If there's one aspect of this site that I tend to neglect, it's a lot of the more current news and interesting tidbits that are heavily influenced by the 80s era craziness I typically expound upon.  It's no secret that in the past five or six years there's been a huge resurgence in the popularity of the toys, movies, and music of the eighties, but for the most part I've always felt that there are plenty of other sites that address this stuff better than I'd be able to, particularly with keeping timely updates and such.  Lately though there have been a handful of things hitting my radar that are so cool, I've had to flip my perspective and look forward.  With that in mind I thought I'd take a second today to point towards a really awesome independent toy project I stumbled upon yesterday (thanks to Jason at Open Your Toys) that should be exciting to all those kids who grew up collecting and trading M.U.S.C.L.E.s and Monster in My Pocket mini figures…

Created by a community of toy enthusiasts and artists, and spearheaded by the fine folks over at October Toys, these OMFG! (Outlandish Mini Figure Guys) are preparing to descend upon nostalgic toy collectors everywhere.  The first series features five outstanding creatures including the king of bone-daddys, Multiskull, a swampy southern man monster known as the Crawdad Kid, the frontier's worst nightmare, the Phantom Outhouse, a master of his own castle, King Castor, and a cryptid that would give the purple people eater a run for his money, Stroll.

This community toy jam has been gestating on the October Toys forums for the past four months or so and has culminated with the launch of a Kickstarter fundraising project to make these little guys a reality.  If you're the type of guy or gal that's interested in collectable vinyl figures, nostalgic relaunches (like the Transformers Classics and the 25th anniversary G.I. Joes), or you're still teary-eyed because your parents gave away all your M.U.S.C.L.E.s to the little brat down the street when you were off at college, then you might want to head on over to the OMFG! Kickstarter campaign and make a pledge today!