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2023 Halloween Special!
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Boo! It's Halloween! This year we're once again joined by best friend of the pod Dave (@cr33py on Instagram) to talk about some truly monstrous toys! From the classic REMCO Universal Monsters to WWE Zombies and beyond, the boys break down some of their favorite monster-driven toys ever made!
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Introduction to Adventures in Collecting Podcast
00:00:04
Speaker
Get your parents' permission, check your mailbox, and grab your shopping cart. It's time for the Adventures in Collecting podcast! I'm Eric. And I'm Dave. Welcome to Adventures in Collecting. Where we talk toy news, culture, and halls. Along with our journeys as collectors.
00:00:31
Speaker
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Adventures in Collecting.
Setting the Scene for Halloween
00:00:38
Speaker
Are those bubbles? Bubbles. The beakers are overflowing with fluids. We are back in the spooky laboratory.
00:00:51
Speaker
It might even be raining and there might be thunder and there might be creatures of the night, absolutely. That was my spooky laugh. It was very spooky. You know what though, Dave? You know who knows a thing or two about being spooky? I know somebody who knows something about being creepy. Creepy, spooky. Our favorite boo dude.
Annual Halloween Episode Announcement
00:01:19
Speaker
Hey guys, you remember you said the fluids were pouring over? A lot of that was me. Have to apologize for all the fluids. If Dave's good for one thing, it's contributing to fluids. Well, depends on the year and the month, but I'm ready for some fluids and it's October, which means we're getting wet and wild. That's right. It's raining every weekend. Happy Halloween, everybody.
00:01:41
Speaker
fluid season that's right and and there's nothing more fluid than a good segue and this is not a good point fluidity this this is not a good segue though but uh this is our annual Halloween episode so welcome everybody happy Halloween um he's back what do you mean he's back he never went anywhere well he wasn't
00:02:06
Speaker
No, wasn't Chris Raimo on last year? Well, Chris Raimo was on last year, but yes, I guess technically Dave is back, but he never he never really like went anywhere.
00:02:19
Speaker
Right. Nothing ever happened to him. Legally, I'm not allowed out of the country, according to a couple of different groups. But again, that goes back to the fluids. But I'm here and that's all that really matters. Yes, Halloween. And I, you know, you plant my seeds throughout the year and then I grow a little stem, a little pumpkin me in your backyard, bring me inside for a podcast. Squirrels eat me and then you throw me away for until next year.
00:02:48
Speaker
Yeah, we hollow you out. We put a little candle inside of you. It's great. It's a great experience for everybody. It's fun for the whole family, really. Kids love it.
Monster-Themed Toys Discussion
00:02:58
Speaker
So on this spooky edition of Adventures in Collecting,
00:03:03
Speaker
We are going to be discussing some monsters in toys. So we've kind of touched a little bit on this topic in past editions of our Halloween episodes. But we've never actually talked about specific toy lines based around monsters, movie monsters, just kind of the idea of monsters. And we put a poll out.
00:03:29
Speaker
on Instagram a couple weeks ago. And we even have some suggestions of monster toys from our lovely followers. So these are in no particular order. We didn't kind of rank these. We went through quite a big list of monster toys. But we are going to start with something that I think everybody in the monster realm is probably very familiar with, and that's the universal monsters.
00:03:57
Speaker
I know we each kind of are fond of them, but Dave, you are particularly fond of one of these universal monsters, right? Particularly going back right back to fluids, a particularly wet one. The wettest one out there. You automatically, you know, it's not the mummy because he's a dry guy.
00:04:18
Speaker
Dracula loves to suck the the blood. I don't want to get too blue. I mean blood I know some people few people are squeamish, but he'll suck the blood but yeah creature from the black lagoons my guy and He this is an incredible figure luscious lips Really just kind of set the standard for all the many figures that would come out
00:04:40
Speaker
Yeah, so we're talking about the 1981 Remco Universal Monsters. These were those those core Universal Monsters figures. So in that original wave, single wave was Frankenstein's monster or Frankenstein, family opera, Creature of the Black Lagoon.
Remco Universal Monsters Figures
00:05:02
Speaker
the werewolf, Dracula, and the mummy, and of course the playset monsterizer and carrying case that came with these originally three and three-quarter inch basic articulation figures. They have seen a recent resurgence, I guess you could say in popularity, thanks to NECA. And NECA is of course doing the full Universal Monsters line and
00:05:28
Speaker
They reveal they're getting into the hammer versions of those figures as well, but they do have my favorite versions of those figures because I loved those Remco ones. Obviously, a little bit before my time, I forget where I picked them up at some point, but I love those seven-inch glow-in-the-dark Remco.
00:05:50
Speaker
Remco style the universal monsters The glow in the dark the you know, the when they're not glowing kind of the green tint to all their skin It's they're just there's so much fun and I know Dave you have some of the other creatures, right? Like you have the the black and white and the colored ones, right? Yeah, all the I mean when you're talking about Remco like
00:06:13
Speaker
the best packaging art in the game. It's so basic, but I think now, like, you're going to find so many, I'd say, like, horror adjacent figures that have homage packaging, this nostalgic packaging. And even with, like, Super 7, when they redid their reaction, Universal Monsters, but even they have, like, you know, a Misfits figure with this packaging. They've done a little bit of everything, which is...
00:06:41
Speaker
Awesome to see because if you look at it, it's pretty basic Like if you took the monster's face off of it on the bottom left It looks like it could be like a prescription like it like it could be like, you know
00:06:55
Speaker
Remco, CalTrax, or whatever. Do not take Remco if you're allergic to Remco. Exactly, yeah. Do not take Phantom if you are pregnant or expecting it. But then, of course, there's the corny glow behind them. They're packaged on there, and it's just a huge... It looks like a photocopied, filtered face of your monster on the front, and it's just awesome.
00:07:24
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and shouts to, we mentioned him at the top of the episode, but last year's Halloween guest, Chris Ramo.
00:07:31
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Packaging designer at NECA has done an absolutely awesome job of bringing those cardbacks to the seven inch scale, recreating kind of the charm of those REMCO cardbacks. And not only that, but the cardstock, I don't even know if you can call it that. Those aren't going to bend. They're not going to bend easy.
