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Three kids on a dare in a haunted mansion free a wish-granting phasm named Flabber, wish themselves into their favorite comic-book heroes, and get the comic's villains thrown in for free. Saban's bug-armored cousin of Power Rangers, with a house full of monsters as the sitcom half.
Bluebird's Polly Pocket for boys: pocket-sized playsets shaped like monster heads, each one snapping open on a tiny horror scene and a blond kid in a baseball cap. Doom Zones and Horror Heads — the whole appeal was that something nasty folded shut in your fist.
Little soft-plastic monsters, each carrying a point value so you knew exactly which ones outranked the rest. The first series ran to 48 of them, moulded in flat single colours — a whole mythology's worth of monsters, priced and sortable, small enough to hide in a fist.
Brendan Fraser with a revolver in each hand, Rachel Weisz waking a 3,000-year-old curse, and a face forming out of a wall of sand. Stephen Sommers turned Universal's 1932 monster into pure swashbuckling summer joy — Indiana Jones for a new generation, and it knew it.