You have to hand it to some genius at Mattel; once they’d hit on the brilliant consonant-swapping simplicity of the name, the Boglins story must’ve written itself. Essentially near-relatives of the Finger Fright family, these fist-powered fuckers sprung seemingly full-armoured from the ground and onto toy shelves back in the late ‘Eighties. Packed into caged boxes which doubled as display cases (replete with faux bent bars and plenty of “do not feed” warnings) Boglin lore borrowed quite heavily from that other mischievous monster hit of the era, Gremlins.