00:07:57
Speaker
You could hurt somebody with them. But it's a great display piece, too. And, you know, even if they're being tossed around on the shelves of a target or wherever they turn up, they're going to be solid. They're going to stay together. And they're great. It's just a full piece together. And I think that's something we mentioned with Blaine to it and Comic Con like that is a that is some thick, thick cardboard. Yeah. Is on.
00:08:24
Speaker
I've gotten like Ikea furniture with less. Yeah. It's true. I mean, you could use them as, as, as building materials. And speaking of, uh, of, you know.
00:08:34
Speaker
Stiffness with these figures too. You got to mention the the the final style Not where I was going that that vinyl the the vinyl, you know high collared almost like like Kenner Obi-Wan Kenobi style robes that are on Dracula and family opera. I love those it's the best if we ever go to like a Star Wars convention together, can we go as like a
00:09:00
Speaker
Just like. Vinyl robe Jedi. Vinyl robes Jawas and Jedi and stuff. That would be awesome. You'd have to get a double telescoping lightsaber.
00:09:10
Speaker
and hollow out my arm. No, it's gonna come out your sleeve. I think like instead of vinyl, I would just get like a full carpet and just like cut two holes through the side and wrap it around. It would have the same effect, like a realistic version of the kenner. Yeah, do like the original version, just be aware like a large sock. Yeah, just the sock.
00:09:32
Speaker
Amazing. So sticking with Universal Monsters before we, you know, we stopped talking about them. Shouts to Friend of the Pod, Toyfars, who brought up an additional set of Universal Monsters figures from,
Burger King Universal Monsters Toys
00:09:49
Speaker
this time from 1997, the Burger King kids meal at Universal Monsters.
00:09:58
Speaker
these are also awesome this is from like the golden age of
00:10:03
Speaker
Happy Meal and Kids Meal toys. This is probably more like your era because I do not remember these. Oh, yeah, I remember these very fondly. The translucent plastics on Frankenstein and Creature, Dracula coming in the bright red coffin, and the Wolfman coming in the ground tomb. Just a really, really cool set of figures. And actually, you know,
00:10:33
Speaker
Shouts again to NECA. I don't know if they plan on remaking all of these, but there is a loot crate, a Universal Monsters loot crate that has this version of Frankenstein. Oh wow. With the translucent head and hands and the like off green coat.
00:10:55
Speaker
Yeah, it looks like a used car salesman. She's got those shoulder pads. These are awesome figures. I know I had the Frankenstein growing up, but I have creatures. These creatures people just find and give to me. So I have like somewhere I have to go through. They're awesome. They got that gooey belly. Yep, yep. Yeah, these are really, really cool Happy Meal toys. And it was during that like time where I have this like
00:11:21
Speaker
association with the mid to late 90s and Universal Monsters with trips to Universal Studios because there was that Beetlejuice rock and review with the Monsters where it was like a musical review of classic rock and roll songs with the Universal Monsters. And I just kind of felt like they were
00:11:41
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They started to like pop up and pulled pop culture again, kind of like the way that they are now, honestly. But yeah, I have such a fond association with them from that part of my life because of.
00:11:52
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That like one or two vacations that we took at that time down to down to Orlando They're still pretty available to like they're at they're not hella rare. Are you finding look looking at up some aftermarket prices? You know, it's funny. I was literally about to do the same thing I was just like should I meet my mic and hop on eBay? I mean, there's only four of them and in terms of completeness, right like it's
00:12:19
Speaker
It looks like, it looks like the Wolfman maybe has a decal of some sort on the, um, like there's somebody selling all four in the bag for 69 bucks. Nice. Nice. Yeah. Damn it. You beat me. You should offer 311. You should. Or 420. That's yeah. $66 and 66 cents.
00:12:46
Speaker
But yeah, Universal Monsters. Shouts again to Toy Farce for bringing that up because, yeah, it was something that I had not thought about in a very, very long time. And when that came up in our suggestions, I was like, huh, what is he talking? And then as soon as I saw the pictures, I was instantly taken back. Toy Farce, what a guy. What? Yeah. What a guy. One of my favorites. Hope you're listening. I miss you.
00:13:16
Speaker
Yeah, that's it. I'll talk to you soon. Yeah, it looks like like a full like mint set and is in the $60 ballpark, which is not bad. Does it come with the food though? I mean, it could in theory. It would probably come with the fries. I would want it delivered with food. We should each buy one and then all meet up at Burger King and bring our own toys. That would kind of be awesome.
00:13:43
Speaker
And then we can play guys. That's what we called it in college. We made a video of us playing guys. And that's where I heard it from. Playing guys. No, we were talking about this the other day that I said, who are we with? And I said to somebody that like, you know, it was at Comic Con. It was at Comic Con. That's right. So you said it to many people. To play guys. And Dave laughed at me and he was like, I've never heard that before. And I was like, I heard it from somewhere and I can't remember where I heard it from.
00:14:11
Speaker
And now I remember where I heard it from. It was from you. Good friend, Ed slash Theo is on the, um, the, uh, Bailey school dropout, this podcast once a year. Yeah. He used to call it a playing guys. We brought a lot of action figures to college and made a video and one guy, everyone always wanted to play and he'd be like, Oh cool. I'll just be this guy. I'll be a, you know, Darth Vader. And we'll just be like, no, Darth Vader's a bad guy.
00:14:38
Speaker
It's like, well, I'll be Wolverine. I'm Wolverine. And just... Hey, sometimes you gotta sit crisscross applesauce and just play guys. You just gotta play guys. And I mean, what better than, uh, you know, a great, uh, Wolfman from Burger King. Yeah. And it looks like they're, they are that like three and three quarter inch scale too. So they get fit right in.
00:15:03
Speaker
Um, now this next one is actually, uh, is interesting because it's a super weird toy. Um, that, that came up in, in kind of our search here, but it's also loosely connected to one of our guests due to, uh, the other podcast that you, that you wanted one of the two podcasts that you, you co-host. So this is where we're sticking around the same time period here. We're headed to 1996, uh, for Kenner's monster head maker.
