Happy to showcase these weird little figures, produced in 1979 by a UK company called Tomland (under the umbrella of Marx) these stylin’ mini monsters were based on my beloved Lincoln International Monsters. I don’t know why and I honestly don’t care, I’m just pleased that they were. Tomland made their own 8″ versions of […]
From the “parents just don’t understand” file, I bring you a 1980 report crapping on a toy that any ten year old knows to be awesome, Gre-Gory the Vampire bat. The group questioned it’s play value? It’s big bat filled with blood, do I need to spell it out for you? I can’t go a […]
It’s been over a year since I unveiled the web page to my obsession with collecting things related to the 1976 Saturday morning series “The Monster Squad” and I’m happy to report that I have some new additions, a couple of which I had no idea existed until I found them: Finally unearthed a pair […]
The Tomy Mighty Men and Monster Maker was one of the more memorable toys of my childhood, from the moment I saw the commercial, I was single minded in my purpose to get it for my birthday which I luckily did. That meant the entire month of October preparing my house for Halloween, as toys […]
Jaws 2″ by Treasure Books (1978) If there ever was a horror film phenom in the 1970s, it was the original Jaws, a movie that made a generation scared of going out in the water. I did not see the film when it first came out but reputation alone carried it to the schoolyard. While merchandise for the original […]
Some more vintage Halloween submissions for our contest, starting by this one submitted by Austin (Megowgsh on the forum) and it’s future in-laws and wife as Spider-Man, Mighty Isis and Bionic Woman respectively. That’s a triple helping of Ben Cooper goodness right there. Harris from the great blog Negative Pleasure sent in this fun mash […]
When discussing Rack Toys, Imperial Toy has to come up, they were and still are kings of the industry. One of their formulas for success was to not invest heavily in licenses but create their own brands. It really did work as many of us had happy childhoos playing with Poopatroopers, Kooky Spooks and assorted […]
I found pretty trashed copy of the 1977 Multiple Toymakers catalog recently and the things that really struck me were these obvious King Kong Knock off sets. Both were marketed under the brand “Terror on the Tower”. This looks exactly like a set Mego made for the real Kong movie and I now really want […]
Monogram really did create a monster when they reissued these classic Aurora Monster kits in 1983, unfortunately that monster was me and I still get crazy whenever I see these. I hope these kits never stop being reissued.
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