Greetings Night Creatures.
Ok, so...
Slurpee...I grew up with these frozen concoctions. Frozen, slushie, flavored and yummy.
Comparable to Icees or Slush Puppies or heck, a watery snow cone.
The 7-11 company branded these drinks and provided them in many different collectable cups. By far the most famous were the baseball slurpee collections and of course the amazing Superhero Cups which covered both Marvel and DC and were really expansive across the Universes of these two company and using some really rare characters...(a Baron Zemo Slurpee Cup? Yup. The Inhumans? Uh-huh.
But I digress.
My favorite as a kid was The Joker cup. But closely behind that was the MONSTER Collection.
These Monsters were not officially licensed and featured generic monsters of myth and legend.
The Vampire, The Zombie, The Mummy, The Monster of the Moors, The Troll, The Headless Horseman, Medusa,
etc...
Here are some of the cups that I have (both from my childhood and collecting on Ebay)
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/ProfGriffin/P1010007.jpg)
Hydra, Golem, Zombie, Monster of the Moors (Headless Horseman and Roc in back)
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/ProfGriffin/P1010014.jpg)
Vampire and Mummy
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/ProfGriffin/P1010012.jpg)
Close up of Werewolf.
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/ProfGriffin/P1010013.jpg)
The backs of the cups had these great overviews of the monsters in a dire serious tone.
I drank many a slurpee out of these wonderful cups...they are hard plastic, brittle and shatter when dropped (or if it slips out of your hand when you are riding your bike)
These cups were a big part of my childhood...a childhood filled with monsters.
-Prof. Griffin
Those are crazy.
I love that they include THE GOLEM!
You mean the Frankin-Golem :)
Look at his head ! it's a Frank head if I ever saw one. :)
Wow. I had forgotten all about those! Thanks for posting the pics!
PB
I had the Headless Horseman and Zombie cups, and a third (for some reason I can't recall which it was, but I want to say The Werewolf, so let's pretend) and kept them nice until the Northridge earthquake in Jan of '94, when all my toy shelves, as well as everything else in our house, got demolished.
Actually, demolished is exaggerating, but a lot of my stuff got just pulverized... and the cups where shattered beneath a TV set that came from the bedroom across the hall (my house was a mile from the epicenter, and that TV must have shaken across the hall, seriously)... this was also when my Phantom model kit lost his hands.
But I remember those cups, and those childhood bikeriding summers, very fondly. It is a pleasure to see them again, thanks for the post.
Mike C.
Boy those were good times riding the 'ole bike up to the 7-11 and drinking a coke, cherry mix slurpee out of monster and superhero (and -yawn- baseball players). I have an almost complete set of the Monster cups. I'm missing one cup, but I don't remember offhand which one.
Quote from: ZOMBOPHOTO on February 14, 2008, 05:04:47 PM
Boy those were good times riding the 'ole bike up to the 7-11 and drinking a coke, cherry mix slurpee out of monster and superhero (and -yawn- baseball players). I have an almost complete set of the Monster cups. I'm missing one cup, but I don't remember offhand which one.
Same here! I used to take my lawn mowing money, ride my bike to 7-11 and buy comics and Slurpees. I had many of the Marvel Superhero cups (and still do). I also at one time had a huge window poster advertising the Marvel cups, but had to sell it in a time of need.
Sniff...
Mike
I have some of those but, didn't know they did a werewolf. Cool. HHW
I like reading the Bike-riding memories...
That's what a Slurpee was....something to enjoy on a bike, while riding through a beautiful summer day.
Regarding the superhero cups...they also had (and I really want to replace mine) cups of Marv Wolfman's , Tomb of Dracula, and Werewolf by Night...and Ploog's Monster of Frankenstein.
I think they even had a Brother Voodoo cup....
Don't know if they ever made a Simon 'Zombie' Garth cup.
Gosh, I don't remember those...are they mid-70's cups? Never saw them, I'm sure.
So I've figured out that I'm actually missing 3 of the cups from this series. The Golem, The Vampire and 1 other.
And I have extras of The Mummy and The Ghost Riders if anyone needs them.
Quote from: ZOMBOPHOTO on February 15, 2008, 02:31:49 PM
So I've figured out that I'm actually missing 3 of the cups from this series. The Golem, The Vampire and 1 other.
And I have extras of The Mummy and The Ghost Riders if anyone needs them.
LOL.
I actually am in need of a Ghost Riders Cup. If you haven't already passed it on...
I'll contact you off list.
I have never seen those before, fun!