00:15:32
Speaker
And this was a super weird toy. Very loose tie-in. Very, very loose tie-in with Goosebumps. I'm looking at the packaging here and I'm reading on the front that you can recreate four characters inspired by your favorite Goosebumps books. The Haunted Mask.
00:15:54
Speaker
Book number 11, I like that it puts the book numbers on it, that's awesome. Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, book number five. Stay Out of the Basement, book number two, and The Girl Who Cried Monster, book number eight. Now Dave, tell us a little bit about all those books. Sure, I can tell you that when they say based on, they mean very loosely based on. Because this figure, it's just like a skull head with like, I don't know,
00:16:23
Speaker
viscera it's just like a white skull head that you'll play with for a while and then we'll be sitting in the back of your closet for a long time as the one that I played with my my cousins it was just that thing that like
00:16:37
Speaker
you know, a lot of pieces in a box, you built it, didn't fit in the box again, and then you have a few of the pieces, but it's like you build a head, and it's not like the Barbie one where you can like do its hair or anything. This one you just put like a messed up nose on it, and you're like, my work's done, have fun, have fun, being a weird head. It looks like a pseudo animatronic Mr. Potato Head.
00:17:00
Speaker
Yeah, it's like close to like a like music kids museum learn the parts of like the inner ear, but it's just like the part is just like this is gross. Like don't. It looks like a cross between Dan Aykroyd's character and nothing but trouble and Howie Mandel's little monsters guy.
00:17:27
Speaker
Like it looks like a cross between the two, two of them. Um, especially with like the weird little like blue mohawk and like the, the like super pale light skin. Um, yeah, I mean, this is gross. This, this thing is, this, this thing is gross. Like I'm looking at the individual pieces here and like, like Dave said, there's like a weird. Like dirty nose, but there's also like weird, like rotten ears and
00:17:53
Speaker
like a tongue and bandages and you can change its teeth yeah you can you can change its teeth it's got like a bugged out eyes it looks like if you made a skull out of like
00:18:08
Speaker
ground beef and then just like spray painted it white. It's gross. So the best part about this is I'm not a hundred percent sure, but that might be some Tim Jacobus art on the box. That's kind of the best part of it. And it looks way cooler. You can get a little mohawk on it and do some curly some curly action that the mascot of goosebumps that like hip punk skeleton. But when it comes to the accessories like
00:18:38
Speaker
the eyes are kind of like girl who cried monster like you could say that they're like the extended ones they literally just have gauze in there like it's just a piece of gauze from someone's like mom's first aid kit uh and it's got like slime you can have come out its nose yeah and then there's like two antennas
00:19:02
Speaker
Which I guess those are okay. Yeah, I guess cuz they haven't coming out of their head. They're just like you know, like little I Don't know I am getting a little H for the W though just by Watching listeners of calling all creeps will understand. Yeah, it's um, I
00:19:22
Speaker
It does. It just seems like a toy that they probably slapped the name Goosebumps onto, which they did for a bunch of different things. But it was it was a hot commodity, a hot product. And it's tough to make, you know, board games or anything that's not like board games or like bookmarks or like light up on your desk or, you know, their action figures were very limited. They had those slime bag.
00:19:52
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. It was like a pouch of slime that you would just have to like ruin your sink to get like, oh, I got sloppy. And then there was. There were like balls that had a head inside of it.
00:20:07
Speaker
and the brains would pop out when you squeeze them. There's a lot of like that kind of like knickknacks, goodie bag-esque treats, but there was also supposed to be micro playsets. And people have been finding the prototypes for like Horrorland and a couple different things recently, because, you know, at that time, in the 90s, everything went micro for a while. Which is a great segue to one of the other products on this are toys, toy lines products.
00:20:35
Speaker
on this list.
Mighty Max Toy Line Exploration
00:20:38
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And also, again, from the same time period, Mattel's Mighty Max, speaking of micro playsets. And these, I mean, whereas this head zombie maker thing was clearly a response to like the brush your hair Barbie
00:20:56
Speaker
and Mr. Potato Head kind of mash up. Here's a cool thing. Yeah, this was a cool thing, but also something that kind of played off of something that was designed at the time for little girls was Polly Pocket. So we have Mighty Max. I remember
00:21:15
Speaker
I remember as being a boy when these came out, it was like the girls had the Mighty Max, the boys had the, or the girls had Polly Pocket and the boys had Mighty Max. And like, I remember we used to do like cross play and stuff like Polly would come help Mighty Max on some of his missions and vice versa. Play a Dracula. I feel like there's previous guests kind of told that story about how they got made.
00:21:41
Speaker
Wasn't that maybe a Stephanie S. Kander story? I think we talked a little bit about Mighty Max, but she was more on the Polly Pocket and design things. Yeah. But yeah, these had some awesome, gross, terrible, scary looking things too. Well, you both are ex-Mighty Max.
00:22:06
Speaker
Collectors or current and gave love love Mighty Max and it's one of those things where finding a complete Mighty Max is Very difficult. Yeah. Yeah and to the point where I you know again not to keep just
00:22:22
Speaker
Name-dropping former guests on the show, but but we will but we're gonna do it again when I mean yes when zombie when uh when Josh zombie sailor hat was still doing kind of those claim cells and those those warehouse finds I remember Dave and I had many a conversation over over Going in on some of those those new in box
00:22:45
Speaker
I ended up with two from that sale. Did you? You actually did end up getting two. I did. I did. Yeah. I just, you know, it was a huge thing. They were kind of like some of my all time favorite toys growing up. So it was, it was that weird time where like, you know, you're in between things. I don't know if it was, well, it was 93, but it was just so cool because you had a full playset everywhere you went. Yeah. I'm always talking about bring back the playset. The play, the playset is like,
00:23:16
Speaker
I don't know. That was always like the end all, be all. It's like you have the Batcave. Awesome. And I guess they are bringing it back. I mean, my credit card told me, uh, that, that NECA and I've been getting my emails about my sewer. So. Yeah. The Batman 66 ones too. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. And, and, you know, Star Wars continuing with the three and three quarter inch playsets. I mean, I'm looking at my massive throne room up here.
