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Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors: The 1980s Cartoon That Deserved a Real Ending

September 23, 2026September 23, 2026 Serpentorslair Staff1980s cartoons, 1985 animated series, 80s action cartoons, Armed Force vehicle, cartoons that deserve a reboot, classic Saturday morning cartoons, classic toy cartoons, DIC cartoons, Escape from the Garden of Evil, J Michael Straczynski, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors cartoon, Lightning League, Mattel Wheeled Warriors, Monster Minds, nostalgic television, Retro cartoons, Saw Boss, SEOs: Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Serpentor’s Lair, Wheeled Warriors toy line0 comment

“Thundering across the stars to save the universe from the Monster Minds!” If those words immediately triggered a guitar riff somewhere in your memory, then you already understand why Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors deserves another spin on today’s nostalgic watchlist. Premiering in 1985, this animated science-fiction adventure arrived during the golden age of toy-driven cartoons. It shared television space with giants such as G.I. Joe, Transformers, ThunderCats, and M.A.S.K. Yet despite having transforming vehicles, terrifying villains, a memorable theme song, and a galaxy-spanning storyline, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors…

“The Traitor Pt. 2” REVIEW ON HALF THE BATTLE!

September 22, 2026September 22, 2026 Serpentorslair Staffaction figures, G.I.Joe, Hasbro0 comment

On this weeks episode of G.I. Joe Half The Battle, We review the Sunbow G.I. Joe Cartoon Episode, “The Traitor Pt. 2!” Check out this week’s video below and join in the conversation. And as always be sure and subscribe to my YouTube channel for all my latest videos!

The Joe That Sunbow Forgot! | G.I. Joe: Cobra Stops the World | G.I. Retro with Destro Designs

September 22, 2026September 22, 2026 Serpentorslair Staffaction figures, G.I.Joe, Hasbro0 comment

Cobra shuts down the world’s fuel supply, and it’s up to the Joes to stop them! Including a G.I. Joe hero that Sunbow created only to unceremoniously forget him?! I am joined this week by Destro Designs to break it all down.Be sure to follow him and all his exploits! YouTube AND Twitter: @destrodesigns Who is YOUR pick for MVP?What was YOUR favorite DYD moment?Who was YOUR pick for Foul-Up?New here? G.I. Retro is a weekly rewatch of the classic Sunbow G.I. Joe cartoon, one episode at a time. Subscribe…

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40 Years Later, The Transformers: The Movie Is Better Than We Remember

September 21, 2026September 21, 2026 Serpentorslair StaffOptimus Prime death, Rodimus Prime, The Transformers The Movie 1986, Transformers 40th anniversary 2026, Transformers G1 movie, Transformers Movie 1986 retrospective, Transformers movie soundtrack, Transformers The Movie 40th anniversary, Transformers The Movie 4K, Unicron Transformers1 Comment

Forty years ago, The Transformers: The Movie did something almost unthinkable for a film based on a Saturday-morning toy franchise: it treated its world as though everything actually mattered. Characters could die. Leaders could fall. Villains could evolve. Entire planets could disappear. Released in 1986, the movie was initially a theatrical disappointment, but time has been extraordinarily kind to it. Four decades later, Hasbro and Fathom Entertainment have returned the film to theaters in a newly restored 4K presentation for its 40th anniversary. Watching it today reveals something surprising. This…

CAL-EL Customs and Why Our Carded King Is Important to Our Community

September 21, 2026September 21, 2026 Serpentorslair Staffaction figures, G.I.Joe0 comment

By Destro Designs – Viper Den Studios About two weeks ago, I opened the Twitter app to find myself and three other members of the community immortalized in 3¾-inch form. I was fucking blown away. The character’s head looked crazily like me, complete with sunglasses. It also had a freaking Destro head! And the weaponry honestly looked like it had been chosen straight from my own personal arsenal. The more I looked at it, the more I thought, This is absolutely perfect. Flawless, even. After checking out the rest of…

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Ruth Lucas — Classic Pinup Influence, Colored-Pencil Elegance, and a Style All Her Own

September 21, 2026September 21, 2026 Serpentorslair Staff0 comment

Ruth Lucas creates the kind of artwork that rewards a second look. At first glance, her work immediately calls back to the golden tradition of pinup illustration—the glamour, confidence, expressive posing, and larger-than-life personalities associated with artists such as Olivia De Berardinis, Alberto Vargas, Gil Elvgren, and George Petty. Look closer, however, and what emerges is an artist who is not simply recreating that tradition, but actively reshaping it through her own voice. Lucas works primarily in colored pencil, building her images through multiple light layers that give the finished…

The Rainbow Berry Smelling Case of Strawberry Shortcake V Rainbow Brite

September 20, 2026September 20, 2026 Serpentorslair Staff1980s animated specials, 1980s cartoon nostalgia, 1980s toy rivalry, Kenner Strawberry Shortcake dolls, Mattel Rainbow Brite dolls, Rainbow Brite history, retro toy collecting, Strawberry Shortcake history, Strawberry Shortcake vs Rainbow Brite, vintage girls toys0 comment

By R.A. Rayne Move over, Harding-Kerrigan, Perry-Swift, Jem-Barbie. The biggest female celebrity rivalry started in the greeting card industry. This all started way back in 1972, when American Greetings published a Laurel Valentine’s Day card created by Barbi Sargent. The first image, titled Girl with a Daisy (Strawberry Girl), showed her holding a daisy and wearing an orange hat with a strawberry pattern. The card was a big hit, so popular that Rex Conners, the staff art director at American Greetings, asked Sargent to create more cards featuring the girl…

BATMAN DAY 2026: 87 Years Later, the Dark Knight Still Owns the Night

September 19, 2026September 19, 2026 Serpentorslair Staff#BatmanDay #BatmanDay2026 #Batman #DarkKnight #BruceWayne #DCComics #GothamCity #Batman89 #BatmanTheAnimatedSeries #ComicBooks0 comment

Batman of Two Worlds is the centerpiece of Batman Day 2026. Image: DC. There are superheroes, there are pop-culture icons—and then there is Batman. Today, September 19, 2026, is Batman Day, DC’s worldwide celebration of the Caped Crusader. Comic shops, collectors, readers, gamers and generations of fans are once again gathering around one of the most recognizable fictional characters ever created. This year’s festivities arrive 87 years after Batman first emerged from the shadows, yet somehow the Dark Knight feels every bit as relevant as he ever has. Batman first…

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ROCKSTEADY AND BEBOP O-RING FIGURE PRE-ORDERS LIVE!

September 18, 2026September 18, 2026 Serpentorslair Staff1987 TMNT cartoon toys, Bebop and Rocksteady action figures, ReAction Plus TMNT wave 2, retro TMNT figures, Super7 ReAction Plus, Super7 TMNT pre-order, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collectibles, TMNT Bebop figure, TMNT Rocksteady figure, TMNT villain collectibles0 comment

Super7 is bringing the chaos of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon straight to collectors with new ReAction+ figures of Bebop and Rocksteady. These retro-inspired 4-inch figures capture two of Shredder’s most unforgettable mutant henchmen with classic animated styling, multiple points of articulation, and character-specific accessories that make them a must-have for TMNT fans. Whether you’re building out a vintage-inspired display or adding more villains to your shelf, these pre-orders are a fun blast of Turtle nostalgia. Well, well. Look who’s here. (Snort!) Catch Bepob as a ReAction+ Figure!…

Put Down That Bag of Bricks

September 17, 2026September 17, 2026 Serpentorslair Staffaction figure community, collector mental health, Destro Designs, Destro G.I. Joe, Destro Is My Spirit Animal, friendship and mental health, G.I. Joe collectors, Mark Fogarty, men talking about mental health, mental health awareness, nostalgia community, online collector community, toy collecting community, Toy Collector Community, Viper Den Studios1 Comment

By Destro Designs – Viper Den Studios My brother Mark Fogarty dropped a video today chronicling the story of how his channel became Destro Is My Spirit Animal. It’s a very personal, revealing story, and I give him a ton of props for having the courage to share it. And here’s why. In this incredible community we have on Twitter, one of the things that makes us so cohesive—and makes this such a great place to be—is that openness is rewarded with positivity and encouragement. It’s a huge thing in…

When the Cameras Stopped: How Crissy Moran Walked Away From Porn, Found Christ, and Made Her Past a Mission

September 17, 2026September 17, 2026 Serpentorslair StaffChristian redemption stories, Crissy Moran, Crissy Moran Christian testimony, Crissy Moran porn industry, Crissy Moran Treasures ministry, Crissy Outlaw, former porn star finds Christ, porn industry testimony, pornography and Christianity, women leaving the porn industry0 comment

