For all of those joining me for the first time, welcome to the Return of the 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown here at Branded in the 80s! I had a blast last year, so again I’m counting down 31 of my favorite monsters from the Real Ghostbusters cartoon. All of these monsters come straight from my vintage animation cel collection, and my wife and I tried our best to put them in a not-so-scary to really-freaking-creepy kind of order with the creepiest falling on All Hallows Eve.
We’re almost there folks. All Hallows Eve eve, or some such junk. It’s been a fun counting down these monsters for a second year and I wish I had more cels to stretch this out for a third year, but I guess I’ll just have to come up with something else to write about. Anyway, today’s penultimate monster is probably one of the better villains from the waning days of the Real Ghostbusters cartoon. By this time it was already re-branded Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters, and it was in store for a truly disappointing end. But before we got there we got a chance to sneak a peek at this Toyland demon from episode 126, Busters in Toyland…
Pretty gnarly looking, right? This demon was actually much more Gremlin-like in appearance (see the screen shot below). The crux of the episode revolves around Louis Tulley’s spoiled nephew who seems to have all toys in existence. Louis, trying to wow him on his birthday ends up buying some spectrally possessed action figures (one of which I shared earlier in the month), which kidnap his nephew and steal him away to Toyland. There a demon ruler tricks the boy into accepting the mantle of ruler so that he can be free and leave the realm. A fter the switch of power he reveals his true form, the crazy spiked demon wyrm you see above…
I was really happy to get my hands on this cel because it features Louis, one of the last “main” characters I wanted to have from the show.
Well, one last time I’ll make the call to come back tomorrow for another Real Ghostbusters monster animation cel as I complete the countdown towards my favorite character from the show!
Also, if you feel inclined, I would love everyone to spread the word about the Return of the 31 Days of Monsters countdown, so hit up those social networks and tell a friend (my twitter handle is smurfwreck, and I’m on the Facebook as well.) If you’d like to read more Halloween-y goodness, you can also click on the Halloween Archive link to the left (the banner with King Kong), as well as heading on over to the Countdown to Halloween to check out lists of a bunch of other sites participating in this year’s Halloween blogging event…