00:23:43
Speaker
But the thing that was cool about these two was their portability, right? You literally put two of these in your pockets, or if you had your sweet cargo shorts on, you could really load up on them. You could fit the entire collection in your Janko back pocket. There you go. And nobody would steal it. They'd be too afraid of the snake eating an eight ball on the outside.
00:24:06
Speaker
You're the pants were almost as scary as the toys that were inside of them Yeah, no, but I just looking at a couple of these like the the smaller ones. I fondly remember the the like red zombie with like the the like padlock hanging from his ear and the I don't know what it's called, but it's like a weird like cyborg it almost looks like the
00:24:33
Speaker
Eddie from Iron Maiden, like, can I play with madness? I'm holding it up so that way Dave can see it. Oh, yeah, I don't remember what it was called, but
00:24:48
Speaker
That may have been the cyber skull, the bite cyber skull, or I don't know. But those things were awesome. And, you know, they had an accompanying TV show, which also, you know, very frequently dipped into the creepy end of things, you know, with all these monsters and stuff that Max was fighting against. With his good friend Virgil and Norman.
00:25:11
Speaker
Virgil and Norman, that's right. Virgil, the wise tiny owl and Norman, the guy who had a metal arm who was the 90s. I would love to watch that show again. It's been a long time. It has been. I wonder if it's all Pluto or something. It's got to be somewhere. It was it was big enough that it's got to be somewhere. And it also is celebrating the 30th anniversary this year of Mighty Max. Jeez, yeah. And I think there was a isn't there like a third party like art toy company that's putting out a couple sets?
00:25:40
Speaker
So PERIA, it's called PERIA, P-E-A-R-I-A, has two different sets. They're the mini heads.
00:25:49
Speaker
You know, like the ones that would come in two packs, three packs, where you just get max and it opens up. So there's two different designs. There's a Max's hat, which of course we know is where all the power came from, according to the cartoon. And then there's another one that's Rudolph. I guess it's like a winter one. So just for those tiny ones, I get it's a small company. It's $20 a pop. Oh, okay. It's steep. It's steep.
00:26:18
Speaker
But if you want the silver variant, the Chaos version, that'll get you an extra five bucks you'll need. So $25 for one of the mini skulls. Inflation. I know, right? What a thing. What a thing it is.
00:26:38
Speaker
And it's one of the things where like they're showing it on a you can search this on Big Bad Toy Store. They show it's like it scales perfectly with all the other ones, but it's like, you know, I'm trying to cut back. Yeah, but it's it's really cool. It's very cool that Mighty Max is here. I just wish that they would, you know, and you can still get those Jankos for like almost like 200 bucks. So they're still coming back. The kids love their Jankos these days.
00:27:07
Speaker
Listen, I, you know, the, the nineties are, are, are coming back. They're coming back. Uh, but I, you know, that's one of those ones where like, I'm surprised after all these years that Mattel hasn't, especially now with like Mattel creations that they haven't tried to do anything with that license. You know, I believe they still have, you know, it's like their thing. So, um, it would be cool to see them do something like for the anniversary, like,
00:27:35
Speaker
you know, do something exclusive on Mattel creations. You know, maybe like. I'm sure there are. I'm no expert on Mighty Max, but I'm sure there were sets that were never made it out of prototype or design or, you know, would be cool to see them pull something out like that. They're doing the themed Polly Pockets like there's a friends one. Yeah. Like do you like a Halloween like Halloween?
00:28:03
Speaker
themed, or like trick or treat themed Mighty Max, where it's like Sam's head. That would be amazing.
00:28:09
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, every single toy company has done those. They've all existed. It's just about time. You know, Mattel, if they just make Mighty Max's for their other properties. Yeah. Like how many people would want like a raw. You unfold it to the walk down from the stage in a little wrestling ring. Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah. Yeah. Mass takes on the beast incarnate. That's like I think that's like the microaggressions from Jax back in the day.
00:28:39
Speaker
I still think that's the funniest name. Microaggressions. Yeah, we all have it. It was named by their therapist.
00:28:51
Speaker
Well, speaking of things that are aggressive and also wrestling related, speaking of things named by their therapist. Um, let's, let's talk about zombies.
WWE Zombies Toy Line by Mattel
00:29:01
Speaker
Uh, so WWE, this is, this is the newest toy that's on our list. So this, this is taking us to 2016. Um, the Mattel WWE zombies, uh, my, my, my spooky brother. Tell us a little bit about, uh, what Mattel was doing with these.
00:29:19
Speaker
So Mattel made pretty much like basics. They actually did like three different, I'll say genres of horror, monsters, mutants, and zombies. Zombies being the kind of more, I guess the ones that stuck more, because there were three series of those, and I believe only one of each of the others. Yeah, there were only
00:29:49
Speaker
As far as I can tell, like, you know, one series of the others. Yeah. I'm looking at monsters right now and they're pretty hilarious. So, so, but you know, what's the, what, what was the concept here? What, what are, what are we looking at? So it was if, uh, you know, the WWE superstars were, um,
00:30:14
Speaker
or zombies. And it's it's pretty cool because like they they a lot of them play kind of into the character a bit. Yeah. So like the two that jump out at me from the zombies ones are our Triple H. So he's got his like his crown and his skull mask from that one entrance. But they're like permanently affixed to his face.
00:30:42
Speaker
and his skin has all peeled away. And the other one also rocking a skull face, but it's stone called Steve Austin, but his head is actually like the smoking skull emblem. So it's the skull with the skull coming out of his eyes. Those are the two like stand out ones for me in terms of like the zombie looking ones. I mean the page one's cool too, Saraya.
00:31:05
Speaker
Yes. She's the only one that doesn't have that like green hue to her. Everyone else is green. They just made her completely white. Like as pale as possible. She's more of like gray. The Charlotte's cool too. You had mentioned that one before. Oh yeah. Where she looks like almost like a creature from the Black Lagoon type of...
