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10/07/2006: Monster In My Pocket, and skulls too!

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.

Updates: Bought Boo Berry! (Frankenberry was at Eckerd too, but I had that already)

And if my senses are right, I've now had all 7 Halloween Jones Sodas. My least favorite is Gruesome Grape, as I also despise anything grape-flavored, which relates back to all the grape medicine I had as a kid (this also explains my hatred of Cherry, which as a medicine made me sick!)

I found one of those squishy skulls at the dollar store…it was full of bugs and maggots and "blood" and actually kinda made me nauseous. I'm regretting not purchasing it.

Were Puppy in My Pocket and Kitty in My Pocket made by the same company? I collected the cats and they were fully colored without a point system. Well, they did each come with a card telling their "stats", maybe I can dig one up and tell you what they had on them.

Puppy in my pccket, they're as cute as can be!
Now I can take them all home with meee!

Julie, I forgot about puppy and kitty in my pockets! I cant remember me or anyone I knew having them, I now remember the commercial thanks to you.

Oh GOD!
I totally need to know where you got them!
The skull with the slime in it MUST be mine!

Maybe I'd need to see it in person, but those eyeballs look pretty groovy to me.

I had a skull when I was younger that you poured slime into its head and id ripped out of its nose with a black spider or something. I cant remember the name, but I loved that thing.

The Monster In My Pocket article made me remember a toy whose name I can't remember and an hour's worth of internet searching isn't revealing, perhaps someone here can be of assistance.

The thusfar unidentified toy was a series of small, diecast monsters on wheels. One I remember in particular was an enormous gun with a little tiny robot fondling it. Hopefully someone can identify it, and even more hopefully, someday someone will create said giganticguncontrolledbytinyrobot full-scale, truly that is the ultimate weapon.

MATT: hey, JoshC here, i think im a lil' late for the "send me any halloween toys videos etc that you'd like to see an article written about"
BUT..
i have a full article's worth of pics, of a really cool human heart thing like the gremlans water grow toy things, but unlike the gremlans the detail on this thing is really impressive, so if you want, or if you're feeling lazy, i can send you all the pics, including the packaging, before's, during's and afters, plus the background story as to how i aquired such a rad hallo' toy, email me to let me know, and theres one pic of a before on my myspace if you care to check it out, click on my name,
laters
Hoss

I was obsessed with M.I.M.P back in the day! They even made an NES game out of it, but I never played it. The rarest Monster from series 1 was Great Beast, who actually represented the Seven Headed Monster John sees in the New Testement.
It was also cool that they had Baba Yaga.

Oh hell yeah MIMPS. I remember my brother saved up for months to buy me Monster Mountain for Xmas; what a pal. I'm /really/ fired up about them starting up again, and will definitely throw down some cash if they make it to the US. Remember the cartoon? The videogame used to appear as one of the Video Challenges on Nick Arcade all the time, too.

Joker: You can always download the MIMP for NES off a good emulator like RockNES. It pretty much sucks ass, though.

On a different note, those bloody eyeballs make me think of the toys I bought for my class "Treasure Box." My 4th graders really dig the light up, screaming, bloody eyeballs I bought this week. They bounce really high! Sa-weet!

I always liked small toys because it's much easier to use them with non-toy items for accessories. Paper Cup? Escape Pod. Ice Cube tray? Frozen Lego Neanderthal Adventures! Touch Lamp with 3 light settings? Over Generating Power Source that's going to blow! I guess that last one could be used with 6 inch figures but I'll be damned if I ever did that. The point I meant to make is, I never played with M.I.M.P but I have a lot of good reasons why I should have.

For some reason, the name reminds me of the SNL skit where Piscopo was raising puppies in his pants.

M.I.M.P. was definitely an exciting line. I had maybe a handful of the actual figures, making occasional trades at school. But my favorite form of M.I.M.P. was the trading cards that you could get in packs of three at 7-11 when you bought a Slurpee. THOSE…were a slice of Heaven.

wow, those new MIMP figures are crazy! i used to have a full set of the old ones when i was a kid, good times

I wasn't a fan of MIMP. I was too old for them by 1990. Still, they look like something I WOULD have liked; I enjoyed carrying small toys in my pockets. I liked M.U.S.C.L.E.s because my friends carried them, and we would "battle" on the play ground. Go-Bots sucked compared to TFs, but they were small enough to be carried. GI Joes were a little on the large side, but you could fit one in either front pocket. The end of the road for this was 1989's Transformers Micromasters.

