Monster Mash

M is for Maud who was swept out to sea.




M is also for Mighty Men and Monster Maker.

I have to say that even with all my nerdy love for pop culture, I don't really remember the Mighty Men and Monster Maker toy, and it was even from my era of growing up in the 70's and 80's. It was a boy toy (and not like in the "big belt buckle, mesh tank tops and rubber bracelets" Madonna way), so maybe that's why my rememberence is void. In reality it's pretty cool, with plastic mix-and-match plates that have men and monsters printed on them (well, duh) and you put paper over your creation and voila! An outline of a man/beast creation you can color.



We girlies had the chick equivalent of the MM and MM called Fashion Plates, which was the same concept, only with mix-and-match plates of Barbie-looking skanks in total 80's fashion glory and feathered hair. It. Was. AWESOME.

So The Ball and Chain has been talking (whining, really) about it for the past couple of years, but what I hear when he's rambling is the Charlie Brown teacher voice: "Wah wah wah, wahwah wah waah" and I throw in an "uh huh...wow...neat...uh huh..." every once in a while to feign actual listening. Which is probably the same thing he does when I'm rambling about the thrilling sale on toilet paper at Walgreen's. So a couple months ago he started back up with the "All I want for my birthday this year is the Mighty Men and Monster Maker and nothing else will make me happy and nothing ever will until I get it" speech. I KNOW ALREADY. GOSH. So good news for him, I found the damn set in a antique mall for $30 and his life's dream was fulfilled. Until he remembers another toy from his youth and I have to search the bowels of hell to find it. Proof #4 jillion that even at 35 men never grow the hell up.

Behold! Terror beyond comprehension.





That being said, I would give my left ovary to have a Fashion Plate set again. Maybe I should start bitching about it for the next 3 years, forcing my husband to search the bowels of hell to find it and then my life's dream will be fulfilled...



...Only I would mix up the pieces from the Mighty Men and Monster Maker set with the pieces from the Fashion Plates set to make the coolest yet most disturbing creation of all time. I'd call it Monster Men Fashion Plates.

*Monster Mash byBobby "Boris" Pickett