Monster Maker

Growing up my brother's friend Dan loved watching horror movies. Much like Rick Baker, he is a makeup effects expert and he loves his job. He's done the makeup for our various tv shows and movies. He did the makeup for Leno. Which I thought was brilliant. I looked very convincing in the Jay Leno makeup, everyone mistook me for the real Jay. Stan Winston specialised in robots/aliens type makeup, Tom Savini specialises in all the gory type of makeup and Rick Baker specialises in creature/monster makeup (as well as the ocassion age makeup)- our friend Dan specialises in all 3 of those. We love the makeup effects Rick Baker did for American Werewolf In London, that werewolf transformation scene was pure gold and one that will never be surpassed, also the makeup used for the "not-quite-dead" zombified victims of the main character's "carnivorus nocturnal activities" looked pretty cool as well. My older brother got made up as the not-quite-dead but still deteorating zombified Jack (Griffin Dune's character) once. He really loved it. We also loved the makeup Rick Baker did for the Nutty Professor. Eddie Murphy must have had a LOT of fun playing all those different characters. the Tim Burton version of Planet Of The Apes was also awesome. The makeup effects he did for that film were wonderful. I did a couple of photomanips of ourselves as POTA style apes, I even did one of Andria. The makeup for Thriller was really good especially the zombies and werecat Michael. Also the alien makeup effects for Men In Black/Men In Black 2 were very good, I like the "Cornflake Head" alien from that movie, the makeup was very good- and also the "Three Eye Guy" alien was pretty cool too- but the "Bird people" makeup was excellent. Jack Nicholson looked pretty cool as a werewolf in Wolf. I've seen what Rick's makeup designs for the upcoming remake of The Wolfman look like, and I think they look amazing.We love the Grinch the most, because the makeup was incredible in that film- nearly everyone in the cast was made up as a citizen of Whoville and Jim Carrey's grinch makeup was stunning. Jim looked really convincing as the grinch. You couldn't tell it was him underneath all that fake latex skin, prosphetics and green dyed yak hair. You know since I first saw that film in theatres I had ALWAYS wanted to be a grinch like the one in the film. I sometimes make my character in some of our fanfiction and animation half grinch. I always model my anthrogrinch characters in Robin Grinch and the Mangrinch comic series (which is also a tv show, cartoon, and movie series) on the Jim Carrey version of the grinch. I myself am a weregrinch now and my grinch form looks a lot like the grinch from the film except for the teeth which have cute fangs instead of being termite infested, I have Jim Carrey's regular voice instead of the Sean Connery accent, and I don't develop a taste for garbage or glass bottles- I still eat human food when i'm in grinch form.

Other recalled toys

Here are some other recalled toys:

• Monster Morpher 1.0- the original Monster Morpher toy, just like the original it had ALL of those available monster forms plus a few others including the Alien and Predator from Alien VS Predator, it worked just like the original, however something went wrong and the transformations into said monster form of choice were too scary, painful and traumatic- it got recalled after a friend of ours tested it out and underwent a painful transformation into Manbat from Batman. When we made the second one we toned all of the transformation sequences down so they wouldn't traumatise the user.
• Marvin the Mushabelly Mutant- this was a rather freaky mushabelly space mutant that you could attach different parts to, made a vampire-like hisssing sound when you squeezed it's tummy, got recalled after one of it's extra heads started sprouting spider-like legs and walked away like in John Carpenter's the Thing.
• Dead Ted the scare bear- the first ever Scare Bear, Dead Ted was a grey and black scare bear that looked kind of like one of the undead, had one eye that had popped out of it's socket, vampire-like fangs, claws, and various scars and bruises. Got recalled after it came to life and went on a zombie style rampage.
• Magic Mirror Love Tester- this toy was a mirror, you press a button and it tells you how well your love life is on a scale from Lovelorn Loser to Absolute Dreamboat. Got recalled after one of them caused a couple to break up on valentine's day.
• Jerkass Ladybug- one of the Not-So-Nice Ladybugs range of toys, this one often said rude and hurtful insults when you squeezed his hand. Got recalled after a friend of our dad's brought it into work and the toy insulted the poor guy's boss, the boss got so mad that he fired him for it.
• Exploding Bob- this fun toy was one that exploded whenever you pressed a button on his platform. He was a little space alien dressed in a daredevil type costume. Got recalled after the toy got set on fire.
• Little Jay 1-0 - the original Jay Leno Playtime Friend, was just like the one we have now except for one small problem- it was evil. It kept staring at us with glowing red eyes and asking us to be it's friends, we had it recalled after it turned me into an evil wereleno as a result of me not agreeing to play with it.