It’s time to break out the “Purple Rain” T-shirt and Members Only jacket, scour the attic for crumpled pirate maps leading to “rich stuff,” and wiggle your belly in your best Truffle Shuffle dance – the Goonies are back in town.

It’s been 20 years since the release of the “The Goonies,” which follows the adventures of a group of kids from the “goon docks” of Astoria as they search for hidden treasure, thwarting pirate curses, nefarious criminals, obnoxious football players and real estate developers along the way.

But even though two decades have passed, for many fans the excitement of the movie still remains. After all, Goonies never say die.

So to celebrate the anniversary, Goonies buffs from all around the world are meeting in Astoria to visit the sites where the characters began their adventure, meet a cast member and others involved in the production, and celebrate all things Goonie. The Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce’s “Goonies Never Say Die! 20th Anniversary Celebration” will take place Friday through Sunday, June 3 through 5 in locations around Astoria and Cannon Beach.

In ‘The Goonies,’ when all hope of success – let alone rescue – seems lost, Mikey tries to inspire the rest of the gang to have faith, telling them, ‘This is our time.'”I want to see two dozen people dressed up in Hawaiian shirts and plaid pants,” joked Jeff Cohen, who sported that questionable ensemble as “Chunk” in the movie. Cohen will be on hand through the weekend to give a presentation on “Growing up Goonie,” sign autographs and chat with folks at a special dinner and breakfast.

He said he thinks the adventures of the Goonies still draw fans because director Richard Donner captured kids being kids.

“He wanted us to just speak as kids speak, and act as kids act,” Cohen said. “It was these real, actual kids in this weird, fun adventure.”

In the Goonies house, the makers of a Goonies documentary Patrick Radcliff, left, Ron Fugelseth and Brent Holland, with homeowner Sandi Preston, recreate a scene where Mikey and Brand’s mother comes home and discovers a mess. The filmmakers will debut a version of their film this weekend in Astoria. Photo by Lori Assa.”Also, there’s a fat kid’s belly,” he added.

The idea for the event started more than a year ago, when a handful of fans who post messages on a Goonies Web site started talking about meeting up to celebrate the anniversary.

“It’s always been my favorite film,” said Andy Petrou, who works in a law office in London. “It always has been, mainly because there was this sense of anything can happen, and whatever happens, you always have hope.”

Petrou took up the coordinating duties, and started contacting people in Astoria about what the group of fans could do and see in the area. She got in touch with Regina Willkie at the Chamber, who got the Chamber involved and took over coordinating the event.

Goonies from around the globe will flock to the ‘Goonies Never Say Die! 20th Anniversary Celebration.’ The love of Goonies has drawn visitors to Clatsop County such as Frederic China of France, who visited last October. Photo by Lori Assa.”A big ambition of mine was to get something done, but I didn’t think it would get as big as it has,” Petrou said.

In addition to events featuring Cohen, there will be tours of locations seen in the movie, like Ecola State Park, the old county jail, Lower Columbia Bowl, and of course, the “Goonies House,” on the west end of Astoria.

Baked Alaska will host a Goonies- and 80s movies-themed trivia night Friday; Saturday night is cosmic bowling Goonies style at Lower Columbia Bowl, and other Astoria businesses will participate in different promotions for commemorative doubloon-toting visitors. The Clatsop County Historical Society boasts a rich collection of Goonies memorabilia at the Heritage Museum on 16th and Exchange streets.

“Everyone’s really looking forward to it online,” Petrou said. “They all want to move to Astoria now; they just can’t wait to invade the town.”

‘The Goonies’ DVD cover.Astoria’s Columbian Theater will screen the movie multiple times throughout the weekend and host the premiere of a documentary about “The Goonies” and its fans, made by two big fans themselves.

It was a road trip to Astoria a few years ago that prompted Ron Fugelseth and Patrick Radcliff’s first Goonies-centered documentary, “The Goonies Vacation.”

“One thing about the first one, Goonies fans said, ‘That’s what I always wished I could do,'” Radcliff said. Even Goonies executive producer and story writer Steven Spielberg and director Richard Donner saw the vacation video, and Donner invited the two to his house to talk about the movie.

After the success of “The Goonies Vacation,” the filmmakers, who own a Web development company called Oxygen Productions Inc., upgraded their cameras, interviewed cast and crew members, and in their free time made a second documentary that will have its first screening over the weekend.

“When I step back, personally, as a Goonies fan, I think this is so fun, to see all this information in one spot,” said Fugelseth, who added that he’s looking forward to seeing people’s reaction to the film.

One of the people featured in the documentary was Mick Alderman, now the audio/visual specialist with Clatsop Community College. Alderman was a college student and beginning filmmaker when the movie production came to town, and took the fall 1984 term off to watch moviemaking in action.

“He basically gave me free reign to hang out on the set,” Alderman said of Donner. “As somebody who wanted to make films and had made films, it was just paradise for me.”

He recalled how Donner introduced him to Spielberg as a fellow director, “which melted my heart,” and how he listened in as Spielberg and Donner talked through changes to one of the scenes. The mood on the set was lighthearted, Alderman said, but shooting in late October in Astoria seemed to pose particular problems for the cinematographer, because one moment it would be bright and sunny and the next it would be raining.

But come rain or shine, or even rain and shine, more than 300 Goonies fans will get a chance to revel in their own Astoria adventures this weekend.

NOW & THEN

Here’s how the original Goonies look today:

Sean Astin’Mikey’

Corey Feldman’Mouth’

Jeff Cohen’Chunk’

Jonathan Ke Quan’Data’

Martha Plimpton’Stef’

Kerri Green’Andy’

Josh Brolin’Brand’