does anybody know about these guys and are they collectible? I have a few of the smaller 4 inch guys and I see a set of four on ebay for the big 14 inchers is 800.00 buy it now.
anybody know if these are that rare?
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I have all of these as well. $800 buy it now? Not in a million years. They retailed for $20 each and appear every so often on ebay. I have never seen them fetch over $40 a piece. Not super rare and not the greatest likeness (except for Wolf Man in my opinion).
Not at all rare or valuable. $800 is ridiculous.
Ditto! $200 ea. is insane!
If you really, really want one, right now, and someone is offering a NM one for $40, go ahead and buy it. Otherwise, wait awhile and get them for $25.
Creature looks much better with his arms up. Doesn't have that "And away we go!" look. :D
I have 3 of the little guys, didn't pay more than 20.00 for all 3.
but I did find the BIG CREATURE guy on ebay for just over 55.00 buy it now.
He is on his way, I have always like the creature and the big green guy looks pretty cool
I am assuming he is posable as the rest of the big ones seem to be.
I agree about the likeness of Wolfman, I have the small croucher and he looks right out of the movies.
the scene where he is on top of a crate in some street scene, might be FRankenstein vs. the Wolfman movie...
not sure.
HEY thanks everybody for saving me some bucks.
Quote from: hugohernandez on December 07, 2013, 02:35:43 PM
I am assuming he is posable as the rest of the big ones seem to be.
Creature's arms go all the way up. That's all the posing (up, down and anywhere in between) he does.
I own all 4 of the big ones. I bought them in seperate transactions and don't think I paid more than 60 bucks, total, for them. No tags, but still a great deal.
By the way, I dig the MOTHMAN avatar! Where is he from?
Quote from: Unknown Primate on December 07, 2013, 05:27:31 PM
I own all 4 of the big ones. I bought them in seperate transactions and don't think I paid more than 60 bucks, total, for them. No tags, but still a great deal.
By the way, I dig the MOTHMAN avatar! Where is he from?
HEY you are the first to comment and RECOGNIZE my beloved Marmit Mothman Japanese vinyl figure! circa 1990 made in japan.
I have several Japanese Crypto UFO related figures, some bigguns, like the Mothman, but I also have tiny in your hand ones of Mothman, and his infamous friend The Flatwoods Monster of Braxton County. West Virginia knows how to crank out those scary real life monsters. Thanks for noticing! check out my colleciton pic posted here.
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Wow! That's an awesome collection! The Flatwoods Monster and Mothman are two of my favorite cryptid/monster mysteries. Don't see much in the way of merchandise for them and I've never seen a cooler bunch than yours!
I'm gonna have to break down and invest in a couple of figures one of these days, LOL!
Thanks for sharing - very cool!
Hey Unknown Primate, they occasionally show up on ebay, but it is rare, I listed two of the flatwoods monsters on ebay right now, the smaller ones with the purple face and pink face. They both glow in the dark very well. Both are out of production and originally they were 90.00.
I think you can get the darker one that has the traditional coloring, but does not glow in the dark for the same price.
I sold my big brown mothman on ebay along with the big flatwoods monster with the traditional coloring last year.
there are some stores like Rotofugi in Chicago, who deal in Japanese Kaiju figures and they can turn you on to other stores that carry this stuff.
but be warned, once they go out of production, they are pretty hard to find and people who collect the mothman and flat woods monster rarely want to part with them.
I know I am hanging onto most of my collection and just thinning out a little.
grumbletoy is one website, fatsuma is another, just add dot coms to those and your best bet is Clawmarktoys, they seem to carry the ones that are out of production and they got me all my miniatures in my collection, most of them and their prices are the most reasonable.
keep me posted what you run across.
Unknown primate, there is a super duper rare little mothman at this link (clawmark toys website under crypto if this link doesn't work)
and the price is very right.
these little guys don't come along often, and when they do, they get snatched up, fits in your palm but super duper cool.
http://www.clawmarktoys.com/product_info.php?cPath=102&products_id=5034 (http://www.clawmarktoys.com/product_info.php?cPath=102&products_id=5034)
Thanks for the heads-up!
