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Toy-Ventures: All About Crazy Foam!

Mantooth — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 23:09:50 +0000

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…

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Topics discussed: Stan Weston, Licensing Corp of America, Marvel Comics, Batman, Crazy Foam, Silly Soap, Looney Lather, Pink Panther, Popeye, gritty, Ron Swanson, The Incredible Hulk, Linda Carter, Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, FoamTons, Cylons, The Smurfs, My Little Pony, body wash, Mr. Bubble, Mego Superheroes, Eatons, the Scarborough Town Center, Gen-X Kids, Robin Williams Popeye,

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Are you still reading? OK, well, I spent all weekend making this, I have a really supportive family. Also, making a video about shaving cream cans is challenging. Even if those shaving cream cans have Batman on them. I love these things, but they’re not dynamic in any way. I’m glad I did this, though, because nobody else has. I mean, seriously, when I google this stuff, I get one photo that I took 20 years ago. Somebody sell me a Wonder Woman.

Happy Fathers day!

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5 Awesome Things on eBay this week

Mantooth — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 02:43:00 +0000

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.

5 Awesome Things on eBay this week

Mexican Planet of the Apes Record (eBay Link)–

I have zero idea what kind of music this is or if I would like it, but who cares? It’s got biker apes on the cover. SOLD!

Sesame Street Black Velvet (eBay Link)-

These make me giddy, my face looks like Cookie Monsters right now.

Durham Star Mission Robot (ebay link)–

Durham Industries produced a lot of licensed toys but they also liked to knock off other toys. This is a total copy of the Tomy Rascal Robots.

Star Mite Laser Pistol (eBay Link)–

Star Mites was a brand created by Empire Toys that even included some diecasts from Shinsei. This package with its discount Martin Landau warms the cockles of my heart.

Previous installment of 5 Awesome Things on eBay this week

Toy-Ventures Collectible Pins including the Lincoln Monsters

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5 Awesome Things on eBay this week

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1978 Crazy Foam Catalog

Mantooth — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:28:12 +0000

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 chooses your soap over a toy.

1978 was an interesting year for Crazy Foam as it saw the introduction of Color Crazy Foam, a new innovation and also introduced were two new licenses in the form of Popeye the Sailor man and TV sensation The Incredible Hulk!

Color was the big deal this year and they even pared back the licensed items to give it more space, I had to settle for boring old white. Not that I complained.

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The stuff sold consistently through to the 1980s.

Can’t decide which character I want to puke on me.

As much as it’s cool to see an original display box of the stuff, it’s a little drab.

Here is my collection, still looking for an original Wonder Woman!

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PlaidStallions Toy-Ventures Magazine #2 is now available and it’s been called “not only an entertaining read, but it’s also an impeccable work of reference” by PopCult.

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Crazy Foam adds new faces

Mantooth — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 05:00:00 +0000

If it hasn’t already been established, i love the hell out of Crazy Foam and it’s back!

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Web Spinning Toy Love

Mantooth — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:01:00 +0000

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…

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1978 Crazy Foam Catalog

Mantooth — Fri, 31 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000

Check out the 1978 Crazy Foam Catalog here

More Superhero Stuff!

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Crazy Foam $0.88

Mantooth — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:08:00 +0000

$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.

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Holy Soapy Vomit Batman!

Mantooth — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:02:00 +0000

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. The true fun of it in the 70’s were the licensed Superhero cans, which allowed your favourite Comic Book Star to throw up on you.As weird as that sounds, these things bring me right back to childhood which is pretty powerful considering it’s not really a toy.

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