New Presidential Monsters are Coming
From the popular Mego-style line of mash-ups, meet “Martian Van Buren”…
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It’s a good pun, but it also indicates that the “A-list” of popular presidents to make into monster toys might be a short one. The company that already brought you Baracula, Zombush, Creature from the Watergate Lagoon, and the Phantom of the White House (JFK), are having to dig deeper, and even rehash some puns (FrankenFord is coming!).
Still, Jacksferatu and Yeti Roosevelt made me smile.
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Expanding the line beyond presidents, however, is only a good idea if you do it in timely fashion.
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Strictly as a toy, Romney the Robot is kinda cool. But who is going to buy one at this point? Ditto Algor an Inconvenient Assistant, Hillvira and Van Palin (well, Hillvira may become relevant again, but the others are unlikely to). Why not a Gingrinch Who Stole Christmas, Children of the McCain, or John Carrie? (Copyright issues, I know.)
For more Presidential Monsters photos, including a line of non-posable mini-monsters, check out Presidential Monsters on Facebook.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist