Marx Monsters

[Dr.Terror]

That's good to know!! I think those little stickers are pretty cool, that's the main reason i picked them up.

They were probably sold and made in Mexico originally before the molds got like they are now.  Think all stuff sold there officalky needs to be made and labeled as "mim".     Unlike the recent stuff I think someone in the states places custom orders for.  Ive never seen those with stickers.   These seem to be actual for Mexico products.   

[Hepcat]

here are rubber bugs in September 1962. [url=https://flic.kr/p/2o3kge8]https://flic.kr/p/2o3kge8[/url]

Wow, $42 per 1000! I imagine they would have been sold in dime vending machines. With a U.S. dime in 1962 having a silver content of 0.0723 of a troy ounce and the current price of silver being U.S.$22.80 per troy ounce, a dime then is equivalent to U.S.$1.65 today.

In terms of gum machine prizes, I don't immediately have a source for when fluorescent hi-bounce balls become common (the original one didn't hit the market until 1965)

Yes, I vaguely remember seeing the fluorescent hi-bounce balls in vending machines before I saw them packaged as rack toys. This would not have been before May 1966 though when I returned to London, Ontario from a boarding school in Kennebunkport, Maine. Who knows, they may have appeared earlier in the vending machines of a K-Mart, Woolco, Zellers, Towers or Fredericks discount department store in some far flung suburban mall but we lived quite close to the downtown core where banks of vending machines weren't common.

The real question though is why Marx didn't roll the Cinema Creature and Nutty Mad figures in glow-in-the-dark plastic during the 1960's. To me it seems that it should have been a natural. But this wasn't done until 1991 with the Uncle Milton reissues of the Movie Monster figures:

[Plastic Nebula]

They were probably sold and made in Mexico originally before the molds got like they are now.  Think all stuff sold there officalky needs to be made and labeled as "mim".     Unlike the recent stuff I think someone in the states places custom orders for.  Ive never seen those with stickers.   These seem to be actual for Mexico products.   

It would be interesting to know how many sets of molds are out there. I just got a set of Light Blue figures from a
guy that said he cast them 5 or 6 years ago and he is in California. I think you're right that most sellers are probably
getting them from Mexico. It would be really cool to own a set of the molds to display with the figures, but the
cost would probably be pretty steep if someone could be persuaded to sell them. Life goals!! LOL

[Hepcat]

Interesting! I'm wondering whether all the molds originated with Marx or whether even duplicate molds have been made since Marx disappeared?

[Doh!]

Do any of you guys have a preferred vendor for a new set of these? I snagged a set off of eBay in 2017 for $45 shipped. Now they're... more. I was telling a buddy of mine about them and he had no idea they existed! His birthday is in a couple of months so I think this would be a fun gift idea.

Thanks!

[Dr.Terror]

Do any of you guys have a preferred vendor for a new set of these? I snagged a set off of eBay in 2017 for $45 shipped. Now they're... more. I was telling a buddy of mine about them and he had no idea they existed! His birthday is in a couple of months so I think this would be a fun gift idea.

Thanks!

Cosmic Dracula

https://cosmicdracula.bigcartel.com/product/marx-monsters

[MonsterBaker666]

Wow, $42 per 1000! I imagine they would have been sold in dime vending machines. With a U.S. dime in 1962 having a silver content of 0.0723 of a troy ounce and the current price of silver being U.S.$22.80 per troy ounce, a dime then is equivalent to U.S.$1.65 today.

Yes, I vaguely remember seeing the fluorescent hi-bounce balls in vending machines before I saw them packaged as rack toys. This would not have been before May 1966 though when I returned to London, Ontario from a boarding school in Kennebunkport, Maine. Who knows, they may have appeared earlier in the vending machines of a K-Mart, Woolco, Zellers, Towers or Fredericks discount department store in some far flung suburban mall but we lived quite close to the downtown core where banks of vending machines weren't common.

The real question though is why Marx didn't roll the Cinema Creature and Nutty Mad figures in glow-in-the-dark plastic during the 1960's. To me it seems that it should have been a natural. But this wasn't done until 1991 with the Uncle Milton reissues of the Movie Monster figures:

I'd say the reason they weren't produced in glow in the dark plastic way back when was the cost.  When Aurora re-released their monster models with glow in the dark plastic, they only had some parts in glow plastic, due to the high cost of it. 

[Doh!]

Thanks for the tip, Dr. Terror! Higher than I was expecting, however. I guess I got off cheap when I bought mine.

[Dr.Terror]

This guy has them for about $20 a set.

Marx Toy Recasts. On facebook

https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077767870534&eav=AfZS_mZpzFxNsoBIPRJ-RUCFQjWstRLdzvLkUh0-7iYvcV0v3cKakq3OIjnxK89dmaw&fref=nf&paipv=0

[darkmonkeygod]

This guy has them for about $20 a set.

Marx Toy Recasts. On facebook

This is where Cosmic Dracula got the examples he's selling.

[Hepcat]

This guy has them for about $20 a set.

Marx Toy Recasts. On facebook

https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077767870534&eav=AfZS_mZpzFxNsoBIPRJ-RUCFQjWstRLdzvLkUh0-7iYvcV0v3cKakq3OIjnxK89dmaw&fref=nf&paipv=0

Is he also Toy Soldier Co?

Toy Soldier Co.

[Plastic Nebula]

Do any of you guys have a preferred vendor for a new set of these? I snagged a set off of eBay in 2017 for $45 shipped. Now they're... more. I was telling a buddy of mine about them and he had no idea they existed! His birthday is in a couple of months so I think this would be a fun gift idea.

Thanks!

I've bought some stuff from this guy on ebay. He has quite a few different colors and offers free shipping.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=nemo1635&store_name=classicrecasts&_oac=1&_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2562

[Plastic Nebula]

Interesting! I'm wondering whether all the molds originated with Marx or whether even duplicate molds have been made since Marx disappeared?

I never considered duplicate molds, but that sounds probable. The mysteries never end Hepcat!!
It would be nice if one of these producers would join the UMA and chime in with some insights.

[Doh!]

Thanks for the shopping tips, fellers! I'm going to look around after Christmas and see if there are any deals out there. My friend's birthday isn't for a couple of months so not a huge rush.

[Plastic Nebula]

I got a Light Blue set that was made about five years ago. No markings on the bottom, just empty circles.

Marx - Universal Monsters Set (Light Blue) by John Baxter, on Flickr