New Monster Factfile

Welcome to another ghoulishly entertaining edition of Monster Factfile. In today's episode we will be telling all about the Superghoul from Michael Jackson's Ghosts




Description:

This breed of creature is a subspecies of demon known as Super Ghoul. In human form they tend to be spellcasters or necromancers. Most well known example of one who happens to be a spellcaster is the Maestro.









Appearance:

They are quite similar in appearance to a Buffy style vampire except they're much cooler looking and have pointed ears and claws. Could almost pass for a member of the Manhattan clan from Disney's Gargoyles if they had horns and wings and a tail. Some have yellow or orangish eyes while the more evil ones have red eyes or sometimes white ones that glow.







Habitat:



These kind of demons like to live in haunted mansions and other dark and scary places. In human form they often like to hang out with various different ghosts from the distant past.



Behaviour traits:



Despite their rather sinister looks, the superghoul is actually quite a likable creature. And often tend to be of the lawful good alignment like the Maestro - the only one of these that wasn't of this alignment was the Mayor after he got posessed and that's because he is of the lawful evil alignment. In human form said superghoul can often be very eccentric and charming and know a lot of magic tricks.







Powers:



These creatures possess a variety of unique supernatural powers when in human and in their natural ghoul form, in human form they possess supernatural magic abilities such as the ability to conjur up a family of ghosts to aid them, in ghoul form they posesss very keen senses, super strength and numerous other demon powers including possession. They are able to possess another person by simply flying into them. By posessing that person they are able to make them do anything - even dancing (like with the Mayor). They are also able to change their size.







Becoming One:



One of the many supernatural powers a super ghoul possess is the ability to transform a person into one of their kind by possessing them. Becoming one yourself might be a difficult task to do if you don't have already someone like MJ to show you how to do it.





Transforming:


The transformation is usually involuntarily and painful at first and usually happens after that person is possessed - as with the Mayor for instance. But eventually the person will get used to it. It's usually a very fun transformation to watch - if you wish to be one yourself you'll need someone like the Maestro to teach you

Innocent MJ

The late Michael Jackson was a musical visionary, there is no one quite like him.




Of all of his achievements, I find Ghosts to be one of his best.



Stan Winston worked with Michael Jackson on the short film Ghosts which was a really amazing halloween themed video. MJ played 5 characters in the movie.





The makeup in Ghosts was so incredible it was mind blowing. Now you may not know this but the hefty, middle aged white guy with glassess is MJ - and no i'm not joking. That IS Michael in makeup as the "Mayor" character.



Some people could not tell it was him - in fact some people on youtube say the mayor looks like Roger Ebert the film critic. In fact, in a review of "Ghosts" on the site Agony Booth the reviewer refers to the Mayor as "Mayor Ebert" - a nod to the fact that the 1998 Godzilla movie in which the mayor of the city was named Mayor Ebert and looked a lot like the film critic Roger Ebert. I wonder if Roger Ebert knows about that one.



According to Ritchie Alonzo (the guy who created the Mayor makeup) in the August 2009 issue of Makeup Artist Magazine - Michael went out as the "Mayor" character.



I also enjoyed the message the video had. I am one of the many people out there who believes that MJ is innocent and not a pedophile.



I was also slightly offended by the jokes Jay Leno made about him during the 2005 trial era. The worst was a phony interview with MJ which is actually just footage from the Living With Michael Jackson special with Jay inserted in Martin Bashir's place. Not only did Jay make Michael look like a fool in that fake interview but he also butchered one of Michael's best songs - and i' m talking about Billie Jean. He gets the lyrics wrong - well gets the "Billie Jean is not my lover" part right but he gets the part after that confused, he sings..."He's just a guy." Everyone knows the titular person of the song Billie Jean is a female NOT a male - apparently Leno doesn't know the lyrics properly.



Therefore, Leno knows nothing about MJ. Just be glad he's not doing any MJ jokes now - it would be in bad taste if he did - as you must never speak ill of the dead.



Also the story behind the song Billie Jean oddly enough is that there was a woman who accused MJ of being the father of one of her twins.



MJ is, was, and always will be an inspiration to musicians everywhere no matter what the media says about him.

Michael Jackson collectables

To honor the memory of the late King Of Pop we have some done some MJ toys.



Black Or White Magic Morphing Michael
This Transformers style action figure can be changed from Michael into a black panther and vice versa.

Thriller werecat MJ Mushabelly
This is a mushabelly version of Michael's werecat form from the Thriller music video- when you squeeze his tummy he makes cat-like noises such as hissing and purring.

Moonwalker Morphing Action Figure: Robo-Michael
This is another MJ transformers style figure, it changes from Michael into a superpowerful fighting robot and vice versa.


Moonwalker Morphing Action Figure: Spaceship Michael
This one changes from Michael into a cool flying spaceship and vice versa.

Moonwalker Morphing Action Figure: Turbo-Teen Michael
This one changes from Michael into a car and vice versa.



Ghosts cuddle buddies
These adorable cuddle buddies are of Michael's 5 different characters from the short film Ghosts which are Maestro, the Mayor, skeleton, superghoul, and ghoul mayor.


Spike the rabbit moonwalker plush
This adorable plush rabbit is Spike from Moonwalker. Spike talks when you squeeze his paw and he also sings.

Michael Jackson Interactive iFriend.
This is the MJ interactive iFriend, one of the many in the iFriends range of electronic plushes. It's just like the Jay Leno Playtime Friend except better, it has so many cool functions and it sings and dances. Comes with a Bubbles the chimp mini plush.

Neverland Valley playset
This is the perfect play area for your Michael Jackson iFriend. Here you can have him invite other toys such as beanie babies over to play with. It also comes with a special habitat for Bubbles.

Angel Michael Mini Plush
This Christmas put MJ on the top of your tree. This plush doll of Michael as an angel sings, talks, and tells stories- he also lights up in the dark and really flies.

You can get these toys at any toys, gifts or knick knack shops.

A Christmas Carol

This Christmas, the highly anticipated adaptation of Charles Dickens classic novel A Christmas Carol will be arriving in cinemas. Disney's A Christmas Carol is directed by Robert Zemekis and makes use of motion capture animation. In it Jim Carrey voices Scrooge and the 3 ghosts that haunt him. The Christmas Carol train tour is visiting various towns and cities across the country and last week it came by our place. It was amazing. We even managed to get a few snapshots of Jim. We're going to see that movie when it comes out.