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Toy-Ventures: All About Crazy Foam!

Toy-Ventures this week is all about Crazy Foam, we get into the history of this unique product, and explore it’s origins including a recently restored commercial. We also deal with the fact that many of us are nostalgic for Superheroes vomiting on us in the tub. No wonder I see a therapist… Check out the […]

5 Awesome Things on eBay this week

  Batman Crazy Foam (eBay Link)– I was obsessed with Crazy Foam as a kid, still am. I am just glad I don’t have a fetish where people in superhero costumes puke on me. That would be messy. Mexican Planet of the Apes Record (eBay Link)– I have zero idea what kind of music this […]

1978 Crazy Foam Catalog

American Aerosol Corporation began selling Crazy Foam in the 1960s but most 70s kids will remember for it the many licenses it had including the DC and Marvel Comics Superheroes. I can honestly remember choosing a tin of Robin Crazy Foam over getting a toy once. You have a pretty powerful product if a kid […]

Web Spinning Toy Love

What’s not to love about this 1977 licensing ad for Marvel Comics, it’s like Spider-Man is dropping a treasure trove of Mego items on you along with classics like Crazy Foam and Colorforms. That’s a monsterous improvement over  the usual rain and bird poop that normally falls on me from above…

1978 Crazy Foam Catalog

    American Aerosol Corporation began selling Crazy Foam in the 1960s but most 70s kids will remember for it the many licenses it had including the DC and Marvel Comics Superheroes. I can honestly remember choosing a tin of Robin Crazy Foam over getting a toy once. You have a pretty powerful product if […]

Crazy Foam $0.88

$0.88 for Crazy Foam, no wonder most of us threw it out when we were done. I’m positive some of it went into my stocking at least once, most likely a Robin. While most kids wanted to Batman as a kid, I thought the teenaged Dick Grayson was the coolest.

Holy Soapy Vomit Batman!

This week marks the anniversary of Plaid Stallions, so I’m devoting much of it to things that me happy. One of those items would be Crazy Foam, although I’m not exactly sure why.For those not in the know, Crazy Foam is a bath product, which if I’m not mistaken smelled a lot like shaving cream. […]