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Waca Waca Waca! Another retro movie weekend is before us!

Like one of the most dedicated retro gamers in the land, we find ourselves faced with some of the coolest 8-bit adventure goodness. Snacks at the ready, we'll limber up our fingers before button bashing our way to the 'big boss'. Fighting with everything we've got, we'll lean side to side before finally throwing the controller in the air (cable keeping it firmly away from the ceiling) as we throw the winning move and they admit defeat.

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 17th September

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Happy Roald Dahl Day everyone! Can you believe it?! 2016 marks a whizzpopping 100 years since the birth of one of our childhood heroes and the world’s number one storyteller, Roald Dahl.

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Wha wha wha whaaaat! Another retro movie weekend so soon? Well okay!

Like one of the most experienced and battle-hardened secret agents, we find ourselves getting geared up for another undercover mission in a far and strange land. As we pack only the very essential essentials, we'll begin to wonder who we will become and which new world we will be infiltrating to find out the biggest kept secrets. Perhaps we'll be a doctor? A potential investor or perhaps a waiter? Whoever we'll soon become, we will be leaving our current life and self behind in search of the facts, if only for a while.

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SATURDAY 10th September

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Cheese and crackers! It's only another retro movie weekend full of nostalgia, fun and plenty of dodgy effects! Yep....believe it.

In a world of ever increasing screen revolutions, gigidybits, brandywidths and not forgetting those RAMs.....whatever they are, we find ourselves looking back to the past to remember the simpler times where you simply knocked on a door, popped outside to see who was 'out' and perhaps...for the braver of people, rang the landline *shiver*. Back then life wasn't through a profile or being constantly captured for people to see (thankfully!) but instead we created our very own fun. Invented games in the street, hung out in the coolest parents house (who would let us) and of course....wreaked havoc! Good times.

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SATURDAY 9th July

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Chilli and rice! It's another extra long retro movie filled weekend?! Well....if we must!

So like one of the most talented and determined ice sculptors in the land, we find ourselves faced with a big block pure and clean ice acting as our blank canvas. With our mind racing with the possibilities, we'll begin to chip and chisel away at the super cooled goodness as we create one of our finest pieces. We'll rub and scrape our work into everything we imagined fully in the knowledge of it's impending doom. While it might melt and disappear in front of our eyes like each and every retro movie weekend, what will remain are the memories and experience of what once was. So how will you shape your ice?

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SATURDAY 30th April

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Great Barrier Reef! It's the weekend so soon?! Must be time for another Retro Movie Rundown then huh!

Like an eager and oh-so clever Octopus working it's way around the coral, we're using our cunning and many talents to hunt down some of the coolest and most retro films ever. We'll silently maneuver our way around the brightly coloured other worldly looking plants and rock before targeting in one our unsuspecting prey, launching quick as a flash and grabbing into our favourite films with all eight arms ready to feed our ever-growing hunger for 80s and 90s awesomeness.

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 11th April

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