The History of Monster In My Pocket: Monsters! Wrestlers! Controversy! BTS!
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Monster in My Pocket is a media franchise developed by American company Morrison Entertainment Group or MEG Toys.
A sort of spiritual successor to M.U.S.C.L.E. Monster In My Pocket were also primarily tiny unpainted figures but there were also trading cards, battle cards, board games a Monster in My Pocket Nintendo game and an animated pilot.
There was also controversy regarding the eventual introduction of Pokemon which led to lawsuits and, more recently, a minor controversy regarding the South Korean band BTS.
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“As long as there have been kids, there have been pockets full of crap.” - Best opening line to a Toy Galaxy video ever!
I love all the gross out monster toys of the 80-90’s. Sadly muscle and monster in my pocket was not available in my area. But my ghost busters were able to fight beetle juice and the tales from the crypt toys.
That, honestly, sounds like something The Real Ghostbusters cartoon and/or the IDW Ghostbusters comic series would actually have done.
But, is. It. Canon?
First, God I love this channel
Wow, technically, the Pokemon of the 80s.
Monster in my pocket: How many can you catch?
Poket Monsters (Pokemon): Gotta catch 'em all!
Both have literally hundreds of monsters to collect, a handful of them wrere controversial and had a collectible trading card game.
What an odd coincidence.
I was JUST thinking that also!
When Pokémon was first on the news about that episode that triggered light-sensitive epilepsy, it was still being referred to as Pocket Monsters, and I legit thought this was what they were talking about
Woah! 😊
It's interesting that the (Japanese original) M.U.S.C.L.E. figures were meant to be painted by the kids. It never occurred to me to do that, but in retrospect it would have been really fun to collect and paint - not unlike D&D/TTRPG miniatures of today.
You can really spruce up a cheap American toy with minimal effort
I never knew that, I had some as kid and it was never thought of by me or any my friends or classmates
In the American ads, "And they're PINK!!!!" was the shocking exclamation of the offended dad. So, they were never encouraged or expected to be painted.
Painted them with markers back then owo
I didn't know that either but I did paint a few back then
These were HUGE in the early 90's in Mexico, they were part of a campaign by the candy company "Sonrics" under the name 'Monstruos del Bolsillo'. They were sold in a cardboard box that had an assortment of lollipops, bubblegum, pixie sticks, a figure, and a mini-comic or a collectible card.
Fascinating. Thx
y estan bien caros actualmente xd igual es tanta la pasión que hay muchos que hacen customs muy chidos como el bato que vende los mini volcanes
Venia a buscar un comentario que dijera esto! Fueron la neta en su tiempo 👌👍
Yup.
@@carlosaromero5111 ya se! y pensar que cada cajita eran solo 10 pesos!! D:
When I was a kid, I made my own miniatures wargame with Monsters in my Pocket. I played it on the paving bricks in my backyard. You'd pick a 25 point monster as your leader, and then a bunch of other point monsters, and fight by rolling a d6. If your monster was a larger point value, you got to add one to the roll and if you lost the roll your monster was killed. You played until the leader was killed. It was really simple, and I added more complexity as it went along, but it's really indicative of where my hobby tastes went. It's just a different type of small, plastic figures.
This reminds me of my brother. He had these toys and would create similar type of games with them.
that fact that this channel doesn't have over 1 million subscribers just goes to show how hard it is to reach that milestone. This channel f'n rocks.
I couldn’t agree more with your sentiments. Not to mention the amount of arduous work he puts into his videos is really unparalleled.
...and then you see a channel with videos like " Prank: I spent my family's life savings on sugar packets! (not clickbait)" get 4 million views in a day. Truly there is no justice.
It's because Toy Galaxy's target demo is people between the ages of 30 and 50 years old. If their content targeted 10 to 15 year old kids they would be much larger due to teens and preteens having way more time on their hands to sit around and watch internet videos all day.
It’ll get there. For now, let’s enjoy being here before everyone else was. 🙂
RolandRED you speak the truth!! Awesome channel and awesome content.
I was just talking to my kid about these! So many of his current toys seem to have a similar collectible blind-bag gimmick.
Collectible really works as a gimmick. Its not just buying the figures, it's about hunting, trading, and getting in touch with the community. Plus, there's the feeling of contentment of finishing the collection. And the blind-bag aspect adds the element of surprise to the collecting.
Blind bags and loot boxes. Gambling for kids!!
The ones I purchased all had a see through panel in the front of the box and you knew exactly what you were getting.
I was pulling these things out of the bargain bins at KB Toys and K&K Toys.