00:31:24
Speaker
type of character. I like Shinsuke Nakamura because he's in his like red leather gear and it looks like they tried to go with like a thriller as Michael Jackson. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which I'm sure he had input because like that's a lot of his his like kind of mannerisms are based off of of that. Yeah.
00:31:50
Speaker
And going back to the Charlotte one for a second, what it actually reminds me of more is, it reminds me of Creepshow, the Ted Danson, the like drowned, just like waterlogged seaweed as a dress sort of thing. I like Jeff Hardy instead of having his little Avril Lavigne socks on his hand. It's just his skin is torn off there. Now, speaking of torn skin, Dave, you were saying
00:32:19
Speaker
before we got started here that there was like an unreleased one? Yeah, there was an unreleased Hulk Hogan because... Hulk Hogan? Yeah, because Hulk Hogan, you know, put that together and... I mean, what you gonna do, brother? There was, instead of him ripping the shirt off, he's ripping his skin off.
00:32:45
Speaker
Um, and it's a, it's a wild looking prototype. If you, it's. Photos exist online. Just do a search. Um, it's, it's a pretty wild figure and considering these were all basics. Yeah. Yeah. Some of them have like a crazy amount of deco. Like they have more deco than basics. Oh, what? Do you guys know that Jack's originally tried to do this exact same thing? Oh, did they? Yeah. I'm going to drop a link.
00:33:14
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What was this called? Bloodlines. Oh yeah. Where they made the vampires. Yes. 1999. Kane is, what is he? I don't know what he is. He's like the Terminator vampire hunter, Van Helsing. Yeah. And then, um, this was supposed to be like a stomp series. Interesting. Yeah. So can you like clip on accessories?
00:33:41
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Yeah, Cain has giant pointy nipples. Yeah, I don't know what's like nipples. I mean, that's what Glenn that's what Glenn has under the brood, though. I totally get. Yeah, the brood, they're like vampiry and stuff. Whatever. Like Christian and Gangrel have that like from Dusk till Dawn look. They do. Yeah. Yeah. I had a lost boys are from Dusk till Dawn. Yeah. Edge has one big hand with like Dave Grohl hand. Yeah.
00:34:11
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from the ever long video or ludicrous from that video where you had long hands. But Kane looks like he's only got the top half of like a Power Ranger bad guy suit on. But also he was just like the nipples need to be way thicker and it's not even red. No, he's like a weird like purple color. Yeah, he's like a freak. He's like a hell raiser dominatrix grimace. It's horrible.
00:34:39
Speaker
And in 1999, I mean, this was still like original iteration of Kane. So yeah. And you know, the worst part. We can't buy it because it's not out and I'm because I need it now. They were unreleased. The gangrel is is definitely the best one, though. Like, I don't know. Look at that. I think the Christian kind of rules, too.
00:35:04
Speaker
I remember the figures that these are based on though. These are those Titan Tron, those TTL Titan Tron Live figures. Yeah, they do look like Titan Tron bodies. So it is like a pop on piece? Yeah, that was always the stomp where the clip on
00:35:26
Speaker
So this is supposed to be like Resident Evil-esque. Where it's supposed to be like a monster bursting out of Cain's skin coming out. Amazing. The color is all wrong and it's weird. And those are supposed to be tubes. They just read as nipples. Because they're exactly where nipples are and very pointy. But in the prototype you can see that they're tubes. It's just weird that they would paint those tubes exactly like nipples.
00:35:51
Speaker
So it's got like a nemesis that that's what he's. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He just walks around saying stars. What's the wrestlers that like the ones that are like really vascular and like sweat? Maximum sweat. Maximum sweat. Yeah. Toys used to be like the zombies seem crazy in these like mutants, but they they had it back then. It's just getting calmer.
00:36:15
Speaker
Yeah, like there were multiple series of wrestlers and this was supposed to be the next one that were like Effectively like secret agent Yeah, GI Joe type of yeah those stomp figures. Yeah for a while That was the only Brian Pillman figure was this in theory was a stomp wave. That's okay Yeah, oh these maximum sweat. They look like
00:36:38
Speaker
They look like monsters. They're terrifying for all the wrong reasons. They're scary. The gangro is pretty sweet though. I actually had one of those figures. The gangro maximum sweat is the coolest. I had triple H maximum sweat.
00:36:56
Speaker
And it was like, it was given to me as a gift. And I didn't know, I didn't know quite what to do with it. I mean, I opened it and played with it, but it was like, this is weird. I'm like pumping water out of his body. Yeah. Once I'm done drinking that little shot glass of sweat it comes with, which it definitely comes with. Yeah. It's even the art on the back is just gross. It's just a painting of sweaty, the rock. What's the one thing about professional wrestling that we should focus on in a toy? The sweat.
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00:41:16
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before we started. This comes from a suggestion from Friend of the Pod, Blainer Things, over at NECA, the creepy crawlers.
Creepy Crawlers Toy Evolution
00:41:28
Speaker
So in the 90s, the 1992 creepy crawlers, the one that we're actually all familiar with was made by a company called Toy Max in the 90s. But what I did not realize with creepy crawlers is this goes all the way back to the 60s. When Mattel originally made it, it was called the Thing Maker.
00:41:47
Speaker
Great name for a toy. It made things. I burnt myself many times on the creepy crawlers machine, making in the 90s, pouring that liquid plastic into molds and cooking it. On your little light bulb. Yeah, into metal trays that were very, very hot.
00:42:11
Speaker
So I just, yeah, I watched a little video or retrospective on it and the original Thingmaker was metal trays.
00:42:21
Speaker
And they say it got up to like at points like 400 degrees or something. It was literally just a small furnace. Jesus. It was a tiny hot plate. And it also, it was. And also it had a vacuum form machine on top of it. Yes. Yeah. So they were able to save some money by ditching the vacuum form and then also kind of tone it down with the, you know, melting kid's fingerprints off.
00:42:50
Speaker
I mean, the one in the nineties, like I could tell you that thing still got hot. I, I, like I said, I, I burnt myself on it many times. And I remember getting excited too. Like they'd put out new trays. So like once, you know, obviously they, in order to keep the product going, the longevity of it, they would put out different trays of like different creepy things that you can make. So like most of it was bugs, but they would have different color, um, like plastic.
