The Remco Monsters at Home series is a weird little footnote in Monster toy lore, basically the company took the heads and hands of their 9″ Universal Monster dolls and made these charming little hand puppets complete with a plastic environment.What’s weird is, it all sort of makes sense, Dracula has a coffin, the Mummy […]
In 1975, Kenner produced a doll that was the brain child of special effects artist/director/writer Alan Ormsby who directed the film “Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things” and authored the classic scolastic book Movie Monsters which probably spawned a legion of Monster kids by itself. Hugo was a great concept, a puppet version of Lon […]
I am loving these Universal Monsters Puffy Stickers produced by Gordy in 1982. I will confess I had a puffy sticker phase and did have some Monster ones but I never ran into these before, I’d have been all over them. I had have an unhealthy obsession with all things Creature from the Black Lagoon. […]
Some cool items to highlight on this fine October day, this is a 1983 Collegeville store display for “Halloween Accessories” which is stuff similiar to the Imagineering stuff from yesterday. I dig the fangs and fake blood but the big ears are a little weird. This display of Collegeville rubber masks has special meaning for […]
Imagineering was an Arizona based company that were known for make up kits, predominately around Halloween. One of the things the company is best known for were their inexpensive rack items such as Vampire fangs and fake blood. My parents were always pretty thrifty but they’d get downright outraged if I came home with any […]
When it came to Halloween costumes, the two biggest names in the 70’s were Ben Cooper and Collegeville. If one didn’t have a specific license, the other surely did. In the mid seventies, Ben Cooper had a lock on some prosperous licenses namely The Universal Monsters and Superheroes from DC and Marvel houses. This left […]
Because looking like a gigantic sleaze isn’t just for him anymore. Now you can both harrass Pat Benetar in that “Love is a Battlefield” video…. Vintage Halloween I got a couple of cool Darth Vaders today, first off is Russ from Toytraderz again rocking this Ben Cooper set. And here’s Jason from Bif!Bang!Pow! (makers of […]
In 1976, I switched camps and decided that Marvel superheroes were now the way to go, so Spider-Man was what I needed to be that Halloween. Despite my adventures the year previous as “The Bat“, my costume hunting was again done at the same Woolco store that had what seemed like a gigantic rack of […]
Warning: Staring directly at item C may will cause nausea. Vintage Halloween Goodness Another great flashback from Russ over at toytraderz, this time he’s Japan’s greatest export (besides that Asahi beer and Hello Kitty) Godzilla!A close up of the classic Ben Cooper costume Russ is sporting. More on Godzilla hopefully later on in the month.DVD […]
Like all good Canadians, by the time you read this I’ll either be immobile from eating my own weight in Turkey or drunk, most likely I’m both right now. It’s hard work making a pig out of yourself and/or ruining a holiday memory for everyone, so rather than blog about something new, I’m going to […]
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