Abominable Snowman (Yeti): This is both a custom Mego and a custom Tomland figure. In the late 70s, Tomland put out 4 generic monsters, of which the Yeti was one. However, he unfortunately wore these white pajamas that were meant to look like fur, but ended up looking like nothing other than pajamas. So, borrowing some inspiration from an idea I had to make a corrected Mugato, I sewed him an outfit from fake fur and placed the head on a Mego body. Replicating the card art took days as all I had to work from was an image from a monster toy website where the figure was still on the card. To complete this card, I had to reconstruct the area that was obscured behind the image of the monster himself. I did this using Photoshop 5.0. What I basically did was alot of color matching, airbrushing out old lettering and typing in new lettering. I imported lettering in from other Tomland cards to get the best possible look, and finally borrowed colors and sections of art from other portions of the card that were still intact. For instance, to make Yeti's right arm which was obscured, I made a copy of the image, flipped it horizontally, copied the mirror image of the left arm, and imported it into the final picture. The final card may not be 100% accurate, but it was alot of fun to make. There is still some minor pixelation, but I don't care. The blister on the card has a top layer that can be removed easily so the figure can be taken out and played with.

For those interested in monster toys, visit Ray Castille's Gallery of Monster Toys (which incidentally, was where I got the original image): http://members.aol.com/raycastile/page1.htm