Those are really cool. I never had any 7-11 stores around me so I never had 'em, but I would have flipped for them as a kid.
Quote from: poseablemonster on February 15, 2008, 08:46:01 PM
Those are really cool. I never had any 7-11 stores around me so I never had 'em, but I would have flipped for them as a kid.
We had one that was probably a mile from where I lived. Looking back, at the traffic of the street where it was located, and the distance from my house, there's no way I would let me kids ride their bikes alone to the same places and distances I did as a kid. Wonder why that is? Tougher times? Has the media just scared me more?
I went back to where I grew up, and the school I walked to when I was in 2nd to 4th grades: it was *far* from my house! It also went right past a woods! I look at that and wonder what the heck my folks were thinking!! I guess they figured there were lots of other kids walking the same route so it'd be safe.
Mike
Mike, I'm the same way with my kids. We rode our bikes all over town, late at night and all that. I would not let my kids do half the stuff I did. I am not sure if there are more creeps out there, or if we just get more exposure to the horrible news stories that sell the news? Either way, I'm way over-protective of my kids.
I think it's a product of the times we live in and the media just bombarding us with news of abductions, slayings, terrorism etc.
Not that these things have not increased since we were children...they have! School shootings were unheard of, and we could ride our bikes (without a helmet) for hours in the night. (or two blocks away to the 7-11 to get a slurpee)
Trick or Treating was a kid only function- thank you very much- as we ran the streets late into the night, like wild dogs...with no parents in the car safely behind us. Just us and the night.
Things are different now. Sadly, you can never go back.
These are the type of things that happen when you listen to a few dissatified people and the Goverment takes prayer out of schools and makes it a more or less crime to say Merry Christmas for fear of offending someone! When I was a kid if you came here from somewhere else you were the one that had to adjust not us! What the Hell happened????????? ???
Mister Horror. I feel the same way you do in many ways, BUT times have changed in the way we need to recognize everyone's liberty. The big problem that I have is when it comes at the expense of my own thoughts and beliefs. Somehow it's become politically incorrect to even wish someone a Merry CHRIST-mas. That steams me to no end. Take your Happy Holidays and stick it where the sun doesn't shine!
BTW, we are dancing dangerously on the edge of forum policies regarding politics and religion. And I'm not helping matters here either. Let's steer this thread back on topic before the army police come and take us away.
Oh man, I remember these. I loved the HEADLESS HORSEMAN ONE. Gone... Gone... Gone...
I know this is off topic, but what is that zombie figure on the left side of the first picture from?
I dont remember these at. Very cool and I really dig the werewolf cup.
Aww man! Type3Toys! Here I saw this thread thought that this meant that 7-11 had new monster cups! I was almost out the door... :(
Quote from: Victor Frankenstein on September 20, 2009, 09:58:06 AM
Aww man! Type3Toys! Here I saw this thread thought that this meant that 7-11 had new monster cups! I was almost out the door... :(
Same thing happened here.
I loved going to 7-11 and getting a slurpee and a monster or super hero cup. I remember when the monster cups first came to 7-11 and that was like nirvana. Thanks for the pics!
I used to love collecting these, thanks for these pictures and memories.
Yes..thanks for posting the pictures of the cups. Fond 7-11 summer memories.....I didn't ride a bike there, but enjoyed driving my 10 year old cousin there every few days to get Slurpee's. He collected the baseball medallions that were hidden in the outside bottom of the cup. Finally found our holy grail...Darryl Strawberry!
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j246/meyermadman/7-11Draculacup.jpg) one of my favorites in the Monster collection ;D
Quote from: Gzilla2000 on September 19, 2009, 10:12:07 PM
I know this is off topic, but what is that zombie figure on the left side of the first picture from?
Hey GZilla...
Sorry it's taken m e so long to respond. That 'zombie' is a figure from the toy line of the Steven Sommers MUMMY movie.
It's a mummy with a (strangely enough) pincher or grabber thingy poked in it's head.
Best of all...you can pull up his head all the way...exposing a long spine and watch his head slowly decend...mandible chattering all the way.
It's strange and I just couldn't help but get SOMETHING to represent the new Mummy films in my collection.
I even have one of each of the new monsters from Van Helsing. They hang in their protective cases...dusty and forlorn. A testiment to things that are better left alone.
Like messing with designs of classic monsters.
LOL
Prof. Griffin
I remember these cups quite well, paricularly the Marvel and DC versions, which fascinated me to no end...
