I know it might be more than a little nuts but I like to think that this is the kind of place PlaidStallion #1 Brick Mantooth goes home to every night. Halloween Countdown: We’ve got some vintage goodness this week courtesy of fellow blogger and Halloween “countdowner” Erick from Wonderful Wonderblog with this trip back […]
Rob from the great blog “All in Black and White for 75 Cents” sent me these great Castle film ads from various monster publications in the 70’s. While the home video market is definitely an example of how change can be good (in this case great) thing, I still kind of miss when my parents […]
Halloween 1980 and that’s yours truly rocking the Ben Cooper Boba Fett outfit. I really liked this suit for a couple of reasons, the first being that you could see through the mask but people couldn’t see in real well, the other being that the picture on the front of the smock totally looked like […]
Loving the props in this one, especially the feats of strength although I don’t know why the Spock kid is lifting a dumbell. The Kirk PJs in the corner show the Captain in an episode called the Tholian Web, I have to admit, I’ve never seen that episode. I’m a bad trekkie. Halloween Countdown Submission: […]
I was reading an article in this month’s Geek magazine about the wonderful site Kinder Trauma and it got me thinking about things that scared the crap out of you as a kid. The kind of stuff you never forgot, I thought what better way to kick off our Halloween countdown, seeing as all of […]
For the month of October, I’ve accepted a challenge put out by Jon (from Random acts of Geekery) and other blogs and entered the Halloween Countdown. Which means, I’ll be posting something Halloween related every day for the month of October. We’ll be starting out a little slow, posting additions to my usual blogs such […]
As the title suggests, I want your vintage Halloween pictures for an upcoming feature this October. Send me your smock and masks people, I want all the Darth Vaders, Pink Panthers and (hopefully) Jaws costumes you can send me. For every submission, I’ll gratefully fork over some plaidstallions trading cards and stickers. It’s all part […]
Found this today and thought I’d share, me in my Ben Cooper Yoda costume circa 1980. Like a lot of kids then, I was pretty smitten with the character at the time, not so much anymore mind you. I decided to go for realism with the costume by adding the greenest sweater I owned, some […]
The Ben Cooper name is synonymous to many of us with Halloween from their well known “Smock and Mask” Halloween outfits that had all the relevent licenses to their rubber masks and jigglers, Ben Cooper had almost a stranglehold on October 31st. Journey back to the 1980 Ben Cooper catalog for a an incredible variety […]
Technical issues still prevent Forgotten TV from happening today (It will return next Sunday) so I thought I’d show a page from something I’m working on, the 1980 Ben Cooper halloween costume catalog. While Hulk and Red Skull work as masks, the Batman and Spider-Man are somewhat creepy thanks to the materials used. How old […]
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