Retro Expo

10/07/2026

Meet Bill Ratner, the voice of G.I. Joe’s Flint at Retro Expo in Plano, TX April 17-18, 2027! Bill voiced Dashiell R. Faireborn code name “Flint” in 52 episodes of GI Joe: A Real American Hero and GI Joe: The Movie plus episodes of Robot Chicken, Family Guy, and the G1 Transformers crossover episode “The Killing Jar.”

Today Bill is one of Hollywood’s premier voiceover talents and a prize-winning storyteller. His personal essays have aired on National Public Radio’s Strangers, Good Food, and The Business. His voice is heard on commercials for V-8, H&R Block, Hyundai, ABC-TV, movie trailers for Will Ferrell’s The Campaign, MegaMind, Talladega Nights, Johnny Depp’s The Rum Diary, and Jack Kerouac’s On The Road.

Bill is the voice of Discovery Channel’s Behind Mansion Walls, I Almost Got Away With It, Smithsonian Channel’s Air Disasters, Weather Channel’s Full Force Nature, computer games Mass Effect I, II, & III as Ambassador Donnel Udina, Grand Theft Auto, Kings Quest. He has reprised his role as Flint on episodes of Robot Chicken, and Family Guy. Bill is an eight-time winner of The Moth Story SLAMS and a Slam storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough TN. His solo show Voices in My Head: A Lifewas selected Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2012. He is contributing author of Secrets of Voiceover Success (Sentient Press,) a playwright, published essayist, and short story writer. He is celebrating his twentieth year as a volunteer storyteller in Los Angeles Public Schools. He serves on the National Board of Directors of Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of TV & Radio Artists.

10/06/2026

TICKETS GO ON SALE OCTOBER 15! General Admission and VIP tickets for the next Retro Expo event in Plano, Texas Saturday and Sunday April 17-18, 2027 will be available for sale Thursday, October 15th at our website retroexpo.com. Watch this space for more show updates!

10/02/2026

Meet B.J. Ward, the voices of Scarlett, Velma Dinkley, Princess Allura and many more at Retro Expo in Plano, TX April 17-18, 2027!!! Stay tuned for more guest announcements and event tickets on sale soon...

B.J. Ward, is an American screen and voice actress, singer, author, and former Pl***oy Bunny. She is the creator and star of “Stand-Up Opera”, a musical one-woman show, as well as being a licensed aviator. Her career in animation voice-over began with the titular, Jana of the Jungle, and went on to voice other characters including, Scarlett on G.I. Joe, Jayna on Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, Wonder Woman on The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, Panky and Punkin in Pink Panther and Sons, and both junior high and adult Betty Rubble in various Flintstones productions from the late 80s throughout the 90s.

Ward first voiced Velma Dinkley in a 1997 crossover episode in the Hanna-Barbera-produced Johnny Bravo, where Mystery Inc. helped the titular find his aunt. The following year, she officially became the fifth voice of Velma in the first direct-to-video film, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. She continued to voice until 2002, when both Mindy Cohn took over the role of Velma Dinkley and original portrayer, Nicole Jaffe, briefly took over in both Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico, respectively.

09/30/2026

FIVE YEARS OF RETRO EXPO: Flashback with us to September 2023, our seventh Retro Expo event and second at the Allen, TX Convention Center! Thanks to our amazing partners at Official Pix, our celebrity guests for this event were: Melody Anderson, Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, Michael Biehn, François Chau, Tracy Lynn Cruz, Erik Estrada, Jenette Goldstein, Steve Guttenberg, Judith Hoag, Sam J. Jones, Doug Momary, Emily Peden, Josh Petersdorf, Ernie Reyes Jr., Robbie Rist, Kenn Scott, Brian Tochi, and Larry Wilcox. Our special guest artists were: Ariel Diaz, Steve Garcia, Michael Golden, Edward Kraatz II, Daniel Scott Jr., and Dexter Vines.

The NEXT Retro Expo is in Plano, TX April 17-18, 2027 (our sixth year!) and we’re cooking up another great show as we look back in time for inspiration and good memories. Check our feed for new guest announcements and tickets on sale soon!

09/28/2026

Meet Gregg Berger, the voices of Grimlock, Jecht, Eeyore and many more at Retro Expo in Plano, TX April 17-18, 2027!!! We’re thrilled to have Gregg as Transformers: The Movie hits the big 4-O this year. Stay tuned for more announcements and tickets on sale soon.

