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Favorite Toy Ever:
Grimlock (G1)
Poe Ghostal received his first toy, a Mighty Mouse figure, at age three. Thus began a lifelong interest (some might say obsession) with toys. A child of the 1980s, he grew up on Star Wars, He-Man & Transformers toys, as well as more obscure lines such as Power Lords, Robo Force, and Manglors.
Poe has written about toys for IGN.com and ToyFare magazine. He was a founder of OAFE.net and has been a guest reviewer for Michael Crawford’s popular review site.
This is a list of archived entries published with the halloween tag.
“Years ago, a group of monsters was chased by torch-bearing villagers for crimes they, admittedly, committed. These monsters promptly escaped to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by angry mobs, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe [...]
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Some have called them the Marvel Legends of Universal Monsters. Others have called them crappy.
Michael Crawford wrote a comprehensive review of these figures way back in April ‘07, and he sure didn’t like them. Here’s his summary of the review:
With poor sculpts and weak paint, it’s not too likely [...]
A compendium of my reviews of horror- and Halloween-related toys. I’ll add any new reviews I do this month as we go along.
Z.O.M.B.I.E.s
Attack of the Living Dead
Imperial Universal Monsters
Peanuts Great Pumpkin set
Aoshima Alien
Movie Maniacs Predator 2
Darkness from Legend
Nightmares of Lovecraft Cthulhu
Resident Evil 10th Anniversary Zombie
Skeleflex Skullkor
A couple days ago on his blog, Ethan Kaye highlighted a Super-meme. Well, in honor of my favorite horror writer, here’s my entry.
If you were a young boy in the late 1970s and early 1980s, chances are you were quite familiar with the crown logo of Imperial Toys.
From the admittedly limited perspective as a six-year-old boy, Imperial was known for one thing: rubber dinosaurs.
Imperial specialized in those solid rubber dinosaurs you’d find in convenience stores, pharmacies, and [...]
I can’t recall whether I saw The Monster Squad (1987) in the theater, but something makes me think I did. Even as a kid I thought of it then as a sort of store-brand Goonies, albeit a very fun, entertaining, and surprisingly violent one. Except for the infamous “Wolf Man’s got nards” line, I more [...]
ODD: We’re swinging into high here at PGPoA with the Halloween fun. I realize the whole zombie motif may be a bit 2006, but it was the first idea I thought of. The good thing is we get it out of the way now and I’ll have to come up with something else next year.
Note: A slightly different version of this article was originally published on Biggerboat in October 2006.
A couple years ago, during the huge zombie fad of the mid-’00s, Mezco Toyz produced a short-lived figure line called Attack of the Living Dead. The figures are a combination of today’s advanced action figure design and those old gross-out [...]
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October Toys and Poe Ghostal’s Points of Articulation present the first annual PGPoA Halloween Sweepstakes!
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OK, so my previous post was a gag (cribbed from an old entry on my other blog for BLITEOTW). I posted it to set the mood for this month’s theme…horror!
