I’m still counting this late entry as Friday’s, so there. Joining the 2006 Halloween Countdown are four 1990 Monster In My Pocket figures. Most if not all of you should remember the line, especially because I’ve written about it sixty times before. This article deals more with the allure of the original series, before it went crazy with giant-sized 500,000 point monsters with electronic voice-boxes and firing missiles. Click here to read!
In the Halloween party favor/cheap toy department, the skull has been a point of particular interest this year. We already saw two of the best last month, including one with a bunch of bloody bugs inside it, and another that blinked various neon colors when squished. Shown above are three more, again with special action features that transform them from mere skulls into the heart and soul of any party.
One of the skulls, complete with comically undersized skeleton body, is a mere waterball. You grab it, and a mouthful of water swishes around, forever changing the shape of the skull. Unlike most waterballs, you can stretch this thing for a good ten inches without worrying about a wet explosion.
The second is from the same series as the previously reported skull-with-bugs-in-it, only this time, the bugs have been replaced with a bunch of bloody, squishy eyeballs. It’s a lot easier to make cheap, realistic-looking fake bugs than cheap, realistic-looking fake eyes, so while the other skull was cooler on that level, it’s much more absurdistly and keen to find one with a bunch of eyeballs in it. Bugs? You can attribute bugs to the decomposition process. Eyeballs? Where the fuck did those come from?
Finally, and most alarmingly, we have a skull with a twist-off top that reveals a chamber full of toy slime. The slime comes in a bunch of different colors, each with some kind of gross rubber bug (I got a stunted centipede) hiding within.
All of the skulls are in that 1-2 dollar range. They won’t break your bank. Unless you’re poor. Haha, you’re poor.
ADST leading into SNT with this one, folks.
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My best costume was a Ghostbuster myself, oddly enough.
Matt, did you ever play the MIMP NES game? It’s abysmal.
On a cheerier note, does anyone have a local supermarket with the big inflatable Pepsi Halloween ‘maze’? The Super Wal-Mart in my town has one, and loathe though I am to go in there, the maze itself is kinda neat.