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My Pet Monster is a plush
Plush

Plush is a textile having a cut nap or pile the same as fustian or velvet.Originally the pile of plush consisted of mohair or worsted yarn, but now silk by itself or with a cotton backing is used for plush, the distinction from velvet being found in the longer and less dense pile of plush....
 doll
Doll

A doll is an object that represents a baby or other human being, but includes likenesses of animals and imaginary creatures. Dolls have been around since the dawn of human civilization, and have been fashioned from a vast array of materials, ranging from stone, clay, wood, bone, cloth and paper, to porcelain, china, rubber and plastic....
 first produced by American Greetings
American Greetings

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 in 1986. As one of the few plush dolls marketed to boys at the time, My Pet Monster would prove popular throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. The doll has blue fur, horns, and a fanged smile and is recognizable by its orange handcuffs
Handcuffs

Handcuffs are restraint devices designed to secure an individual's wrists close together. They comprise two halves, linked together by a Link chain, hinge or in the case of rigid cuffs, a bar....
. Several versions of the doll have been released ranging in size and other attributes. Other characters were also created with brightly colored fur and unorthodox names like Gwonk, Wogster, and Rark.






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My Pet Monster is a plush
Plush

Plush is a textile having a cut nap or pile the same as fustian or velvet.Originally the pile of plush consisted of mohair or worsted yarn, but now silk by itself or with a cotton backing is used for plush, the distinction from velvet being found in the longer and less dense pile of plush....
 doll
Doll

A doll is an object that represents a baby or other human being, but includes likenesses of animals and imaginary creatures. Dolls have been around since the dawn of human civilization, and have been fashioned from a vast array of materials, ranging from stone, clay, wood, bone, cloth and paper, to porcelain, china, rubber and plastic....
 first produced by American Greetings
American Greetings

American Greetings Corporation, Inc. is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Cleveland, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products , and electronic expressive content ....
 in 1986. As one of the few plush dolls marketed to boys at the time, My Pet Monster would prove popular throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. The doll has blue fur, horns, and a fanged smile and is recognizable by its orange handcuffs
Handcuffs

Handcuffs are restraint devices designed to secure an individual's wrists close together. They comprise two halves, linked together by a Link chain, hinge or in the case of rigid cuffs, a bar....
. Several versions of the doll have been released ranging in size and other attributes. Other characters were also created with brightly colored fur and unorthodox names like Gwonk, Wogster, and Rark. Their popularity allowed a wealth of merchandise including coloring book
Coloring book

A coloring book is a type of book containing line art for a reader to add color using crayons, colored pencils, marker pens, paint or other artistic media....
s, Golden Look-Look books, frame-tray puzzles
Jigsaw puzzle

A jigsaw puzzle is a Tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellation pieces.Each piece has a small part of a picture on it; when complete, a jigsaw puzzle produces a complete picture....
, and various other items.

The My Pet Monster franchise has offered a fond sense of nostalgia
Nostalgia

The term nostalgia describes a longing for the past, often in idealisation form. The word is made up of two Greek roots , to refer to "the pain a sick person feels because he wishes to return to his native home, and fears never to see it again"....
 for many children of the '80s, and in commemoration of this, a 22" tall, talking My Pet Monster doll was released by Toymax in 2001.

It spawned a direct to video film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 in 1986 about a boy who becomes the Pet Monster after being exposed to a statue and changes Incredible Hulk-style when hunger strikes, how a man tries to kidnap him for experimentation, and how his sister helps her brother out of this crisis.

Cartoon

My Pet Monster also spawned a children's cartoon series
Cartoon series

A cartoon series is a set of regularly presented animation television programs created or adapted for television broadcast with a common series title, usually related to one another....
 that ran for one season (1986 – 1987) on ABC, produced by Ellipse
Ellipse Programmé

Ellipse Programm? , is a France animation studio that produces television programs. It was founded in 1987.In February 2000 it merged with Expand SA, which was later purchased by Canal Plus in 2002....
 (France), Nelvana (Canada), and Hi Tops Video in association with Golden Books. The show follows Monster who lives with a boy named Max. When Monster wears his handcuffs, they turn him into a stuffed animal. Max often does this as a way to maintain the secret of Monster’s existence from others. Max's sister, Jill, and friend, Chuckie, are the only ones that know this secret. The two main adversaries in the show are Mr. Hinkle, a neighbor who always thinks Max is up to something, but isn’t quite sure what, and Beastur, a large monster who hates light and wants to bring Monster back to Monster Land.

On October 28, 2008, KaBoom! Entertainment released My Pet Monster- The Complete Series, featuring all 13 episodes, on DVD in Region 1 (Canada only) for the very first time.

DVD NameEp #Release Date
The Complete Series13 October 28, 2008


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