Friday, 31 October 2025

I've gone Bats!

 We picked up a jiggler sucker bat tother day 

Perfect for Halloween!


It reminded me of a 1979 toy I would have loved as a kud in the Sixties,

Mattel's Gre-gory!
The big bad vampire bat.

Here's a comic and. I couldn't find a TV spot.


Besides it's rubbery action, Greg's unique selling point was a blood pump in its chest!
 I wonder if it sold well?

Operated by a pump button on its back, this feature has dried up now in most Greg-gories by the sounds of it ( as attested by You Tube videos on the toy).

Is this haunted tree mouse a toy you had or remember Gruesome readers?

1 comment:

  1. Paul Adams from New Zealand11/01/2025 1:40 am

    As I have said so many times before, some of the sickest minds on the planet work in the toy industry. This proves it.
    Now I have a question - why did Aurora never make a large scale Vampire Bat kit in their horror line ? There were just a few small bats in various kits, but they were just accessories to some other model. It could easily have been sold as Dracula in his bat form.

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