I don't think ever bought any of them at normal retail price.
Monster In My Pocket was one of the great obsessions of my childhood. I was, and still am, a sucker for blind bag gimics. I had Monster Mountain, the Monster In My Pocket board game, and a gallon ziplock bag filled with duplicates. I still remember getting #1, and genuinely carried it in my pocket into middle school.
The NES game is the longest lasting legacy of this toy-line I still have.
It’s a decent game and I still play it now and then. 👍
I knew about the game long before I realized there was a whole toy line around it. Although I think it briefly came back to relevance for fleeting moment because of the whole Pokemon/pocket monster thing.
But it very quickly slipped back into obscurity and the figures themselves are crazy expensive these days not to mention far harder to find. The modern ones look so blah too.
Completely generic, and why they made commotion when they relaunched back in '06.
I'm looking for this comment, their NES game is great co op game, simple game, easy to play, and fast paced
Nice! I still have the full comic set, for what little that's worth lol
I believe that was the origin of the double jump.
Monster in my pocket? Nahhh I'm just happy to see you.
MUSCLE toys were some of my favorite toys ever,and I would give a toe to get my collection back…by 1990, I was just holding on to Transformers and GI Joe. But I do remember when this line came out and it totally made me think about my Kinikumon toys…
Monster in my Pocket was one of those "ahead of their time" type of product, but also fallen into the slump of "quantity over quality". Trying to remember another spin off from that era, A Boy and his Blob. I recalled playing that game on the NES, thinking it was the same. Never did see the Monster in my Pocket game for the NES
Yup, same here.
By the time I was aware of the cool NES game prices were sky high and availability was nigh non-existent.
Thank goodness for emulation I guess.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu I thought it was funny finding a review on RUclips complaining it was too hard. It had a reputation for being easy at the time, in keeping with a game that comes with a toy. I beat it within the first few days, and never played it again without beating it (which I did upwards of thirty times), until I tried to play it on an emulator. All my Nintendo and Monster in My Pocket stuff (except the comics) went into storage when I went to graduate school and is still costing me $170 a month in rent.
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Yeah I've heard it's actually fairly easy but again we are talking about an NES game so that's kind of a relative term considering the NES was the console that gave us term "Nintendo hard". As for storage yeah I feel you there. I knew someone that had things in storage for roughly 15 years. It's better not to think about how much money you end up spending on it every year.
I learned about a lot of mythical creatures from these toys, making me feel very smart when I'd encounter them in other contexts.
Same. They were based on myths from around the world. Very informative for a very young kid who was into mythology and horror
Awesome 😊
I had exactly one of these as a kid. It came in a Shreddies box. It was Orobas, who they described as an "oracle."
As an adult, I discovered that he's actually a Great Prince of Hell in demonology. I can guarantee you if my mother had known that, she'd have thrown it out or burned it or something.
I worked with Orobas lol
In 1994, Monster in my Pocket was a huge thing in Mexico thanks to a candy brand named Sonrics. They had tons of promotions through the years like buy a box of candy and you get a collectible toy. So they had the one named Monstruos de Bolsillo and you got a comic, a trading card and a figurine on each candy box and the goal was to collect them all.
I live in Kentucky but my dad was a truck driver, he went to Mexico every 3 months. He sent me boxes of those sonrics toys. A few still survive in my garage lol
The monsters designs were amazing. I never saw any of those figures, but i got an sticker album in the 90s from this line called monster club and i was mesmerize by the cool art
😃 Loved the Spanish commercial! You guys should do that more often. I'd love to see how stuff was marketed around the world.
I collected the first set of MIMP specifically because they were based on “real” monsters and not just doodles an art team did to fill a toy line. And all though I already knew most of them, I researched the ones I didn’t know in this ancient form of google called an Encyclopedia.
I had no way at that time to know what a Wendigo, Johtun Troll or Spring-heeled Jack were, but my imagination filled the blanks XD
My brother and I would ask our father. We didn't have an encyclopedia so "look it up" would be searching in vain in the dictionary lol Redcap was the one that really confused me as a kid.
MIMP was the first time hearing about the Windigo.
This line hit all the 80s-90s feels: toys, board game, card game, video game, and cartoon! Loved this line.
I had Street Fighter variations of these that they gave out at Long John Silvers with the kids meals.
This is where my love of cryptid , fantasy and scifi comes from . I was unsure if anyone else remember thank you for this episode.