00:43:17
Speaker
I stick. Yeah. Yeah. So it's kind of, it's almost like, uh, like, it was fun. Yeah. I mean, gave everybody a taste of making their own toys. And they also came out and like, they had, um, different, uh, finishes to them. So like some of them like were like rubbery, um, like softer plastic. And like some of them came out like, like hard. Uh, I feel like that was more later on then. Cause I remember they were all like the wiggly. Yeah.
00:43:47
Speaker
There was definitely a cool toy. Yeah. I also had to look up the Edible version of it. Oh, yes. Do you remember Dr. Dreadful's Dr. Dreadful Zombie Lab? Were you like?
00:44:07
Speaker
with like, there was a skull, it was basically the goosebumps thing, except useful. Because you could like make brains in his head and then eat them with your friends. Yep, it was a candy maker. Yeah, you do like little, you know, gumdrops, you can make like gumdrops, which was wild. Yeah, that thing was cool. I never had that. I do remember that I fondly remember the commercials for it though.
00:44:31
Speaker
This is wild. It's on Amazon and the age range is 60 months to 84 months. Whoa. Everyone likes candy. How many months am I? Yeah, but that's a lot of math. That's a lot of months. That's a lot of months. So something that was definitely not for kids out of their age range of the creepy crawlers and a toy line that's seeing,
00:45:00
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You could say sort of a resurgence now Well, it's more than sort of they're calling the movie maniacs now, even though they're really not The McFarland toys original movie maniac so this comes from from our follower and listener at the burg 511 on on Instagram all the way from from Qatar
00:45:26
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Yeah, Movie
McFarlane's Movie Maniacs Introduction
00:45:27
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Maniacs. So in 1998, Movie Maniacs launched Wave 1 with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Leatherface, A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger, Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees, and it's actually Jason Goes to Hell, Jason. And then two characters from the movie Species. Looks like Species 2. I've, in full disclosure, I've never seen those films. I've never seen the Species movies.
00:45:56
Speaker
But yeah, so that was wave one. So you had like three iconic characters and then two- And then two characters from species two. Two characters from species two. I mean, very weird, gross, monstrous designs. Again, I've never seen the movie. I don't even know what it's about. I would love for them to hear, they're like, yeah, we really wanted to get a species toy line going, but they said it would never sell. So we had to throw some real no names in there. So we found Jason.
00:46:27
Speaker
We wanted to find somebody boring so it wouldn't take away from all the species. And then they had the bloody chases. Yeah. Yeah. And they had some like, I remember Leatherface, he had some crazy accessories at the time. Like the severed head, the bucket of blood, the severed arm. They had those cool movie poster standees for behind them. Made out of like human skin.
00:46:53
Speaker
Yeah, bones and viscera. I actually still have my Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger from Wave One on display. They're like permanent members of my display at all times. I loved this line, absolutely loved this line. Yeah, a rare scream-branded ghostface figure that got changed, that was a running change.
00:47:24
Speaker
That's cool. Um, yeah, I, I, I, again, going back to like memories with these, I remember going to, uh, uh, Suncoast video in Mill Creek mall in Sea caucus, New Jersey. Um, rest, rest, rest easy Mill Creek mall. Um, but yeah, I remember getting these in those easy Suncoast video. Yeah, seriously. Um, these were not in like the typical,
00:47:50
Speaker
spawn McFarland blisters. Like these were actually easy to open. Um, eventually they were in the blisters. Yeah. Like this, the first two waves, like I remember those just being, you know, on, on the, the typical, uh, you know, card back and blister really, really like eye popping art again, though, to Dave, to your point, um, very much so inspired by that, uh, that Remco look, you know, just the background being the picture of the monster and you know, the name of the property.
00:48:20
Speaker
Uh, you know, still all those years later in inspiring monster toys. Just let the figure do the talking. Speaking of which I just realized that originally they marketed the two different running changes or variance as rated R or PG. Oh, really?
00:48:39
Speaker
So the two different versions of the bloody ones were the rated R. And also the difference is Eve, because I was looking at what is called Eve and then in parenthetical nipples. And that figure had really crazy alien nipples on it. Well, the other one was wearing some sort of space brassiere. Interesting. So so so the the McFarland toys movie maniacs got borderline pornographic.
00:49:09
Speaker
One could one could say just just when it mattered. I mean, they didn't have like leather faces nipples out. That would have been just too much. I mean, that would have been so that would have been something else would have been something else. Yeah. Great figures. And it lasted for a very long time. Yeah. Yeah. They were kind of a long time as they tended to do back in the early 2000s, though, the waves got spaced out. Yeah. Like they started off annual and then they didn't. But.
00:49:38
Speaker
Props to McFarland Toys. They have, even though their website can be a little difficult to navigate. You can still see all the old stuff. An amazing archive. You can literally go back to the very first wave of spawn figures and see the original like glam shots, toy photography of the figures.
00:50:02
Speaker
Including all of these movie maniacs and it's remarkable to go back and look at some of this that uber Jason is still like I Mean, it's the only basically the only one you got at this point. Yep So the other thing too is they really didn't like Fit into let's reuse parts. Let's do this like nothing was fresh and It didn't have to fit a form factor factor or scale or anything like the jaws box set
00:50:32
Speaker
is so cool like you of course you're gonna get you know like oh here's freddy here's jason here's ash and there was really only one freddy repaint yeah yeah and like the alien queen i mean neka's is incredible but there still holds up and just having like the set piece with it and
00:50:52
Speaker
Yeah, all of those incredible figures. Yeah. And again, like there are a few that are still part of my display. I love their, their Edward Scissorhands from that, that line. Um, the, the Freddy, the Jason, the Michael Myers. Uh, even though that, that is literally my least favorite Friday, the 13th movie, Jason goes to hell. It's a, it's a great Jason design, but to your point,
00:51:15
Speaker
They were very focused on just making sure they had really, really great sculpts and, you know, kind of lines. Obviously they didn't articulate very much. They were more in the statue category, but they, you know, they moved at the arms and head at least. I mean, like the alien figure had some pretty decent articulation at the time too. So just depending on what they were, it was pretty awesome.