Completely OT, but of interest to at least some of the denizens of X-E, Battlestar Galactica started season 3 last night. I thought it was spectacular. The writing was top-notch, although I could have done without a few of the thinly veiled political statements. Even so, the fatalistic attitude of the show, the utter hopelessness of it, really sucked me in. If you haven't started watching the new BSG because of how campy the original was, you're making a huge mistake. I can't recommend picking up the series in the middle, but I can recommend renting the first two seasons. It's great drama, and great sci-fi, which is a rare combination.

It's funny how once you get to a certain age nothing that you could easily shoplift is remotely worth it anymore.
ADST! Hope everybody's having a grand weekend.
Saw Jackass Two last night. I'd been putting it off, but I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a movie. Even more exciting though was the trailer for Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny…At home I've been watching spooky movies to create the mood the weather isn't exactly matching yet. So far I've watched Ghostbusters, Batman (bats are Halloweeney!), Wallace and Grommit: Curse of the Wererabbit and Addam's Family, plus that Master's of Horror that Joe Dante did. Haven't been able to find any AMC horror movies on my cable's on demand like someone had posted about, but the premium channels have some good stuff. Everybody remember to check out Dexter (it's a Showtime free preview weekend, no excuses)!

I never got into Monster in my Pocket, other than playing the NES game that shares the same name…but dayum!! Those new ones are AWESOME. I am freakin in love with that winged panther. That plays on two of my childhood loves… big cats and stuff with wings, and combines the two into this awesome purplish critter of coolness. Some of the others are too cool too. wow, wish I could get my hands on a few of these. Yah Im pathetic, being in my mid 20s and wanting to buy toys. Poof. Like I REALLY care. heh.

Im still trying to decide on a Halloween costume. I was thinking oof going with this one from Target. (click name for link) Its the goth fairy princess… Im fair skinned, pixie-ish and have dark hair so it kinda fits and I wouldnt need a wig or anything…Hot Topic has a goth fairy dress too but I still cant decide. blegh.

Anyone else planning on dressing up for Halloween?? This will be my first time in like six years…but have been invited to a Halloween dance, a party and to help some friends give out candy on The Day too so I figure I need something to wear. Still sick but planning on being cured by the 31st anyway. *optimistic*

I like how they put that little "open" sticker on the skull with the slime in it. I'm imagining that they other side as a sticker that says "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" on it. And one of those height-measuring stickers, so you know how tall the guy that robbed your slime-filled-centipede-infested-skull is.

Don't know if this has been done as a survey already, but what is the worst and/or best costume you have worn on Halloween?
Best Costume: Batman
Worst Costume: Aladdin (home-made, and I don't even remember wanting to be Aladdin)

Best costume: My mom made me a bat costume one year. the arms had wings attached when I spread my arms open wide I had a wicked cool wingspan… I wore cat ears to complete the look. I remember this one the fondest. Was like 7 and 8. Liked it so much wore it two years in a row. Everyone thought I was a tailless (manx) cat til I showed them my wings. I was also a witch one year (yah original) with a big huge cape and everything. Won a Halloween contest with that one…

Worst costume: I went as one of the wuzzles one year… the moose one I think… it was one of those cheapie costumes you get at walmart with the plastic masks.

Sad thing is, my mom had custom made me a bunny costume and for some reason i refused to wear it. I was very little at the time and always regretted not wearing it a few years later… she spent alot of time on it. It was a very nice costume.

I feel bad just thinking about it.

Other store boughts that were OK cool were a plush Godzilla (dinosaur) costume with a huge tail… and a ghost costume I reused multiple times. Got that one at Toys R us. Was an angel one year too.. never a cat or a fairy. Will have to fix that.

Best Costume: Rocky from 3 Ninjas (my younger brother was Colt and youngest was Tum Tum)

Worst: Bugs Bunny plastic costume with the mouth slit that you knew would cut your tongue, but you still stick your tongue in there and the crying never seemed to end.

