The one thing that was a constant for children of the 70s and 80s was as soon as the seasonal aisle of your local drugstore was done with back to school, it became filled with gory fun items in anticipation of Halloween. There were items such as fake fangs and vampire blood that we all […]
Time to dig through the vault and see some real Monster bargains when it comes to the many, many monster action figure lines we were treated to in the 1970s. Above is a great ad featuring the Azrak Hamway World Famous Super Monsters. As you can see they are mingled in with the Mego Super […]
I was asked this year by the folks at the wonderful horror website The Terror Trap to contribute to a collection of horror memories and anecdotes titled “Reflections on Fear“. It was quite an honour considering my fellow contributors were some well known professionals including such notable 70s icons as actress/author Jessica Harper (who played […]
I honestly never set out in this life to collect Halloween costumes, I blame working on this site because now I’ve got a bunch of these things littering my house and I thought I’d share. It all began with the Ben Cooper Frankenstein above, which I bought two years ago yesterday at a toy show […]
I think one of the scariest things in the 1970s had to be the notion of a giant shark eating you. I’m slightly ashamed to admit this kept me out of lakes and occasionally pools as a pup. It’s kind of hard to merchandise a shark seeing as he doesn’t have any cool accessories or […]
A wonderful update as our Halloween Countdown progresses a look at the HG Toys classic Godzilla playset which includes a story of kindness and a tale of nerd vindication, all that and a new Plaidstallions Trading card, after the jump. Readers of this blog might recall that I have had a near life long ambition to […]
‘Universal Monsters” by Golden Seeing as it’s Halloween Countdown Month, I’m going to put up a CBT every week devoted to all things horror. This week’s entry is a segment from a 90s colouring book I recently found. I’ll run a couple of monster specific ones over the course of the month. I’m kind of […]
Here are some of the first few fun pics submitted for our 2010 Halloween Countdown Contest (which is still open BTW) these come to us from Jon of Pop Culture Central and it’s him and his brother meeting the Frankenstein Monster at Universal stuidos in the 80s. I rarely get sent classic Monster Appearances so it’s blast to […]
Naming a toy company “Funstuf” is a pretty bold statement, luckily the company more than lived up to it’s namesake during the 1970s and 80s. During the late 1970s, the company was best known for it’s “Aniforms’ line of figures which were a unique concept that involved a rubber figure and an air pump. Funstuff […]
This is scarier than most of the stuff I’ll feature in October….
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