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SCREAMING AT 2025 HOLIDAYS!

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Or should we say Happy Halloween/Thanksgivin’ and Merry Christmas? Sorry it took so long to get back to ya, but we’ve been buried under non-stop holiday errands this year as the web’s #1 animated horror host show. Since October, we’ve hostin’ parties that scared, stuffed, and spread cheer fer numerous guests, switchin’ out countless decorations to keep pace with the back-to-back holidays, and makin’ public appearances while still findin’ every spare minute we can to finish our next episode while takin’ on other profitable ventures fer the benefit of Screaming Soup!

First off, our next episode is still on its way and will feature our unique search fer a new Phantom of the Opera to join Count Ted‘s new posse of classic monsters. Apologies it’s takin’ so long, but lots of stuff has been happenin’ behind the scenes here at Screaming Soup! HQ, and we’re movin’ as fast as an over caffeinated teen from Elm Street. Aside from havin’ to unexpectedly update our equipment earlier this year and jump on some financial opportunities we couldn’t refuse, some stuff that held up production was us takin’ a breather to create more promotional material fer Screaming Soup! and chase chances fer fundin’ we hope to use fer a hard ad blitz to get more peepers on what we’re doin’.

That said, we’re happy to announce we’re closer than ever to producin’ our first ever Screaming Soup! figures and replicas! Yessir, thanks to our diligent networkin’ and your support, 4″ Deadwest PVCs should be ready to sell next year ‘long with life size replicas of his heat slinger. Sweet, right?! Now Scream Freaks can take Deadwest wherever they go and add him to their horror host collectibles if not their favorite hodge podge team of random figures to play with from the toy chest. Or better yet, cosplay as Deadwest and carry ‘his signature sidearm that’s recreated from the show to the tiniest detail. Such an excitin’ moment fer us, and we can’t wait to use the profits fer makin’ figures of Billy and Mandy next! Only thang cooler is givin’ fans a sneak preview of the new Deadwest figure with a larger than life display at Retro-Toy Con.

Our amigos at our favorite toy store Toy Federation asked us to do the announcin’ once ‘gain at their annual Retro-Toy Con, and we were all too happy to oblige. With more toys than ever ‘fore, this was a real door buster of a weekend with the highest attendance yet. The dealer rooms were packed with toys, the lobby ‘came a jockey lot fer toy dealin’, and even rooms in the hotel were transformed into nine floors of mini-shops sellin’ anythin’ and everythin’ collectors might be lookin’ fer.

The highlight fer us, however, is always havin’ a space on the celebrity wall and gettin’ to rub elbows with all kinds of talents. All weekend, we joked with Larry Kenney, Peter Newman, and Peter Cannarozzi who were the vocal dynamos ‘hind the Thundercats and Silverhawks cartoons, got insider animation tips from Filmation/Hanna-Barbera animator Tom Cook, hung with the world’s biggest Thundercats fan Sean “Buddha” McKeone (promoting his new collector’s guide for any and all merch related to Thundercats, Silverhawks, and Tigersharks called Hall of Omens: Thunder-Verse!), meet wrasslin’ legend Matt Cardona, swap stories with James Saito who was the first to play Shredder in a live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles flick, talk cartoons with actor Eddie Deezen (Polar Express, Dexter’s Laboratory), have dinner with Samantha Newark (Jem’s speakin’ voice on Jem and the Holograms), and even got to unexpectedly eat pizza with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle actors Brian Tochi (voice of Leonardo from the first three live-action TMNT movies), and Kenn Scott (Raphael suit actor from TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze). Add all that action with us hostin’ the discussion panels that included the Thundercats reunion, sittin’ down to two straight nights of VIP celebrity suppers, singin’ karaoke, coordinatin’ local TV news coverage, and doin’ some interviews of our own — it was a busy fun time! The biggest highlights fer us had to be Jem callin’ Mandy pretty and learnin’ the Copper Kid from Silverhawks is the same synth voice ya hear in those ol’ Transformer commercials from the ’80s that says, “Transformers, Robots in Disguise.” Can’t wait to do it ‘gain next year!

So, ’til next time, Scream Freaks — Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and we’ll do our best to get our next episode under yer tree by the time Santa stops by.

Other than that, please show your support for our show with donations through Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, and Ko-fi, purchase Screaming Soup! Fan Club Kits and exclusive merch, catch up on all past Screaming Soup! Seasons, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, watch our daily TikTok movie reviews and read recent bite-size reviews for the newer horror films we’re checkin’ out in our blog R-Rated Reviews, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets (are they still called that?), subscribe to our video channels, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail comin’. You can also warm up some Screaming Soup! leftovers with reruns currently playin’ on Beta Max TV, Sluggo’s The Vortexx, and Mr. Lobo‘s OSI 74 .

See ya later, Scream Freaks!

SCREAMING AT THANKSGIVING AND RETRO-TOY CON!