00:51:41
Speaker
And, you know, like, like we mentioned, you know, movie maniacs is back. Um, McFarland. Check out the snake. Listen, even though it's escaped from LA, it's a great figure. Um, we did see though at toy fair, we, you know, we weren't allowed to take pictures, but we, we work, you know, we are allowed to talk about it. Um, they are adding articulation back to their movie maniacs figures, um, in some of the upcoming waves, but they're still,
00:52:10
Speaker
It's weird that they're calling the movie maniacs because a lot of them have literally nothing to do with movies. Ozzy Osbourne is one of them. Slash. Gene Simmons. Are those in the movie? Because right now on their website when I'm seeing
00:52:32
Speaker
Uh, the upcoming ones, you're going to get every single character from the Jumanji movie from two years ago. Also that, but those are still in the, the current version of movie maniacs. Yeah. The like Warner brothers 100. Uh, also we're getting a Sheldon as the flash from the big bang theory, a movie maniac. Yep. Yeah. One thing to say to that. Bazinga Ted, Ted Lasso is still my favorite movie maniac.
00:53:03
Speaker
He's a maniac. They have Harry Potter himself. Yup. Yup. What a, what a movie maniac. Zach Galifianakis from The Hangover. I mean, an actual maniac in that movie, but. Yeah. Related brands, The Seven Deadly Sin. Oh, that's not. You know, you know what else starts with M though? So it's alliteration, right? Movie maniacs, but you know what else starts with M? Mummies.
00:53:29
Speaker
Yeah, so a man i've been so into mummies the past couple years real big mummy fan I know how much
Mummies Alive Cartoon and Toy Line
00:53:36
Speaker
you love mummies. So this mint on card zombies this comes from um, uh One of our listeners and followers at retro zone underscore neon on uh on instagram Shouts to jesse over at jazzwares for suggesting this um mummies alive Uh
00:53:59
Speaker
I totally missed this one. This was not in my wheelhouse at all. I vaguely remember there being a cartoon called Mummy's Alive. Vaguely. I watched a little video on it and my eyes were open. Do you know that this was a Reitman joint?
00:54:20
Speaker
So real Ghostbusters had just ended and they wanted to have a new property. So mummies alive, instead of having the people stopping the ghosts, whoever pitched it took his kids to like a museum in London. They were obsessed with the mummies. So they came back, they're like, what if we make mummy superheroes? And then even ended up taking Ivan Reitman and his kids to like a mummy exhibit and they got super into it. Oh my God. So this was a deke.
00:54:47
Speaker
uh animation it was basically like mighty max kind of it was like a kid who worked at a um or actually you know i'm mixing it up with the the creepy crawlers cartoon that i looked up recently too that was insane yeah that i do remember that that show is boggers they were like the goop mandos which is like commandos but with goop yeah
00:55:12
Speaker
And it was about a kid who worked in a magic shop. And then the magic shop guy decided to make monsters. But this was basically like some Pharaoh Prince Rapsys is going is immortal and was going to be brought back. And some kid is the like reincarnation. So like Scarab, the bad guy needs to like, I don't know, steal his power, kill him or something. Lucky for him, mummified bodyguards
00:55:41
Speaker
Jack Hall, Raph, Armon, and Nefertina are here. Good old Nefertina. And they had figures, but they were like, it was canceled after one season, but of 42 episodes. Oh my God. Yeah. They pulled double duty with that, right?
00:56:04
Speaker
And they all like would have special powers. They had special like one mummy just was missing an arm, but then he got like a big metal arm because again, the 90s, the 90s. And they had like hot rods and motorcycles and stuff. So it sounds like it was a little bit of everything. Well, it was the people they had so much success with Ghostbusters. And apparently they were the people working with like Power Rangers. So they were like, how can we get Ghostbusters Ninja Turtles?
00:56:32
Speaker
Power Rangers and their other inspiration was they just wanted to do Thundercats with mummies. Oh my God. Which I guess is the best way to describe it. It's like Thundercat with mummies. Thundercats. But there was a mummy in Thundercats. Was it Mumra in Thundercats?
00:56:49
Speaker
Yeah, I love that guy. I got a Super 7 Ultimate. Never watch that show. There's just something about, like, I like hanging out with my sweet, nice cats and not staring at their rippling abs while they do, like, nunchuck stuff and drive. I don't know. Not for me. But you love mummies. I know you love- I love mummies. But, like, looking at a mummy's abs is different from, like, I'm a little kitty. Look at my triceps. You love the driest monster and the wettest monster. Like, you are- That's right. You are a man of extremes when it comes to-
00:57:19
Speaker
You put the two together. You're right. Perfect. Right in the middle. Yeah. Dave, do you remember mommy's alive? I don't know. Yeah, this is 97. I was. You were too cool for mommy's alive in 1997. No one's too cool for Nefertina. I was, I was watching Beavis and Budhead. Nefertina sounds like what Tina and Bob's burgers would dress up as for Halloween.
00:57:47
Speaker
Uh, by the way, we do this thing on the, uh, daycare Ditto's podcast where we'll search a specific Pokemon and see how long we have to scroll through Google images before it gets horny. Oh my God. Yes. You do, you do do this, which by the way, if you are not listening to, we, we, I realized we completely passed over your, your introduction. Yeah. Like your, as if people just like kind of know you at this point.
00:58:12
Speaker
Unimportant. All I have to say is that Nefertina gets horny. Picture number five. The fifth photo. The sixth one is her unwrapping and her boobs are out. Wow. This is a kids show and it left lasting impressions with different kind of person, Eric. Clearly. Clearly. Well, there's there's there's something for somebody. There's something for all on the Internet at some point.
00:58:37
Speaker
Well, this is a, uh, I just dropped a deviant art link with a capital deviant on this one. Oh my God. I don't know if I want to click on it, but I'm going to beautiful art of Nefertina. I'm going to do it anyway. Um, Oh, sweet Jesus. Yeah, man. It's not bad. That's some good art. Oh, sweet, sweet. Rah. Put this in the show. Yeah, I see that. Wow. All right. Alice seal. The artists will probably be appreciated. So.
