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All week long: Revisit the highlights and lowlights of 1987 with Popverse's Made in 87 week.

Maybe I'm just a lover of chaos, but if I had to be in practical monster makeup for a horror movie, I would slyly take every opportunity to leave set to grab a bite to eat. Not that movie sets lack food options, but just so I could have the opportunity to see how the average person would react to the monster makeup. For Kiefer Sutherland and the rest of the cast of vampires in The Lost Boys, Santa Cruz, California, was more than up to the task. 

Speaking at The Lost Boys reunion panel at For The Love of Horror 2023, Sutherland recounted how the alternative culture of Santa Cruz provided a welcoming space for him and his castmates when they would venture off set in their vampire makeup. "I do remember Jason [Patric] and I sometimes would kinda want to go out for lunch, but we couldn't take the makeup off. So we would go to dinner in the full vampire makeup while we were shooting," Sutherland said. He added, "The looks in the car were pretty extraordinary." 

"I went to [grocery chain] Ralph's with [makeup artist] Ve [Neill] in my makeup," Alex Winter chimed in. 

In 1987, the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon debuted - and all our lives were changed. Watch this reunion of the original voice actors:

Obviously, this is nowhere near on the same level as hitting the streets of Santa Cruz as a vampire, but I once made a cab driver in Prague scream when I entered the car with fake blood on my face. It was Halloween, and I was dressed as Eleven from Stranger Things. Earlier that night, while on the subway, I had gotten multiple concerned glances. Considering that Guillermo del Toro's Blade II was shot in Prague, I wonder if any of the vampires hit the streets to grab a bite in between takes. 

Get your wide-shoulder blouses and your Members-Only jackets, and go back in time with Popverse's Made in 87. Highlights include:

• Marvel Comics killed the X-Men in 1987 to reset the franchise - but it didn’t stick
• The Full House cast addresses some of the series’ biggest continuity errors
• How Spider-Man’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon was saved by a fired Marvel boss — and Ronald McDonald
• How NBC panicked after Diane left Cheers — and why Kirstie Alley’s casting sparked a quiet battle inside the hit show
• How Bart Simpson was quietly toned down from being "so mean" before The Simpsons' first episode, as revealed by his long-time voice actor Nancy Cartwright
• The 1987 Justice League reboot that made superheroes weird, hilarious, and unexpectedly human
• How The Golden Girls became a staple at gay bars in the 80s