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The Sleepover Retro Countdown Show

The Sleepover Retro Countdown Show

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“Where nostalgia competes for the top spot.” 🏆 From the VHS aisles to the Saturday-morning toy shelves, The Sleepover Retro Countdown Show rewinds the analog past one list at a time. Hosts Rob and Guido—the retro archivists behind Sleepover Trading Co.—dig through decades of movies, music, toys, comics, commercials, and more to build definitive Top 10 countdowns celebrating the weird, wonderful, and occasionally warped corners of pop culture. Each week, they each bring five picks, debate their merits, and rank the results into one final “Sleepover Top Ten," and every episode is a time-traveling mixtape for VHS kids, mall rats, and midnight movie fans alike. 📼 Presented by Sleepover Trading Co. — be kind, rewind your childhood. 🔗 Follow: sleepovertrading.com | @SleepoverTradingCopyright Someone's Favorite Productions Art Social Sciences
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  • Ryan Verrill Is Changing How You Watch Movies + Physical Media We'd Save From a Burning Building

    Ryan Verrill Is Changing How You Watch Movies + Physical Media We'd Save From a Burning Building
    Jun 25 2026
    The Sleepover Retro Countdown Show - Episode 13

    Rob and Guido step outside the usual format this week for a long conversation with Ryan Verrill, one of the most trusted voices in physical media.

    Ryan is the man behind:
    - The Disc Connected, the collector hub turned community
    - The Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network
    - The Physical Media Advocate magazine
    - Antenna Releasing, his new distribution label

    He talks about reimagining how movies reach people, building third spaces for fans of the medium, and walking away from a 17-year career to give filmmakers a fairer deal.

    Our countdown runs underneath the interview. The challenge: the physical media releases from the last 10 years all three would save from a burning building (after the kids and pets, for the record).

    What made it out:
    1. 🔪 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4K UHD Steelbook Collection (Warner Bros)
    2. 2. ⚔️ He-Man and She-Ra: The Eternia Collection (Turbine Media)
    3. 3. 🧀 Mandy on VHS, Cheddar Goblin cover (Witter Entertainment)
    4. 4. 🕷️ The Spider Labyrinth 4K (Severin)
    5. 5. 🌾 All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)
    6. 6. 🌌 Cloud Atlas 4K (Shout! Factory)
    7. 7. 🐈‍⬛ Felidae 4K (Def Crocodile)
    8. 8. 🌲 The Blair Witch Project Limited Edition Blu-ray (Second Sight)
    9. 9. 📼 Scream 4 on VHS (Lionsgate)

    Follow Ryan at https://antennareleasing.com and across The Disc Connected, Someone's Favorite Productions, and the Physical Media Advocate.

    Join the Sleepover Video Club on Discord: https://discord.gg/VDUxa7MdQs
    Recorded by Sleepover Trading Co. Be kind. Rewind your childhood.

    The Sleepover Retro Countdown Show is a part of the Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network. To listen to other podcasts from the network, please click here!
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Top 10 Treasures from Our Long Island Retro Toy Hunt

    Top 10 Treasures from Our Long Island Retro Toy Hunt
    Jun 11 2026
    Hosts Rob and Guido are on the same screen for the first time as they count down the top 10 treasures from their Long Island retro toy hunt. Vintage toys, mint-on-card action figures, rare VHS tapes, horror merchandise, and video store ephemera all fight for shelf space in this haul.The rules this week: every pick must come from one single day trip to Long Island, with stops at three retro toy stores that were all new to the hosts: Long Island Pickers in Westbury, Time Warp Toys inside Retro Relics in Lake Grove, and Lost Toys in Miller Place.

    Fuel for the hunt came courtesy of The Haunted House of Hamburgers, the horror-themed diner with blacklights, animatronics, and horror movies always playing.