Of the monsters, my favorite was a "swamp monster" of sorts ( a take-off of The Gill-Man, no doubt)...anyone remember that one? And if anyone has a photo of it, please post!
Quote from: Creature Features on September 28, 2009, 09:50:55 AM
I remember these cups quite well, paricularly the Marvel and DC versions, which fascinated me to no end...
Of the monsters, my favorite was a "swamp monster" of sorts ( a take-off of The Gill-Man, no doubt)...anyone remember that one? And if anyone has a photo of it, please post!
For your viewing Pleasure. ;D
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/hhwolfman/100_2020.jpg)
Quote from: hhwolfman on September 28, 2009, 10:20:41 AM
For your viewing Pleasure. ;D
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/hhwolfman/100_2020.jpg)
Thank you for making my day, Double H... :)
Quote from: ProfGriffin on September 27, 2009, 05:45:37 PM
Hey GZilla...
Sorry it's taken m e so long to respond. That 'zombie' is a figure from the toy line of the Steven Sommers MUMMY movie.
It's a mummy with a (strangely enough) pincher or grabber thingy poked in it's head.
Best of all...you can pull up his head all the way...exposing a long spine and watch his head slowly decend...mandible chattering all the way.
It's strange and I just couldn't help but get SOMETHING to represent the new Mummy films in my collection.
I even have one of each of the new monsters from Van Helsing. They hang in their protective cases...dusty and forlorn. A testiment to things that are better left alone.
Like messing with designs of classic monsters.
LOL
Prof. Griffin
Were The Mummy toys hard to find at the time? I knew they made them, but I don't remember ever seeing them in stores.
Quote from: marsattacks666 on September 21, 2009, 04:02:09 PM
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j246/meyermadman/7-11Draculacup.jpg) one of my favorites in the Monster collection ;D
Now that's what I like to see. Anyone know how many Marvel or DC monsters were on these cups back in the 70's? I seem to recall having a few of them. Sadly I actually reused them way too many times and the images pretty much faded out.
Here is a DC list:
(http://www.glassnews.com/images/dcchecklist.gif)
and the Marvel:
MARVEL 75 NARROW
* Angel
* Beast
* Black Bolt
* Black Knight
* Black Panther
* Black Widow
* Captain America
* Captain Marvel
* Clea
* Conan
* Crystal
* Cyclops
* Daredevil
* Doctor Doom
* Doc Savage
* Dr. Strange
* Ghost Rider
* Hawkeye
* Hercules
* Incredible Hulk (arms up)
* Incredible Hulk (arms down)
* Incredible Hulk (one arm up, one arm down)
* Invisible Girl
* Iron Fist
* Iron Man
* Kazar
* Killraven
* Kull
* Luke Cage, Powerman
* Man-Thing
* Medusa
* Mister Fantastic
* Nick Fury
* Night Hawk
* Nigh Rider
* Odin
* Quicksilver
* Red Sonja
* Silver Surfer
* Spiderman (crouching)
* Spiderman (moon background)
* Spiderman (both arms out)
* Super Stan
* Thing (both arms up)
* Thing (one arm up and one arm down)
* Thing (both arms down)
* Thundra
* Triton
* Valkryie
* Vision
* Warlock
* Watcher
* Yellowjacket
77 MARVEL
* Avengers (standing)
* Avengers vs Stranger
* Black Panther
* Black Widow
* Captain America and Falcon
* Captain America and Red Skull
* Captain Marvel
* Champions
* Conan
* Conan(with shield)
* Daredevil
* Doc Doom and Submariner
* Dr.Strange and Dormammu
* Dracula
* FF in negative zone
* FF running
* FF and Galactus
* Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom
* Hulk and Abomination
* Hulk and Wendigo
* Hulk with Jets
* Hulk through wall
* Howard the Duck
* Howard the Duck and sewer pipe
* Inhumans
* Iron Fist
* Iron Man and Daredevil
* Master of Kungfu
* Ms. Marvel
* Nova
* Red Sonja
* Silver Surfer and Mephisto
* Spiderman(crouching)
* Spiderman (with Sandman)
* Spiderman (with villians)
* Spiderman (webslinging)
* Thor
* Thor (with giants)
* Thor (on Rainbow bridge)
* Xmen
And the source of my lists. http://www.glassnews.com/711superlist.htm (http://www.glassnews.com/711superlist.htm)
Thanks for the info, Bogey!
Quote from: Creature Features on October 04, 2009, 11:05:43 AM
Thanks for the info, Bogey!
Yea,thanks man. That's one hell of a list. For whatever reason I kept getting the same 6 or 7 cups one summer.
