In 1981, Remco, a division of Azrak Hamway International for almost the past decade, went through some changes in their product line. . Demand for many of the items that had been staples for the company such as Utility belts and powerzed Superheroes was starting to wane. All the Hulk merchandise and the Star Trek […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have a weakness for store displays of any kind and it’s a true bonus when you can find them in a catalog. This sweet display of Collegeville masks inclues “The Bat” and a great generic version of the creature from the black lagoon that I’m kind of smitten with: Much more about Collegeville all […]
Before the VCR was affordable, the super 8 film craze was sweeping the nation. Here you take wonderful, colour, silent home movies of the family to keep forver.But seeing as millions of families already had a projector, why not use it to show some highlights of Hollywood’s finer and schlockier moments?Castle Films was one of […]
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 […]
One of the bigger explosions in the seventies was the rise of the homemade craft kit, which no doubt was brought about by the hippie movement of the 60’s.. Children across America were making macrame (guilty!), rug hooking (guilty!) and happily making Christmas tree Candles (My father must have worried about me). One of the […]
I’m real jazzed to have some additions to the Lincoln Monsters section of the site, mostly because I never thought I would get more stuff from this tough to collect 8″ line. Above is the Frankensten box, that’s right, Frankensten, it seems Lincoln took their proofing as seriously as I do.The Mummy box also has […]
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