I was really excited when I found 1, then I found 13 more 😂 These are all Vintage Bootleg Pocket Horrors based off the popular Mighty Max series. Although they are very simple, the underwhelming artwork and colors just really pop. It doesn’t hurt that they are also extremely valuable and rare. My wife can’t quite grasp why toys are “worth so much” !
So Lava Beast was my guinea pig. It was a little tougher to find clear photos of intact cardbacks than you would think. Pretty happy about how it turned out. Considering upgrading the size to maybe a 6 inch figure bubble? That way you can display the opened playset in front of the cardback. Also going to laminate the cards and adhere them to the backs of the cases. So I have some questions!
What do you guys think?
Didn’t care about these a whole lot as a kid, but now that I’m an adult I have a greater appreciation and admiration for the work and creativity that went into making them. While they don’t any moveable objects or monsters, they make excellent display sets and I really really enjoy them
Sadly, Sluggon is missing from Zomboid, but that’s relatively easy to replace.
I’m three sets away from having all of the Doom Zones complete, not counting variants.
So I bought a Skull Mountain and this is one of the figurines it came with. It does not seem to belong to that set and I can't figure out where it's from. Any ideas?
A couple of fandoms I'm part of are big into customizing figures/toys. So my mind naturally drifted into thinking about customizing ideas for this toyline too. Since Mighty Max is conceptually Polly Pocket with a b-movie / horror / sci-fi / fantasy twist, it'd probably be feasible to convert the later into the former.
A "haunted house" seems like an obvious choice, since the bulk of classic Polly Pocket releases are various building interiors. The 1990 "Polly's World" playset also has some promise, since evil amusement parks / carnivals are a staple setting in media.
Anyone else got any ideas?