    The picks, in no particular order:
    1. 📚 The Shadow and The Phantom movie novelizations (Long Island Pickers, Westbury). Matching paperback tie-ins from the '90s pulp hero revival that followed Dick Tracy, complete with glow-green fonts that make them look like one shared universe.
    2. 🎉 Princess of Power honeycomb centerpiece party decoration (Time Warp Toys inside Retro Relics, Lake Grove). Sealed in original packaging. She-Ra party ephemera that was designed to be used once and thrown away, which is exactly why it survives so rarely.
    3. 📼 Torso on VHS (Long Island Pickers). Starring Kathleen Robertson, Callum Keith Rennie, Brenda Fricker, and Victor Garber. One tape standing in for a haul of roughly 80 direct-to-video '90s thrillers, most of which never made it to streaming and qualify as semi-lost media.
    4. 🎸 Rock 'n Curl Jem in box (Lost Toys, Miller Place). The big-hair variant of Hasbro's Jem with the full fashion illustration poster included, plastic window intact.
    5. 🃏 G.I. Joe Hydro Viper backing card (Time Warp Toys). A 1988 figure grail finally completed. The loose figure came from New Jersey; the card art that started the obsession came from a bin of Joe card backs on Long Island.
    6. 🕯️ Scream candle holders by Fun World, 1997 (Time Warp Toys). Original packaging with red candles intact. Early horror merchandising from the company that made the Ghostface mask itself, released back when the movie studio wasn't even credited on the package.
    7. 🪓 The Ripper from Last Action Hero, mint on card (Lost Toys). The ax-swinging Mattel figure returns to the countdown, played on screen by the late Tom Noonan. Great figure, legendarily lazy back-of-card art.
    8. 👻 Spooks the Heroic Ghostling from Tonka's Supernaturals (Lost Toys). Hologram-faced figures on die-cut spooky-tree cards, no cartoon to back them up, and the start of a quest to collect the entire line.
    9. 📺 Double-sided cardboard video store hanging ad from Virgin Vision (Time Warp Toys). Salaam Bombay! on one side, Edge of Sanity starring Anthony Perkins on the other. An Oscar-nominated Mira Nair drama and a cocaine-powered Jekyll and Hyde riff, united only by their distributor. Found hanging from the ceiling, retrieved by machete, and soon to hang in the Sleepover Trading Co. video store.
    10. 🏰 Complete Masters of the Universe Fright Zone playset (Lost Toys). Trees, gate, trap floor, and monster hand puppet all intact. That leaves only Eternia between Guido and a complete vintage MOTU playset collection.
    • 🎙️ Part of the Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network
    • 🎬 Recorded at the historic Community Theatre on Main Street in Catskill, NY
    • 🏪 Visit the shop: Sleepover Trading Co., inside the Community Theatre, Catskill, NY. VHS, Blu-ray, 4K, vintage toys, comics, trading cards, and the Video Club membership
    • 🌐 Follow along: sleepovertrading.com and @sleepovertrading
    If you made it this far into the episode, you belong in the Video Club Discord. Come through: https://discord.gg/VDUxa7MdQsRecorded by Sleepover Trading Co. Be kind. Rewind your childhood.

    The Sleepover Retro Countdown Show is a part of the Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network. To listen to other podcasts from the network, please click here!
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    26 mins
  • Don't Walk Off the Ride 🎢 Interview w/ Joshua Bailey, Director - Stolen Kingdom + Top 5 Disney Rides

    Don't Walk Off the Ride 🎢 Interview w/ Joshua Bailey, Director - Stolen Kingdom + Top 5 Disney Rides
    May 25 2026
    The Sleepover Retro Countdown Show
    Episode 111: Joshua Bailey, Director of Stolen Kingdom

    Stolen Kingdom, out now from Antenna Releasing, is a documentary about the people who snuck into the backstage areas of Walt Disney World, built a black market for stolen Disney animatronics and ride vehicles, and got caught on camera doing it. Director Joshua Bailey spent five years making it. In this episode: how a generation of Disney urban explorers pioneered YouTube vlogging before anyone knew what that was, how a stolen animatronic from an abandoned attraction became the center of an unsolved crime, and what it takes to get confessed thieves to sit down for a documentary interview. Plus: interrogation footage obtained via public records request, the psychology of Disney prop collecting, and whether the whole underground scene is dead or just quiet. Joshua also counts down his five favorite Disney attractions of all time. T

    opics: Walt Disney World urban exploring · Disney prop black market · stolen animatronics · theme park crime · Disney YouTube history · documentary filmmaking · VHS collecting · true crime · theme park memorabilia

    Stolen Kingdom is on the Letterboxd video store now. Amazon rental begins June 16. Physical and VHS release early 2027. J

    oin the Video Club Discord: https://discord.gg/VDUxa7MdQs
    sleepovertrading.com

    The Sleepover Retro Countdown Show is a part of the Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network. To listen to other podcasts from the network, please click here!
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    46 mins
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