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Toy-Ventures: Son of Monster Bash 2024

Mantooth — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 02:07:34 +0000

Toy-Ventures: Son of Monster Bash 2024

We had a blast at last week’s Monster Bash, thanks to everyone who came by and said hello! We’re going to recap the fun times and incredible sights and the cool grail I bought at one of my favourite conventions, Monster Bash 2024!

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Toy-Ventures Issue 12- Stretch Monster

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We co-produced this amazing action figure with White Elephant Toyz; it’s an 8″ Mego Style Officially Licensed Tura Satana figure with a beautiful box by Joeseph Linsner! Get yours while supplies last.

Knock Offs; Totally Unauthorized Action Figures the book

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Toy-Ventures: Son of Monster Bash 2024
Mego, Caroline Munro, Hammer Movies, AHI, Lincoln Monsters, Paul Naschy, Halloween, Monster Bash, 2024, Cranberry, PA, Martine Beswick, Plaid Stallions, King Kong, Bullmark, Funworld, Wild in the Streets, Waldemar, Spanish Horror, Movie Posters, Action figures, comics, toys, Horror convention, toy collector, megolike, Toy-Ventures, Famous Monsters, Lincoln Monsters,

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Toy-Ventures: Rare Vintage Toys at SDCC!

Mantooth — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:28:17 +0000

Toy-Ventures: Rare Vintage Toys at SDCC!

Toy-Ventures returns from #sdcc2024 with an after-hours look at some incredibly rare and expensive vintage toys available at the summer’s biggest fan event.

Mego Meet 2024 is at ZoloCon

Mego Meet 2024 is August 17-18 in conjunction with Zolo-Con! https://www.facebook.com/events/236781772848368

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Mego Knock Off Headquarters is a group created to discuss bootleg toys and customs. Totally chill vibe for fans of Tomland, Lincoln International, Mego and AHI. It’s a super fun group, join Mego-KO-HQ!

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Toy-Ventures: Star Trek Mix N Mold challenge!

Mantooth — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:34:05 +0000

Toy-Ventures returns with a look at the 1975 Star Trek Captain Kirk Mix-N-Mold set. I will use all my middling skills to make this vintage hobby item; come see how I do! The one thing I am good at is making a mess.

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Tonka Steel Monsters- Toy-Ventures

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Toy-Ventures Magazine Issue 10 is here!

Do you miss print toy magazines? I sure did; that’s why I created Toy Ventures. A full-colour print magazine that celebrates toys from the 1960s to the 1980s. It features collector guides, interviews and even some satire. We’re on issue 10 now but still have a limited supply of our back issues; please visit our Shop for more information.

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Pod Stallions 112: Movie Serials

Mantooth — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 03:23:53 +0000

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Before the MCU and Multiverses, before the Snyderverse, before the summers that the Shadow and the Phantom RULED the cineplexes (didn’t they?), it was a world when the superhero and pulp characters reigned supreme in Saturday morning serials. The precursor of the modern action movie, their impact can be felt to this day , and since we keep our fingers on the pulse, we thought it was high time we showed them some love. So grab yer popcorn and Buck Rogers Disintegrator Pistols as we thread the projector and eat a bowl of healthy serial(s).

Topics Discussed:
Captain Marvel, Captain America, Buster Crabbe, Eugene Levy, SCTV, Cliffhangers, Indiana Jones, George Lucas, The Phantom, Kirk Alyn, The Odd Couple, Firesign Theatre, J Men Forever, Dracula, The Phantom Empire, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Mister Justice, Pod Stallions, Flash Gordon, The Lost City, Commando Cody, Dick Van Patten, Ray Crash Corrigan, Phantom Creeps, Bela Lugosi, Dick Tracy, Magic Shadows, Animal Farm, Fantastic Planet, Elwy Yoast, TVO,

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Our latest book is “Knock-Offs: Totally Unauthorized Action Figures” a love letter to cheeky copyright-infringing toys. You can get this new book via the PlaidStallions Shop, On Amazon (Affiliate Link) or eBay (eBay Link)

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Mego Knock Off Headquarters– The leading group discussing 70s Dime store knock-offs and bootleg action figures, we talk vintage toys and not others. We know the difference between Astro Apes and Action Apeman. It’s a fun group where we talk about Lincoln Monsters, AHI, Mighty Gary, Tomland, Bogi, Demo Man, Mortoys, and other generic greats.

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Toy-Ventures: Top Ten Mego Knock-Offs

Mantooth — Fri, 28 May 2021 02:11:04 +0000

This week we look at the fun and interesting toy lines put out to catch some sales heat from the popular Mego Superheroes line of toys from Kooky Aliens to Biblical Heroes to some just plain blatant copyright infringement, it’s a fun ride.