There was a time when Crissy Moran’s face was part of an industry built to make people look larger than life. Beginning in 1999, Moran entered adult entertainment through the internet, initially posting ordinary modeling photographs online while looking for paid work. According to her later account to Christianity Today, offers for nude modeling soon followed. She initially refused them. After a painful breakup, however, she accepted one—and what began as modeling rapidly became something much larger. Moran eventually worked across several corners of the adult-entertainment business. She modeled, appeared…

Speedy Gonzales at 71: Celebrating the Fastest Mouse in All Mexico

September 17, 2026September 17, 2026 Serpentorslair Staff1950s cartoons, Classic animation, classic cartoons, fastest mouse in Mexico, Friz Freleng, Looney Tunes, Looney Tunes history, Mel Blanc, Merrie Melodies, Robert McKimson, Speedy Gonzales, Speedy Gonzales 1955, Speedy Gonzales 71st anniversary, Speedy Gonzales birthday, Speedy Gonzales cartoons, Speedy Gonzales history, Speedy Gonzales legacy, Sylvester the Cat, Warner Bros Animation, Warner Bros cartoons0 comment

On September 17, 1955, a tiny mouse in an oversized yellow sombrero raced onto movie screens and straight into animation history. Seventy-one years later, Speedy Gonzales remains one of the most instantly recognizable characters to emerge from the golden age of Warner Bros. animation. Although September 17 marks the anniversary of the Speedy audiences recognize today, his story actually began two years earlier. Before He Was an Icon Speedy’s earliest incarnation appeared in the Merrie Melodies short Cat-Tails for Two, released August 29, 1953 and directed by Robert McKimson. That…

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September 17, 1984: The Day The Transformers Changed Pop Culture Forever

September 17, 2026September 17, 2026 Serpentorslair Staff1980s cartoons, Autobots, Decepticons, G1 Transformers, Megatron, More Than Meets the Eye 1984, Optimus Prime, The Transformers 42nd Anniversary, The Transformers G1, Transformers 1984 Cartoon, Transformers 42 Years, Transformers Anniversary 2026, Transformers Cartoon Anniversary, Transformers Generation One, Transformers nostalgia, Transformers September 17 19840 comment

On September 17, 1984, American television audiences were introduced to a war that had already raged for millions of years. Its combatants were not human. They were enormous, sentient machines from the distant planet Cybertron—warriors capable of disguising themselves as automobiles, aircraft, weapons and other machines. On one side stood the Autobots, led by the principled and commanding Optimus Prime. On the other were the Decepticons, ruled by the ruthless Megatron. The first episode was called “More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1,” and few titles in television history have…

September 17, 1951: Cassandra Peterson at 75 — The Woman, the Wit and the Wickedly Sexy Legacy of Elvira

September 17, 2026September 17, 2026 Serpentorslair StaffCassandra Peterson, Cassandra Peterson 75th Birthday, Cassandra Peterson Biography, Elvira 1980s, Elvira 75th Birthday, Elvira Horror Icon, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Elvira Mistress of the Dark 1988, Elvira Movie Macabre, Queen of Halloween0 comment

For more than four decades, she has appeared every autumn like a glamorous emissary from some wonderfully inappropriate corner of the underworld: towering black hair, impossibly plunging gown, scarlet lips, dagger at her waist and a one-liner usually sharp enough to draw blood. But Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, was never simply a costume. Behind one of the most recognizable characters in modern horror stands Cassandra Peterson—a comedian, writer, performer, businesswoman and former Las Vegas showgirl whose improbable career carried her from Kansas to the Strip, across Europe, through Los…

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Comparing Physical Media Organizational Apps For Collectors!

September 17, 2026September 17, 2026 Serpentorslair StaffCollector Organization Apps, Physical Media Collection Apps0 comment

Story by @GIJoeRepairShop Over the past few years, this author has been constructing a large vinyl record library. At the same time, this author has been reconstructing a large CD collection that got wiped out in a basement flood in the late 1990s. (The same flood destroyed my comic book collection and ninety-nine percent of my GI Joe collection. I’ve successfully rebuilt both collections over the past two decades.) One thing that always was a hassle was being in a record store and not knowing whether or not I had…