok you hit your head against the desk now, that bits over.

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With 2013’s Festival season soon coming to a close (boooo!), we thought we would take a quick look back at some of the highlights that helped to make this summer just soooo amazing! Check out the TruffleShuffle top Festivals moments of 2013!

BoomTown Festival Crazyness

First up is BoomTown Festival. Advertised as the UK’s maddest city it, defiantly didn’t disappoint! Split up into different towns such as Old Town, Mayfair, Down Town and Trench Town, each offering their own themes and music styles from Ska, Gypsy Jazz, Reggae and Drum n Bass. The people where crazy and the music was amazing, check out this promo video from this year’s festival to see what you missed if you weren’t there with us.

Stone Roses at Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight Festival’s opening headline act The Stone Roses prove they truly are the resurrection as they reunite and leave fans in awe as they kick off the festival with classics as “I wanna be adored” and “Fools Gold” and “I am the resurrection”. Such a moment!

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Ever wanted to fly like Superman? Have awesome gadgets like The Batman or even hop into the ring like Rocky? Well with our new Superhero Snugglers you can be a step closer to that dream and put your feet up and drink tea (milk and one please!). At least you’ll have an easier time looking like your heroes than some of these crazy cats as I reveal some of my favourite ever Cosplay.....fails.

1)      Looks like Tony Stark was felt the credit crunch while making the new Iron Man suit.

2)      On second thoughts, maybe George Lucas needed just a pinch more CGI

3)       Wonder (how many pies?) Woman

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And in the blue Corner, the birthday boy, weighing in at 202 lbs, from the great city of New York, The Italian Stallion, Sylvester Stallooooone!

Yes if you haven't already heard, it's Rambo himself’s birthday! To honour one of our favourite action stars on his b-day, I decided to put together my Top Five Stallone movie moments for all you guys (and gals!) to remember and enjoy all over again!

Let's take peep...

1 Over the Top

2 Cliffhanger opening scene

3 Rambo final scene

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Happy Sunday everyone! Hope we're all having a good time, full of fry-ups, lie ins and perhaps the odd retro movie or three :)

If you're as big a Labyrinth fan as I am, you’ll make any excuse to watch this timeless fairytale adventure. So here’s a few little known facts to tempt you back into the magical world that is Jareths Labyrinth. The secret is that there are seven hidden faces of Jareth (David Bowie) dotted around this magical maze. If didn't know this, then read on and I shall reveal all.

Take a look at some of the random times the face of our retro hero David Bowie pops up that you might not have noticed before.

1. The first face appears as soon as Sarah enters the Labyrinth (after talking to the little blue ello worm).

2. After the tunnel cleaners scene, Hoggle and Sarah climb a ladder. Hoggle steps on a weak rung and it breaks. As they show the rung falling, Jareth’s face appears among the rocks.

3. After talking to the wiseman, Sarah and Hoggle walk through a hedge maze. Jareth’s face is on the floor, to the left of the obelisk.

4. In the scene after Sarah frees Ludo, Hoggle is seen walking off and muttering, “She’ll never get through the Labyrinth.”Jareth’s face appears on the top left hand corner.

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