![]() 'Gotta look cool!' Max thought as he twisted the cap's peak round to the side. ![]() Trouble was, this was no ordinary baseball cap. " 'Max's Dad had left him his old baseball cap. The back of the Trapped in Skull Mountain box also served as its instruction manual, showcasing all of the little features, and telling us some backstory behind the horrors that await Mighty Max: ![]() It's staring directly at you as if to say, " Bring it." Of all the wonderful things about this set, I assure you I'm not exaggerating when I say the Guardian Crab is my favorite character from Skull Mountain. just look at it! That Guardian Crab is sooooo ready to tango. That's right, Skull Mountain came with a GIANT GUARDIAN GRAB!!! So, even if you managed to bypass the shark-infested waters, you'd have to deal with this crab. There's just so much going on here - from the lightning striking the evil skull lord and spooky eyeballs peering from its gaping maw drawbridge, to green slime dripping from a walkway and skull mountain blasting a fireball from its ocular cavity - it's just too perfect. If you ask me, the Skull Mountain illustration is legitimately on the same level of quality as the box art for Snake Mountain from Masters of the Universe. I won't lie - the insanely cool box art was a huge part in my breaking down and buying this playset when I was younger, so I had to make sure I purchased another one that came with the box if I was going to write an article about the playset. The largest of them all was called Mighty Max Trapped In Skull Mountain and it's absolutely gorgeous. Now, while Mighty Max was known for packing some awesome horrors into little compact cases, most people don't know that there were a few larger playsets as well. I honestly don't know how any horror toy collector could possibly not fall in love with this, and there were loads of other sets (such as the Horror Heads) just like it. Here's how it looks when fully opened up. And finally, we have the finger, which bends completely backwards and then splits open to reveal monstrous jaws. While the dead continue to rise in this creeping graveyard setting, there's a horrific red tree which opens up to reveal trapped souls and tombstones inside of it. One of the undead, with a slimy exposed spine, is reaching for the mortuary and realizes that the roof can open up to show another body and spider inside. Upon opening up the hand, you're treated to a visual smorgasbord of death, with skeletons, zombies and tortured souls abound. It's everything a horror fan could ever want in a toy, until you realize that what's inside the hand is even better! ![]() Looks cool enough from the outside, right? A severed, green zombie hand with exposed bone, stitches, yellow fingernails, and even a little maggot crawling on it. ![]() This is the Mighty Max Grips The Hand playset from the Doom Zones collection. So rather than just tell you about how nice they were, allow me to start things off by showing you one of my personal favorite Mighty Max toys: I'm sure you've all seen them at one time or another, but due to their compact size, it's easy to see how the killer details that go into each one could be overlooked. Basically, each miniature toy playset put this kid named Mighty Max (who always made me think of Commander Keen when I was younger) into precarious situations. Today, I want to talk about the highly underrated Mighty Max toyline. ![]()
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