TOYS & PROMO ITEMS Category

A TNUC CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!   Let’s gaze inside the TNUC lair for a closer look at this year’s holiday banquet… Yes, one of the Boglins demanded that Aunt Bethany’s cat food jello from Christmas Vacation be made on this joyous night. Happy Holidays to you and yours from Uncle T, Harry, Cousin Itt, Drool (Boglin), Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Flurp (Boglin), […]

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FEROCIOUS FORTRESSES [PART 1].

Christmas 1989. The horrendous day in history when Pops TNUC ran out on the little Manimal and forgot to leave a single gift under the tree. Not just any gift, but the most massive and triumphant of all toys: the action figure PLAYSET, or fortress as we like to call them. Ever since Uncle T laid eyes on […]

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CASTLE TNUC’s HALLOWEEN MOOD TABLE.

This year we convinced stubborn old Count TNUC to come down from his dusty attic and make a “Halloween Mood Table” to help spice the place up. Here’s what resulted.. Credit for coining the title of “Halloween Mood Table” goes to Matt of Dinosaur Dracula. In a nutshell these tables are meant to evoke that […]

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STRUCK RUBBERY GOLD.

I realize that we’ve been talking about Francis ‘Chainsaw’ Gremp from the movie Summer School for about the last 27 years or so. During our October spread just last year we paid tribute on two separate occasions to this legendary teenage gorehound. Well, just when I thought there was probably nothing else to say about the man, I came […]

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RUTHLESS RAMBO RUBBISH.

Today we carry on with the Rambo rampage that started last week by diving deep into online auction sites to discover a few vintage treasures birthed by the franchise. Out of all the action icons of ‘the heyday’, the Gods of promotional marketing were shining down the most on Stallone. At any given time on eBay, […]

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ORIGINS OF THE BOGLINS.

Every so often I have to remind myself that a Christmas Boglin just doesn’t exist. Given the fact that Mattel pumped out not one, but two Halloween editions of these rubbery bundles of joy, and that their green & yellow flesh somewhat resembles the Grinch’s putrid skin, it seemed like a Christmas version would come out of […]

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