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Let me just start off by saying I love John Hughes, his wonderful nostalgic and heartfelt writing has been missed by many of us since his retirement from the film industry well over 15 years ago. Sadly he passed away earlier this year, but he has left us with an incredible legacy of films and stories. One of those great gifts he left us is the Holiday Classic National Lampon's Christmas Vacation, which first unspooled in theaters across the world 20 years ago today. The film was the third installment in the highly profitable "National Lampoon's Vacation" series. The story for this particular installment first appeared in National Lampoon Magazine in December 1980 with the title "Christmas '59". John Hughes wrote the screenplay based on his original magazine story. The movie debuted at #1 at the North American box office grossing $11,750,203 during its opening weekend. It went on to gross a total of $71,319,546 in the U.S. during its theatrical run. The m...

Every year my family and I like to put together a display under the Christmas tree. Over the years we've had displays such as a nativity scene, and even an entire holiday village with a working train. My two favorite ones from recent years have been our Charlie Brown Christmas display and our Rankin / Bass Christmas specials display. Here's a look at them. A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS DISPLAY (2006): RANKIN / BASS CHRISTMAS DISPLAY (2007)

In celebration of Thanksgiving the Nostalgia Factory will be bringing you turkey-themed episodes of our favorite sitcoms all week long. Lets start things off with one of the greatest shows of all time: CHEERS. In this Season 5 episode the gang heads over to Carla's house for a Thanksgiving dinner of frozen turkey and overdone peas.

I recently got started organizing my boxes, storage bins, and closets full of Trek stuff. I have one room dedicated to the collection right now, but its kind of small. Since I don't have a lot of space to display the entire collection I'm going to start rotating it every few months. Let's take a look at the current set up featuring new movie stuff, classics from Playmates 90s toy line, and some of the awesome Art Asylum offerings. Stay tuned for Pt. 2 coming soon featuring more action figures, the 12 inch figs, dioramas, playsets, books, movies, and even some Borg bubble bath...