I went out to a Halloween parade tonight. Shriners, zombie dancers, costumed bands playing the Pirates of the Caribbean theme, kids dancing in the streets to Thriller and diving for candy being tossed of various floats… and Pikachu.

The only thing better would be Pikachu wearing a shriner hat and riding around on one of those little scooters. Incidentally, I saw someone on a Rascal in line at the McDonald's drive-through today.

I was at a yard sale in the sticks today, and I found a snoopy sno-cone machine, still in it's box with a Children's Palace price sticker and all. I remembered the article Matt wrote on it and I also had one as a kid, so I bought it for my son. He loves it. They also had Chuggles (two of them) in their origonal boxes, but Ihave never heard of Chuggles. The date on the boxes was 1985, so I figured someone here may have heard of them.
I also decided on going as Holly Go lightly from breakfast at Tiffany's for Halloween. Has anyone else decided?

If you ever need a costume in a pinch, just buy some kitchen sponges and safety pin them all over your clothes. You can go as "Self-Absorbed." Very esoteric. I think one person got it when I wore it 2 years ago. Fun, though. Last year I was a murdered Victorian chambermaid (complete with garrot) and this year I plan to go as a vampire hooker- incorporates my 2 favorite themes.

Awesome! While I was typing my last post, a Steak 'n Shake commercial came on advertising their Halloween S'mores milkshake. The waitress did a double-take ’cause the milkshake had no reflection in the mirror. Then it turned into a really cheesy bat with clearly visible strings while creepy music played. Love it!

just spooked up the front lawn big time. went with a spider theme. spider webs on all the bushes, giant spiders and skeletons in spider web on the windows, black lights around the door, and electric pumpkins with orange light. looks pretty intense! now to kick back with pokemon on boomerang.

Went to Target. No Pitch Black ICEE.

I saw the sign for it, but red goop in one side and WHITE on the other no make Pitch Black. *sigh* By the time I got through the checkout line, the food court was already closed. Damn them.

I did see a pack of 4 clear coffins with different colored slime in them, and each had a black spider in. They were the same size as "$1 Skeleton with Blue Slime"

Got my nephew a little Halloween cup with floaty bats, ghosts, and glitter inside of it. Oh yeah - finally found the MLP Halloween editions!

I was sooo frickin' happy!

Anyone else that works retail here feel the Christmas rush already bombarding you WAY sooner than it should?? I was at work today and I was 5 seconds from being claustraphobic. Too many God damn people in there.

Ugh, Ryane, the grocery store where I work was crazy right up until about an hour until I finished, and I worked a rare seven hours today. And there were a lot of grumpy customers, too. One jerk kept yelling at me to get a bagger when we were at full tilt…and then yelled at the poor bagger (a newbie) when she tried to hand him his soda! I think I'll agree with a far more cheerful customer and blame the full moon.

Deciding on a best or worst Halloween costume is close to impossible, since we always had well-made costumes thanks to my mother being a seamstress. I prefer my costumes simple and reletively comfortable. I've been a cowgirl (twice - as a kid and two years ago), a bride, a butterfly, a fairy, a queen, Alice In Wonderland, a princess (yes, it was a different costume than the queen one), a gypsy, a black cat, and a pirate.

I think I'm going to be a fairy or an angel this year. I bought wings, a wand, and a halo from the thrift shop where I volunteer, but the halo is sorta small and looks silly, and the glitter on the wings are shedding like cat hair. I think I'll just shake the glitter off as much as possible, re-do it or go without, and see if I can add marabou to the cheap sequined tiara I already have.

I was also too old for the "Monster In My Pocket" bandwagon by 1990 and only vaguely remember it. Wasn't into M.U.S.C.L.E or the spin-off girl line C.U.T.I.E, either.

I had a few MIMP's but I was reeeeeealy into M.U.S.C.L.E. Being that I was the only girl in my neighborhood, a great deal of my childhood was spent trading the little guys and having them get into wrestling matches. On an odd note, I remember playing with my girlie toys alone in my room, pretending that my Barbie's were giving birth to M.U.S.C.L.E.'s.

