Boglins

The original run of Boglins was released in 1987, coinciding with a "creatures" craze that included Ghoulies, Critters, and Gremlins. Boglins were goblin-themed hand puppets made of flexible rubber and could be manipulated to represent speech and facial expressions. Several series of large and small Boglins were released until 1994, with additional aquatic, Halloween, and baby themed Boglins released later into the line. Small solid 'Mini-Boglins' were also produced.

Unlike many toy lines of the 1980s there was no accompanying cartoon series or comic book for Boglins, with a backstory only mentioned in the "Bogologist Field Notes" on the back of the packaging. The notes establish the science of "Bogology" and state that the creatures came from a "swampy bog that time forgot" and are theorized to be a "missing link" to human personalities, with the first larger versions referred to under a Latin name of Boglinus Humungus. 

Smaller Boglins (a subspecies known as Boglinus minimus), named Squidge, Shlump, Shlurp, Sponk, Squawk and Squeel were also early releases into the line (in the UK these names were changed to Squit, Boink, Splatt, Blap, Klang, and Doink respectively). Lasting only two years in the United States, Boglins proved to be a bigger hit within the United Kingdom, distributed by the toy companies Ideal and Action GT. Other later Boglins included "Talking Boglins" (Glint and Kwirk), Aquatic-themed "Soggy Boglins" (Snish the Fish, Slogg the Frog and Slobster the Lobster), "Halloween Boglins" (Blobkin and Bog o' Bones), "Glow Boglins" (Klang, Doink and Squit), "Action Boglins" (Rasp, Gunge, Likk, Iball and Spit), "Bash'em Boglins" (Splat and Skwish), and re-releases of the original larger Boglins: Dwork, Flurp and Plunk, now including hair and "wiggly tongues". "Baby Boglins" were also produced, much smaller in size serving more as finger puppets as opposed to the full-sized hand puppets. These came inside of small plastic eggs and included Blap, Boink, Squit, Klang, Doink, Splat, Cratch, Flop, Lurp, Mork, Snot and Suk (Boink, Klang and Squit also came in "Baby Action Boglins" versions). Small hard-plastic "Caged" Boglins could also be found, as well as "Acrobat Boglins" made from a sticky elastomer.

Small Boglins

Baby Boglins

Kickstarter Boglins

After Kickstarter Boglins

These are the Boglins released after the Kickstarter, although the Dark Lords were released as a higher backing level for the Kickstarter, I bought them afterwards. I decided not to collect the Golden Horned Kings, Red Eyed Kings and the Aliens. 

COMING SOON

Mini Boglins

Mini Boglins were first released in 1991 by Ideal. They were solid PVC with no movable parts (similar to Monster in My Pocket and M.U.S.C.L.E.), and were sold in randomized blister packs of 3, 5, 10, or 20 figures. With over 100 distinct figures of varying color-schemes, Mini Boglins were usable in a Boglins-themed game, that assigned various ranks to the figures, and divided them into 12 different tribes. Many models featured "secret battle code symbols" with in-game utility that would appear after it was heated and left to cool. There were also "Slime Boglins" that were Mini Boglins sold in plastic toilets filled with toy slime, a Mini Boglins Swamp carry case that unfolded to resemble a small landscape, a mail-away Mini Boglins cage and an additional 13th Mini Boglins tribe, "The Cool Dudes", only released in packages of Kellog's Frosties in the UK. 

The Clumsies

The Freaks

The Greedies

The Jokers

The Rude Dudes

The Tough Guys

The Army Guys

The Disgustings

The Prehistorics

The Cool Dudes