In Argentina Monster in My pocket came as a sticker album (figuritas) featuring the full colored (plus background) artwork, the same happened with madballs and garbage pail kids. later there was a re realease of the album in the 2000´s combined with the dinosaurs part.
I loved these as a kid, and being from the UK it meant I had some of the Dinos and many of the wrestlers. My all time favourite though was 'Spring Heeled Jack'. A take on a Victorian myth I loved it so much I bought the figure at a convention a few years ago and often keep him in my pocket as a source of nostalgia.
Love monsters in my pocket!
Same!
The most innuendo-laden toy name ever! 😄
That's because they never made a toy called "Lance in my pants."
@@MichaelMartin-qe5ye they don't need to...this one does just fine ;)
There was a ball in the 90s called "Ballzac". So, no.
I remeber playing the nes game as a kid getting bored of it then throwing in Castlevania or Zelda
The comic was weird but I remember really enjoying it (not when I was a kid, I looked it up a few years ago). Also, THANK YOU. Seeing the picture of the bug-themed Super Creepies awakened a vague memory, and it turns out they were a toy I had as a kid that I could never find out what they were! =D
I had so many of these things when I was a kid.
I somehow managed to hold onto the Werewolf and Hydra figures over the years but heaven knows what happened to the rest of them.
I had no idea the series had managed to remain as active as it did.
Must. Have. Tony. Tiger. Frostie. Monster. Coach....
Do Z-Bots count only as part of Micro Machines, or could you possibly do a whole video just on them? I'm curious, I would love to see one because that was my favorite toyline as a child.
YES!! DO A Z BOTS VIDEO!!!!
@@fakeshemp9599 Alright, I'm not the only one who loves Z-Bots. They were my favorite toyline not just because of the toys themselves, but they had the most awesome backstory for a toyline. The whole thing about the evil Voids being infected Z-Bots gave me some real food for thought as a 6 year old. The idea that every battle the Z-Bots had to fight their friend and brothers every battle just fueled my imagination. It gave the fights an underlying sense of tragedy. I even wondered if the infected Z-Bots could ever possibly be cured, or were they just mad dogs waiting to be put down. I always wondered why there was no cartoon for them, but as I got older I realized that might be too dark for a show made to sell toys.
My nostalgia just popped a monster in my pocket, wink wink, nudge nudge know what I mean?
As a horror nut even at a young age, I was OBSESSED with these things. This video is a real double edged sword, Dan: On the one hand, it's great to revisit these (and learn some new stuff!); on the other, you've just reminded me I want to collect them all again. 🤑🤪
I used to collect these while growing up in Peru. And yes they came in the "Motta Juguete" chocolate bars. Great memories. Thank you!!
I remember playing the bootleg game "Batman and Ratman." Didn't know what "Monsters in My Pocket" was too well at the time.
I had a bunch of these littered at the bottom of the toy box. I did have the "Ash" toy but lost it before I knew who he was.
Wait what ash figure
Ah, Monster in my Pocket - my favorite childhood toy named after a euphemism.
Also - Mad Balls! I loved those!! Forgot ALL about them. My mom threw out most of my toys when I was in high school, and then the rest when I went off to college. Back then, new toys were coming out every year, and you quickly forgot about the old ones.
I had tons of M.U.S.C.L.E. but no Monsters in my Pocket.
I always favored the goofy strange muscle men figures. Like the guy that looked like he was made out of bricks. And also the other dude who looked like he was made out of bricks, but stacked in the shape of an archway with a head. The primary figures that looked like wrestlers with Goofy cartoon expressions really just didn't pique my interest. I honestly think they kind of just... disappointed me. I would trade them away or give them away or throw them away or abandon them. I quit buying them when it seemed like they were not coming up with absurdly bizarre figures anymore
Still got a load somewhere, think I also completed the Frosties wrestler collection.
Monster in My Pocket had some pretty neat figures
I was gonna make a joke about my favorite poket monster being Charmander. But then i realized that's the least creative and most boring comment i would have ever left on youtube. So I left a comment calling lack of creativity out instead. Enjoy. I was a MUSCLE guy for sure. I didnt care about MIMP even a little. And I hate that acronym.
Mimp from Meg
I love Monster in my Pocket! Weirdly, despite all the monsters available, my Spring-Heeled Jack figure was my absolute favourite. Being 6 years old and telling the other kids that my favourite monster was Spring-Heeled Jack always got me some confused looks lol
Please do a videos on yugioh cards,pogs, & bop-it
I was only a fan for the first three mainline series. Then they became too ridiculous to take seriously, even for a toyline based on monsters aimed for kids.
