In the Sixties tons of toys were luminous. It was the in-thing! Space toys, paint, stickers but above all monsters. Glow in the Dark was second only to Bump 'n' Go!
Monsters and being able to glow in the dark went hand in hand like King Kong and Fay Wray. Aurora took it to its illuminous [or is just luminous?] peak with their frightening lightening glowing monster models.
My own personal favourites though were Kenner Glo-Globs, little shaped bits of gloop which glowed at night. I had them stuck to the cabinet next to my bed: bats, skulls, Frankensteins! They were just so great.
Did you have luminous thingies readers?
The Ghost of Cap'n Kidd of the Matchbox Fightin' Furies line is awesome. Got also the Mattel Space: 1999 Zython which should glow, but is kinda dim really.
ReplyDeleteThe best however is the eternal starry sky of my own boy's room back at home, with ringed planets and all
Here in the US, back in the early 1960s there was something called Lightning Bug Glow Juice by the Kenner toy company. Essential a thin paint you could apply to most anything to get a 'ghostly' glow effect in the dark.
ReplyDeleteKenner also did something similar with Glo-Globs, a sort of soft stretchy plastic clay that came in different glow-in-the-dark hues.
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