Life is strange, if you had asked me 30 days ago if there was going to be a Lincoln Monster update in the Halloween blog posts this year, I’d have answered no. Truth was, there wasn’t much by the way of things to update. Then all hell broke loose and I’ve got more than I […]
October is the perfect month to unveil the newest Catalog from Azrak Hamway Internationl (AHI). Why? Because that’s the year that the 70s Rack Toy Giant decided to license the Universal Monsters transforming thousands of us unsuspecting children into monster kids! Combine that with more Superhero stuff you can shake a stick at and […]
I am really excited to say that I’ve made a major find and it’s timing couldn’t be better seeing as it’s a Collegeville costume that I didn’t think was real. More after the jump.. When I first posted this costume in the 1973 Collegeville Catalog three years ago, I thought it was the coolest Halloween costume […]
Although I’ve never owned any of these APC Monster Puzzles but I’d love to discover this display in the back of a drug store one day…
I really like these things, as cheesy a concept as they are, they’re also a little disturbing. A pair of demonic faces where your eyes are supposed to be? Genius. Check out our new website for our book, Rack Toys.
My friend Corey sent me this image the other day and it’s such a goofy marriage of two things I like, that I’m surprised I hadn’t seen it before. I’m assuming Collegeville had the bright idea that NASA would send monsters into space or is it that Astronauts were coming back as monsters, I’m […]
Centsable, the people behind Socker Boppers also did a good business in Halloween costumes, who knew? This 1974 catalog shows that while they did in fact have several decent licenses like the Hanna Barbera clan , they were not above creating some of the ballsiest knock offs of the decade nor did the seem […]
I wasn’t a kid when Imperial Toys got the Universal Monster license (and I’ll touch upon this more next week) but I do have nostalgia for the line. There was a Frankenstein bop bag in the back of a KB Toys in Western NY that I visited for the majority of the late 80s […]
Robert from Retro Hound sent in this vintage pic of him and his sis decked for Halloween 1972 in their Collegeville goodness. Thanks Robert!
Behold the last Monster Rack Toy ever produced by AHI! Flasher Faces popped up five years after the Monster merchandise bonanza of the mid seventies and while AHI was doing wonderful things with the license under their Remco brand, these flasher faces are the sole bit of cheap, dime store goodness produced during this period. […]
@brickmantooth
Official Tura Satana Action Figure Now Available
PlaidStallions Action Figure Archive
5 Awesome Things on eBay this week
Toy-Ventures Issue 12- Stretch Monster
Knock-Off Book
Recent Comments