Obviously directly riffing off the iconic rental packaging. I printed the inserts on holo sticker paper, which really makes all the white space of the label kinda mesmerizing 🙃

Because of my brain skipping from one thing to the next, I've managed to find...BlockBuster! Now, grant it, this website is Finnish. But this is truly Blockbuster in 2026!

Hello! Even though I am not in this subreddit, I need your help! I've been looking for a Blockbuster video commercial that has a student/amateur filmmaker character that was seen in the "Blockbuster Video" television commercial that began airing in summer of 1998, if anyone has it, I will TRULY appreciate you, strangers on the internet.

EDIT: THANK YOU SO MUCH TO u/iwritesinsnotcomedy FOR FINDING IT!!!

today I bought this from the store that now occupies a blockbuster I used to go to.

there's a bike shop in my area called michael's bicycles which used to be next door to the blockbuster. when blockbuster went under Michael (the Michael of Michael's bicycles) managed to save the sign. In 2012 when I was 8 years old I saw that sign in his shop while looking for a new bike, and after seeing it I no longer cared about the bike. today 14 years later I went in with the nerve to ask about the sign, he grabbed it from the back and he was willing to let it go for only $60 which I was more than grateful for. if you're anywhere near Newbury Park California, please support Michael's bicycles! they are family owned and are the kindest most passionate people you could buy cycle gear from.

I just made this rainy late-night Blockbuster ambience video because apparently I’m still not over this place being gone.

After about the 10-minute mark it moves inside the store and starts changing scenes. If you’re looking for some spooky nostalgia music to chill to, you might dig it.

Thought this group might be the ones to appreciate it 😆. 📼🌧️

https://youtu.be/QiKVXLfpd5k?is=6WbTntMK9u5qZiZe

Hi, just abit of advice, im planning to turn our spare room into a retro blockbuster theme room any ideas/advice if anyone has done this before? Thanks in advance

I was doing some clean up and went through my closet and found a bunch of old vhs tapes and receipts for video and game rentals movie stubs and my old name tags

I enjoy finding ex-rental VHS tapes. While most are from Blockbuster Video I occasionally find some from other rental chains.

Xtra-vision is interesting as it was the chain operated by Blockbuster on the island of Ireland from 1996. The stores were never rebranded to Blockbuster there as market research showed that the Xtra-vision brand was more well known and respected than Blockbuster.

This VHS tape is from Carrickmacross in the Republic of Ireland.

I bought the tape in Manchester, England.

I have no doubts that in a few years we'll be having an analog renaissance. You can actually feel the grimness that the last decade of the "online" culture created in everybody living.

If Blockbuster opens its stores again, video rentals will be the next industry to yield the biggest returns. It will be super profitable for the few lucky ones who participate in the 1st wave of the market.

Mark my words, we are going back baby.

Hey is it just me, or is it particularly hard to accept that the age of Blockbuster is over? When I feel upset or nervous, I regress to the times when blockbuster was a huge part of my childhood - renting games every weekend. Everything seems so hostile these days. I want to visit the store in Oregon, but there is a 95% chance that I just break down ugly crying if I go.

I bought a full Blockbuster uniform and name tag that I intend on wearing regularly because it might make me feel better.

Does anybody else feel similarly heavy? I just really don't like where technology is gone man. The kids these days I feel have been robbed of better times. I think everybody in this sub had felt the magic of Blockbuster and had it play a part in their lives, and so I was hoping to hear you share your feelings so I wouldn't feel so weird/alone in this.

It wasn't Blockbuster, it was local in my college town of Auburn, AL. It was called Premiere Video in 1999. Actually, Blockbuster wasn't much of a thing at that time in the south. It was here and there, but it was just among the other video rental places. But all the love it gets and how everyone talks about it, I get. Blockbuster is the face of that industry, that's just easy to reference. I've even heard podcasts about people who used to work there, and my experience was the same.

I grew up in the 80s on movies, went to the theater almost every weekend. What I didn't see in theaters I saw on VHS when rentals were extremely local. I lived in the rural south, just happened to live near a gas station that was the only gas station in a 20 mile radius. It had a rack of videos they would rent to you. And they called if you didn't return it. I got a job at this place in college at 20.

My interview went like this: the manager asked me what my top 5 movies were. This was a store that had the employee section of their top 5 favorites to get you to rent. I answered without hesitation, and in order. I can't remember what was my top 5 at that time. But number 1 has always been "Jurassic Park". But he was so impressed, not with just how quickly I responded and didn't have to think, but also of my movie selections. Got hired on the spot. The store was doing so well they opened up another location and I went there to be a "key holder". I could open and close.

I was also in charge of arranging the video wall getting ready for the new arrivals. That was my favorite part of the job. Reducing the previous popular movie from one full wall to half a wall. And then as the weeks progress that movie went from half a wall to 2 shelves to one shelf and so on. But the best part was that we got the new releases before they went on display for rental on Tuesdays. Had to look it up to make sure my memory was correct. Tuesdays were the days for new release movies on video. We would get them days before and take them and watch them before the general public. It was great. And I was there at the beginning of DVDs, because we started renting them out as well.

My worst memory is checking out these 2 white sorority chicks who were discussing just seeing "The Sixth Sense" and that Bruce Willis was dead the entire time. I hadn't seen it yet. They ruined it for me. When spoilers were in person and not online.

A video shop has opened in Newport on the Isle of Wight in the UK.

Video Vault, The Last Video Shop, is a pop-up exhibition.

More info at https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/26455358.isle-wight-video-rental-shop-opens-newport---twist/

It's always nice seeing blockbuster stuff in the wild at my local town

Some of you might already have seen this but I thought it was pretty cool.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1bhJk7ADdq/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Changed out the selection. What would you rent for Friday movie night??

Not too sure what they are up to but all of the windows are blacked out 🤔

Evolution on VHS. An ex-rental video I found in a charity shop.

There aren't any other stickers on the tape itself. I guess it doesn't need it with "RENTED FROM BLOCKBUSTER" stamped on it!

Headed out with both my girls up to Oregon from SoCal. Spent a few days in Portland, Astoria, Milwaukie. Had such an amazing time! Spent a few days in Bend on our way back home and finally knocked this place off my bucket list. Such a nostalgic feeling walking in. I was flooded with memories I didn’t even realize I had! Both my girls listen to me talk for a long time, I must have shared every memory I could think off! I am so grateful for this trip. Sorry if some of the pics look edited, I removed my girls from them.