The Cheerful Family

The Cheerful family is a rip off of Mattel's "Sunshine Family" by Lincoln International. Not to be outdone by the overall creepiness of the originals, Lincoln somehow made them even more terrifying. I won't sleep tonight.

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Toy-Ventures: The Thrill Seekers

Who are the Thrill Seekers you ask? They're a very rare series of action figures knocking off both Mego's Action Jackson and Evel Knievel. They're also related to other notorious knock offs like Mr. Rock and the Lincoln Monsters. Also, you get to meet Big Bill! Join our FB Group Mego Knock Off HQ https://www.facebook.com/groups/231169224543263/ PodStallions FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2226244254053126/

Toy-Ventures: Tomland PVC Monsters

Time to talk about the quirky series of PVC monster figures that are based on other Tomland series like the Star Raiders, Famous Monsters of Legends and Creatures from other worlds.

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Toy-Ventures 17: Mr. Rock from Lincoln International

The subject of this weeks Toy-Ventures is one of the most notorious and hilarious knock-off action figures from the 20th century, Mr. Rock the outer space adventurer from Lincoln International.

With his flare gun and pink transistor radio, Mr. Rock is set for his intergalactic mission of confusing parents and disappointing children across the galaxy. 

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Lincoln Monsters in the 1976 Galoob Catalog

It wouldn't be Halloween without me waxing poetic about my favourite monster toy line of all time, the Lincoln Monsters.

This year I came across one of my absolute grails, in the form of finding the 1976 Galoob toys catalog. Although Galoob was later known for licensed items  and things such as Micro Machines, 1976 saw them as more of an importer of Hong Kong novelties including items produced by Lincoln International.



Here they are featured among the Lincoln Action Soldier toys and other Rack Toy merchandise. Galoob was definitely the the company that got the following memorable Montgomery Ward's catalog spread from 1976:

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Greatest Catalog Page Ever (to me)

It seems fitting to end a month of Wish Book pages with what I consider the greatest one ever. From Monkey Wards 1976, the Mego Superheroes battling the Lincoln Monsters.

It's not my favourite because of childhood (we didn't have Wards in Canada) but when I was a teen tracking down my childhood monster friends, I could never find them. In the pre-internet days of collecting, I'd plow through toy shop or comic buyers guide and get people trying to sell me AHI and Mego monsters but I knew they weren't right. 

Then I started buying old catalogs from a collector (that's a story in itself) and bam! first page I opened, there they were. That was 1989, it only took me 23 years to finish the set....

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PodStallions Episode 10: Glows in the Dark (Monster Toys)

Our second October episode, Jason and Brain try to cram in as many monster toys as they can into an hour and a half. 

Aurora model kits, Marvel comics, action figures by Tomland, Remco and Lincoln International get discussed as does Cracked magazine, Power Records, the number of times we rented "LifeForce" on VHS (I've never seen the end)

As usual, the topic tends to veer off into a disscussion first experiences with theatre jumping (with first movie nudity) and Lee Marvin fishing, it may look like those pieces fit together but they do, they do.....

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• The Star Wars Issue of Cracked Magazine that Jason mentions.
• A late 1960s Collegeville Mr Spock Costume.
• Brian as Boba Fett.
• Lincoln International Monsters are some of Brian's favourite Monster Toys and Mr Rock is their spock knockoff.
• The Aurora Girl Victim model kit got them in a lot of trouble.
• Wind Up Super Monsters were $0.99 well spent.
• Jason brings up the Tomland Famous Monsters of Legend.
• The Famous Monsters Speak Record Jason traded for.
• Power Records Monster album is on Youtube.
• Star Trek: Passage to Moav features a blonde Lt Uhura and an off model Mr Sulu.
• The AMT Gigantics kits are incredible and should be owned by you.
• Remco Mini Monsters are beloved by both of the guys.
• The Jack Davis Frankenstein Poster Jason mentioned.
• Monster Squad action figures almost happened, Brian's pillow is soaking wet with tears every night.
• Henry Polic 2 passed away this year sadly.
• REAL dirt from Dracula's castle captivated Jason.
• The Incredible Melting Man got a Kid's halloween costume and a makeup kit.
• Life Force is on Blu-Ray in case you ever wanted to get us something for Christmas...
• Mattel Godzilla and Rodan are full of win, Gre-Gory the vampire bat is something Brian needs to own.
• Mattel Krusher Commercial from 1980.
• The Lee Marvin documentary that Jason mentions.

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