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Halloween Boglins!

I've been praying for a reason to write about Boglins again for five years now, and it's finally come my way. In 1988, Mattel sought to boost their always-cool but ever-fledging line of rubber monster puppets with the introduction of two very special Halloween Boglins.. "Blobkin" and "Bog-O-Bones" were their names, and you'll see both of 'em in this feature, along with a trick-or-treat sack with their pictures on it.

Posted by Matt on 10/10/2005. E-mail me!

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Pumpkins are scary, and this post is before the update.

I really am sorry.

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 10/10/2005 9:09 PM

Sweet. I never knew they had those! I had ummm… oh what was his name. Dwork? Maybe … He was the coolest looking one

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 10/10/2005 9:12 PM

I feel bad about the first post…

…but where is the soda-involved porn?

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 10/10/2005 9:14 PM

Yeah I was just wondering that too. I was SO looking forward to seein that! :’( Whole night’s ruined, now…

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 10/10/2005 9:18 PM

I (and I am sure many others) love the early articles. I think many of us stumbled on XE via random Google searches which led us to this site. True, the writing has matured, but some of my favorite things here came 3-5 years ago.
And that video was beautiful.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 10/10/2005 9:20 PM

Matt- I demand to see you defile a bottle! And I enjoyed the music in the video. I couldn’t help but dance.:) smiley face!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 10/10/2005 9:22 PM

I never had one of these, but one of my friends had one called ‘Slobster’. I wouldn’t have remembered it this long at all if it wasn’t for the fact that one day he wore it to school a couple of years later sewn to a red baseball cap for ‘Silly Hat Day’. I don’t remember what silly hat I was wearing.. just that his put mine to shame.

Chestnuts roasted by Makenai @ 10/10/2005 9:31 PM

That was probably the most macabre video I’ve ever seen.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 10/10/2005 9:34 PM

Great article, but I couldn’t download that video or the video from the last article that had a video in it. Please help me!

And still no Frankenberry on LI…

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/10/2005 9:42 PM

Are you on a Mac?

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/10/2005 9:43 PM

In celebration of the ICY 70 degree weather (Dear Texas: you suck and I hate you) I bought my first box of apple cider for the season. So I’ve been sitting under my A/C vent, drinking cider and pretending it’s actually autumn.
Listen, I’m going to level with you. This place is killing me slowly. Look out your window. Are the leaves on the trees some color other than green? And, if so, can I crash on your couch? I’m clean and quiet, and I am willing to bring with me the entire Booberry stock of my local Walmart.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 10/10/2005 9:55 PM

I mentioned this awhile back but most of the BOGLIN auctions I have seen on ebay are from the UK. I am not sure why that is. I never had one but I have always wanted one. I have made due with the FIRE AND ICE DRAGON puppet for now (Clicka the name).
We have BOO BERRY, FRANKENBERRY, and the Count down here plus SCOOBY DOO’S SCARY BONE cereal which is very good too.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 10/10/2005 10:12 PM

I had completely forgotten about these toys. I never had one, but I remember looking at them in the toy store. They actually seem like a pretty neat idea….

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 10/10/2005 10:35 PM

My brother had a Boglin when we were younger. The rubber that was used to fabricate those goddamned things was the most foul-smelling substance ever. It smelled so bad that my bro and I looked all over the much balleyhooed cage-shaped box to see if the used-eighteen-times-condom-smell was intentional and perhaps one of the Boglin’s selling points.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 10/10/2005 10:40 PM

I got news for ya — half of that smell was the Boglin. The other half was your HAND SWEAT.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/10/2005 10:41 PM

Wal-Mart had a ton of Chocula, Booberry, and Frankenberry, although only Chocula was in the official Halloween cereal aisle. I think they should do a limited edition of Frute Brute and Yummy Mummy for all of us who’ve heard of but never tried them.

Also, I spotted some candy based on "It’s a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" there but didn’t buy any. Also had Halloween Corn Chips.

LOVED the video.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 10/10/2005 10:42 PM

where the hell can you buy 3-liter pepsi?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 10/10/2005 10:52 PM

My only abiding memory of Boglins was that in a long-gone convenience store of my youth, they had a bunch of ostensibly for sale, unpackaged toys hanging up behind the counter. There was a dark blue-colored Boglin right in the center, which stayed there right up to the store’s closing, and which I always desired, but never got.

Chestnuts roasted by Frostor @ 10/10/2005 10:52 PM

Matt, just so you know you put the wrong date on the article, it’s the 10th man the 10th!

Happy Thanksgiving to all Canadians!

I always wanted a Boglin, I remember this kid that lived by my babysitter he had the coolest stuff and I always wanted what he had, Boglin, My Pet Monster, Gizmo…this guy was my hero!

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 10/10/2005 10:58 PM

Oh, silly IHAQ — I try to post them a few hours before their specified day. The Boglins entry is meant for Tuesday.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/10/2005 10:59 PM

Ummmm right, sorry bout that, I blame it on no sleep taking care of my one month old!

It’s off to bed with me!

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 10/10/2005 11:03 PM

IHAQ thanks and I hope you had a good one. My leaves aren’t even yellow yet, but on the plus side Ghostbusters is playing on TBS. And Matt those things are delightfully creepy.

Chestnuts roasted by Phil @ 10/10/2005 11:04 PM

God, now I really want to go on ebay and buy a few boglins.

I’m serious, I love those damn things. The box reminds me of the boxes the Street Sharks came in. I used to have every single one of those… man, ebay here I come…

Chestnuts roasted by Chilipeppers @ 10/10/2005 11:12 PM

No, I don’t have a Mac, Matt. The videos load on my Windows Media Player and it reads….wait a sec, as I was typing this, I got it to work! Huzzah!! Where’s the XXX Litre Porn goodness???!

I was in Target today and I came across a Magnum PI costume that had a hat that read "Magnum PI" on it. Reminded me of the Ben Cooper costumes from the last article, mostly the Yoda one.

Matt, do you know where you got your Monster Triple Pack from last years countdown? I’m that damn serious and desperate about getting some Frankenberry…

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/10/2005 11:18 PM

I wish everything came in a package that also doubled as a cage. It would make life much more awesome to pick up something like….oreos in a box that was like a cage.

You know it would.

Be quiet.

Chestnuts roasted by The Wukong Effect @ 10/10/2005 11:31 PM

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