{"id":8142,"date":"2011-10-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/index.php\/2011\/10\/26\/remco-mini-monster-love\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T18:12:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T18:12:54","slug":"remco-mini-monster-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/remco-mini-monster-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Remco Mini Monster Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It wouldn’t be Halloween without me extolling the sweet virtue of Remco Mini Monsters, a line I love collecting. Above is a snippet from a 1980 Toys R Us flyer that will appear on the site before Christmas some time.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve been trying to find these guys on Canadian issue cards because that’s how I remember them as a kid. I’ve searched high and low for years and had given up hope but fate works in weird ways (more after the jump)<\/span><\/div>\n

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One random day, my friend Sean came by my office and noticed them, he pointed and said “Hey some guy came into my work with a couple of those and tried to sell them to me.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Which is weird because (a) he’s not really a toy collector and (b) his shop is a work shop, not a collectible store of any kind so it makes even odder he was my connection to old toys.<\/span><\/div>\n

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A quick email later and I found two Remco Monsters on Canadian cards after nearly a decade of looking.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Here is Frankenstein, my favourite monster which makes this score even better.<\/span><\/div>\n

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 And here is the Phantom in his Canuck glory. <\/span><\/p>\n

Both of these have been “professionally” graded, which isn’t my cup of tea, I like to touch my toys and eventually I shall remove these guys from their acrylic coffins.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

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I have no aspirations of ever finishing this set, although I plan on keeping my eye out, this is two more than I ever thought I’d find.<\/span>
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More fun with the Remco Mini Monsters<\/span><\/div>\n
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It wouldn’t be Halloween without me extolling the sweet virtue of Remco Mini Monsters, a line I love collecting. Above is a snippet from a 1980 Toys R Us flyer that will appear on the site before Christmas some time. I’ve been trying to find these guys on Canadian issue cards because that’s how I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[239,176,98,391],"series":[],"class_list":["post-8142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-halloween","tag-remco","tag-toy-love","tag-universal-monsters"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/podcastmarker.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"rssradio":{"key":"rssradio","url":"","label":"RSSRadio","class":"rssradio","icon":"rssradio.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/pod-stallions\/ps","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/feed\/podcast\/default-podcast","embedCode":"

Remco Mini Monster Love<\/a><\/blockquote>