Thread: A trip thru memory lane. Hmmm..?

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Okay, if you're here reading this, we already know that you LOVE Halloween, and monsters.

But how many of you played with them as a kid, also ?. Those toys that your parents bought for you, and maybe were just a 'lil bit concerned about them, but went ahead and got them for you anyways, giving you hours of "monstery" joy and happiness !.

For me it was the shrunken head kit that you made from dehydrating apples, those wonderful "Creepy", and "Eerie" magazines, the wonderful model kits from the '70's that were in fact, very well detailed like that wonderful Guillotine kit.

And let's not forget those fantastic Monster action figures and stuff.

So just take a wee moment, and travel with me back through the past for a bit, and see if you see anything you remember..Hmm..?

Enjoy ! I know I did..

http://thegalleryofmonstertoys.com/7...smainpage.html

http://thegalleryofmonstertoys.com/8...smainpage.html

http://thegalleryofmonstertoys.com/8...smainpage.html

my monsters things were watching vampire movies when I was younger and reading scary stories to tell in the dark. I didnt have toys like that.

Hmmm, my brother had a Thing Maker Creepy Crawlers maker and an Incredible Edibles maker. I used to love to play with the bugs and stuff after he made them and eating bugs. I still remember the smell of the creepy crawlers cooking and the taste of the edibles.

I had a couple games, Witch Pitch and Green Ghost.http://www.timewarptoys.com/green1.jpg

How can the list from the 80's not include My Pet Monster? (my younger brother loved that thing...)




Or Madballs



Surprisingly, my childhood was not so much spent in monsters/halloween so much as I was into really WEIRD stuff. Like Entomology. My collection is still on display at a local university... (still peeved the adult female peach tree borer got away...stupid parents not wanting me to breed some in the orchard...no, had to go SPRAY...)

didn't have any scary toys :-(

read "Creepy", and "Eerie" magazines and was a nut for horror movies

we didn't have money, so never had any of these toys. guess i never really wanted any either. my oldest sister built and painted from a model kit...the hunchback of notre dame. my daughter had a creepy ball. my 3 sisters, 2 neighbor kids, and i use to put on a circus during the summer. we usually made around $5.00 a piece. in the circus me and one neighbor boy would put together a haunted house in the garage. it just consisted in us dressing up in dark clothes, and boxes to hide behind. i did read comic books like...tales from the crypt. and we watched the movies...the blob, the birds, alfred hitchcock, hush hush sweet charlot, king kong, the incredible shrinking man, and whatever happened to baby jane. tv series, dark shadows. guess that's about it

Originally Posted by NOWHINING

my monsters things were watching vampire movies when I was younger and reading scary stories to tell in the dark. I didnt have toys like that.

Scary Stories to tell in the Dark!!! Same here!

The artwork by Stephen Gammell always creeped me out.

What a great thread........I look forward to looking at all the pics on the links.. One thing I noticed is that the "Fundimensions "Haunted Glo-Head" Mummy Model (1975)" was for sale in a Newbury comics I was in last week.. However, it wasn't the 1975 one.. It was practically the same head and hands and you could paint it and it glowed in the dark. They had others as well, I believe a Dracula one.

I had things from My Pet Monster, Madballs, Monster in my Pocket, Mad Scientist, Boglins, and the like (yes, I've always been warped). How could anyone not love them?

Also, I love the 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' series of books, partially due to the artwork, which is wicked

I grew up with Bernie Wrightson -- need I say more?