Kicking it off today is my pal Lee wearing a Ben Cooper Hulk suit, nobody loves the Hulk more than Lee. Speaking of big fans, here is Lou in a Collegeville Jaws costume, Lou is still actively involved in Jaws Fandom, check out this youtube link. I’m Batman! Here’s Chris Franklin as the caped crusader, […]
Time to unveil more of the fabulous vintage photos you kind folks have sent me this month, above is Wes Booth as a Cylon long before they were called “Toasters”. Alisha sent in this wicked picture of her as Princess Leia, that’s her dad as a musical ghost behind her. I think if I saw […]
In 1981, Remco, a division of Azrak Hamway International for almost the past decade, went through some changes in their product line. . Demand for many of the items that had been staples for the company such as Utility belts and powerzed Superheroes was starting to wane. All the Hulk merchandise and the Star Trek […]
While Monster Toys often get the shaft in department store catalogs for being too seasonal , the one place where that doesn’t seem to happen is the games section which always have a few monster items in for good measure. Take this 1971 spread for instance, we’ve got the classic Green Ghost game , something […]
The Remco Monsters at Home series is a weird little footnote in Monster toy lore, basically the company took the heads and hands of their 9″ Universal Monster dolls and made these charming little hand puppets complete with a plastic environment.What’s weird is, it all sort of makes sense, Dracula has a coffin, the Mummy […]
In 1975, Kenner produced a doll that was the brain child of special effects artist/director/writer Alan Ormsby who directed the film “Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things” and authored the classic scolastic book Movie Monsters which probably spawned a legion of Monster kids by itself. Hugo was a great concept, a puppet version of Lon […]
I am loving these Universal Monsters Puffy Stickers produced by Gordy in 1982. I will confess I had a puffy sticker phase and did have some Monster ones but I never ran into these before, I’d have been all over them. I had have an unhealthy obsession with all things Creature from the Black Lagoon. […]
Some cool items to highlight on this fine October day, this is a 1983 Collegeville store display for “Halloween Accessories” which is stuff similiar to the Imagineering stuff from yesterday. I dig the fangs and fake blood but the big ears are a little weird. This display of Collegeville rubber masks has special meaning for […]
Imagineering was an Arizona based company that were known for make up kits, predominately around Halloween. One of the things the company is best known for were their inexpensive rack items such as Vampire fangs and fake blood. My parents were always pretty thrifty but they’d get downright outraged if I came home with any […]
When it came to Halloween costumes, the two biggest names in the 70’s were Ben Cooper and Collegeville. If one didn’t have a specific license, the other surely did. In the mid seventies, Ben Cooper had a lock on some prosperous licenses namely The Universal Monsters and Superheroes from DC and Marvel houses. This left […]
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