Nice site, by the way.
I saw 2 of the large size Frankensteins in a store the other day. They were $13 each and in good condition. I did not buy them. They are nice. However, without a Karloff or Strange likeness, I am usually not interested. Honestly, the 1980 Remco 5 inch action figure might be a better likeness. lol
thm
Quote from: Unknown Primate on December 09, 2013, 12:37:50 PM
Thanks for the heads-up!
Nice site, by the way.
Hope you go for him, he is pretty awesome.
long live the mothman!
I will post a pic of the big green creature when he gets here.
Quote from: Unknown Primate on December 09, 2013, 12:37:50 PM
Thanks for the heads-up!
Nice site, by the way.
HEY Unknown Primate, I just noticed your tag line "perhaps he wonders why.....?" DON"T TELL ME you are a Boggy Creek Fan too!!!!
I just found the BIG SIZED POSTER on a poster site and had it professionally linen backed. it is unusual as it is bigger than the common 1 sheet usually found on ebay. Its so big I got no place to hang it right now. you and I have a lot of the same interests.
that movie is buried deep in my psyche... sometimes fun... sometimes nightmares!!!
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Indeed! LOBC is one of my favorite "go-to" flicks - very near & dear (and fear) to my heart. Have you read THE BEAST OF BOGGY CREEK by Lyle Blackburn? Great book! Covers the entire history of The Fouke Monster. Blackburn is a damn good writer (and frontman for the band, "GHOULTOWN", too.)
That poster's freakin' cool!
HEY Unknown Primate, even your name alludes to the Hairy Bi-peds. YES, I loved Lyle's book and we have traded quite a few emails after I ordered and read his book. I also was able to get a 4 page pressbook release which shows not only my poster size but a boggy creek stand up cut out.
Lyle posted on his facebook if anybody had this stand up cut out, some guy did but he never did post his picture of it.
I think the guy just wanted some attention.
PS, I went to see LOBC at the theatre possibly 8 times in two weeks, own 2 vhs versions, both with different art covers, and of course, 2 dvd versions, one is super super clear and bright, best copy ever. I wrote an amazon review saying which dvd release is the best.
anyway if you want to read a book that will raise the hair on your neck, check out Stan Gordon's Silent Invasion.
whoa, that book gives me the frights every time i read it and I have read it cover to cover 3 times now. Not for the faint of Hairy Bi-peds hearts.
You are an Indiana boy like me. I hail from good ol' steel mill town of GARY.
home to Micheal Jackson Gary, sung in the movie The Music Man song GARY INDIANA!!!!
Hoosier buddy, I am!!!
Yep! You're about 90-100 miles north!
Quote from: Unknown Primate on December 10, 2013, 09:43:39 PM
Yep! You're about 90-100 miles north!
what? I thought Lafayette was close to the lake.
keep in touch, bro.
hope you decide on the mini mothman.
Unknown Primate, have to ask if you collect the Myth or Real cards?
circa 1994 card no. 2 is MOMO!!!
check out the illustration, complete with dog!!!! yup, I carry in my wallet at all times.
another book Creatures from the Edge covers the whole Momo experience.
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my mistake on book title, should be Creatures of the Outer Edge by Loren Coleman.
check it off if you want some difinitive research on the hairy cryptid phenomena that seems to have blossomed in the mid seventies... hence the big reception for LOBC.
Unknown Primate, just emailed Lyle and he told me he has the original Oil Painting of the Boggy Creek Poster.
waiting for him to send me a link.
meanwhile enjoy this pic of home made mothman ornament.
of course its called a Mothball. LOL.
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LOVE the Mothman ornament HH!! I am also a huge fan of crypto creatures, and live near Whitehall NY where Bigfoot is sighted regularly. We used to live really close to Whitehall and I am sure I saw the Big Guy one day watching me grill from the treeline about 1000 ft away.
Quote from: hugohernandez on December 10, 2013, 09:51:47 PM
what? I thought Lafayette was close to the lake.
Maybe you're thinking of LaPorte. We
have been to the Indiana Dunes, though.
