More Junk

[Monolith]

Here's some junk I don't see often. I got these new in the 1990s...

Halloween toys by donald deveau, on Flickr

[Monolith]

I got this one in the 1970s from a vending machine. Its small and not rubber but a bendable type of plastic...

1970's Vending Machine Toy by donald deveau, on Flickr

[Monolith]

This is a lens from a small flashlight that I got in the 1970s. This is all I have left of it...

1970's Frankenstein Flashlight Lense by donald deveau, on Flickr

[Mike Scott]

This is a lens from a small flashlight that I got in the 1970s. This is all I have left of it...

Was there anything else worth saving? Any Franky or horror imagery or text on the rest of it?

[Monolith]

Was there anything else worth saving? Any Franky or horror imagery or text on the rest of it?

I saved the Frankenstein because A) it was the only monster, and B) it was drawn better than the other lenses. If i remember correctly, the other lenses were halloween-type images (bats, or spiders). And the packaging was probably generic so I didn't save that either.

[Monolith]

Here's more monsters that you could project on your wall. It's a slide from the Mattel Funlight from 1970...

Mattel Funlight Slide 2 (1970) by donald deveau, on Flickr

[Monolith]

Here's another slide from the Mattel Funlight. This one has a monster, too. This is actually two slides that you could rotate to mix and match the tops of the characters with the bottoms as you project them onto your wall...

Mattel Funlight Slide 1 (1970) by donald deveau, on Flickr

[MonsterBaker666]

Wow!  That "Funlight" is very interesting to me.  I have a pretty darn good memory, and back in 1970 I got for Christmas a gift I really liked called (as I remember it) a Ghost Projector.  Now for years I've searched the internet for info for it and came up blank - there apparently was one made when the Ghostbusters cartoon series came out, but that's not the one I had.  Seeing the photo above of the disc with the monster faces on it is what I had in that Ghost Projector.  BUT it had other discs, including a color wheel, another one of other monster and ghost faces, plus one that you could slide open to put things in it (probably bugs and stuff). 

So, now with the Funlight" name, I did another google search, and found a photo of that toy as well.  The Ghost Projector I had looks very similar to the Funlight, but not exactly. So my thought is that there was likely a Ghost Projector toy made in 1970 by Mattel similar to the funlight.

My search goes on. 

[Monolith]

Wow!  That "Funlight" is very interesting to me.  I have a pretty darn good memory, and back in 1970 I got for Christmas a gift I really liked called (as I remember it) a Ghost Projector.  Now for years I've searched the internet for info for it and came up blank - there apparently was one made when the Ghostbusters cartoon series came out, but that's not the one I had.  Seeing the photo above of the disc with the monster faces on it is what I had in that Ghost Projector.  BUT it had other discs, including a color wheel, another one of other monster and ghost faces, plus one that you could slide open to put things in it (probably bugs and stuff). 

So, now with the Funlight" name, I did another google search, and found a photo of that toy as well.  The Ghost Projector I had looks very similar to the Funlight, but not exactly. So my thought is that there was likely a Ghost Projector toy made in 1970 by Mattel similar to the funlight.


My search goes on. 

I think what you had was the Hasbro Ghost Gun from 1974.

[Monolith]

I forget how to post youtube links now. I'll give it a shot. This is a video of the Hasbro Ghost gun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE_cGncdf_I

[MonsterBaker666]

No, I saw that Ghost Gun before.  that's not what I had.  I clearly remember it being called a Ghost Projector.  It looks very similar to the Funlight, but had different discs that you could put in to project monster faces and ghost images.  In seeing the disc with the skull and other monster faces on it I remember having that disc, but another disc, with other monstrous and ghostly faces was my favorite disc, and I used to project that one a lot.  I used to use that disc and the color wheel (I liked the images in green) and would project the image on the walls in the basement of the house I grew up in.  Fun times. 

[Monolith]

No, I saw that Ghost Gun before.  that's not what I had.  I clearly remember it being called a Ghost Projector.  It looks very similar to the Funlight, but had different discs that you could put in to project monster faces and ghost images.  In seeing the disc with the skull and other monster faces on it I remember having that disc, but another disc, with other monstrous and ghostly faces was my favorite disc, and I used to project that one a lot.  I used to use that disc and the color wheel (I liked the images in green) and would project the image on the walls in the basement of the house I grew up in.  Fun times. 

Maybe it was the Funlight that you had because it came with other discs including one you could put things inside and one that had colored liquid inside so it would move around as you projected it on the wall. And you could combine the discs so you could combine the moving colors with the monster faces.

[Mike Scott]

I forget how to post youtube links now. I'll give it a shot. This is a video of the Hasbro Ghost gun...

Click the YT button and insert the URL.

[Monolith]

Thanks Mike!

How 'bout this for junk...

Kaiju Keychain by donald deveau, on Flickr