Tomland Mummy card

[raycastile]

Actually, this came from neither the US nor the the UK, but instead from Argentina. And while that doesn't prove it's not the card that housed your figure, I think it makes it less likely. 

I could have sworn that your repro card had some pyramids in the background, which I actually think I prefer to the actual image.

I can't remember. I do know there was a Wolf Man auction, but have we seen the Frankenstein and Dracula?

There was a Frankenstein on ebay years ago.  As far as anyone in online collecting circles knows, an 8-inch Dracula has never surfaced.  Obviously, it exists, but one has never popped up on ebay or in any known collections.

[fmofmpls]

Obviously, it exists, but one has never popped up on ebay or in any known collections.

Until we actually see one, can we really be certain that it exists? Perhaps it never made it to the production line? Ya never know.

[raycastile]

Well, it's not like it really matters, anyway!

[fmofmpls]

Huh? Why not? To me it's right up there with the seven wonders of the world.

[raycastile]

I have psychomotrized the whereabouts of the Tomland Dracula.  My friends, there are exactly 17 on this small, fragile, blue sphere.

Six of them are in an unopened shipping carton of 24 Tomland glow monsters, sitting in a dank, dingy warehouse in Argentina.  It is a sad, lonely place, populated by sad, lonely people, trudging through the monotony of their miserable lives.

One of them is lying at the bottom of a toy chest in the basement of a Brazilian home, located in the east quadrant of an affluent suburb.

Another is lying atop a stack of old books in the attic of a 50-year-old house in Argentina.  The owner is dying of cancer.  It is a sad house.  Pity the poor souls who inhabit that dwelling.

Four of them are in an opened shipping case in England, forgotten in the attic of a former Tomland salesman.  His memories of selling toys to bring happiness to children are fading into oblivion, for he has Alzheimer's.

One is lying beneath a bed in an English home.  The child died in 1983.  The parents preserved his room all these years, leaving his playthings just as he left them, all those many years ago.

Two of them are in another UK home.  One is standing on a dresser.  The other is in a drawer.  The owner of the house has a brother.  When they were young, they had to have two of everything.  What one had, the other demanded.  So they each had a Dracula.  The one on the dresser belongs to the home owner.  The one in the drawer is his brother's.

One is in a small box in a plane, flying over the Atlantic, on its way to a new owner.  Its destiny is unknown.

The final one is in an acrylic case in the bedroom of a North American collector.  He appears to be on the west coast, perhaps California.  His house is filled with memorabilia.  He thinks he has a Lincoln Dracula.  He does not realize he has something much rarer.  He is a happy man, happiest when he is in the warm embrace of another man.

That is the present, my friends.  And the future.  And the past.  For the future, present and past are one.  God help all of us, in the future.

[raycastile]

Here is a roundup of all the Tomland glow monsters that have been sighted thus far.  I think most of these images are from ebay.


Glow Frankenstein



Glow Wolf Man



Glow Mummy



Glow Fly



And here are some mini-monsters.


Frankenstein



Dracula



Wolf Man



Dracula, Skeleton, Mummy, Frankenstein



I don't seem to have the mini Phantom on my computer.  He's not in the UMA gallery, either.  Somebody throw him up here.

[chrisnurse]

Oh man, that's brought back painful memories of a young idiot in 1991; The idiot was in art college, it was Halloween. There was a big party, they needed a Halloween sculpture. The idiot made the Halloween sculpture; fashioned from welded junk it took the form of Baron Samedi – the voodoo Gede. When the sculpture was finished, the idiot thought 'it needs plastic skeletons, lots of plastic skeletons'; so the idiot hit the pound shops and bought plastic skeletons. They were not enough, the idiot remembered his Tomland monster toys. The idiot proceeded to nail his Tomland skeleton to the sculpture and there it stayed. The sculpture is long gone, and the idiot was me.

[chrisnurse]

I don't seem to have the mini Phantom on my computer.  He's not in the UMA gallery, either.  Somebody throw him up here.

[darkmonkeygod]

I don't seem to have the mini Phantom on my computer.  He's not in the UMA gallery, either.  Somebody throw him up here.

A'ight. All from old auctions.



 

[chrisnurse]

I just photoshopped these fantasy pieces up. Man, I wish they were real

[fmofmpls]

I have psychomotrized the whereabouts of the Tomland Dracula.  My friends, there are exactly 17 on this small, fragile, blue sphere.

Wow. Your ability to channel the whereabouts of a toy is nothing short of amazing. You are a modern day Criswell. I will begin following up on all of these leads of yours. That is with the exception of the fellow in CA. who is happiest when he is in the warm embrace of another man. Homey don't play that game. Not even for a Tomland Dracula 



BREAKING NEWS! 17 Tomland Dracula figures located abroad by clairvoyant Castile! 

[chrisnurse]

This one's for Terry  
Warehouse find of rare Tomland mini-monsters discovered in Minneapolis.....

[fmofmpls]

This one's for Terry  
Warehouse find of rare Tomland mini-monsters discovered in Minneapolis.....

LOL! 

Now that's funny! Very funny!

[poseablemonster]

  PRICELESS!

[Roback]

Not that there's anything wrong with it.