The Weekly Links: 'Bachelor Party' Sitcom, Spaceballs Interstellar Mashup, Why 1984 Had The Best Music Ever

Welcome to another edition of The Weekly Links, your weekly source for the best '80s content on the web! If you visited RD80s this week, you probably saw the rad Atari 2600 box art I found that could have doubled as horror movie posters. Really miss that original art we used to get on boxes for our toys, video games, and even lunch boxes. I also shared earlier this week the Saving Ferris documentary that chronicles the filming locations throughout Chicago. Really love then-and-now shots and this film is full of them. Also, congrats to our friends over at Pop Rewind on their new podcast! I will definitely be listening.

There were a couple videos battling out for the coveted title of Video of the Week (eh, who am I kiddin', I just flipped a coin.) The video left standing that UPROXX brought to my attention features a bunch of today's teenagers reacting to '80s fashion. It's a little over-the-top but was still fun to anticipate what they were going to show them. We all could use a little more neon in our wardrobes, right?

TWL Video of the Week

"Teens React To 80's Fashion" by TheFineBros

Here are the rest of this week's links...

MOVIES

Mel Brooks' Spaceballs made into Chris Nolan's Interstellar - Gizmodo
Fantastic video recreates Ghostbusters effects using stop-motion - Gizmodo
Here’s Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade as a one-minute animated “speedrun” - The A.V. Club
'The Terminator': Read THR's 1984 Review - The Hollywood Reporter

'Flight of the Navigator' is a horror film about the terror of time dilation and missing children - Polygon

'Back to the Future' Gets 30th Anniversary Screenings With Live Orchestra - Rolling Stone

8 Reasons Why An All-Female Ghostbusters Reboot Is the Best Possible Direction - Topless Robot

Hasbro Working on 'My Little Pony' Movie - The Hollywood Reporter

TV

​The 14 Dumbest Schemes That Cobra Ever Came Up With On G.I. Joe - Kotaku

Bachelor Party also becoming a sitcom, consummating TV’s marriage to old movies - The A.V. Club
'Pee-wee's Playhouse': Top 10 Rediscoveries Upon Rewatching '80s TV Show - Huffington Post

Assembling the Dream Saturday Morning Cartoon Lineup - UnderScoopFire!

Nostalgia, Now Out On DVD, With 'Wonder Years' And 'Pee-wee' Releases - NPR

11 TV Families You Wanted to Join If You Were Born in the ’80s - Vulture
Fifteen Facts About Uncle Buck - Neatorama
It’s Looking Like Molly Ringwald Won’t Sing in Jem and the Holograms - Vulture

MUSIC

Why 1984 Was Pop Music’s Best Year Ever - Billboard

1982 British Magazine Turned Adam Ant into Comic Book Hero - Neatorama

How Spandau Ballet got its name ... and that near-miss hit from the '80s - Stuck In The 80s

Ice Cube Says N.W.A Biopic 'Straight Outta Compton' Does a 'Hell of a Job' at Depicting the Group - Billboard

'Guardians' Soundtrack To Be Released On Cassette Tape - Billboard

10 Great Guitar Riffs of 1980s New Wave & Alternative Music - Flashbak

VIDEO GAMES

Mega Man Returns With Official Capcom Plush Toys - RetroCollect
The Making Of The Revenge Of Shinobi - Retro Gamer Magazine
Now This Would've Made For A Great Mario Movie - Kotaku

CULTURE

A fond look back at terrible, store-bought Halloween costumes of yore - The A.V. Club

26 People Who Totally Won At Living In The '80s - BuzzFeed Rewind

Someone made a real hoverboard, so you should maybe get excited a little bit - Entertainment Weekly
See How Much These 59 Fireball Island Sets from Around the World are Going for on Ebay - UnderScoopFire!
It Came from Canada: Unisys ICON Computer - Pop Rewind
Atari Halloween - Plaid Stallions