Oh, the horror.
Oh, that Hook Horror.
I had no idea what I was looking at last week, a late-day visit to my local flea market, and there was this bizarre looking creature sitting in an open cabinet. He was half-buried under a mix of old wrestling figures, just enough visible to catch my eye. Something about the Hook Horror reminded me of those old Thundercats toys, which isn't too far off, considering he was produced by the same company, LJN. However, he doesn't hail from Thundera like Lion-O or Snarf, but instead from, uh, wherever it is that Dungeons & Dragons takes place.
I have no real fondness for the old D&D; never one for role-playing games in my youth. There are vague memories of watching the "classic" Dungeons & Dragons animated-series when it aired on Saturday mornings back in the '80s. But otherwise, I've never been a fan of sword-and-sorcery RPGS, all elves and chaotic-neutral allegiances.
If I'd known that the game was populated by weird, mish-mash monsters like Hook Horror, well, maybe I would have been tempted to give the game a try.
I bet he's amazing at dialing on a rotary telephone! Just sayin....
ReplyDeleteThere are some whacked-out wizards in the D&D worlds that make these monsters. Seriously, why else would you cross an owl and a bear? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owlbear)
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of Disney's Marsupilami. If I were to do a Google search, what could I expect to find?
ReplyDeleteIt was a later-era Disney Afternoon addition that I vaguely remember loving. We went to Disney World in '93, and one of the first souvenirs I picked up was a Marsupilami key-chain.
DeleteThat I wish I still owned...
Yeah, there are plenty of things we all wish we still had. For you its toys for me its my dignity.
Deletevery cool.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great thing for hanging clothes and scratching your back lol.
ReplyDeleteOh shit yeah... Besides hook horrors and owl bears you've got Umber Hulks and gelatinous cubes and grells and beholders and displacer beasts and rust monsters and bullettes and mind flayers and flumphs and Giant Space Hamsters and flail snails and giant vampire frogs and myconids and mustard jellies and boneless zombies. And not one of those monsters did I just make up on my own.
ReplyDeleteI want toys for each and every one of 'em. Especially giant vampire frogs.
DeleteLove these weird D&D creatures - I have the Dragon/Lion hybrid one, and even though I don't have space for more, I'm always tempted to hunt down this crazy bird as well.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying I'm a big D&D nerd, but that would be a Dragonne.
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Heh, you may not be saying it, but I think we all know what that drive to specify means... ;)
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