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Collecting Monsters => Vintage Monster Toys => Topic started by: Monster Bob on December 11, 2013, 07:25:29 PM

Title: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: Monster Bob on December 11, 2013, 07:25:29 PM


Snow Globe...Water Globe...Monsters In A Bottle...whatever...

1970-80s Universal Studios Tour souvenier (not sure exact year)...Made In Hong Kong...very cool design, and for whatever reason, you don't see many of them. I assume available one season, because of scarcity. Featuring "Frank Sinatra" Dracula.


(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g107/backlotcharlie/3b78f9f6-812c-40b8-8c18-1c4db302ee52_zpse1e7dffe.jpg) (http://s54.photobucket.com/user/backlotcharlie/media/3b78f9f6-812c-40b8-8c18-1c4db302ee52_zpse1e7dffe.jpg.html)
Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: mjaycox on December 11, 2013, 08:01:20 PM
Way cool item.

My fave is Mummy.

But I don't get the Sinatra joke...
Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: Monster Bob on December 11, 2013, 08:17:03 PM

I don't know...the Dracula looks like an older Sinatra to me (and looks like Frank's toupe he's wearing).
Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: fmofmpls on December 11, 2013, 08:54:49 PM
Love surprises like this! Never seen or heard of one before. Thanks for sharing Bob!
Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: Mike Scott on December 11, 2013, 09:01:36 PM
Quote from: Monster Bob on December 11, 2013, 08:17:03 PM
I don't know...the Dracula looks like an older Sinatra to me (and looks like Frank's toupe he's wearing).

He's a dead ringer for old red eyes!
Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: mjaycox on December 11, 2013, 11:20:05 PM
Oh I see it now..

So Bob? Why do I suddenly get a vision of you as an old man looking into this snow globe and muttering "Roseblood" before letting it drop to the floor with a final gasp?

Matt
Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: Darkside1 on December 11, 2013, 11:54:18 PM
  I love the Drac image. A true gem of a piece. Thanks Bob.
Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: marsattacks666 on December 12, 2013, 04:41:07 AM
Very Nice. ;D
Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: Universal Steve on December 12, 2013, 12:32:05 PM
I have seen one before but I don't have one. Maybe someday. Very cool!
Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: Radioactive Rod Whitenack on December 12, 2013, 01:05:27 PM
That's really cool and very old school beautiful! I've never seen it before.
Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: Haunted hearse on December 12, 2013, 01:38:21 PM
I used to love that show, and still have a souvenier pin from that show.  It had to deal with Count Dracula battling the Hulk.  I said I loved the show, not that it wasn't stupid.  The stage set looked great., and lot's of atmosphere.
Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: Monster Bob on December 12, 2013, 04:12:33 PM
Quote from: mjaycox on December 11, 2013, 11:20:05 PM
Oh I see it now..

So Bob? Why do I suddenly get a vision of you as an old man looking into this snow globe and muttering "Roseblood" before letting it drop to the floor with a final gasp?

Matt


Rooosssseee Bloooooodddd...

*clump*



(Glad you all like it- I thought it was kinda keen.)

Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: Count_Zirock on December 12, 2013, 08:45:33 PM
Quote from: Monster Bob on December 12, 2013, 04:12:33 PM

Rooosssseee Bloooooodddd...

*clump*



(Glad you all like it- I thought it was kinda keen.)
That's actually a line uttered by Count Dracula in Kim Newman's "Dracula Cha Cha Cha: Anno Dracula 1959." I think the exact quote might be, "Rose's blood...."

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Title: Re: One of the coolest "vintage" Universal Monster snowglobes-CASTLE DRACULA
Post by: mjaycox on December 13, 2013, 10:20:43 PM
Quote from: Count_Zirock on December 12, 2013, 08:45:33 PM
That's actually a line uttered by Count Dracula in Kim Newman's "Dracula Cha Cha Cha: Anno Dracula 1959." I think the exact quote might be, "Rose's blood...."

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There IS isn't there? I had forgotten about that. That was a great series of books. I miss when Kim Newman was still a novelist. I thought "The Quorom" was one of the best "Deal with the Devil" stories of the last 50 years.

Count-- didn't Orson Welles even make an appearance in "Judgment of Tears: Anno Dracula"? (That was the title I read it under)

Great books... I should revisit them.