My friend and I called this guy "Blaster" when I was a kid. He could tunnel through the ground, and had the power of "exploding". Later in a bookstore I spotted him on the title page of the first D&D book I ever looked at - the Monster Manual.
Originally shared by Wayne Rossi
Landshark!
Mrs. Malcommarm...
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ReplyDelete"No, I'm a dolphin ma'am."
Never underestimate the power of exploding...
ReplyDeleteI used to have this and a rust monster that I found in a department store bargain bin, probably about 1981 or 82. I picked them up because they looked like toy versions of the monsters from the Monster Manual. Years later I found out that these odd toys were the inspiration for those monsters.
ReplyDeleteI had them before I even knew what D&D was.
ReplyDeleteSame here. My mom bought a bag of weird critters in the mid-late 70's - two of which I later came to recognize after I bought the Monster Manual in 1981!
ReplyDeleteThe bulette, the owlbear, and the rust monster all came from that same bag of critters
ReplyDeleteThe Owlbear is vanishingly rare; I never saw it as a kid & only a few have ever been spotted in modern times.
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