Camp Wayback

Fire up the semi, turn that hat backwards, and get ready to meet us OVER THE TOP! 💪🚛This week at Camp Wayback, Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine are heading back to 1987 for one of the most gloriously ’80s movies ever committed to film: Sylvester Stallone’s Over the Top. It’s got big rigs, bigger biceps, daddy issues, Kenny Loggins, and an arm-wrestling tournament treated with the intensity of the Super Bowl, WrestleMania, and Rocky IV combined.But after all these years, does Over the

Just when you thought it was safe to put the toys back in the box… WE FOUND ANOTHER ONE.Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine are back for Part 2 of Camp Wayback’s Ultimate ’80s Toy Rewind, because there was absolutely NO WAY we could cram an entire decade of plastic-fueled childhood obsession into one episode.We’re heading even deeper into the toy aisles of the 1980s to remember the action figures, playsets, vehicles, cartoons, commercials, and completely ridiculous toys that somehow convinced

Before Michael Myers returned in Halloween 4, there were other paths back to Haddonfield—and we’re opening the vault on the movies we almost got! Welcome to the debut of Mookie’s Matinee, the horror-centric side of Camp Wayback, where the nostalgia runs deep and the things lurking around camp aren’t always the counselors.For our first screening, we’re exploring the unmade Halloween 4 concepts and alternate directions that could have changed Michael Myers’ legacy. We’re talking unrealized

What happens when three grown men with an unhealthy attachment to the 1980s are given an imaginary Hollywood budget, absolutely no adult supervision, and access to some of the greatest characters of the decade?You get THE MASTER OF CRYSTAL LAKE.This week around the Camp Wayback fire, Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine are heading into the pitch meeting for the completely ridiculous ’80s crossover movie we never knew we needed.Our story begins when Clark Griswold heads to Camp Crystal Lake

This week, Camp Wayback is heading back to a time when Saturday morning cartoons were basically 30-minute toy commercials, Christmas catalogs were sacred texts, and nothing hurt worse than hearing the words “Put that back—we’re not buying anything today.”Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine are cracking open the toy box for Part 1 of our Ultimate ’80s Toy Rewind! We’re revisiting the action figures, vehicles, playsets, cartoons, commercials, and ridiculously awesome toy aisles that helped

Welcome to Camp Wayback—where the campfire is always burning, the VHS tapes are always rewound, and growing up is completely optional.For our very first episode, we’re settling one of the most important questions imaginable: If you could build the ultimate ’80s movie using characters from ANY movie of the decade… who would you draft?We’re assembling our dream movies one pick at a time, drafting the hero, leading lady, villain, mentor, and sidekickfrom the greatest decade in movie history. From

This week, Camp Wayback is cracking open the canisters, cranking up the punk rock, and making one very important discovery: BRAINS!Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine head back to 1985 for Return of the Living Dead, the gloriously unhinged horror-comedy that gave us talking zombies, Trioxin 245, one unforgettable cemetery party, and an entirely new reason to be terrified of the words “send more paramedics.” But beneath all the gore, laughs, and Linnea Quigley, is a movie that helped redefine