The company was known by toy collectors for their many Universal Monsters figures produced during the 1980s.

And it has brought them much closer to their plastic fixations than any toy collector should probably get.

The plot involves Woody getting stolen by a greedy toy collector named Al.

He might also have written toy collector, because in 1946 he began what is now a major collection of 3,000 antique and modern mechanical toys.

Series producer Seth Green is also an avid toy collector and long-time friend of the magazine.

For toy collectors, everything was cast iron then.

"I started out being a toy collector as a teen-ager in the mid-50's."

Mr. Levinthal has become - unwittingly, he says - a serious toy collector.

To this day the change remains a sore point with toy collectors.

His plan is successful until he falls off of Buster and gets stolen by a greedy toy collector named Al.