Hanna Barbara Sticker Album from 1971 (eBay Affiliate Link)

Oh man, as much as I watched the Flinstones every day at noon (CFTO Baby!), my heart will always belong to Birdman and the Galaxy Trio which actually show up in this thorough little book!

Vampirella Door Poster (eBay Affiliate Link) –

I have the weirdest relationship with the character. I owned one of her magazines for a single day until I sold it for less than I paid to a very beautiful woman who wanted to create an outfit for herself. I saw the terrible movie (and I’m a huge Jim Wynorski fan) and that’s about it. However, if Mego released a Vampirella doll tomorrow, I’d take ten!

There is something so iconic and fun about the character’s design. Also, we need more female figures in 8″ scale….

MicroMan Knock Off Space Tank (eBay Affiliate Link) —

I miss the era of the early 80s Transformer Knock-Off boom. My first gig was selling these imports as “Transformers” in a dodgy kiosk at the Whitby Mall that was just gone one day. I really want this, but I will likely forget when it ends.

Remco I Dream of Jeannie doll (eBay Affiliate Link) —

It’s interesting to not how many of my beloved childhood television shows were syndicated shows cancelled before I was born. Remco’s Jeannie came out in 1976 and I think that was at three years after the cartoon. Afternoon syndication was a gold mine, I’m surprised there weren’t Monkees action figures.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes Promotional Newspaper (eBay Affiliate Link) —

20th Century Fox used to release these wonderful faux newspapers for the Apes Sequels. I put the one for Conquest (my favourite Apes film) on the site a ways back. These are campy fun and a style of marketing we’ll never see again, unless the Apes take over*……

*If the Apes do in fact, take over, I will turn you all in on a dime! Do not trust me….

Mego Meet 2024 will be hosted this August 17-18 at Zolo-Con. We’ll have our own dealer area, panels, customs contests for the kids and late night swap meets in the Mego Suite.

Mego Meet 2024 is at ZoloCon

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We’ve got an incredible treat this Friday before Halloween in the form of this incredible Aurora Monster Scenes store display, courtesy of my pal Matt, who will take over from here with the editorial.

This was actually assembled and painted at the Aurora factory, and then shipped built up to hobby stores.

Frankenstein doesn’t come with the set. He is a vintage one from my childhood

There is little I can say about the Monster Scenes that hasn’t already been said except that, in my opinion, they are the single greatest monster toy line to come out of the 1970s. 


They surpass even the Ahi monsters, as far as I’m concerned. If ever a toy line typified the early 1970s, this was it. 

Only in that decade could you get a model kit that was an action figure with a diorama that you built in order to reenact scenes of torture. 


No other decade would dare market a toy to kids rated “X” as a double-entendre. No other toy was made in that decade that so simply and directly tapped into that pre-adolescent boy mindset– that transitory period where one is on the verge of transitioning away from loving “kids stuff” like monsters, and starting to think about girls… 


No one else has ever released a toy with that same cheerful mix of innocence and sadism. One would consider such a feat to be near impossible. But Aurora did. And it was the rock upon which they sank.

 
Here is the set with a random assortment of boxed Monster Scenes– including the rare package variant “Victim” renamed as “Dr Deadly’s Daughter” for Canadian markets. 

Thanks to Matt for being so awesome and sharing this piece of 1970s gold. Happy Halloween Everyone!

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