Sigh, I did nothing today. Just baby-sat again. I'm wanting to kick back with friends and drink a few beers…we'll see what pans out.

Matt, the real reason for the point system was this: A bunch of people set up M.I.M.P. figures (about 30-40) at the far end of a long table, like a cafeteria table, and then a person from each "team" would flick a M.I.M.P. figure at the other team's army. Normally, the points from every M.I.M.P. figure taken out from the flick would be calculated, but we usually didn't give a rat's ass about the points. We just played for the carnage of M.I.M.P. figures knocking over other M.I.M.P. figures. However, there were a few occasions that we used the point system for ruling, and that is why I KNOW that the points had a purpose. You stupid goob, how could you NOT know this?! Haha…Cheers!

"Monster in my Pocket" was one of those sets of toys that my mom would buy for my brother and not for me even though I liked them more! Damn sexist double standards…

I want to have a cool costume this year as well, but I am stuck for ideas. I was thinking of going to the used clothing store and buying an old wedding dress and being a dead bride. we'll see.

So far, Best Costume: I was a tube of CREST toothpaste one year
Worst costume: One of those cheap Rainbow Brite costumes with the mask that costs a dollar and basically a plastic tablecloth over my clothes

Oh, I forgot to mention that the Hydra was/is a most effective weapon for destroying the other team, and THAT is a fact.

Best Costume: I'd have to go with the many years that I was Indiana Jones. Or maybe a Ninja turtle.

Best costume: Hmm…I made my own from scratch a lot, and I think my favorite was when I went as Mother Nature. I cut a black shirt so the sleeves kind of swirled around my arms, attached lots of ivy to it. Then I glued seashells to a short khaki skirt and put blue fabric to make it longer as water. I also had the most awesome walking stick ever.

Worst Costume: Probably one of the in-between years when my mom no longer had time to make costumes and I couldn't really sew yet. I think I was a stupid store bought princess or something along those lines one year.

My favorite costume was a fairy with heart-shaped, marabou-trimmed wings and my worst would have to be the array of cheap smocks/masks I wore throughout my childhood.
There was a "zombie walk" in Hollywood tonight I thought about checking out but I didn't have a costume so I skipped it. Sounded interesting though.
kb, that sounds fun, did you have a specific outfit/look in mind?

Best costume? Ghostbuster. Worst costume? Pirate. Pirate isn't bad except I think I was a pirate every year except for the time I was a ghostbuster.

I just found a whole in my favorite pair of boxers and it's got me pretty upset. My favorite chair has finally broke to the point that it's got no where to look forward to but the side of the road. There's nothing on TV. I haven't been awake for more than 8 hours and I'm nodding off asleep. That's been my night.

I guess I should also mention that the Dracula in the heart sticker on top of the blog has a facial structure resemblence of my grandmother.

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.

My best Halloween costume was probably the Gir costume I made my senior year in high school. It was the lamest thing ever, I couldn't see out of it, but I didn't give a flying fuck what anyone thought, because I wanted to be Gir.

Worst costume was back one year in elementary school my mom thought it would be cute to get a box and dress me up as a juice box of Hershey's Chocolate Milk. I have no idea what she was thinking….

Nothing on TV? Battlestar Galactica is back on TV after MONTHS. If that doesn't cheer you up, nothing will…..

Mystie,
I really can't tell you how much I love that Gir costume . I loved invader Zim, but it was so not a kids show. I mean the halloween episode was awesome, but almost scary.
"why are you called Gir"
"I don't know"
also has anyone seen Korgoth?

Nope. Friday nights. As for right now, I would suggest looking for old SNL reruns. OLD ones…

But really…BSG is some of the BEST STUFF on TV right now. If you at ALL like SciFi, or just good writing in general, you need to see it.

Yes, I was both an avid fan of Invader Zim (it's where one half of my name comes from, anyone who guesses the 2nd half gets a cookie), and have seen Korgoth.

It looks like a great series. With voice talents like John Dimaggio & Diedrich Bader (as Korgoth!), and others, this seems great in the making. The painting and heavy metal definately helps it.