Just looking at them from the pictures I gotta agree. The originals looked really cool the dinosaur and wrestler ones just didn't seem nearly as cool. Lost all that bit of edge it had.
If not for this video, I never would have known this poor franchise still existed and was trying to gain new ground.
I thought this whole thing fizzled out in the early 90s. Thanks Toy Galaxy for giving me the background info and new updates as always!
Man you guys are awesome.
The toy? Not so much. hahaha
Nice! My parents got me a ton of these in a garage sale when i was a kid, including kali and ganesha. I stuck them in a storage locker when i moved out, along with all my other toys and collectibles from my childhood until they decided to stop paying for storage without telling me and i lost them all. Some lucky person out there hit a jackpot full of toys, comics, cards, and vintage video games.... i still haven't forgiven them for that lol
The were so cool. Loved the dinosaurs
This needs a rebooted line. Loved it
I had the entire first series and the volcano wall display. I credit these for my interest in multi cultural folklore and cryptozoology.
I was WAY TO BUSY ……..PLAYING BAD DUDES!!!!WE HAVE TO SAVE THE PRESIDENT!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
You save Ronnie and he'll take you out for hamburgers. (The NES version ruined that)
My big brother and cousins LOVED muscle (And 80s kung fu and action movies) so when I who was a horror and slasher geek got monster in my pocket it was like a dream come true. I could have the wolfman fight that weird dude made out of cubes, or the gillman fight that weird dude made out of spheres.
The first sentence is a straight fact
Kids love to put all sorts of crap in their pockets. It's as hilarious as it is true.
Looking at their Twitter subscribers, Monsters in my Pocket- 269 followers; Pokémon- 7.7 million.
Oh shit - "Butter" really does sound like "Towering Catastrophe". Welp. I'm never gonna unhear that.
Great vid! I actually went into this thinking it was going to be about MUSCLE. I got my toys mixed up. I swear I got MUSCLE a figured in my Nestle Quick powder. Anyone else?
Also, did MUSCLE make a comeback in the early 2000s with a cartoon show around the time Ninja Turtles and Kirby had a Saturday morning cartoon show?
Terrific episode! Those toys look fantastic! I might have to look them up online. I always enjoy your content Dan! I also love your whacky humor!
Muscle was crazy huge where I lived at the time lol but it didn’t last long.
Too many other companies impinge on the boat.
Hasbro putting out their twist with Transformers “decoys” and what not.
I don’t remember the figures very much, but that NES game? Monster in my Pocket on the NES still haunts me.
Frustrating to play at times, and I never beat it (this was back when rental places only let you rent by the day, so we got hopped up on Jolt Cola and tried our hardest to beat the game before we had to take it back).
That it never fully died in the 90s surprised me. Cool though.
Man I had all of them!!!!!! Lol 😆 🤣 😂, wish I kept them unfortunately I had to get rid of them because I was moving house and I donated them to charity.
I get the feeling of boxes of these ended up at thrift and charity shops.
People somewhere made an absolute killing.
Him- “Hi. I’m Dan Lawson, and this is the history of the monster in my pocket.”
Me- HR!!! He’s doing it again!!!!
Inherited a gallon ziplock bag of Kinnikuman from my cousin when I was little. Still have it around somewhere.
These guys were my fist introductions to so many monsters and myths! It was such a fun line; I regret selling my collectiona few years ago. I'd have loved to have primed and painted some up!
Did anyone else have the problem of their elementary school banning all Garbage Pail Kids, muscle and various other questionable gross awesome toys? I felt like an outlaw every day. Such a rebel.
I've got a monster in my pocket that will squirtle your jigglypuff.
Ashamed to say, the first thing I ever stole. I'm sorry Woolworths. I hope my 99p loss didn't make you go broke.
Ahh yes, the best buzzword for American children in the 90's: Countache.
I admit it--I've always been partial to "Secret Countach Farts".
I was 'too old' (a late adolescent) for these but bought a set, in its own card-paper display, for a friend as a bit of a joke. Funny thing is, after that we agreed they were kinda cool and would admire the display hung on his wall, as we played games on his Amiga.
I used to buy the mexican "sonrics" candy box back in 94 to collect these figures, I still got all of them somewhere in a box.
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*exasperated sigh* No escape, no fucking escape...
What you thought there was some way to escape BTS and K-pop in general, I wish. I was pretty much sick of that the minute it became a thing.
I loved monster in my pocket I think it was the bright neon colors they were very stimulating to look at because of this. And I've always been interested in myths and legends, old fables etc. I was a bit too young to get into or understand muscle men but some of my friends had them I remember. I'm going on ebay right now!
