Concepts like this copycast make your own monster factory really appealed to me as a kid, I was just missing two things to really make them work, skill and patience. I’d have become Homer Simpson working on that thing……Plaid Stallions.com

Found this over at Malls of America it’s so killer!

I have a weird story about the Hasbro moving Monster Gun which projected pictures of Monsters on the wall. A school friend named Richard had one of these tucked in his closet. I was over at his house once and thought it was the coolest toy ever made. Richard seized the opportunity and said if […]

The Mego Mad Monsters are some of the best known Monster toys of the seventies and the story of their inception is kind of interesting.Mego was scooping up licenses like crazy in the mid seventies but according to Neal Kublan, Universal wanted too much money for the rights to produce monster dolls (Rival AHI scooped […]

In addition to the mini monsters, Remco did these styling 9 inch Mego like Monster figures. In my personal opinion, these are almost some of the coolest Monster figures ever made, almost. Two things keep them from greatness, the first thing is the glow in the dark plastic really obscures Ken Sheller’s amazing sculpts, all […]

I absolutely love the Remco 3 3/4″ Universal Mini Monster figures, they are just so perfectly functional. The campy copywriting in this JC Penney page is also a nice touch.Remco cleverly recycled the carrying case/playset in their Sgt. Rock line a couple of years later (I just bought one, it rocks!). There was also a […]

Can I tell you how much I love that Mr Spock costume? It’s not helping my recent leanings to become a vintage Star Trek collector, I especially covet that Remco Belt.Notice that Steve Austin and Jamie Summers outfits are actually different that yesterdays. The thing I remember best about those masks besides the cheap elastic […]

Sure, they marketed them as “Play suits” but we all knew what they were. These ones were just a notch above the “smock and mask” I got at Halloween, plus these ones weren’t knockoffs!( More on that later)I love the Bionic people’s exposed circutry arms, the fact that Superman has a mask but I wonder […]

Here’s a king sized depressing fact, we almost got Monster Squad and Kids from C.A.P.E.R action figures! This page from an Ideal Toys catalog (borrowed from the Mego Museum) shows a series of six inch figures based on those Saturday morning series using what appears to be Evel Kneviel body.I’d have killed for these figures […]