Cheating a bit here as this item came out slightly before the 1970s but I've always been fascinated with Aurora kits and this wonderful...

I can't go a Halloween season without extolling the virtue of this fun line of Action figures by 70s giant Mego. Despite not having th...

In the age of reproductions I really wish some kind soul would bring back the Rapco Monster bust sets. I'd love to have these bad boys ...

I've blogged before about Ideal Scare Cycles , the ingenius combination of the Evel Knievel concept mixed with monsters but I've ne...

‘ Universal Monsters" by Golden Continuing our Journey through this fun bit of Universal merchandise from 1990, we're going to t...

John sent in this awesome picture circa 1978, I gotta say that Hulk costume is so full of righteousness probably because it's not a comi...

The one thing that was a constant for children of the 70s and 80s was as soon as the seasonal aisle of your local drugstore was done wit...

Time to dig through the vault and see some real Monster bargains when it comes to the many, many monster action figure lines we were treate...

I was asked this year by the  folks at the wonderful horror website The Terror Trap to contribute to a collection of horror memories and ...

I honestly never set out in this life to collect Halloween costumes, I blame working on this site because now I've got a bunch of thes...

I think one of the scariest things in the 1970s had to be the notion of a giant shark eating you. I'm slightly ashamed to admit this ke...

A wonderful update as our Halloween Countdown progresses a look at the HG Toys classic Godzilla playset which includes a story of kindness a...

‘ Universal Monsters" by Golden Seeing as it's Halloween Countdown Month, I'm going to put up a CBT every week devoted to all...

Here are some of the first few fun pics submitted for our 2010 Halloween Countdown Contest  (which is still open BTW) these come to us from...

Naming a toy company "Funstuf" is a pretty bold statement, luckily the company more than lived up to it's namesake during the...

This is scarier than most of the stuff I'll feature in October....

A riot indeed, a lot of my personal toy favourites in this one, including Sky Dive to Danger, Atomic Man, mego Fonzie and I still have one o...

How you ask? If you're Brick Mantooth and you and your lady of the week are wearing kick ass Dragon shirts, that's how! DVD ALER...

I'd never heard of the Funstuf Electrogenic arm until I started this blog but when it appeared on Ebay I had to have it. It's a cra...

It's almost that time again, when me and many, many other bloggers participate in the annual event known as "Countdown to Hallowe...