Freaky Fullback: A mutant football player.Snake Bait: A forked tongue-sporting gorgon (later depicted in the Just Play era as a monster being devoured by a snake).This Madball was originally named "Crack Head", but was later renamed "Bash Brain", due to the unpleasant connotations of crackhead as a slang term for a drug user.Īll Madballs toys were conceived in the early 1980s by the creative team at American Greetings Properties, which was formally named Those Characters From Cleveland, or TCFC for short: Ralph Shafer, George Chanter, Mark Spangler, Jim Elliott, Kim Hammeren and Vint Gonser. Bash Brain: A gory zombie head with a partially exposed brain.Skull Face: A skull with large eye sockets sporting tiny red eyes, a big set of teeth, and a partially exposed brain (which is depicted as a sentient being named Lobe in the Just Play era).Oculus Orbus: A bloodshot eyeball (later sporting a mouth in the Just Play era).Dust Brain: A mummy with rotting teeth and wrinkly teal skin.Horn Head: A horned cyclops with a nose ring (which is chained to its ear in the Art Asylum era).Aargh: A one-eyed blue-skinned Frankenstein monster-esque creature with stitching all over its face.Slobulus: A drooling green creature with one eye hanging out of its socket.Screamin' Meemie: A screaming baseball with a large tongue.Each series consisted of eight balls, as well as a collection of Super Madballs, a larger version of the original Madballs shaped like other sports balls, such as the American football-shaped "Touchdown Terror", the soccer ball-shaped "Goal Eater" and the basketball-shaped "Foul Shot". There were two series of the original Madballs collectible toys. The toys were rubber or foam collectible bouncing balls with grotesque faces and designs.
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