This past Sunday, I was publicly outed as a toy collector twice. The first time was when Airport security X Ray’d my carry on baggage. The officer yelled “who’s this Captain Hero doll you got?” I told her it was Batman, her question of “and the little fella?” was met with “Robin!”. She burst out […]
Turning over the reins to the ever talented Rob Kelly, creator of the Aquaman Shrine among many other awesome comic related blogs such as All in Black and White for Seventy Five Cents which explores Warren publications, which is what we have here today. Take it away Rob!Will Eisner’s The Spirit Coloring Book wasn’t the […]
Monster Squad was a 1976 NBC saturday morning series that married the classic monsters with the 60’s Batman series ( Stanley Ralph Ross who developed Monster Squad wrote 17 episodes of Batman).In a nutshell, Museum night watchman Walter (a pre Love Boat Fred Grandy) is an aspiring criminologist, his crime computer brings to life the […]
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 […]
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.
Castle Dracula will be a mess of cookie crumbs and blood tonight. Tough choice for 70’s parents, huggable old cookie monster or a plush lord of the undead? Nowadays Drac would be a big seller at Hot Topic.
Every kid from the seventies or eighties will probably remember the cool rubber masks from the Don Post Company ads in Famous Monsters, Fantastic Films and Starlog. Today we present the various monsters, aliens and Imperial Sith of the 1982 Don Post Studios Catalog.
These cool BooBerry and Frankenberry puppets were in the 1977 Kenner catalog, which makes sense considering that Kenner was owned by General Mills. Booberry was my favourite cereal as a kid, they stopped making anything but Count Chocula here in the late seventies.
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