My second Halloween Flashbak this week remembered a favorite toy (that I have written of before, here on the blog: The Remco Mini-Monster Playset.
"Way back in 1980 -- when I was ten years old --
Remco manufactured a line of toys based on the classic Universal Monsters of
the 1930s and 1940s. The Remco Monsters set included 3 inch high figures of
Boris Karloff's Frankenstein Monster, Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula, the Wolf
Man, the Phantom of the Opera, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the
Mummy.
I knew all these characters from old movie
reruns on television, and was particularly enamored with Lugosi’s version of
Drac.
These action figures were cool all by themselves
(especially because they were the right size to menace Kenner Star
Wars action figures…), but I loved their home even more: Remco’s Mini
Monster Play Case, a small, fold-up playset made out of laminated
cardboard. The set was described as a “monster mansion and portable storage case for
all the mini-movie monsters,” and it sold for just $7.99...."
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