So continuing on of My Halloween themed showcase time, here be two rather odd good entries...2 that hardly anyone talks about nor even knows about for that matter. They are a hand stamp of
Gabara, the Kaiju from
Godzilla's Revenge and
Arco's Mummy from
The Mummy's Curse! My Grandma got Me both of them. I vaguely remember getting the Mummy but boy oh boy do I remember getting
Gabara, I always wanted to play and get things out of the little vending machines that you put quarters in and that has little prizes that is in plastic bubbles. My Grandma usually always let Me do a bit till I got what I wanted or till she ran out of quarters. One of the best selections of them machines was at Tru-Buy Groceries in our old neighborhood where we used to live during the good'ole days that I miss so much. I have lots of memories of that store. Anyway, one of the most memorable ones was a Godzilla/Kaiju line and I believe it was by
Moon Monsters but don't quote Me on that. I think the series had most kaijus seen in the original Toho Godzilla films during the Showa era and this was a big deal for a little guy that loved monsters & Godzilla like Me because Godzilla items back then was extremely rare as only special comic shops & specialty outlets had them as they had to import them from Japan and it would still be like that for quite some time until the net would become into full force close to the early 2000s.
Gabara: I got him in the middle/later part of the 80s. He only had 1 appearance in a Godzilla movie which was All Monsters Attack aka Godzilla's Revenge. The thing is, he was only an imaginary kaiju. This mutated bullfrog/toad was actually a clever kaiju though and I always had a liking to how outlandish he was. The figure has a very decent likeness and the stamp itself is a surprise because it's not him but rather
Megalon, another underrated kaiju! It's really a big darn shame I misplaced the rest of them in My collection, such a bummer
Here is
Gabara compared to the previously seen
"Mini" Sgt. Slaughter for a size comparison!
And here is
Gabara with My previously seen small version of
Imperial's 1985 Godzilla!
The Mummy's Curse: He originally came out in 1983 and is made by
Arco, a company that was great and yet a very obscure known business this pathetic era. They made items of the of the great 80s series' such as
Go-Bots, Bravestarr, Captain Power, The Centurions, Rambo, The A-Team, Robotech, Madballs and even V 
The detail is great on the sarcophagus and its of a somewhat hard plastic and he is of very thin plastic but glows in the dark. The set's action has a "rising" action feature and but it no longer functions and I have misplaced his "wiggly" creatures unfortunately but at least I have him intact in overall good condition and is still a great Halloween display piece
Here is a comparison with him with previously seen
Thundercat's Mumm-ra and
Imperial's Mummy!
Now here is the big and important story about him. He was kinda rare to begin with and was basically a one off figure that was part of a series all to himself. Later on in the very early and possibly to middles 90s, a Chinese company called
Toys N'Things either got a hold of the figure wholesale or reproduced it for their own gain thus making it considerably a bootleg of the same thing despite it has the same title and alternate artwork all the rest. Here is a set of pics I found of the 2 versions online as I edited them for major comparing them together
Now, the original version by
Arco is one of the hardest figures to find on ebay loose and intact not to mention it's like finding gold MOC! With that being said, the version by
Toys N'Things is arguably even worse as I speak there is only one MOC on ebay and it is going for big bucks! So if you wanted either version for whatever reason, good luck cause this classic is one of the hardest vintage toys obtaining in good condition ever!
BONUS UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I had planned a lot of this stuff for My topic in advanced for months since the beginning but this wasn't one of them
I just found one of My
Super Naturals blister cards only a number of hours ago and wow was I surprised about this! This really brought back the memory of getting them and look at that price tag, it's from Walgreens where I got them from just as I said earlier when I previously showcased My small showcase of the
Super Naturals by
Tonka! Look at that classic cool spooky stuff, gosh people didn't know how great it was then and I don't know about the now but I want these times back...
Super Naturals was such a great series as it revolutionized toys with holograms as
Hasbro knew it IMO hence their take on their
Visionaries (which I will get to in time)!
Lionheart with his card
So that's all for now, My first of two big Halloween time showcases will be upon the topic shortly and it's gonna be a great and classic one! Until then I'll see you around
Mattel was so cheap and ignorant because of their frugal budget and harsh ways they handed both series' to Super7 who really is doing a superb job but at insane prices and still the overall situation just sucks if you experienced this when it was on going. So with that being said, I got the sub but not the SDCC exclusives of the kids & the Snarf but more on that at a later date. I still haven't opened them up yet as I'm still on the fence about due to several reasons, So I just decided to show two of the figures that I thought were very necessary as they kinda complete the villain side of My Vintage Collection with exceptions of course.
He was part of a special "personnel" series that really, no other company that made wrestling figures ever ventured in which IMO is a darn shame 