I don't really have a best costume. As a kid, I mostly I just had a parade of crappy costumes that made me feel uncomfortable.

My worst costume was "Crazy Spoon-head Guy." For those who don't remember, Adam Sandler used to be funny. When he was on SNL, he did a skit about Halloween costumes; I can't really remember the premise. Anyway, I saw a rerun of the show a day or two before Halloween, and then subsequently found out the party I was supposed to attend was a no-go. My roommate and I ended up bored at home, and we decided to hit the bars. However, we didn't want to be the only losers without costumes. Since we were already drunk, we just started grabbing stuff from around the apartment. He had a Mexican wrestler mask for some reason (he was a weird guy), so he went as a Mexican wrestler with the mask and some underwear on the outside. I think he wrote the spanish word for lettuce (?lechuga?) on the ass of his underwear in marker. I had no strange clothes to wear, so I went as Crazy Spoon Head Guy.

It sounded funny while I was drunk and banging around the apartment looking for stuff. Basically, I duct taped a spoon to my forehead and spouted Sandler's catch phrase for the skit whenever anyone asked me what the fuck I was supposed to be. "I'm Crazy Spoon Head Guy. Gimme' some CANDY!"

I ended the night by ripping off pretty big chunks of eye brow when I went to remove the tape. I'd managed to keep my hair out of the tape by dumb luck.

The whole thing was pretty stupid in retrospect, but absolutely hilarious when you're already drunk.

Cameron T, I'm glad at least one other X-Er is a BSG fan. I thought last night's ep was great the first time I watched it. After I re-watched it I realized that the writing was weaker than I originally thought. Add in the thinly veiled political overtones about suicide bombing and my liking for the ep plummeted. Overall NOT up to their usual standards.

Finally, I can't find Korgoth on the Search menu for my DVR. Is the official title something else? I've caught snippets, but only as overlap from recording Robot Chicken or some other show that comes on too late for me.

i 'chopped and screwed' the new gen mimp haunted mountain commercial. this is the life i lead.. :/

The second half of your name is from Angry Beavers, Invader Norbert. Well played.

I finally found a box of Boo Berry! Woo hoo!!! Last one they had at Wal-Mart. Sort of off topic, but yay!! Just had a bowl and it was quite scary…I mean tasty.

I've always had somewhat of a fascination with skulls. Not real ones, but plastic toy ones and such.

I dont know if they have them near any of you people out there, but the local Dollar Tree stores have been a halloween bonanza. The squishy skulls with stuff in the eyeballs, little godzilla figures, slime, zombie DVDs, etc.

Someone mentioned quick halloween costumes. I came up with one last year (didnt plan on going out, as it was a work night, but got a last minute call from a friend going to a local bar), though it might be too morbid for some. I bought gauze, bandages, and fake blood, and went out as a failed suicide attempt.
Ive had an idea for costume for a few years, though Ive never had the balls to actually do it. Just take a plain white tank top, and squirt some fake blood on it. When people ask you what your costume is, say you're a wife beater. Im always afraid of runnin into someone who says "my dad beat my mom" or "my husband used to beat me" to actually do it, as that would be some what of a downer, on both sides I guess

Hey Jrh,
By snake do you mean just a snake? Cause if so, you rock. My best (although rediculous) was my Batman costume a couple years ago. I made for a pretty flabby Batman, but that was part of the plan.

My parents didn't believe in buying costumes. In our house it was "if you don't have it already, you don't need to be dressing up." So for about the first five years of my life I went as a hobo because that's what my babysitter dressed me up as (she was always the one who took me trick-or-treating). Yeah, that was definately my worst costume, though, I must admit, I was a cute little hobo. My dad even won a photo contest with a picture he took of me in costume.

My best costume when I was a kid was the year I went as a cat. I loved that costume and wore it around the house for months. It was just a black leotard, white tights and the ears, tail and a bowtie and they drew some whiskers on me.

This year I think I'm going as Liz Sherman from Hellboy. All I need is a pair of scrubs and a wig.

It was you! You were the one who took figures out of that 12 pack I bought when I was 10! You owe me some Monster in my Pocked figures, Matt! You owe me!

