MONSTER SQUAD TOYS
Always confused with the 1987 movie of the same name, The Monster Squad was a television series that aired Saturday mornings on NBC from 1976-1977.
This was and IS one of my absolute favorite shows!
The show was campy like the 1966 Batman series and the similarities are very noticeable. The show included all the pushed colors and groovy criminals similar to the Batman series. Sooooooo Cool, Soooooo Amazing! This show and the game that represents it is what I call extra cheese and I LOVE extra cheese!
The series stars Fred Grandy (later famous for his role as Gopher on The Love Boat) as Walt, a criminology student working as a night watchman in a wax museum. To pass the time, Walt built a Crime Computer in a sarcophagus-style mummy case near an exhibit of legendary monsters. When Walt plugged in his Crime Computer, oscillating vibrations brought to life the wax statues of Dracula (Henry Polic II), the Wolfman (Buck Kartalian) who was named Bruce W. Wolf (with one episode revealing that the “W” stood for “Were”), and Frankenstein’s monster (Michael Lane) who was referred to as Frank N. Stein in the credits.
The monsters, wanting to make up for the misdeeds of their pasts, became superhero crimefighters who used their unique abilities to challenge and defeat various supervillains.
The Squad had their own customized Monster Van, and each monster had a utility belt (like Batman) with a communicator device used to keep in touch with Walt who created them for the monsters to use.
Toys created for the show included the Monster Van, Board Game, Puzzle, Bendys (that were not called Monster Squad figures but obviously were), Coloring Books and Halloween Costumes. A Punch Bag was supposedly created as well but I don’t believe there ever was one really produced.
I LOVE this show and each and every TOY related to it!
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