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Mexican Big Jim Invisible Man figure– Oh I love Mexican Big Jim figures and Hombre Invisible is one of the best, a clear body, removable heads and an outfit, hours of fun! How the heck did we not get this as kids?

Issue 4 of Toy-Ventures magazine ships this June

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The Last Star Fighter Prototypes Found

Mantooth — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 04:00:00 +0000

This past week I got one of those emails that I just absolutely live for and that is from the owner of the hand painted set of prototype figures for the Last Star Fighter. Pictured about is the original catalog page we showed here.

Originally proposed by Galoob, these figures never saw light of day, probably due to the film’s lackluster box office (it’s a good movie too, I saw it opening weekend). It haunts collectors such as myself a little and that’s why this image and the following story made me smile.

More after the Hyper Jump!

How did the owner come to get these? We’ll let him explain that in his own words, this story goes back 25 years.

“A friend of mine at the time wanted to become a sculpture for movie makeup and he had met a guy who did that for a living. I was asked to go over with him as he did not want to go alone.”

” We got to his house and he had his garage set up like a flea market with a bunch of stuff he either worked on or had gotten while working in the industry. I think he worked with Phil Tippett because he had stuff from Star Wars and the Terminator as well as stories about working on the Terminator.”

“He had the figures with the other stuff and wanted to sell it, he had found religion and did not want anything from his past in the movies. I remember he had some Strawberry Shortcake stuff as well that I did not have the money to buy.”

“So I ended up with the 6 figures as well as some model kits and a few props as well as a Gumby that was used in a Gumby movie.”

Pretty neat stuff and I also know someone in the special effects field who now sculpts for toy companies, it seems to be commonplace. It still doesn’t take away the pain of these never getting made.

The owner is now considering parting with them , so he’s asked to me to share them to gauge any interest. Got any questions? Fire them to me via my gmail (kid70s) and I’ll forward them on down!

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Pod Stallions 63: Convention Stories

Mantooth — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 04:00:00 +0000

The last PodStallions we did was so much fun, we rushed back to do another, look at us being proactive! This week’s show is all about conventions and toy shows.

We explore our humble first conventions (which were mind blowing to us then) and eventually get all the way to modern tales of San Diego comic con.

Along the way we talk about celebrity encounters, being a dealer, terrible conventions, John Colicos, Colin Baker, Jon Pertwee, spending all our money, getting drunk and renting adult videos? How did we even? Nevermind.

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Pod Stallions 62: Action Figure Collecting

Mantooth — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:11:00 +0000

We’re back with an all-new show, this one is a little different, more of a “Free-form jazz” sort of thing as we just go back and forth talking about action figure collecting, the madness we both share.

Discussion includes our favorite lines and styles of plastic people, our various collecting rituals and of course, our top three “must have” action figure lines.

On Topic Conversations include Mego, Hot Toys, Bif Bang Pow!, Kenner, Funko, Super 7, Hasbro, Star Wars POTF, exclusives, customs, Mattel Flash Gordon, GI Joe, the Waltons and Wizard of Oz.

Sidetrack conversations abound in this one and we get into Richard Lynch, Maverick, Jellyfish, Target, Barney Miller, Planet of the Apes, Kenny Everet, toy guns, toy shows, Solo: A Star Wars story, meditation and weird things we did as kids.

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1981 Lone Ranger Catalog by Gabriel Toys

Mantooth — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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The Lone Ranger was riding high in 1981 thanks to a popular Saturday morning Cartoon series (by my favourite company Filmation) and the promise of a big budget film (that didn’t work out so good).

So, Gabriel Toys blasted the toy shelves with two distinct toy lines, a relaunch of their popular 1970s 9″ Toy line and a 3 3/4″ line so you could have Tonto get a sasparilla in the Creature Cantina!

Visit THE 1981 Gabriel Toys Lone Ranger Catalog here!

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Pod Stallions Episode 59: 2017 Retro Awards

Mantooth — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Another year, another pile of amazing pop culture.

As every retro awards, we talk about the things that most hit us in the feels in our nostalgic journey that is Pod Stallions.

We talk about our favourite movies, books, DVD releases and toys of this past year.

Topics include Planet of the Apes, Wonder Woman, the Super Friends, Doctor Who, Blade Runner, Al Adamson movies, Kung Fu, Mystery Science Theater, Elvira and much, much more.

So sit back, relax and please don’t give a second thought to the fact that two music nuts never thought to talk about albums……

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