Unless you're in some sort of band, it's not cool to wear matching red denim outfits. When a guy willingly starts doing stuff like this, his friends can kiss him goodbye. Trust me, that's the expression my buddy had when I last saw him, it's been two years......
My favourite motel is in Clarence NY, it's a series of little cottages next to a cemetary.
I kid you not, both of these items are in my grandmother's basement. She still swears the "belt massager" or as I like to call it "the Ass Jiggler" helped her lose 10 pounds. The thing is hilarious, you stand there and it massages your butt. When we were kids my sister and I would sit in it like a swing and the other would turn it on, it was like a mechanical bull.
And here is the ad for Super Joe villain, Darkon. I really remember this as a kid, I can't believe I never noticed that Darkon is just Super Joe painted green. Way to recycle Hasbro!
Being injured sucks but it did finally give me the time to find this cool clip of me destroying a boxed Mattel Big Jim, hands right through the cello window. No wonder I collect toys.....
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After the great response to our previous feature on 1970's Toy Stores I decided to try and find some more images and it turned out better than i hoped.
Check out a pile of cool images from stores like Woolco, Macy's, Kuhn's Big K, Jeffersons and more. Toys include Star Wars, Mego Micronauts, Charlies Angels, Tonka Trucks, Fisher Price just to name a few.
See if any of these stores are where you bought your toys.
When you buy a vintage catalog, sometimes you get duds, no good toys, respectable clothes, it's a real downer. Other times, you strike comedy gold. The discovery of the "Man Mates" was the equivalent of striking oil, diamonds and uranium all at once
Not only is this line of clothing woefully named but it's also the tackiest, most infamous clothing line to ever grace the small screen, why is that you ask?
Because Man Mates is known better by another name, perhaps you've heard of it
That's right, the worlds most famous bachelour stepped off the fashion train wearing Man Mates and history was made! I'll won't be releasing this all at one, no we must savour, it's that good.
There you have it folks, 34 years ago, I hated my first Halloween
It wasn't until a few years later and a visit from a certain caped crusader that I changed my mind...
I'm the guy in the generic Spiderman Knock off costume (Thank you, Woolco!), Batman had let himself go and Robin smelled of drinking but I was enthralled with this visit. I couldn't get over how much the dynamic duo looked like friends of my Dads.....
Got a fun extra for Halloween this year, some cool vintage trade advertising for companies like Ben Cooper and Don Post. Enjoy and have a great evening!
Ok, wanting to punch John Travolta is perfectly understandable, especially if you've seen "Be Cool" but why would you want to punch Frank from the Monster Squad? He's a good guy!
Actually this is a piece of merch from the show I'd never heard about, the only thing I'd ever seen before was the Board Game.
Also, did you know that comedian Marty Allen was on Monster Squad? His site includes some rare pics from the series.
I'm not wrestling that guy, he's got a boner!
Pumpkin Spider!
Pamper Me!
The Signature Skit: Blinded by the Light
More Halloween stuff on Monday
I'd never seen this Monster Bust set but I gotta say it's pretty sweet. I like the fact that replaced Dracula with the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
I wonder if most kids slathered on the testors red paint when putting these together? Most of the vintage kits I see with "little kid paint jobs" go nuts with the blood.......
Lots more Monster Stuff to come.
Concepts like this copycast make your own monster factory really appealed to me as a kid, I was just missing two things to really make them work, skill and patience. I'd have become Homer Simpson working on that thing......
I have a weird story about the Hasbro moving Monster Gun which projected pictures of Monsters on the wall. A school friend named Richard had one of these tucked in his closet. I was over at his house once and thought it was the coolest toy ever made. Richard seized the opportunity and said if i wanted to play with with it, I'd have to pay him, eventhough it was obvious he didn't care for it.
I contemplated just grabbing the gun and making a run for it but Richard's parents lived in the middle of nowhere. Needless to say, our friendship dissolved.
The Mego Mad Monsters are some of the best known Monster toys of the seventies and the story of their inception is kind of interesting.
Mego was scooping up licenses like crazy in the mid seventies but according to Neal Kublan, Universal wanted too much money for the rights to produce monster dolls (Rival AHI scooped up the rights and produced 8" Monsters of their own). So Mego produced generic monsters to keep the retail space.
Despite the limitations, the Mad Monsters have a wonderful charm to them, Frankenstein has bolts in his forehead, the Wolfman looks a lot like he stepped out of a Grimm fairy tale. The figure's eyes and hands glow in the dark, mine still do to this day.
The absolute bomb is the Mad Monster Castle however, a fantastic backdrop for your Mad Monster figures and the lab even has an eyechart because 20/20 vision is important to the undead......
Two things keep them from greatness, the first thing is the glow in the dark plastic really obscures Ken Sheller's amazing sculpts, all of the monsters (Save for the rather generic Dracula) have beautiful likeness to the original actor.
The second thing are the bodies, Remco included a squeezing action feature that allows the figures to "hug" things, it kind of limited play value
Still, it's a really nice line and the monsterizer is one of the best play sets ever made, look at that thing! Remco also made a Phantom and Creature from the Black Lagoon a year later, they are the best figures in the series and of course, near impossible to find........
