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1997 Universal Monsters Burger King Kid's Club Action Figures In 1997, Universal re-released a lot of their old monster movies on VHS.  As a result, they were licensing the old Universal Monsters all over the place to rekindle interest in the movies.  They even had Universal Monsters US Postage Stamps that year!  For me, the coolest result came in October of 1997 in the form of The Burger King Kids Club Universal Monsters Action Figures! 1997 Universal Monsters action figures from Burger King still in the original packages The figures were similar to the 3 3/4" Remco universal monsters, but different enough that anyone who had the Remco figures wouldn't confuse the two different releases.  Also, Remco released six different characters while Burger King released only four: Down For the Count Dracula, Bolts and Volts Frankenstein, The Wolf Man Cellar Dweller, Scaly Squirter featuring The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Universal Monsters Glow-in-t...

Universal Monsters Bend-Ems: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, & The Creature From The Black Lagoon! I had heard that Walgreens was selling Universal Monster Bendy figures early in the Halloween season, but despite several trips to numerous Walgreens locations, I hadn't seen a single one.  Yesterday, I stopped by a Walgreens and I wasn't even thinking about Halloween stuff.  As I was heading to the cash register, I ended up in the Halloween Clearance section.  There were 50% Off and 70% Off signs all over the place.  Boxes of Christmas products were being loaded on to the shelves at the other end of the Holiday section.  Behind a 50% Off sign, I noticed these familiar characters! Universal Monsters Bend-Ems: The Creature From The Black Lagoon and Frankenstein! There were two of each character except The Creature From The Black Lagoon (just one Creature).  I grabbed one of each and headed up to pay for my new monsters!  As always, I...

The Creature from the Black Lagoon is about to surprise this unsuspecting Deep Sea Diver! Around 1980, Remco released a line of six Universal Monsters 3 3/4" Action Figures.  The line included Count Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, The Frankenstein Monster, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.  All six were released in "Glow-In-The-Dark" and non-glow versions.  The monsters were awesome, but wouldn't they be even better with someone for them to scare?  Fortunately, the similarly scaled Fisher-Price adventure people were on the shelves from 1975 to 1985 giving us plenty of victims for our cool monster figures!  Since we're in the month of October, I thought I'd share some photos of the Fisher-Price Adventure People with the Remco Universal Monsters! Look out, Brad!  There's something behind you!  It looks like some sort of Wolfman! Frankenstein's Monster has left the castle and follows an unsuspecting, pret...