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Repost: My tribute to JAWS on the Fourth of July!
1970s
Possibly Millicent Patrick(?) in the Usborne World of the Unknown: MONSTERS book!
I won’t go into the story of Millicent Patrick here, but it needs to be told. This blog tells it much better than I can.
That being said, I thought I would tell you about an interesting little illustration I noticed in an old monster book of mine:
I checked out this book dozens and dozens of times as a child from our library; I just couldn’t get enough of the fantastic illustrations, the far-reaching stories or the fact that it had a monster glossary in the back.
Toylanta 2018!!
Toylanta was this weekend—it’s a big annual toy convention held in Atlanta over a weekend. It started as a hub for GI Joe collectors but expanded to include vintage toys across the board. I have friends that attend, friends who are vendors, and friends who attend with me, so it was an all-around fab time Saturday! Here are some highlights:
Piles of Joes!
Otherwise nekkid Joe in spiffy Christmas sweater.
I saw three yeti-like monsters which I would have loved to have benn able to buy and have together as a little rock group. Here is the Wampa, and Mugato.
Plus a GI Joe yeti!!
A large grouping of Star Wars and other dolls that looks like a terrific class photo setup.
Took this pic for my brother, as we played with his Smash-Up Derby set when we were kids.
Monster models!
This is something I want dearly–vintage Jurassic Park CARNOTAURUS! My friend Melanie and her husband Dutch have a booth with Jurassic Park figures. Alas, this is, as always, out of my price range.
The guy whose wife was selling these terrific mini kaijus was a horrible salesman; he couldn’t tell me the price of ANYTHING after his wife left to go get lunch or something.
I love the face sculpt on this Godzilla.
My pal Fooksie went with me, and he got a version of his favorite childhood Halloween costume– a Collegeville Casper!
I really liked this JAWS Quint figure.
This stuffed Godzilla was pretty sweet, too.
Grumpy from “The Land of the Lost”–His Original Performance!
I re-posted this from my own Puppatoons.com puppetry blog.
My Weird Life: Playing with my Toy Horses!
Oh, my stars. Here is me, in the very early 80s, with messy unwashed weekend hair and my old bifocal glasses, playing with my giant horde of cheap plastic toy horses.
My dad made us kids a sort of hobby table in the basement—my brother and his friends used it to race slot cars for a while, then once they grew out of that, I came in and added a fake “grass” mat to it and it became my “ranch”. The table was technically in my brother’s section of the basement, and I just sort of took it over. In these pics you can not only see me and my toy horses, but a great batch of old 1970s toys in their boxes stacked along the wall.
I collected and displayed these horses in a way that you can see I obviously didn’t know the structure of horse families, haha. You can see I have a lot of little family groups, many of which match.
I’ll get to those toys back there in a sec. First, for the horsey folks, a closer look:
