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 […]
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 […]
I planned on doing this earlier but happily this was the most kids I’ve ever had to the casa. I was beginning to worry that Halloween was in trouble but I’m glad to be wrong. Above is my Sleestak, built mostly with trash. Most people called it the Creature from the Black Lagoon, I’ll live […]
Anna sent in this great shot of her husband Jim getting made up as Frankenstein for the premiere of “Gods and Monsters”. How cool is this?
I got a cool Halloween Treat this week froim my pal Sammy from the Mego forum, he was kind enough to get into the Spooky spirit by sharing his collection of Aurora Monster kits and AHI Super Monsters. Both of these are like kryptonite to me, so check out all the fun after the jump: […]
The name “Ben Cooper” and “Halloween” are pretty synonymous to children of the 1970s/ The company produced a staggering amount of items devoted to October 31st and chances are if your parents used “store bought” costumes, they were from Ben Cooper. 1973 like every year is a load of fun, lots of popular licenses (including […]
Happy to showcase these weird little figures, produced in 1979 by a UK company called Tomland (under the umbrella of Marx) these stylin’ mini monsters were based on my beloved Lincoln International Monsters. I don’t know why and I honestly don’t care, I’m just pleased that they were. Tomland made their own 8″ versions of […]
From the “parents just don’t understand” file, I bring you a 1980 report crapping on a toy that any ten year old knows to be awesome, Gre-Gory the Vampire bat. The group questioned it’s play value? It’s big bat filled with blood, do I need to spell it out for you? I can’t go a […]
It’s been over a year since I unveiled the web page to my obsession with collecting things related to the 1976 Saturday morning series “The Monster Squad” and I’m happy to report that I have some new additions, a couple of which I had no idea existed until I found them: Finally unearthed a pair […]
Some more vintage Halloween submissions for our contest, starting by this one submitted by Austin (Megowgsh on the forum) and it’s future in-laws and wife as Spider-Man, Mighty Isis and Bionic Woman respectively. That’s a triple helping of Ben Cooper goodness right there. Harris from the great blog Negative Pleasure sent in this fun mash […]
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