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This King Kong Tru-Dimension 3D Action Picture Kit by Colorforms is one of my absolute favorite items. I have yet to track down a painted and assembled version of this kit, but for now I am content with this sealed one. This is sort of like a paint by number kit, where you paint on […]

1976 was a glorious year to be a King Kong fan. Imagine being able to go down to the liquor store and grab one of these guys off the shelf… Let’s agree to file this one away under the “WTF” tag shall we? I honestly don’t know why I love this thing as much as […]

My previous post showed you the magnificent King Kong wax packs from 1976, and today I have the actual trading cards and stickers that were inside those packs. Behold! There are 55 cards in the set and seven stickers. Most of the King Kong trading cards have puzzle backs that make up the John Berkey […]

Mmmmm. 36-year old gum. To celebrate the 1976 Dino De Laurentiis King Kong movie, TOPPS released this series of trading cards. I’ll showcase the cards in a future post, but today it’s all about that glorious wax pack art.  Kong looks…contemplative? Sad? Bored? Tired? Awesome? Yes, awesome. Each pack held five cards and a sticker […]

Mitch M. has been my favorite vendor at the DC Big Flea and other local toy shows for a while, and he has been enjoying my KONGTOBER posts so much that he wanted to show off some of his own King Kong collection. Check out these beauties… Plush (vinyl face) Kong made in 1991 by […]

This 1970’s wind-up King Kong figure stands 3.75″ tall. Wind him up and he walks and spits fire! (Well, sparks, but that’s still pretty cool.) Toys like this one are the reason I get so much joy out of collecting King Kong items. Kong can be depicted in any manner–silly, strange, sympathetic, fierce–without harming the […]