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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.

Posted by Matt on 10/07/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 89 comments

First post?! I posted in the last blog judt now that there was a new entry up!

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!)

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/07/2006 2:13 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Ariel @ 10/07/2006 2:20 PM

I like the bloody eye balls, personally I find it more disturbing than bugs.

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 10/07/2006 2:36 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Julie @ 10/07/2006 2:37 PM

What about Creepy Crawlers?!?!?!?!

Chestnuts roasted by Rixliss @ 10/07/2006 2:38 PM

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. :D

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 10/07/2006 2:46 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 10/07/2006 2:49 PM

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

But I NEED the slime skull.

Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 10/07/2006 3:11 PM

Actually found the slime skull online first try.
Link is name.

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 10/07/2006 3:17 PM

No Bigfoot huh?: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/theimageofmyownbreast/bigfoot.jpg

He was under “humanoids”.

Chestnuts roasted by RewolfJ @ 10/07/2006 3:18 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 10/07/2006 3:21 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Tim @ 10/07/2006 3:26 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Hoss @ 10/07/2006 3:27 PM

Matt,

Your work is the thing that brightens my day. Keep being a genius.

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 10/07/2006 4:15 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 10/07/2006 4:17 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 10/07/2006 4:28 PM

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!

Ahh, Nick Arcade… I really dug ActRaiser

Chestnuts roasted by Godjilla @ 10/07/2006 4:36 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 10/07/2006 4:48 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/07/2006 5:33 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by ColonelCatsup @ 10/07/2006 5:38 PM

Wegmans already has their Christmas trees out, alongside the pumpkins.

Christmas has no domain within October…this is Halloween month!

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 10/07/2006 5:40 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by soundsurfer @ 10/07/2006 6:25 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by spaz307 @ 10/07/2006 6:38 PM

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)!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/07/2006 6:55 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by kittycatgirl2k @ 10/07/2006 7:07 PM

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