Could there be a better occasion than Halloween for reviving a blog from the dead? So here we are again folks … weeeee're back!!! Mwahahaha!! Anybody who has followed this blog in the past will know that I'm a huge fan of Mego 1970s action figures. I'm also a huge fan of the old monster movies that were produced by Universal Studios from the 1920s through to the 1960s, so the Mad Monsters line by Mego comes top on my list of all-time favourite action figures. They may not have been officially … [Read more...]
Richard Roxburgh as Count Dracula in ‘Van Helsing’
With the month of October now well under way, let's start the countdown to Halloween with the first post in a series dedicated to monsters and ghouls, with a few slayers thrown in too! Today's action figure is a fresh lucky find that I picked up only yesterday in a mixed box of random toys on a market stall in Rome. Some years need to elapse before this becomes truly vintage, of course, but it's such a fun figure that it merits its own review now!Whilst Stephen Sommers' 2004 … [Read more...]