Gregg Berger is known for his roles as Jecht from Final Fantasy X and the Dissidia Final Fantasy games, Grimlock from Transformers, Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter from Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Odie from most Garfield animated media, Cornfed Pig from Duckman, Bill Licking from The Angry Beavers, Agent Kay from Men in Black: The Series, The Gromble from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Captain Blue from Viewtiful Joe, Eeyore from the Winnie the Pooh franchise, Hunter the Cheeta and Ripto from Spyro the Dragon, as well as The Thing, Galactus, and Attuma from Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.

Grimlock is the leader of the Dinobots, a faction of Autobots who can transform into dinosaurs. Grimlock is able to transform into a mechanical Tyrannosaurus and is known for his brutish personality and opposition to authority, including that of Optimus Prime.

09/24/2026

FIVE YEARS OF RETRO EXPO: Flashback with us to March 2023, our sixth Retro Expo event and first of two at the Allen, TX Convention Center! Thanks to our amazing partners at Official Pix, our celebrity guests for this event were: Don Bluth, Lorna Cook, Jim Cummings, E.G. Daily, Jeff Etter, Phillip Glasser, Lance Henriksen, John O’Hurley, Sid Krofft (1929 – 2026), Kevin McNally, Dan Molina, Ricco Ross, Cynthia Dale Scott, and Tom Wilson. Our special guest music artists were: Gina Schock and Kathy Valentine. Our special guest artists were: Simon Bisley, Mike DeCarlo, E.M. Gist, Ben Harvey, Rags Morales, Graham Nolan.

The NEXT Retro Expo is in Plano, TX at the Plano Event Center, April 17-18, 2027 (our sixth year!) and we’re cooking up another great show (check our feed for new guest announcements) as we look back in time for inspiration and good memories.

09/22/2026

Meet Dan Gilvezan, the voices of Bumblebee, Spider-Man, Slip Stream and many more at Retro Expo in Plano, TX April 17-18, 2027!!! We’re very excited to have Michael as Transformers: The Movie hits the big 4-O this year. Stay tuned for more announcements...

Since 1975 animation voice legend Dan Gilvezan has given voice to classic characters such as Spider-Man/Peter Parker on Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, The original Bumblebee, plus Outback, Hot Spot and Snapdragon on Transformers, Slip Stream on G.I. Joe, Brick Bradley/Bugman on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Questar on Dino-Riders, Dirk Courage on Spiral Zone, and Cooler on Pound Puppies

No stranger to episodic television, Dan has guest-starred on many popular TV series: in addition to his work on The Fosters, Sullivan & Son, The Young & Restless, Desperate Housewives, Bones, Boston Legal, NYPD Blue, The Bernie Mac Show, Miss Match, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Third Rock From the Sun, Bette, Murphy Brown, Moonlighting, and many others, he has had recurring roles on Diagnosis Murder and the cult favorite She-Wolf of London.

Video games are becoming more and more a part of Dan’s repertoire. Along with his starring role as Spider-Man 2099 in Activision’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, he has also voiced characters for games as diverse as the western-themed Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Ys I & II, Star Trek: Armada 2, the zombie thriller, Dead Island, and Sony’s massive online game, Everquest II. Most recently, he reprised his role as Bumblebee in Platinum games retro-themed, Transformers: Devastation.

09/17/2026

Meet Michael Bell, the voices of Duke, Grouchy Smurf, Quackerjack, and many more at Retro Expo in Plano, TX April 17-18, 2027!!! We’re very excited to have Michael as Transformers: The Movie hits the big 4-O this year, a film in which he voiced Prowl, Scrapper, Swoop, and Junkyard. Stay tuned for more announcements...

As a professional working actor for over 40 years. Michael Bell guest starred in dozens of episodic television shows. Partial list includes: StarTrek, Mash, Three’s Company, Deep Space Nine (3 times), The Bold Ones, Charlie’s Angels, Get Smart, Mission Impossible, Ironsides, Ghost Story, Streets of San Francisco, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Animated series and films include The Transformers, G.I. Joe, The Smurfs, Rugrats, The Snorks, Plastic Man, Super Friends, Spiderman, Scooby Doo, The Chipmunks, The Incredible Hulk, Voltron, The Inhumanoids, Spiral Zone, and Tom and Jerry. Check out my detailed credits page for more. Video games to my credit include: Warcraft 3, Rachet and Clank, Legacy of Kain, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Alpha Protocol, Condemned, Madagascar, Advent Rising, Doom, Shark Tale, Enter the Matrix, Darkwatch, Eternal Darkness, Medal Gear Solid, Star Wars, and Call of Duty. Radio and television voice over credits which number over 1000, include awards for both documentary narration and commercials. Director of Kidd Video, and Peter Pan, the Emmy award-winning Fox animated series starring Tim Curry and Jason Marsden.

03/12/2026