Am I the only person who generally likes scifi, especially well written scifi, but could not keep myself from falling asleep during Battlestar Galactica?…

jesse - I love the suicide attempt costume. I've wanted to go as Jesus for a few years now (I'm female), but living in the south, I feel like that might bring some more negative attention than I want.

Best costume: Tie between being a cow this year, and my store bought California Raisin costume when I was 8. I was so darn cute.

Worst costume: A bald pirate. I had one of those bald cap things and an eyepatch. I was 9 I believe. Lost the bald cap in the haunted house during the Halloween carnival at school. Then I was just a messy haired 9 year old girl with an eyepatch.

1. mystie you are now officially my new personal hero for wearing that costume. it was seriously the most amazing thing i have seen in at least a week. i miss gir and zim so very much. i'm gonna sing the doom song.

2.discovered that my girlfriend really is the best girl ever. when we went to target to kill time before our dinner reservations she didn't even blink an eye when i decdied to get both of the My Little Ponies just for me to have.

3. i had the pitch black icee while we were at target as well. i spent the half hour we were there saying this thing it tastes of grape, death and mayhem.

I forgot to mention something about the skulls. I need the one with the tiny body. SO CUTE! And the one with slime inside? When I first saw the picture of it opened, it reminded me of a toilet.

If you die tomorrow, what good is it going to do that your ponies are still in the box? None. You'll die regretting you never walked your ponies up the fridge. Right before the bus hits you, you'll stop and think, "Oh why God? Why didn't I brush Pumpkin Tart while I still had the chance?"

Thanks to Mystie, all my Nightmare Before Christmas characters are coming out of their boxes tonight!

If I were to go into a coma now and not wake up until November 1st, I can honestly say I have had a good Halloween season.
Today was a good trip.
I got a Pitch Black ICEE and went to the dollar store where I picked up some canisters of slime with characters like Godzilla and the Wolfman on them.

Speaking of the Wolfman, I am reminded of my drawing of the Wolfman and Frankenstein trying to play Dungeons and Dragons from last year's drawing contest.
I don't suppose there is going to be a contest this year, Matt?

Mystie: Damnit, you're right. After I post this, I'm freeing them of their plastic pumpkin molds!

I do take alot of my figurines and stuff out of the boxes, but sometimes… I just feel the need to keep them in there.

*looks at The Vampire and Jack Skellington still in their big clunky plastic boxes that are collecting dust* broomstickjockey: I think I will be joining you!

Somethin' Funny: I am pretty sure I saw Matt post just a couple days ago that he was indeed going to have a contest.

Ok, I can die happy now. They are both stuck to my file cabinet beside me.

I like Abra-ca-dabra best.

Yeah, and my posts are slow, as you can see above, and sometimes I forget to refresh.

A 7/11 here has cans of Pitch Black II, as well as the Icee's… Perhaps they are leftovers?

My ponies are still in their plastic cages… my daughter wrecked my Rainbowdash styling pony by getting something funky in its hair. I can just imagine what kind of hair gel she might get in the hair of my Hallo ponies… probably pudding. LOL No thanx.. they will stay as they are for now. They are propped by my bed on display though. Very purty ponies.

Spring-Heeled Jack always used to confuse me as to what he was until not very long ago, I think I wiki'd it. Anyways.. I love those goofy things.

I don't think I even realized My Little Ponies CAME in boxes when I was a kid. In fact, I can't even imagine what the old pony boxes even looked like. I painted the hooves on my old ponies. Some of them got haircuts. They're all in a tangled mess in a box in my closet, every single one of them. Even the cheap bootlegs.

Spring Heeled Jack is one of my obsessions.
I plan to write a comic about him some day.
The comics what have been written about him really lacked the serious creepiness of the original legend/stories.

I still have all of the series 1 MIMP, in addition to a couple I got from a Spaghettios mail away. And I believe the 25 point Great Beast is from the Book of Revelations.

Hey Great Monsters in my pocket article. May I suggest "Army Ants" a very similar toy line for a future non Halloween article. That is if you haven't touched on them yet. Similar in the fact that you can collect a lot of them and came out at the exact same time, but almost better since they came with weapons and you could squish their bulbous butts.

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