#697 M.A.S.K. – Billboard Boom Alongside Dusty Hayes/Vacuum (1987)

Kenner offered both vehicles as well as playsets for this toyline, as well as these came inward boxes amongst the same design. There is 1 huge playset called Boulder Hill, which is the headquarters for the M.A.S.K. team, simply in that place are besides iii pocket-size playsets (this size or fifty-fifty smaller) that are besides worth commenting.

The pocket-size playsets are The Collector, Pit-Stop Catapult as well as Billboard Blast, all from serial 3 (1987).

 In this case, it is a billboard that hides a cannon as well as a missile launcher (with 2 big missiles), everything has house within of the pocket-size apartment box. The gear upward is quite simple, I intend vehicles are to a greater extent than interesting, as well as in all likelihood sold much ameliorate than these pocket-size playsets.

The figure included amongst the Billboard Blast is Dusty Hayes, inward a repaint (although amongst real like colours) of the figure that came amongst Gator (series 1). The mask is vacuum, a mask that “pretends to suck upward objectionable objets”.

FACTS as well as FIGURES:

• Name: BILLBOARD BLAST amongst DUSTY HAYES
• Toy Line: M.A.S.K. (Wave 3)
• Year: 1987
• Company: Kenner (U.S.A.)
• Size of the playset: Around xvi cm
• Size of the figures: 2½’’ or 6,5 cm

#894 Mighty Max - Shrunken Heads Aka Micro Heads (1993)

Some of the smallest Mighty Max sets were the Micro Heads. They are actually small, together with conduct maintain infinite for just i Mighty Max figure, although inward about cases it is variety of tricky to agree the figure within the case.

Each caput of these micro sets represents i of the well-known monsters or about recognizable horror icon: Dracula, the Mummy, Frankenstein, a skull, a zombie... what makes them really attractive to all horror fans. Each caput opens revealing a really small-scale scenery including the moster (casted) inward it. The Mighty Max figure that fits each develop generally has about accesory inward its hands that fits the subject of the adventure: a stake inward the Vampyre set, a spray tin inward Insect, pliers for Lobotix…

Another interesting characteristic is that the figure fits nearly milimetrically inward the case, it took me quite a spell to agree all figures inward their right positions, it powerfulness hold upward quite challenging. I haven’t constitute out how to agree the figure inward the end develop (Insect), if anyone knows…

Here are the 8 sets’ interiors. Note also the overnice combination of colours inward each develop together with altogether. There is a nifty production pattern behind this toyline.

VENOM

LOBOTIX

 MELTY

MUMMY

RAT

VAMPYRE

ROCK MONSTER

INSECT

FACTS together with FIGURES:

• Name: Venom, Lobotix, Melty, Mummy, Rat, Vampyre, Rock Monster Insect  (Shrunken Heads or Micro Heads)
• Toy Line: Mighty Max (wave 2)
• Year: 1993
• Company: Bluebird (Great Britain)
• Size of the playset: Around 3,5 cm long
• Size of the figures (Mighty Max): 1 cm