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Year: 2019

What Happened to Sporty Dad?

It’s been a while since I have posted anything about being a sporty dad, but that does not mean I have been living the sporty dad life…(that sounds weird). Since my last Sporty Dad post, I have run a few races, did a Spartan race, and I did not run the Chicago marathon. That is…
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May 15, 2019
A&A Ballet Presents Sleeping Beauty

Disclaimer: The Fandads were invited to A&A Ballet’s Presentation of Sleeping Beauty. All thoughts, opinions, and wonderment are our own. Attending a ballet performance is not something that we do that often in our family. When my daughter was younger she took ballet classes and we attended two recitals in her short ballet career. Even…
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May 7, 2019
Avengers: Endgame Mini-Review and Our Favorite Moments

Marvel Studio’s Avengers: Endgame is the culmination of 21 Marvel movies all leading to the 22nd that wraps up the Infinity Stone Saga. Now while we are hoping many of our readers have seen the movie by now, we know that this may not be the case. We have a mini non-spoiler review for those…
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May 4, 2019
Enter the Hidden World with How to Train Your Dragon

Disclaimer: The Fandads were provided with a giveaway copy in exchange for promoting the home release of How to Train Your Dragon. All thoughts, opinions, and dragon wrangling are our own. Who would have known that a series about a young boy and his dragon would become one of the greatest animated series of this…
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April 29, 2019
The End of an Era – Avengers: Endgame

Bear with me for a moment or two, but at least for us, this Era begins almost twenty years ago. It’s the year 2000 and surprise, surprise, the world did not succumb to the Y2K problem and Earth was still around. That summer we’d spend a lot of time at the movies watching the first…
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April 26, 2019
Celebrating Star Wars in Chicago at the Star Wars Celebration

Disclaimer: The Fandads received press passes to cover Star Wars Celebration Chicago. All thoughts, opinions, tears of joy, and enormous feelings of happiness are our own. Chicago was the center of the Star Wars universe and the Fandads were there for all 5 action and not-so-action packed days. So what did we see? What…
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April 26, 2019
GLASS is coming home this week. Are you ready for the Beast? #giveaway

Disclaimer: The Fandads were provided with a copies of GLASS to giveaway, in return for promoting the home release. All thoughts, opinions, and theories are our own. In a world where superhero movies have become the norm, we have become used to seeing incredible action sequences on the screen followed by unbelievable feats of strength. We allow ourselves…
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April 15, 2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Teaser Trailer Reveal

Today at Star Wars Celebration Chicago the Episode IX panel was held and it gave everyone that was waiting in line for hours what they were waiting for: a teaser trailer. Let give you a quick break down of the trailer.The trailer starts off with Rey in the desert and grabbing Luke’s lightsaber, no longer…
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April 13, 2019
Reminiscing about the First Star Wars Celebration

With Star War Celebration coming up this week in Chicago, I wanted to reminisce about going to the first Star Wars Celebration in Denver April 30 – May 2, 1999 with an old friend of mine, Sean. This was the first time I ever took a trip on my own and I was excited to…
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April 8, 2019
We adopted a Pelican! #StormBoy

Disclaimer: The Fandads teamed up with Good Deed Productions and The World Animal Foundation in exchange for a review of Storm Boy. All words, thoughts, and brainstorming sessions on naming our pelican are our own. It seems like every year we get a movie involving a child helping out some type of animal or a…
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April 4, 2019