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When I was a kid, I would celebrate the holidays by setting up tiny villages with miniature people. We collected the Liberty Falls houses, which would drop weekly at Dillard's (what up, Tennessee mall kids) and then I'd add them to the growing neighborhood. The displays were positively covered in that fake, plastic snow, the kind that had a certain smell to them that I can't quite place (maybe just "plastic"). I would, of course, do the same for my action figures.
So, duh, of course I still do this as an adult — and a company like Super7 knows this exact bit of lore about me, specifically. I'm an easy mark, is what I'm saying. Super7 is less regimented by brand and more so by figure format, which means that, for instance, all of their ReAction figures look like they go together even if they're for the Beastie Boys and Thundercats. And the holidays are when I like to bring my toy lines together — and having them all in not only the same scale, but the same style makes this dream a reality.
Or, in the case of Halloween, this nightmare.
The ReAction+ line, which resurrects the old O-ring figure format made popular in the '80s by G.I. Joe, has grown to include more than just Joe. We now have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Back to the Future figures that line up well with the forces of Cobra. We also have the Universal Monsters — and if there are two franchises (G.I. Joe and the classic horror icons) more perfectly suited for each other, I can't name'em.
After acquiring all six of the Universal Monsters ReAction+ figures (with my own money — I'm not on any press lists for Super7, and this is me very much asking to be), I set out to create little monster movie vignettes. I paired each Universal Monster with the Cobra agent they'd be most likely to vibe with, and then set them up against a two-person tea of Joes. Four figures per scene, each telling the kind of story that you could absolutely see making it to Saturday mornings or matinees.
Enjoy them, without commentary. Just let the images fill your mind with pop culture mayhem.
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