Quote from: hugohernandez on December 11, 2013, 09:44:55 AM
Unknown Primate, have to ask if you collect the Myth or Real cards
another book Creatures from the Edge covers the whole Momo experience.
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Yes, on the cards - keep them in a baseball card binder! They're pretty neat!
Haven't read that particular book by Coleman, but I've read a few others of his. Really like his style. Also, enjoy some of the "high strangeness" writings of Keel and Nick Redfern.
That's really cool that you keep in touch with Blackburn.
Love GHOULTOWN, too.
The "Mothball" is freakin' awesome!
Quote from: RedKing on December 11, 2013, 06:36:14 PM
LOVE the Mothman ornament HH!! I am also a huge fan of crypto creatures, and live near Whitehall NY where Bigfoot is sighted regularly. We used to live really close to Whitehall and I am sure I saw the Big Guy one day watching me grill from the treeline about 1000 ft away.
Mike - You ARE a crypto creature!
Quote from: RedKing on December 11, 2013, 06:36:14 PM
LOVE the Mothman ornament HH!! I am also a huge fan of crypto creatures, and live near Whitehall NY where Bigfoot is sighted regularly. We used to live really close to Whitehall and I am sure I saw the Big Guy one day watching me grill from the treeline about 1000 ft away.
Hey thanks for the love on the Mothball. He is hanging on my vintage silver aluminum tree, will get a pic later.
don't know if you collect crypto figures, kinda hard to find. check out the link for Clawmarktoys dot com, they got a cool little miniature moth man, rare wine color edition. I got two of them already and I keep this boxed set at the office. the quarters taped to the boxed set are of course, WEST VIRGINIA, Pennsylvania and now I should get a NY as another area of high strangeness. I believe you when you say he was watching you. spooky for sure. You got any crypto creatures, would love to see them.
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Quote from: Unknown Primate on December 11, 2013, 11:28:18 PM
Maybe you're thinking of LaPorte. We have been to the Indiana Dunes, though.
Yes, on the cards - keep them in a baseball card binder! They're pretty neat!
Haven't read that particular book by Coleman, but I've read a few others of his. Really like his style. Also, enjoy some of the "high strangeness" writings of Keel and Nick Redfern.
That's really cool that you keep in touch with Blackburn. Love GHOULTOWN, too.
The "Mothball" is freakin' awesome!
Mike - You ARE a crypto creature!
UNknown Primate
I am thinking of La Porte, LOL.
Yeah the dunes are very nice and a perfect home for hairy cryptids to stay. I lived in Miller Indiana which is surrounded by the dunes and there is enuf scary stuff
going on in those dark woods at night from the local legend of "the guy in white levi's" named because people would see him roaming the high dunes at night and once he came down and pressed his face to the picture window on my friends family's house gawking at the teenage daughter, she turned and saw him and let out a bloody scream.... they never caught this guy but living right by those woods was a thrill for me, mostly.
lets keep this crypt page going!!!
show me your crypts!!
Unknown Primate, I got the original hardcover for Mothman Prophecies and I have read some other of the Keel books.
Also got a super rare copy of Visitors from Lanulus.
If you remember Woodrow Derenberger from Mothman Pro, this is his book.
Also got a copy of The Silver Bridge... all 1st editions.
just a little enthusiastic I guess.
Oh Lyle said he has not posted the pic yet, I asked him to let me know so I can post it here for all you crypts!
You should start a new thread featuring CRYPTID COLLECTIBLES. Everyone could showcase their "other" monsters! I'll donate - although my stuff is mostly "customized" figures I made.
Quote from: Unknown Primate on December 12, 2013, 05:54:39 PM
You should start a new thread featuring CRYPTID COLLECTIBLES. Everyone could showcase their "other" monsters! I'll donate - although my stuff is mostly "customized" figures I made.
sounds like a good idea but where would I start it? I don't think they have a vintage toys cryptids column..
suggestions?
plus would love to see your customized figures.
start a thread for us and I can reshow my collectibles!
Just started a new thread in MODERN MONSTER TOYS called Cryptid Collectibles. If it needs to be moved to another spot, I'll leave that to the Magnificent Monster Mods to make it right! Start posting!!
cool, get ready for the postings!