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 […]
The Mighty and Men and Monster Maker was simply one of the coolest Monster toys ever. I don’t know how many women I’ve known who wanted this but received it’s female companion, Fashion Plates. This happened to my wife, who simply mixed fashion plates people with her brother’s monster plates, genius. I got to play […]
I actually started out my Halloween coverage worried i didn’t have enough content, now thanks to some very generous folks, I have way too much. Above is another great French ad from Eric (Aka Baron Sat). These were the popular shows in France at the time, Fantastic Four and Goldorak (which many Franch Canadian kids […]
My pal Eric sent this amazing cool advertisement for costumes in France, this stuff is just killer. I guess Bionic Woman was called “Super Jamie” over there, I wonder if they’ll call the new series that?These Leia and C-3PO costumes are undeniably cool, the Leia looks exactly like the Kenner figure!Mighty Mightor was kind of […]
It almost doesn’t seem fair to talk about Monster Toys and not bring up one of the most popular and influential of them all, the Aurora Monster kits. So today’s update is a look at the 1975 Aurora Glow in the Dark Classic Movie Monsters Catalog. As an added bonus we have shots from the […]
Remco Mini Monsters are an obsession of mine, the marriage of 3 3/4″ Star Wars like figures with the Universal Monsters is in my humble opinion, perfection. I just recently tracked down the play case but bought a sealed one that I can’t play with. I’d never punch out the cardboard pieces anyway.What haunts me […]
I don’t know much about this game but I have to say that’s the most handsome frankenstein I’ve ever seen.
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