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Screamin' Meemie - Madballs (AmToy)
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“Just oozing by...”
Madballs valentine
(American Greetings 1988)
#madballs#vintage valentines#vintage toys#horror toys#monster toys#80s horror#happy valentines day#be mine#80s stuff#horror art#horror illustration#gross out#80s toys
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Baby, You Just Make Me Mad!
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Toy Snobs has a My Pet Monster 22" plush doll up for pre-order through December 1. The two-sided designed is based on classic Wrestling Buddies.
Regularly $85, it's currently on sale for $75. You can also get just the doll, sans shackles and packaging, for $45 (regularly $55) and the shackles for $15 (regularly $20).
#my pet monster#80s#1980s#80s kid#nostalgia#toy snobs#toy#gift#garbage pail kids#madballs#goosebumps#hasbro
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Madballs 80s toys
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Star Comics Magazine No. 8 (February 1988)
You're lookin' too happy! Think of something gross!
Genre: humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; children
Characters: Heathcliff; Slobulus; Tenderheart Bear; Piggy
Source: Grand Comics Database
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Oculus Orbus and Oculus Max. Was a combo too good to ignore. XD
Oculus Orbus © American Greetings
Oculus Max © Magicbox
Artwork © ZootyCutie (that's me!)
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Madballs (C64/ZX Spectrum/Amstrad CPC, Denton Designs, 1987/1988)
The game of the toys. You can play it in your browser here.
Tips: You can only change momentum with each bounce. C64 controls include numpad 84620 for joystick. Controls for other systems may include numpad and/or function keys. The old computer game tradition of trying every key on the keyboard when you don't know the controls means trying EVERY key after all.
See also: the cartoons of the toys.
#internet archive#in-browser#c64#commodore 64#zx spectrum#amstrad#amstrad cpc#game#games#video game#video games#videogame#videogames#computer game#computer games#obscure games#licensed games#madballs#cw gross#tw gross#1987#1988#1980s#80s
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Snake Bait - Madballs (AmToy)
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Monster Balls (ILLCO 1989)
#monster balls#vintage horror#classic horror#80s horror#classic monsters#horror icons#universal monsters#universal horror#horror toys#vintage toys#dracula#frankensteins monster#the mummy#the wolfman#boris karloff#bela lugosi#lon chaney jr#madballs
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I've been hunting in the wilds of eBay, and found small but satisfying game.
A tad more translucent than photos would suggest, these crudely painted and badly warped Madballs knockoffs have surprisingly good sculpts, I must say. These sort of jiggly rubber beasties are always a hit with me; they lend a whimsical touch. In an arcade prize booth sort of way.
Backed with questionable suction cups, these sort of toys were common finds in vending machines, carnivals, and discount stores. Pretty much everywhere around Halloween.
If it's hard to tell what's going on with these guys' faces, you're not alone. I still don't know offhand who half these guys are under those weirdly puffy sculpts. But it's a trio of Weird Ball Wrestlers, from the always-fun Mel Appel company. They'd already aped Weird-ohs and Madballs, so when M.U.S.C.L.E. exploded onto the scene amidst pyrotechnics and hair metal in '85, they folded that in too, plopping their Weird Ball designs onto wrestler bodies and storming the pegs of pharmacies and the really cool grocery stores.
Here they are with my existing collection: I'm up to 5 of the 6 sculpts, with plenty of extras for trade should the need arise. Oddly, there are 42 characters in the trading cards, so these 6 must have been favorites among the developers.
As the gold standard of knockoff toys, Mel Appel is always tempting, but as I limit myself to wrasslers, this stack took a decade or so. One of my fun little back-burner projects.
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