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New Article: The Monster In My Pocket Cartoon!

You might've noticed those neon creatures gracing the left-side column on the main page -- they're "Monster In My Pocket" figures, a pretty popular toy collection that gave us a false sense of security that the 90s were gonna be a great decade for playthings. I loved the beasts, and as I recently discovered, they even had a cartoon. Here's the review, complete with an animated picture of lead villain, "Vampire," eating a pile of garlic and spewing evil orange breath across a suburban kitchen. Even Ripley doesn't believe it. I thought it was decent, but obviously, the idea didn't catch on enough to inspire any kind of regular series -- this seems to be the only "episode" available, but for what it's worth, the video came with a free, glow-in-the-dark MIMP figure. Two-colored! 100 point value! Mega super! Oh, and the Halloween Countdown just landed its most recent addition: Crayola's Halloween Crayons!

Posted by Matt on 10/09/2003. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 37 comments

I just wanted to comment on the "top 11 spin off article" good article all around but I would have thrown Frasier in their. although i beleive u wanted to showcase more obscure ones anyway so maybe its not such a good idea anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by scourge the pear avenger @ 10/10/2003 12:01 PM

They meant "I just wnated to comment on the "Top Eleven Spin Off" article. It was a good article all around but I would have thrown Frasier in there, although I believe you wanted to showcase more obscure shows. Maybe that wasn’t a good idea, then."

Chestnuts roasted by Saving the Grammatical Day! @ 10/10/2003 2:53 PM

Above: Irony unnecessary to point out.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/10/2003 3:10 PM

matt’s cuttin it close to make his update for the 10th. I know I’m being a dumbass for it, but I look forward to these update. REMEMBER THE ADVENT CALENDER!

Chestnuts roasted by random bob @ 10/10/2003 7:13 PM

The sad thing is, I still have the entire first series of MIMP proudly displayed on a shelf in my room. I remember my Christian mother throwing a tantrum over the 25 point Great Beast, since he was supposedly the Great Beast from the Book Of Revelations.

Chestnuts roasted by Dude McGuy @ 10/10/2003 10:40 PM

Glad to see that I’m not the only one that thinks John Basedow’s head HAS to be superimposed. It just looks freakin’ unnatural!

I mean…LOOK AT THAT GUY: http://www.muscleweb.com/john/

Chestnuts roasted by Tritoch @ 10/11/2003 9:09 AM

I just thought of something.

Monster in my Pocket

Pocket Monster

PokeMon!!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by VinnyT @ 10/11/2003 11:00 AM

The whole Pokemon craze fed off the Tamagotchi phase, which may or may not be related to MIMP…..All I know is that rasing monsters is one of those crazes that doesn’t die, it simply changes shape…… >< Neopets….

Chestnuts roasted by CardCaptor Loki @ 10/12/2003 5:16 PM

Any of you guys ever have that big-ass MIMP mountain thingy? It was made out of this super-cheap plastic and had a slot for each of the original 70 or so figures. The idea was to hang it on the wall with the figures in it as sort of a 3-D poster. I only had a fourth of the figures that were meant to go in the thing, and it still fell off the wall constantly. It might have been a mail-in deal or something…which makes me wonder why I had it, since I was never THAT into MIMPs…

Chestnuts roasted by FishEyekun @ 10/12/2003 7:22 PM

I remember the Monsters in My Pocket. I liked the giant ass 25 packs that K-Mart would sell. Largely because even at 10 years old I was a lazy piece of crap who didn’t want to have to go back to the store every single week. I hated the video game though.

I never heard of the video or maybe I did and have since forgotten about it years later. Given my alcoholic nature I’d say the latter is more likely the case.

I really think kids of today are really getting the shaft in terms of toys. In fact it’s almost so bad that they had to bring back stuff from the `80s.

Chestnuts roasted by The Adamantium Elbow @ 10/13/2003 12:13 PM

Does anyone remember a cartoon called the "Drac Pack"? They weren’t miniture but they were teenage versions of Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein’s Monster who were good and faced off against an evil Vampirella and her toad-like assistant. Can’t remember much beyond that.

Chestnuts roasted by F-13 @ 10/16/2003 1:01 PM

Hi I remember MIMP and have since got my whole (and huge collection) out of the attic for my niece. I loved the little fellows specially since I’m very read up on my myths etc…however after being handed several of these lil guys I began to get stumped on what…or who they were!!! (specially in the 3rd edition where I think they just made up half of the creatures!!!) Anyway point of this post is to ask if anyone knows if there is a list of what each beastie was just so I can do some research into who they were! Just to add I had the mountains my main problem was my mum changing my bed…cos the cheapo plastic was cheap the thing would move and most of the lil guys would fall off…only ghost and behemoth didn’t! Also I had the board game which used the MIMP’s as playing pieces. Can remember collecting those things non-stop (even if I had the whole set I’d buy more just to see if I could get a better colour or whatever!!!) but stopped when they started bringing out "insects in my pocket" and think they went down the dinosaur route too!

Chestnuts roasted by Keith @ 03/19/2004 10:53 AM

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