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! After weeks full of holiday parties, noisy parades, and belly bustin’ dinners, most folks would double over dead from exhaustion, but not us! We dropped dead forever ago and feel more alive than EVER as Thanksgivin’ returns, encouragin’ us to admit things we’re thankful fer.

Right now, we’re most thankful for bein’ a part of Retro-Toy Con recently, which is this unbelievable toy convention thrown by our compadres over at Toy Federation. These guys know how to party, let us tell ya. Not only did they make sure to pack the dealer room with an unbelievable mix of toys from yesteryear and today rangin’ from obscure Freddy Krueger knockoffs to mainstream mainstays like Star Wars and G.I. Joe, they even booked all kinds of celebrity guests from our favorite Saturday morning cartoons, Friday the 13th Part 2, the WWE hall of fame, and let’s not forget — yer favorite animated horror host Deadwest!

Yessir, as part of the star line-up, we happily spent the weekend meetin’ you Scream Freaks who showed up while as well as tradin’ quips with wrasslers Hacksaw Jim and the Million Dollar Man, doin’ Cobra Commander impressions with Arthur Burghardt (G.I. Joe’s original Destro), sharin’ candy with Jem and the Holograms‘ Samantha Newark, slingin’ back drinks at the bar with Warrington Gillette aka the first Jason Voorhees to kill onscreen, hangin’ ten with the first gang of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles actors, Rob Paulsen, Cam Clarke, Townsend Coleman, and Barry Gordon, and catchin’ up with our amigos Mark McCray and Dan Klink from The Best Saturday Mornings of Our Lives podcast. Fanboy overload, right? Even better, we got to be Retro-Toy Con’s MC the whole time, makin’ important ’round the clock announcements while teasin’ the other guests with random messages. “Attention Hacksaw Jim. We checked, and we’re sorry, but you can’t use yer 2×4 when thumb wrasslin’ yer fans.”

Sure to go down as one of the greatest achievements of our afterlives was Rob and Arthur complimentin’ our pipes. Words can’t describe what receivin’ that kinda validation means to us comin’ from such talented voicebox dynamos. Only other moment that comes close to beatin’ it was at the end of the con, when we zipped from one cartoon superstar to the next for closin’ statements with the best one bein’ Samantha sayin’, “Show’s over, Synergy.”

This vendor had a beast of a My Pet Monster collection!

And if that weren’t ‘nough of a treat, we even had the honor of hostin’ all the celebrity panels! We asked Warrington ’bout his journey from Wall Street broker to bein’ celebrated as one of the few actors to play Jason over a little kumbaya campfire, and he pitched fans an offer to own a part of his newest flick, Bloody Social. Arthur Burghardt held our hand in shock as we revealed our interest in him takin’ us down memory lane to when he was a magic hobo in Full Moon’s Killjoy. The panel that was the most fun fer us, however, was forcin’ Hacksaw Jim and Ted “The Million Dollar Man” Dibiase to sit through a slideshow of their greatest hits in plastic as they gave their feedback on all the different toys made in their image over the years. We forgot to record our pow-wow with Arthur like dumbasses, but we’ll be sharin’ the audio from the panels with Warrington, Hacksaw, and Dibiase ‘fore long, so y’all can get a taste of the fun we had.

Speakin’ of yappin’ with talents, we even managed to steal Rob and Cam away from their turtle fans long ‘nough to interview ’em fer their work on the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes cartoon series for our Killer Tomato Retrospective we’ve been teasin’. Cam not only played Gangreen’s evil sidekick, Igor; he even voiced one of the killer tomatoes from the second season ‘long with Rob’s mutant veggie, Mummato. We still can’t believe our luck! We’re incredibly thankful fer their participation in our project and can’t wait to add their clips of ’em playin’ with their mutant tomato chew toys with everyone else’s stories of bein’ in such a wonderfully wacky series.

Speakin’ of the Killer Tomatoes Retrospective — UPDATE — We’re comin’ closer and closer to completin’ this bucket list of a dream project. Editin’ is just ’bout done, the animation shouldn’t take too long, and after we drop in the soundtrack –POW! We hope to have this sucker out there for y’all to enjoy ‘fore Valentine’s Day! What could be sweeter than the first ever behind-the-scenes feature of anythin’ and everythin’ Killer Tomatoes with ’bout 20 interviews of nearly everyone involved from the filmmakers to the cast and crew?! We can’t wait!

Other than that, please show your support for our show with donations through Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, and Ko-fi, catch up on all past Screaming Soup! Seasons, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films and comics we’re checkin’ out in our blogs, R-Rated Reviews and Sequential Slime, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our video channels, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail comin’. You can also warm up some Screaming Soup! leftovers with reruns currently playin’ on Beta Max TV, Sluggo’s The Vortexx, and Mr. Lobo‘s OSI 74 .