00:59:05
Speaker
from we covered a bunch of different toy lines ranging from all different types of toys. But as we mentioned, Dave, you have a connection with some other podcasts. You mentioned Daycare Dittos. It's your Pokemon podcast.
Revival of Calling All Creeps Podcast
00:59:24
Speaker
But you've also recently kind of revived Calling All Creeps with the Goosebumps TV show now on Disney+.
00:59:35
Speaker
Hulu. Hulu. Hulu and Disney Plus. And Disney Plus, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because they, I haven't watched it yet, but you said they drop an F bomb in it. So that's, that's Hulu. No, they haven't dropped an F bomb. We dropped a bunch of F bombs, but they are cursing. Oh. It's everything but an F bomb because it's PG. Okay. Got it. Got it. They're like, they're not going to pull a star Lord and just put one in there. They, uh, yeah, they blow up, uh,
01:00:01
Speaker
They blow up a child at the beginning. Great. And then another kid goes face first into the concrete and just spits blood everywhere. That's when you know. It's an interesting take because, you know. Does someone play R.L. Stein in this one, like Jack Black in the movie? I was really hoping for Justin Long, R.L. Stein. That would have been great, actually, a young R.L.
01:00:24
Speaker
Cause like I love when they put somebody as Arlstein because it just adds to my headcanon of Bob as he's known by his friends. Uh, but I love even more when they get people like Arlstein to play a cameo. Like how like Stephen King was like a, uh, he was a shop owner. Was it it or am I thinking? Yeah. Yeah. He's the, like any druggist.
01:00:50
Speaker
Yeah, anytime they get people like that, Arl Stein is just always himself and hilarious. So I'd love for them to be like, you know, I don't know him just like at the Taco Bell driving, but it's a teen drama now they Riverdale did as I've been telling people they Riverdale that got it. Yeah.
01:01:06
Speaker
So the main characters aren't in third grade anymore and love the summer vacation and would love to ride on their new bike. But no, don't know anybody because they just moved into town and his sister looks just like him, but wants to be the exact opposite. Instead, it's just like I am a high school senior quarterback of the football team and I need to get a scholarship because my dad's relying on me to pay for the house. But also all the girls think I'm hot. Like they Riverdale that they Riverdale that.
01:01:37
Speaker
So the other venture that you're part of is, of course, your very own toy line.
01:01:46
Speaker
So a fun little art project on and off at home, just got into 3D sculpting for to actually teach kids at a past job. I was the I.T. director, so I was working on 3D printing and working on kids files and then just started doing some sculpting and little monster stuff of my own. So, Eric, you know, Dave, Eric, we've we've talked about local die bar before on the show.
01:02:17
Speaker
You've got some additional new characters. So let's belly up, as it were, to the local die bar and talk about what new stuff you bought to ZapCon. So after I printed what I needed for ZapCon, I was out of resin and there's a ton of ridiculous, you know, anything on Amazon you could order and you can order it from a hundred other people. But then you can also go to Teemu.
01:02:43
Speaker
and find some weird stuff. So most of the characters are based on different IPs. And I've been playing with this like blob-like idea, because there's always a blob. We're talking about Goop Warriors. But he's like the denizen of the bottomless pit of Die Bar. Like a spooky Barney for a spookier mose. But yeah, this resin, it's reactive.
01:03:13
Speaker
And it should be cool to have on people's shelves, um, hopefully without leaving a residue, but it's giving me really, it just, it sucks. It sucks so much to work with. So I know you've messed around with, with like that all black, like the, like the blackest black paint, um, you know, for, for your resume before, like when you did, uh,
01:03:37
Speaker
And you did, uh, the coldest one. Yeah. The coldest one. I just like that. We've got like, like a norm or a cliff clavin now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Funny enough, that company that was black 2.0, they're on black 4.0 now. So like even the black I use is like bullshit black to them now.
01:03:56
Speaker
Well, they're darker, so I had to go more viscous. We're going for viscosity now. So, but I was going to say, like when you were messing around with that, that was like, I remember, you know, like a new resin, new, new technique that that didn't seem to have any problems. What's, what's this new resin causing? What's the, what's the issue? Um, it's clogging a lot of things. There's many, there's many pieces, many different things. And it's, it's just not, uh,
01:04:24
Speaker
I don't know. Throughout the process, it's every little failure. You have to kind of go back and work on that. And then there's a new failure. But the resin, it just it has to degrade or something because no matter what I do, it disintegrates during curing and it's just like gone. Like I do something and then it just instead of curing, it just isn't there. So it's always back to the fluids, right? Like now we've got disappearing fluids.
01:04:54
Speaker
That's that's the thing like it's There's like jelly that's like left like it doesn't fully disappear a new fluid the figure is gone I know and I swear it's not me this time I swore I would never do that again, but I'm thinking the the the Gu is failing for some reason I took one off the print bed like an hour or so ago. I can check hold on Do you want to see it? Yeah, definitely yeah
01:05:22
Speaker
We've got an exclusive. Yeah, an exclusive new figure. Well, while he grabs a figure, Dave, remind our listeners, where can they follow us on the socials? Well, you can always just slam that subscribe button at AIC underscore pod. Hey, guys.
01:05:47
Speaker
This is weird. It's gone. There's like a weird jelly all over the printer and the rest of the resin isn't there either though The whole room is just a mess. Oh
01:06:01
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Thank you, mechanically proficient bi-pedal organism! Thanks to the trapezoidal in which you will continue to process through your frustratingly small device, I am newly completed!
01:06:23
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Even though I find the form in which you have envisioned me in sorting Hebride words, it is functional oomph! So I'll end the report grateful! This?
01:06:47
Speaker
Well in a plot twist no one saw coming, it looks like all those figures I printed with the mystery resin have combined and become sentient. I'm either rich, or um... I said I wasn't gonna die on this one, but...
01:07:25
Speaker
Happy Halloween! I'll see you soon!
01:07:42
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