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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

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Timmy @ 10/08/2006 12:44 AM

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….

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 10/08/2006 12:49 AM

dohopoki:

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

I agree that a hole in your favoite boxers ruins a day….

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 10/08/2006 12:53 AM

Never seen it. And it’s not on this second is it?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 10/08/2006 12:57 AM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 10/08/2006 1:00 AM

dohopoki

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 10/08/2006 1:09 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/08/2006 1:16 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by spaz307 @ 10/08/2006 1:56 AM

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

https://webspace.utexas.edu/cca378/monster.mp3

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 10/08/2006 2:09 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Timmy @ 10/08/2006 2:14 AM

best: Unabomber
worst: snake

Chestnuts roasted by jrh @ 10/08/2006 3:12 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Justin @ 10/08/2006 4:10 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by jesse @ 10/08/2006 4:25 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Tommy @ 10/08/2006 5:15 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by broomstickjockey @ 10/08/2006 7:36 AM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 10/08/2006 8:43 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 10/08/2006 10:25 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by dj lisas @ 10/08/2006 11:23 AM

That first one must be the skeletal remains of Wayne “The Main Brain McClane”

OH GOD YES!!!

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 10/08/2006 12:21 PM

three things to share with everyone-

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.

Chestnuts roasted by danny @ 10/08/2006 2:05 PM

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.

I’m distraught over whether to open my ponies or not. :?

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 10/08/2006 4:23 PM

I’m distraught over whether to open my ponies or not. :?

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?”

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 10/08/2006 4:50 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by broomstickjockey @ 10/08/2006 5:00 PM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 10/08/2006 5:19 PM

Yes, there will be. :) This week!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/08/2006 5:24 PM

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