The original “Bromance!” Starsky and Hutch inspired many cool toys like this. I love the official logo on their holster as if two undercover cops would brand themselves.

Woolworth’s Action Team figures (sponsored link) —

I’ve never seen these figures before, but they give me a “Palitoy Action Force” vibe (albeit a lower-quality one), and that card art looks a bit like it’s from a horror movie. It’s win/win!

LJN RoadStars Space:1999 Captain Zantor ship (sponsored link)—

I own one of these and it’s on my desk as I type this. It’s from a classic episode of Space:1999 and starred Christopher Lee as Captain Zantor. Seriously this is one of my favourites from my Space:1999 toys. We got a ton of Eagles but getting this cool Alien ship is a real highpoint for me.

Tonka Smokey Bear Playset (sponsored links)

Camping the Smokey Bear way, I assume he just micro-manages your entire family and invites himself to every meal. What are you going to do? Take it that’s what, you don’t want him to piss off a bear, especially one in pants that walks up right.

Funstuf Pet Ghost (sponsored link)-

This toy was obviously made to capitalize on the “Pet Rock” craze (yup, I had one, it died) of the 1970s. I don’t think this caught on, but now it’s an affordably priced vintage horror collectible.

Issue #13 of Toy-Ventures Magazine will feature the never-before-seen plans for the 1983 World’s Greatest Superheroes toy line and a cover featuring artwork specially commissioned for Mego’s catalogue, gloriously coloured by Robyn Adams, founder of the Mego Museum.

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Amazing Spanish Sticker book (affiliate link)–

I featured this incredible sticker book in the “regerts” part of my Monster Bash recap. I can’t begin to describe how cool it is. It seems to have been a puzzle activity, but the range of characters is amazing, including Paul Naschy as Waldemar! It’s epic, amazing, and I wish I had bought it. Please do yourself a favour and look at the photos of this thing, it’s soo cool.

Bionic Man Paint by Numbers set (affiliate link) —

I may not know art but I know what I like.

Tara Toys Dark Adventure Play Case (affiliate link) —

I can’t get over how many 80s Fantasy playsets used the same characters. I never saw this clever set before but nearly all of the monsters are old friends. Heck it even includes the Colorforms Outer Space men in there (which I had in this cool set Alien Attack, see below.)

Miyarabi’s Prayer: Kill Mechagodzilla 45 

While this is from my favourite Godzilla film of all time, I was never a fan of this song to King Cesar as a kid because it slowed down an otherwise fast paced film. I never knew it was released as a single before.

The Ultimate collection of Collegeville Ultra-Man costumes (affiliate link) —

If you like Ultra-Man AND Halloween Costumes, this auction is fantastic as it showcases all the variants (Which, BTW, are in issue 6 of Toy-Ventures, just sayin’) and the original prototypes from the Collegeville archives. One of a kind stuff makes me giddy.

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The Lincoln Monsters are here!

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This year my collection of Super 8 Monster movies has increased 300 fold (mainly cause i started with like one last year). While I planned to only buy these in the wild, some good deals on our vintage toys facebook group combined with Rodan coming from a generous friend makes me a happy boy.


I’m picky what monster movies I get on Super 8 but honestly Toho, Hammer and Harryhausen are everything right about the genre to me.

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Given the fact that the great Christopher Lee passed away this last year, I could think of nothing more fitting than this for my final Halloween item-- a superb bit of 70s monster goodness: Hammer Horror trading cards from Topps released in 1976!

Yes, believe it or not, Topps released a set of Shock Theater trading cards based exclusively on Hammer films. I am not a huge trading card guy, but I go gaga for monster cards, and these are some of the best.

Comprised mostly of stills from "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave", "Horror of Frankenstein", "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed," "Taste the Blood of Dracula," "Scars of Dracula," "Dracula AD:1972", and "The Satanic Rites of Dracula," feast your eyes on some of the most gory cards ever marketed to 70s kids, complete with Cracked Magazine style jokes:

Close up of some cards. Completing a set of these is an expensive proposition, but well worth it. 

Here are a pair of card backs with jokes on them… Shocking Laffs indeed!

Thanks Matt, now I’m off to Ebay!

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This month as we lost one of the most iconic character actors to walk this earth in the form of Christopher Lee. 



This episode tries to discuss as much as possible about the man and his exhaustive career, the hammer horror days, James Bond, Space:1999, Captain Invincible, Starship Invasions and that time he fought Captain America.


 We, of course, digress into a discussion about action figures, Doctor Who, Peter Cushing and much, much more.

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