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Cool Collections: John’s Monsters

I LOVE it when folks share their collections with me, especially when it’s stuff near and dear to my heart like Monster toys. John was kind enough to give us a peak into his lair today and it’s a drool worthy assortment of old and new, more after the jump. If you dare! A lot […]

Costume of the Week: Ultra-Man

As much as I’d like to say I own this killer Collegeville Ultraman suit, I don’t. Fortunately for me, Corey volunteered some shots of his collection to the blog including the two variations of this classic suit, more after the jump. Above is the first version suit and smock, I don’t know why they chose […]

Aurora Monsters on Sale

My love for the Aurora Monster model kits knows no bounds, I’ve bought and re bought them several times over during my life and I’m currently repairing the ones my kids and I did over the years. I thought it would be fun to go through some old timey ads where they could be purchased […]

Automatonophobia

I am not at all fond of Ventriloquist dummies but I am somewhat smitten with this Frankenstein version from the UK. Mostly because it’s really easy to drink a glass of water and go “Mrrrrrrrrrrrr”.

Everbody Shout!

My pal Dan at the awesome website The Terror Trap (this is a timely month for a plug) sent over shots of his vintage Groovie Goolies PVC collection. As a lover of mock horror, these are just awesome to me. Not many Filmation shows got merchandising so it’s really nice to see how perfect these […]

Costume of the Week: Ark 2

It couldn’t get more obscure or joyous for me. Growing up, I LOVED Filmation’s post apocalyptic series “Ark 2“ with a passion. So i nearly did a spit take when I discovered this Halloween costume on the ebay. I would have fought tooth and nail for it but I was lucky enough to snag it […]

Monsterous Fashion

From the “I wish they made these now dept” come these cool mock horror shirts, adding funny captions to vintage horror pictures dates back to Famous Monsters magazine so it’s nice to see them getting a nod here but it’s pretty obvious whoever wrote the catalog copy wasn’t a reader: Which one is Dracula? Mom, […]

Halloween in the UK

Lovin’ this selection of Party masks I found in a UK toy catalog, I’m assuming those are the Ben Cooper Universal Monsters masks being sold as a set without smocks, the things you learn!

Shrink some head with Vincent Price

I never got my hands on one of these sets as a kid but I knew by the picture of Vincent Price on the box that it was a high quality item. I was also recently delighted to learn that my children already knew who Price was,  thanks to Scooby Doo and Hilarious House of […]

Countdown to Halloween 2011

It’s that magical time of year again when a consortium of blogs gather to celebrate my favourite holiday, Halloween! For the third (or is it fourth, I can’t remember) straight year Plaidstallions will be taking part in the annual Countdown to Halloween along with cool pop culture blogs too numerous to list, here (but you […]