Those are amazing! Especially the werewolf. I don't think I'd be able to bring myself to drink out of them though. I'd be afraid something would happen to them.
Quote from: Bogey on October 03, 2009, 10:40:54 AM
Here is a DC list:
(http://www.glassnews.com/images/dcchecklist.gif)
and the Marvel:
MARVEL 75 NARROW
* Angel
* Beast
* Black Bolt
* Black Knight
* Black Panther
* Black Widow
* Captain America
* Captain Marvel
* Clea
* Conan
* Crystal
* Cyclops
* Daredevil
* Doctor Doom
* Doc Savage
* Dr. Strange
* Ghost Rider
* Hawkeye
* Hercules
* Incredible Hulk (arms up)
* Incredible Hulk (arms down)
* Incredible Hulk (one arm up, one arm down)
* Invisible Girl
* Iron Fist
* Iron Man
* Kazar
* Killraven
* Kull
* Luke Cage, Powerman
* Man-Thing
* Medusa
* Mister Fantastic
* Nick Fury
* Night Hawk
* Nigh Rider
* Odin
* Quicksilver
* Red Sonja
* Silver Surfer
* Spiderman (crouching)
* Spiderman (moon background)
* Spiderman (both arms out)
* Super Stan
* Thing (both arms up)
* Thing (one arm up and one arm down)
* Thing (both arms down)
* Thundra
* Triton
* Valkryie
* Vision
* Warlock
* Watcher
* Yellowjacket
77 MARVEL
* Avengers (standing)
* Avengers vs Stranger
* Black Panther
* Black Widow
* Captain America and Falcon
* Captain America and Red Skull
* Captain Marvel
* Champions
* Conan
* Conan(with shield)
* Daredevil
* Doc Doom and Submariner
* Dr.Strange and Dormammu
* Dracula
* FF in negative zone
* FF running
* FF and Galactus
* Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom
* Hulk and Abomination
* Hulk and Wendigo
* Hulk with Jets
* Hulk through wall
* Howard the Duck
* Howard the Duck and sewer pipe
* Inhumans
* Iron Fist
* Iron Man and Daredevil
* Master of Kungfu
* Ms. Marvel
* Nova
* Red Sonja
* Silver Surfer and Mephisto
* Spiderman(crouching)
* Spiderman (with Sandman)
* Spiderman (with villians)
* Spiderman (webslinging)
* Thor
* Thor (with giants)
* Thor (on Rainbow bridge)
* Xmen
And the source of my lists. http://www.glassnews.com/711superlist.htm (http://www.glassnews.com/711superlist.htm)
Wow, never knew there were that many. That is so cool.
Quote from: marsattacks666 on October 04, 2009, 06:40:41 PM
Wow, never knew there were that many. That is so cool.
Now,go and try to find them all...in NICE condition. ;)
I tried once. Had 30 or so....really looked nice on the shelves., especially the Marvel ones. But like many collections I sold them along with my comic collection and started a new one....monsters. ;D
Quote from: Wicked Lester on October 04, 2009, 08:13:59 PM
Now,go and try to find them all...in NICE condition. ;)
Impossible, I bet? On occasion I see some on eBAY. But, very few.
Quote from: Wicked Lester on October 03, 2009, 10:16:07 AM
Now that's what I like to see. Anyone know how many Marvel or DC monsters were on these cups back in the 70's? I seem to recall having a few of them. Sadly I actually reused them way too many times and the images pretty much faded out.
I like this cup, I want one!
Quote from: marsattacks666 on October 04, 2009, 09:08:15 PM
Impossible, I bet? On occasion I see some on eBAY. But, very few.
It can be done, I believe. The problem I ran into was that I had to start buying a lot of 5-6 to get one or two I needed. Then there was the condition problem. They have something called a ring line that is caused by just keeping them stacked over years. If you could look past this, then you may put together a decent set. There were a number of these that I never saw in the two years or so I collected, but it would be a collection that you would have to do a search every few days. However, even if you do not complete a set, a partial set is pretty stinking cool.
Quote from: Bogey on October 04, 2009, 09:26:19 PM
It can be done, I believe. The problem I ran into was that I had to start buying a lot of 5-6 to get one or two I needed. Then there was the condition problem. They have something called a ring line that is caused by just keeping them stacked over years. If you could look past this, then you may put together a decent set. There were a number of these that I never saw in the two years or so I collected, but it would be a collection that you would have to do a search every few days. However, even if you do not complete a set, a partial set is pretty stinking cool.
