A Goulish Gallery of Values

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It's refreshing to see this many monster toys on a Christmas catalog page, usually they get kind of dismissed or marginalized as being "seasonal". The only thing missing is some slime. While I've blogged about Gre-Gory being the one that got away for me as a kid and my obsession with the Remco Monsters is well documented, my favourite piece in this spread would have to be the Tomy Mighty Men and Monster Maker.


I got this set for my tenth birthday and it was one of those things that was just as fun as it was on the commercials.

I knew a couple of girls that asked for it for Christmas after seeing mine but they all got fashion plates instead. My own wife got Fashion Plates but said it was fun because she mixed the monster plates from her brother's set making weird-o she creatures.


DVD Day:

Plenty of classic 70s goodness this week, mostly of the television kind, kicking it off with the complete series set of Good Times.
This is one of those shows that starts off strong but eventually kind of falters as it goes along. I watched this show every afternoon for years on the black and white TV in my room. I haven't seen it in years and am unsure how it holds up

Also released today is the complete series set of Sanford and Son. Now this is a show I know that holds up because I watch it every chance I get and it still makes me laugh.


This 17 disc set has 136 episodes of the classic series, I had no idea the series lasted that long to be honest.





Finally and this is where my money is going this week is the 20th Anniversary set of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 . I can't say enough good things about MST 3k, I love it more than a grown man should.

Not only does this set have my favorite MST3K of all time (the 1978 opus Laserblast, coincidently the first movie I ever rented) but it has a freaking figurine of Crow T. Robot, I'm in nerd heaven....

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[Earth 2 Chris]

What's the deal with that Haunted House playset? Is that made by Remco for the 9" or the Mini-Monsters? Looks cool.

The kid up the street from me who had the Mini-Monsters also had Gre-Gory and those Monsterplates. We had a lot of fun with both. In hindsight, he must have been quite the monster freak!

I used to LOVE Good Times as a kid. Jay-Jay was only slightly less cool than the Fonz in my eyes. I've tried to watch the show in recent times, but honestly, Jay-Jay's antics don't fit in well with the drama level of the show. John Amos is good as the dad, but I've always felt the mom (her name escapes me at the moment) overacted and re-acted quite a bit.

Chris

[HardyGirl]

I think those monster plates are cooler than those fashion plates. And I love Good Times! Especially first season. This was the thing to watch when I was in grade school, and we even had homework assignments on the episodes.

[Earth 2 Chris]

And I love Good Times! Especially first season. This was the thing to watch when I was in grade school, and we even had homework assignments on the episodes.

Wow. You must have went to a very forward-thinking school. Of course if we had homework assignments based on TV shows here in Kentucky back then, it probably would have been on HEE-HAW.

Chris

[palitoy]

I always thought James Evans was TV's first realistic dad, he wasn't a lot of fun to be around in most episodes. As a kid, I didn't like his character, now I get why, he reminded me of my own dad in a bad mood.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Yeah he was surly, but it's understandable and as you say, realistic, in hindsight. Tom Bosley was a pretty convincing dad as well, until Happy Days went all sitcom.

Got any info on that Haunted House up above. Looks neat!

Chris

[palitoy]

It's a model kit but I don't have any info on it.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Ahh. Too bad. I thought it'd be cool if it was a generic playset like something Tara or Empire might make.

Chris

[vulcan2074]

I Had a Monster Maker. That thing was so Cool
Sammy

[toys2cool]

nice,i had that green monster as a kid,what was his name? Krusher or something like that

[jwyblejr]

Good Times was okay until the dad died,then it went down hill. It got even worse when their mom left for awhile. Last episode was a nice way to end the series though.

[toys2cool]

Good Times was okay until the dad died,then it went down hill. It got even worse when their mom left for awhile. Last episode was a nice way to end the series though.

Yeah i agree,as a kid I use to love watching it,but once the dad died it kind of sucked,now I can't even sit thru a whole episode with out changing the channel

[cjefferys]

Oooo, I want that MST3K set. That Crow statue looks cool. I can't believe it's been 20 years already (for me, it's been 16 or 17 years since I first saw it on TV. Wow, time flies!)