These little toys have arrived to my home today :)
They are part of a big box called "Exin Castillos: Monster Mansion". The Box include a castle (similar to Lego) and these Mini-Monsters: Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, 2 glow in the dark skeletons, The mummy and the torturer wheel. Also include a couple of gargoyles and a big skull door. This is a construction toy, as I said before, in the vein of Lego pieces.
Exin Castillos was a company very popular here in Spain. They begin in the years 60's, but this Monster Mansion is from the year's 90, actually is hard to find. There are another castle with Monsters called "Haunted house", but include ghosts only, no classics Monsters. And I know that there are several expanded pieces for my Monster Mansion that include figures of the Wolf Man, The witch and others that I not sure whose are.
The pics are funny :) Dracula in his coffin is the best. The coffin is inside a stairs that open to fright you :)
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Those are cool! I like that Bride!
Those are really neat. There are a lot of cool monster toys outside the USA, that is for sure.
digg that torture wheel. I'd love to see a pic of the box.
Oh that torture wheel is awesome!!
Very cool Morkai, very cool. Did you get the entire set? I'd like to see the box. And I agree, the torture wheel is great. Thanks!
The box is not too much cool. It looks very modern, but when I return to my home i take pics and upload here.
The torture wheel is cool, because if you turn it the tortured stretches. His body is of flexible rubber. I must obtein at least the other expansion of the game that include the Wolf Man figurinne.
Just found photos of the box etc, and I agree, nothing special about the packaging at all, but take a look at the Wolf man figure on the lower right of the package...
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii123/darkmonkeygod/4711076.jpg)
Looks like he might be patterned after the Marx figurine, no?
Quote from: darkmonkeygod on January 10, 2008, 06:10:22 AM
Just found photos of the box etc, and I agree, nothing special about the packaging at all, but take a look at the Wolf man figure on the lower right of the package...
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii123/darkmonkeygod/4711076.jpg)
Looks like he might be patterned after the Marx figurine, no?
Yes, this is the pack that I must get to add to my castle :) The Wolf Man figure is cool. The problem is that is a little expensive.
This is the complete box that I have, as you can see, nothing expectacular...
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/Morkai666/DSC00251.jpg)
I dunno. I'm digging that box. Kinda brings it all together for me. I'm assuming these are nowhere to be found here on US soil? I know I haven't seen them anywhere.
Quote from: fmofmpls on January 10, 2008, 03:56:00 PM
I dunno. I'm digging that box. Kinda brings it all together for me. I'm assuming these are nowhere to be found here on US soil? I know I haven't seen them anywhere.
If you are interested in this, I can try to get one, but are expensives and hard to find :(
I bet it was an expensive toy at retail. Those Lego castles are outrageously expensive.
This is the kind of playset that should have been made in the US during the "Monster Craze". Imagine the joy we would have had running our monsters through a haunted castle. And imagine the outrage that would have arisen with a feature like that Torture Wheel.