Condition is a factor. The Dracula cup I purchased(posted picture above)I was fortunate, no cracks, lines, fading or yellow/aging. The previous owner took really nice of the cup, and so am I. I couldn't believe when I first received the Dracula cup, what splendid/amazing condition. Like the 7-11 cup was never used, or maybe the cup went through a time-warp? Lol!!!! Oops!!!! Did just start another thread? "Time-warps and vintage toys"
Quote from: marsattacks666 on October 04, 2009, 09:48:43 PM
Condition is a factor. The Dracula cup I purchased(posted picture above)I was fortunate, no cracks, lines, fading or yellow/aging. The previous owner took really nice of the cup, and so am I. I couldn't believe when I first received the Dracula cup, what splendid/amazing condition. Like the 7-11 cup was never used, or maybe the cup went through a time-warp? Lol!!!! Oops!!!! Did just start another thread? "Time-warps and vintage toys"
The Drac one is sweet! Most of mine were like that (save the ring). The few DC I had seemed to be more problematic with condition. Maybe they came out the earliest so were older? Plus they seemed to be less colorful in the sense that they used, well, less colors and the transfers seemed to be not as well done. My favorite were the first Marvel ones like your Drac. I also snapped up some baseball ones and still have them around here somewhere. Either way, it would be fun to get another one and head into a 7-11 and ask for a refill! :)
Quote from: Bogey on October 04, 2009, 11:42:47 PM
The Drac one is sweet! Most of mine were like that (save the ring). The few DC I had seemed to be more problematic with condition. Maybe they came out the earliest so were older? Plus they seemed to be less colorful in the sense that they used, well, less colors and the transfers seemed to be not as well done. My favorite were the first Marvel ones like your Drac. I also snapped up some baseball ones and still have them around here somewhere. Either way, it would be fun to get another one and head into a 7-11 and ask for a refill! :)
That
would be cool....7-11 probably will still honor the refill.
Cool thread...I still have several of the monster cups from when I was a kid, and in decent condition. I have Swamp Creature, Ghost Riders, Roc, Cave Thing, Minotaur, Dragon, Giant Squid, and Troll. I would love to find the rest of them, I know I had almost all of them but as stated earlier, they are very fragile. Does anyone have a list of the complete collection?
What I don't understand that if everything is retro....Why can't Slurpee and Marvel and DC come together and make these again? Not the ultra slick ones like the current Ironman 2 cups but go vintage baby! These cups put Slurpee on the map. They really need to do a commemorative line. Also HOW can one own a 7-11 and NOT have a Slurpee machine. There are 7-11's ALL over Mexico and not one Slurpee machine. Mexicans do not understand the Slurpee. It's a tragedy!
Thankfully stopping for Slurpees (especially during the summer months) is a tradition with us.
We have a pretty good collection of the modern slurpee cups too...based on the new hot summer tentpole movies.
While my 1970's Monster Slurpee cups are a source of pride...and the marvel and DC cups make me weep with joyful memories, I do like the modern lenticular slurpee cups.
We have Superman Returns, GI Joe, Transformers, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man (1 & 2) Wolverine...
It's a fun tradition and Edward and I really love it. It does harken back to the good old days, but just not on bikes.
Although I bet we could ride our bikes to the neighborhood 7-11.
Slurpee time!!!
I really loved those too, Was there swamp monster in the set, or am I remembering a "Man Thing" cup?
Quote from: shiverbones on May 13, 2010, 04:27:01 PM
....or am I remembering a "Man Thing" cup?
Isn't that what baseball catchers wear?
I drank a lot of Slurpees to get all those comic book cups when I was a kid. Sold 'em a long time ago....
I remember the cups well! My neighbor friend across the street had more than I did so
I was a little jealous.
Clint Eastwood has a movie called 'The Gauntlet' in which there is a scene near
a 7/11. If you pay close attention, you can actually see part of a sign on the store
advertising the monster cups! Check it out.
Quote from: okiimatsu on June 18, 2010, 12:23:15 AM
I remember the cups well! My neighbor friend across the street had more than I did so
I was a little jealous.
Clint Eastwood has a movie called 'The Gauntlet' in which there is a scene near
a 7/11. If you pay close attention, you can actually see part of a sign on the store
advertising the monster cups! Check it out.
Now that
is cool.....and one of my favorite Clint E. movies of all time.
Quote from: okiimatsu on June 18, 2010, 12:23:15 AM
Clint Eastwood has a movie called 'The Gauntlet' in which there is a scene near
a 7/11. If you pay close attention, you can actually see part of a sign on the store
advertising the monster cups! Check it out.
