It's Alive! My Overnight Remco Mini Monsterizer

 Last year I rescued some trash from Aldi, a bunch of plastic toothbrush displays.

Considering what to do with them I toyed with perhaps some Action Man raft crates or maybe a Corgi lion cage.

But then I saw this!

The Remco Mini Monster Monsterizer!

Yes!

So, overnight I've whittled and spittled and fettled my own monster machine using one of those toothbrush racks.

It's been fun and Baron Frankenstein lent a hand (and a foot and a head!)!

Oven-ready, a willing creature, old Burger King Frankie, stepped up to test it out.

Dr. Bones threw the switch.

Monsterizing in progress! 

And the final stage ...

Hope you like this home-made, quick and easy Monsteriser folks.

I've got to go. Villagers are mobbing with pitchforks at the door! 

THE MINI ANASTASIA TRAIN SET BY BURGER KING

I came across this wonderful mini train set, and thought it would be of interest to all those readers who like to combine Christmas and toy trains. The top of the locomotive and all the carriages being topped with snow.

Anastasia was a 20th Century Fox animated movie, which came out in 1997. It was based - pretty loosely by the looks of it - on the life of Grand Duchess Anastasia (youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II), who was rumoured to have survived the murder of her family following the Russian Revolution in 1917.

The Burger King fast food chain released a series of toys to go with the film, and this mini train set was one of them. It is powered by a single AA battery which fits inside the locomotive.

There are six pieces of black plastic track (four curved, and two straight), which clip together. The track even includes moulded ballast.

The train consists of a locomotive, with a 2-6-2 wheel arrangement. The toy actually runs on four small wheels hidden in the underside.

There is a tender; a passenger carriage; and finally a guard's van (caboose). Manufactured by Equity Marketing, Inc., Los Angeles, California, but Made in China.

The underside of the locomotive says MFG for BKC - TM & © 1997 FOX - MADE IN CHINA. This is followed by a group of letters and numbers I cannot read.

Oddly, there is no mention of Burger King anywhere on the packaging. The instructions for changing the battery are printed on the back of the box.

This You Tube video shows the set in action. It also gives an idea of just how tiny the set is - the oval of track being about 18 inches across.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UzH6wHLNizI

A great looking toy.

Six photographs from Worthpoint and Ebay.

Paul Adams from New Zealand's Summer

Eating our Way out of Halloween: 1997 Burger King Universal Monsters - Frankenstein

Here's the last of the BK Universal Monsters from 1997. 

Looking back, Frankie and The Count were my two favorites. The Mummy and The Creature didn't do much for me. I mean, I would watch them if there were no Westerns, Charlie Chan, Sherlock Holmes, or Bowery Boys flicks on TV but other than that I pretty much ignored them.

From Universal's Las Vegas Annex

Ed

Eating our Way out of Halloween: 1997 Burger King Universal Monsters - The Wolfman

While the figures themselves are nicely done, I really like the artwork that came packaged with them.

From Universal Studios - Vegas Annex

Ed

Eating our Way over Halloween: 1997 Burger King Universal Monsters - The Creature From The Black Lagoon

Burger King's Creature has been a hard one to fit into my Halloween scenarios but he's still a cool classic. Molded in an icky green he's actually a squirt gun of sorts.

From Vegas Lagoon

Ed

Eating our way through to Halloween! 1997 Burger King Universal Monsters - Dracula!

I love the set of four Universal Studios Monsters Burger King released back in 1997.

 These were the classics I remembered and enjoyed as a kid. They are a bit large when placed next to the other Halloween figures that I set out for display, but they still look cool.

From Vegas Castle Dracula!

Ed