SpaceCamp is the single greatest movie about camps about space!!!  it’s true

how? why?

cause…

Joaquin Phoenix was Leaf Phoenix and he becames best friends with a robot named Jinx (a cross between R.O.B. and Johnny Five) who fulfills his wishes of going into space by forcing the NASA computers to send him into space 

 

Lea Thompson was never more adorable (yes, even more so than in Back To The Future and Some Kind of Wonderful)

it was Tate Donovan’s first true movie role and he looked so good in ugly 80s button-down shirts and he’s so cool and he still looks like this today, and he’s still so cool

it proved that Kate Capshaw could actually act and wasn’t juss some dumb chick Steven Spielberg married

Tom Skerritt’s mustache and Terry O’Quinn’s ‘hair’

Kelly Preston’s hair and her My Little Pony eye make-up thing goings on

 

Lamar Latrell is STRAIGHT AND IN SPACE!!!!!!!!!!

the movie was actually kinda thrilling and terrifying, and probably most so cause it was made before the Challenger disaster and was released five months after it.  YIKES!!!

but mainly SpaceCamp is awesome cause it represents perhaps the final time when Americans were excited about space and camp and space camps

and in general, the movie is juss dang fun!

Joan Fernbacher, the manager of the Candy Alley candy store in Brentwood, watches some fast trading of Garbage Pail Kids cards. from left are the Abrams kids -Matthew, 8, Jonathan, 10, Benjamin, 5, and Susan, 6.  photograph caption dated February 23, 1986 probably from this article

Garbage Pail Kids: Trash Collection or Good Humor?

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Art Spiegelman on the Birth of Garbage Pail Kids

This sticker was celebrating the fact that on January 28, 1986, Christa McAuliffe would be the first civillian teacher to ‘go into space’ aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger [flickr via Glaspoppy]

Mrs Nancy Reagan is joined by Kristeen Reft, 9, of Kodiak Island, Alaska, left, and Laurence Honore of Herdville, France, center, as all three wave from the crown of the Statue of Liberty during reopening ceremonies on Saturday, July 5, 1986 in New York. The Statue was closed do the public for a year for renovation

+ 103 more awesomely huge and awesome Lady Lib pics!!

perv-iously – Crowning Around

Daffy Qaddafi

Malice In Wonderland

Comics Unlimited – 1986

This scathing political satire stars Moammar Qaddafi, the mad dog of the Middle East, as his dreams are invaded by a politically correct Daffy Duck. Daffy becomes a biting commentator intent on tearing down the illusions Qaddafi has built to fool his people and himself. Defeated by Reagan, small children, and by his own words, Qaddafi shows his true face, that of a foolish zealot and a mad-dog terrorist.

This is a one-shot book, published at the height of American anger over Qaddafi and his regime in Libya. The book is well researched, often drawing on news reports and making light of Qaddafi’s “Green Book.” The comical, insulting sketches of Qaddafi and the inventive use of Daffy as the omnipotent voice of reason makes for a historically appealing and amusing comic.

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wait, wouldn’t the name ‘Qaddafi Duck’ make a lot more sense?