The original "PokéMon"
They should of gone with the name Girimekhala instead of Ganesha just saying 😂
I actually have all 48 original monster figures and the full set of corresponding character cards.
A classic konami game was made as well
Awesome!
i still have a bunch of mine from when i was a little kid.
😄👍
Edit: Haa! 5:24 i have #1 in this picture but it's green instead of purple. It looks just like the monster on the front of 10:10 this box. Kinda makes me like it even more after all these years.
😅👍
Wow. That's more than a passing similarity to BTS' Butter
Thanks for that bit of trivia.
I liked M U S C L E, but at that age, I stopped playing with toys. All I wanted was a mountain bike.
Vampire and "The Monster"?
Just call him Frankenstein dang it!
Not sure if it still is but Frankenstein (or Frankenstein's monster whatever) was a trademark of universal which is probably why they didn't use the actual name.
Trash Bag Bunch was a good collectable toyline. They came in bags which hide the toy inside, and the bags dissolve in water to reveal which toy is inside. I only had the robot skeleton though but they looked cool.
These were huge in the UK and my childhood was obsessed with these. I remember the outrage over them using Hindu gods and goddesses as 'monsters', if I remember correctly they used quite a few other gods from other religions as monsters too
"Who are you calling a Cootie-Queen, you Lint Licker?!"
I believe that was from a gum commercial. The joke being it'll clean your mouth, get it.
Nostalgia hit me back hard on this one! In the 80’s in Brazil they were a big deal, they were a coca-cola promotional deal and I was able to collect the entire gen 1 along with the mountain. Good ole days!
“Pocket Monsters” So in a way, they were very close to creating Pokémon before Pokémon became a thing.
Dan you KNOW you had that Countach Trapper Keeper..
90s micro mini figures don't get enough attention in toy circles. Stuff like monsters in my pocket captivated the imagination on the cheap.
The fact that no one created a competing line of similar slug figures that looked like slugs is almost criminal. Then again, I can't imagine all figured being required to vaguely resemble Jabba the Hut would give this hypothetical concept much in the way of staying power.
i ADORE Monster in my Pocket, ive gotten most of them, but still missing a few after all these years.
I remember being disappointed that a new MIMP was announced sometime in the late 00's, maybe early '10's, and all that came out were the girl's Puppy and various other animal versions. That said, the one thing MIMP did right over M.U.S.C.L.E. WAS that it was allowed to have a Western mythos. There was no way Kinnikuman was going to be dubbed at the time, too much violence, two of the characters wore a Nazi uniform, and among other things, Kinnikuman's performance of Me Gumino Hito in an episode (song rights and... well, look up the bad "Rats & Star" to see what I'm talking about). But I don't see why the story was "look at all these gross things from space" when they could have just made a Shogun Warriors type comic boom series and named the characters. Giving a name to the weird creatures at least could have helped kids want to collect. Nope. Just M.U.S.C.L.E. Man and Terri-bull (unless you got the awful video game's instruction booklet that named like 4 more of them) And they should have made a deal with BanDai to get more molds for future waves. Kids would have loved the wrestler that looked like a Walkman.
So Dan, what's with the two creepy masks on the left-hand side?
The original poke mon when I reference this my friends don’t get what I’m referring to
Got way more then my recommended daily dose of fiber collecting those monsters from cereal.
Dan's beard looks like his chin is being hugged by a baby sloth. I can't unsee it.
I would love to see an episode on "Monsters of the Gridiron" cards. I still have a Emmitt Smith and "Lone-Star Sheriff "
I stopped watching to go listen to Monster in my pocket the OST
They should of included that zombie guy Jesus
Again just another top notch retrospect - still my fav in the biz right now and that's not bashing the fellows out there (quite the contrary, there are some other greats), but rather hailing the level of quality you do. As a kid, I just loved this line. Basically ANYTHING monsters, I got into. This, Mighty Max, Trash Bag Bunch, Ghostbusters, I was that kid with posters of Universal monsters in old 80's movies that you'd go to for help if you were attacked by a REAL monster. Hah! But then again I was an 80's and 90's kid with meant ....anything dinosaurs, aliens, space ships, ninjas, mutants, superheroes, robots, wrestlers, etc....I was ALSO into. Hah! We just ate it all up and I still love so much of it to this day.
"WRITTEN BY DWAYNE MCDUFFIE!"
Wait, WHUT?
M.U.S.C.L.E FTW!! I had at least a 64 pack