Halloween Pot Pourri

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No real direction today, just a bunch of different things that didn't seem to fit anywhere else, above is an early 80s ad for a costume company called Topstone. I'm not really all that familiar with them but I know there are collectors out there.

For Maxx Fx Fans, here is a 1989 article (click on it for a larger read) about the problems Matchbox encountered when they attempted to market Freddy Kruger toys to children. This was more based on the cuddly talking doll (bad idea) but it eventually doomed Maxx as well. I don't give a toss about Freddy personally but find it a shame that those wonder Universal Monster toys weren't released. If you haven't already, I insist you spend the next hour checking out creator Mel Birnkrant's fantastic Maxx Fx site.



And lastly, I found this postage stamp sized ad in an old Canadian newspaper, it's for a clearance of Aurora Monster Scenes kits (which got Aurora in a lot of trouble at the time) and I know that the Giant Insect kit is one thing a lot of collectors would have loved to have found for under a buck.

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[toys2cool]

man those old Halloween things were the best , nowadays you go to Walgreens or CVS and all they have is crap

[jwyblejr]

That ape outfit reminds me of the one in Trading Places.

[Mikey]

That ape outfit reminds me of the one in Trading Places.

I thought the EXACT same thing when I seen it

[Meule]

Malachi Throne wore a Topstone mask for his role as False Face in the Batman show

[Earth 2 Chris]

False Face always creped me out as a kid. Those semi-transparent masks still give me the willies.

The bat mask on the far left would be the start of a good Man-Bat costume!

Chris

[Wee67]

How did the Monster Kits get Aurora in trouble?

and stop scaring me with that Malachi Throne/False Face pic!

[tay666]

How did the Monster Kits get Aurora in trouble?

Not the monster kits. But the Monster Scens kits.
You know, the ones marketed as 'Rated X for Excitement'.
Freaturing a scantily clad female named 'The Victim'.
As well as an even more scantily clad Vaprella.
And several torture scenes.

For some reasons, moms got a little upset about the series.

[ctc]

>I'm not really all that familiar with them but I know there are collectors out there.

Are they the ones that did the "living mask" kits way back when?

>moms got a little upset about the series.

....stupid moms....

Don C.