Post an Image of a Favourite Monster or Sci-Fi Collectible!

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[horrorhunter]

Ye olde Rotkin:

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[Ugly_Thing]

This guy!!   I got my first one on Christmas morning, 1979.  It was one HELL of a Christmas that year, I received three classic Mattel heavy hitters -- Krusher, Gre-Gory, and Suckerman!  My mom must have simply taken one look at the Sears Wishbook page, thought "huh, well I've got a monster kid", and bought me all three, ha!





"Monster!  Monster!  Show us your MIGHT!!"

[horrorhunter]

Here's Gre-Gory.



I always kicked myself for not getting one of these even though I was probably 20 at the time. 

Comic book ad:

[Ugly_Thing]

Here's Gre-Gory.



I always kicked myself for not getting one of these even though I was probably 20 at the time. 

Yeah man, an excellent toy.  He's a king among rubbery bats.  I tossed mine around for years, having him terrorize endless action figures...limbs & heads conveniently fit nicely in his claws & jaws.  Just imagine how he felt in my six-year-old hands.  The 'blood' in mine never seemed to dry up.  Quality product. 
My friend tossed a clear green Suckerman at one of the school windows SO hard that it spider cracked, lol, causing a chorus of audible gasps and obvious consequences.  Good times. 

Fun fact:  Mattel repurposed this 'blood bellows' gimmick several times over the course of a decade, using it in a Big Jim doll, Gre-Gory, Mosquitor, and who knows what else.
Remember unbridled ingenuity in the toy biz?  I sure do. 

[Ugly_Thing]

For those that might give a rat's ass, there are intended and obvious connections between the classic/legendary monsters -- and yes, our beloved Universal Monsters were a large influence -- and this subset of 'evil monster' figures from the 1980s Masters of the Universe line. 
All and then some are present:  Dracula/vampire, water creature, reanimated/zombie, werewolf/sasquatch, witch/sorceress, mummy, alien/mutant, robot, etc....
(It was revealed in a recently reprinted style guide that they WERE, in fact, the toy designers loving homage to the Universal Monsters.)



A figure they added to the line this year, based on designs from 1983!

[Hepcat]

HELLISH MONSTERS bagged monster playset figures with custom header card:



Back:

The header card artwork looks like your own. Am I right?

 

[Hepcat]

 

Those are originals, are they not?

 

[Hepcat]

 

Wow! Them fearsome Halloween squirrels not be often seen!

[horrorhunter]

The header card artwork looks like your own. Am I right?

 

Yes. I tried to do that in '60s cheap rack-toy style. Though I did base the monster on the header card front on a Frank Frazetta illustration of the creature from his legendary Werewolf story from Creepy #1, so there's quality in the illo I aped anyway. The rest is just cheezy monster stuff I dreamed up, and the back of the header card is crude Eerie Pubs type stuff that was common on '60s cheap monster rack toys. I made 13 of those, kept 2 and sold 9, then decided to keep the last 2 to sell at some future date. You would be surprised what some of those brought at eBay auction. And, yes, I was 100% truthful in my descriptions as them being custom toys based on '60s monster rack toys. I guess the header card art being limited to 13 made it more desirable for some bidders, and lots of collectors just love classic-style cheapass Monster Kid fare like we do. 

[Hepcat]

...and lots of collectors just love classic-style cheapass Monster Kid fare like we do. 

Sure! We cheapass Monster Kids just gotta love cheapass Monster Kid fare!

 

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Those are originals, are they not?
 

Yes'm.  All from the 1960s, early 1970s, except the "silver" pair (Beistle) 1930s. 

[Hepcat]

Here are scans of five more of my Eerie magazines: