Totally Rad Vintage Fest Showcases Vintage Jewelry, Pyrex, Retro Clothing in Birmingham

Totally Rad Vintage Fest filled the BJCC East Exhibit Hall on 22 February 2026, gathering vintage dealers specializing in clothing, homewares, ephemera and accessories and a significant number of vendors offering vintage and estate jewelry. The one-day show presented the traveling festival’s blend of retail booths and museum-style curiosities inside Birmingham’s East Exhibit Hall.

The festival’s organizer materials describe Totally Rad as a traveling operation: “Totally Rad Vintage Fest is a traveling vintage festival that celebrates all things 80’s, 90’s and Y2K vintage!” The event page lists production elements that appeared on-site at the BJCC in Birmingham, including a free-play arcade, a vintage gallery, and “a plethora of throwback nostalgic photo ops.” Vendors were recruited on a first-come-first-serve basis, with organizers instructing sellers to “Add your business to the list to be notified when your city’s vendor submissions open.”

Organizers promise vendor-focused logistics and marketing: “Our event team is a mix of event professionals and full-time vintage business owners,” the site says, and it asserts that “Totally Rad events consistently see 4,000-10,000 attendees depending on city size.” The site also advertises vendor benefits such as “A 6ft wall at ever [sic] booth for decoration, extra security on the floor and a full blown after party for vendors after the event!” Booth setup and security details were emphasized in the promotional copy, and sign-up links are distributed to an organizer-maintained vendor e-mail list.

A Jan. 18, 2026 video from the YouTube channel Ray Out There documented a busy Totally Rad event with many of the festival’s recognizable visual cues. The creator, who has 22,200 subscribers, opens saying “I'm a huge fan of all things vintage, stuff from the 80's, 90's and y2k,” and later notes “it is very busy in here today. There is a lot of stuff. We have a very large inflatable alien towering above us.” The 1,994-view clip (120 likes) shows VHS tables with titles such as Ghost of Mars and Barney, and a “Rad rewind museum” segment that includes retro gaming hardware like the Power Glove, Super Scope, Virtual Boy and Rob the Robot for the original NES.

The festival’s product mix aligns with the organizer’s stated categories that tend to succeed at Totally Rad: Men’s & Women’s Clothing, Toys, Video Games, Media (Books, CD’s, VHS etc.), Home Goods, Comics, Memorabilia and Accessories. Instagram teasers for related events reference Pyrex alongside racks of “Retro Clothing or Vintage Jewelry,” reinforcing the cross-category shopping that appeared in Birmingham.

Totally Rad’s site copy also invites sellers with the line “Totally Rad is coming to your city!” and points vendors to “Sign Up for the Vendor E-Mail List” while showing a site footer reading “© 2026 Totally Rad Vintage Fest” and the phrase “Your city is on our 23-24 tour route.” Those details frame the BJCC appearance as part of a broader touring operation that mixes pop-culture display with estate-jewelry merchants and retro homewares.