This post is up a little than intended as I was out all day yesterday. But it's here now! This is honestly the last Mighty Max playset I will be looking at for a while. I am well aware that MM has featured heavily on this blog the last few months, but that's only …
Here's a toyline that is virtually unknown, which is a travesty. It's actually so unknown that I couldn't even remember what the toys were called even though I owned some of them as a kid. I had to ask the guys on a Monsters in My Pocket forum if they could offer any information as …
Continue reading Day XI, Halloween Countdown 2016! Vivid Imaginations ‘Pocket Shockers’ from 1994!
I don't know any kids that didn't love monsters back in the '90s, or at least appreciate them in some form. Monsters were everywhere, if I had to read at school naturally I would gravitate towards books like Goosebumps and Shivers and Creepers.Following the after-school cartoons there would be TV shows like Eerie Indiana, Are …
Continue reading Day X, Halloween Countdown 2016! Monster in My Pocket!
Ah the Ghostbusters. Remember a time when the franchise wasn't sullied by cheap cash-ins in the form of poorly thought out re-boots that you apparently could only dislike if you harbor misogynistic feelings? I didn't experience the initial airing of The Real Ghostbusters animated TV show (1986-1991) as I was born in 1990,. But I …
In life, very occasionally you might happen across something that you just couldn't live without if you didn't buy there and then. This happened when I stumbled across this. I had something similar when I was a kid, it was an alien in an egg that you chucked in a jar of water …
Continue reading Day VI, Halloween Countdown 2016! Grow Zombies! Just add water!
I don't remember ever seeing Tim Burton's Beetlejuice movie as a kid, which is a damn shame as it would have probably ticked all of my boxes for what constituted as a good movie. I liked spooky shit and crass 'in your face' humor and that was pretty much was this film was all about. …
I think I have mentioned previously as to how ruthless some NES games could be, and Capcom's Ghosts 'N Goblins is definitely on the extreme end of that scale. Though challenging, it is thoroughly spooky and deserves a mention on the Halloween Countdown. I am pretty sure I played the sequel before I played this …
Sometimes when I was a kid, when I got a new toy there often were all the other toys in the line on the box or on the backing card. They usually looked like the most amazing thing that could possibly exist but when I went to the toy store to find that specific toy …
Continue reading Day II, Halloween Countdown 2016! Mighty Max Grips the Hand playset!
It was Christmas '95 or '96 and I was tearing the paper off a present from my great grandmother. Somewhat surprisingly I wasn't overly enthusiastic when I pulled the last bit of wrapping away and I was holding this. Obviously with hindsight I can see that I was a fucking idiot. If I could …
Continue reading Kenner Lava Predator action figure from 1994!
A little while ago my girlfriend went up into the attic to have a rummage around for some documents. She came back down with a bag full of toys which was exciting and unexpected and it made me make a mental note to check my parents attic when I am next in England visiting them, …
Continue reading Attic finds! My Little Pony toys and Littlefoot hand puppet!
The Forgotten Starship 