I did not know that, thanks. Will be looking for it soon!
Oh man seeing those Slurpie cups brings back memories for me driving my mom crazy to buy me a slurpie in the monster cup and then nagging her to get me a famous monster mag to go with it ;D
Quote from: hhwolfman on September 28, 2009, 10:20:41 AM
For your viewing Pleasure. ;D
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/hhwolfman/100_2020.jpg)
I am currently locating many of these 7-11 cups. I was lucky enough to have many of these cool cups aa kid. 7-11s were a plenty, in my neck of the woods.
Quote from: Scary Terry on May 13, 2010, 05:29:33 PMI drank a lot of Slurpees to get all those comic book cups when I was a kid. Sold 'em a long time ago....
Bad mistake!
:o
Quote from: marsattacks666 on June 27, 2013, 01:03:32 PM7-11s were a plenty, in my neck of the woods.
The number of 7-11s in the Toronto-London area seems to have dropped in the last decade. The one close to my house closed five years ago so it's become more difficult for me to partake of Slurpees on a hot day.
:(
Thanks for this great thread in slurpee monster cups! It motivated me to start collecting these cups again!
My experience was like most. I also mowed laws and saved up enough money to ride from my grandparents house in the summer to 7-11 to buy a monster cup slurpee and some comics. Great memories. I cam still remember the hot summer and coming back with one of these cool cups. I think I had a lemonlime slurpee and one of those yeti or minotaur cups. Sippin on that cool drink in the heat of the summer and looking at that creepy cup monster staring back at me......wow, great memories. Kids were easy to please back them.
On the dates for the monster cups? I remember buying one around 1973 or 1974. It might be later. But I feel like these cups like many of the great toys came out before 1976. After that year I think everything changed as after 1975 I dont remember any of the unique monster candies and stuff we used to have 1970-1974. Again, everything sold was sports of comic book promotion, which I never liked. The great age of candy and monsters was 1968-1974. After that it was never the same.
Today everything is over-commercialized and nothing gets printed or made by artists anymore unless its to promote a comic character in a movie. Sad. Thats why i love these cups....they were made by artists. Those times will never come again.
Last comment.....as a father, I too would NEVER let my young son walk or ride to our 7-11 alone. Why? Thats a complex question. Some blame the government, others the media. But I have done some research on this. It turns out per capita murder rates, violence, drugs and the sexual revolution peaked in 1981 and then again in the mid 1990's. Society today is much less violent. Young people today remind me of the adults I briefly remember before the Baby Boomer drug culture. In 1970 America was a much less violent place and my parents used to leave the screen door open in the summers. By 1976 America was infested with drugs and sex and the violence of the baby Boomers. Im not attacking a generation, but they really created the drug and violent society that spawned serial killings, violence in tvs and in society, and the drug culture we all suffered from. The people I remember being around as a kid in 1970 were drug-free. And kind. The young hippy and drug culture that came later from the 60's were very different. You couldnt go anywhere as a kid in 1980 and not see drugs and smoking on the street. Its was a dark time. So I blame that generation.
Lets findly remember the early 70's as a nice quiet time for kids before the dark period that came later. It will never come again. We should all hope the next generations try and recreate a safer America for their kids like we got to experience before the Boomers destroyed it.
Welcome to the UMA, monsterboy22 !
Moderators ... can't we keep discussions about monster toys?
Quote from: billyatom on January 24, 2015, 07:49:03 PM
Moderators ... can't we keep discussions about monster toys?
Yes we can. Anyone not familiar with the board etiquette can have a look at this thread.
http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=4.0 (http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=4.0)
Quote from: monsterboy22 on January 23, 2015, 01:41:02 PMLast comment.....as a father, I too would NEVER let my young son walk or ride to our 7-11 alone. Why? Thats a complex question. Some blame the government, others the media.
Yeah well I'm a Boomer and I blame overprotective helicopter Boomer and subsequent parenting for why kids have been coddled and haven't been allowed to be kids since the seventies(?). That's not the way either I nor other kids were raised. You are the one trying to deflect the blame for your own hysterical over-parenting, but you and you alone are responsible for your own actions. Stop trying to blame others. It's all on you.
>:(
Quote from: billyatom on January 24, 2015, 07:49:03 PM
Moderators ... can't we keep discussions about monster toys?
This thread was never about toys....it was about cups (i.e., memorabilia)! :o Therefore it's been in the wrong section from the day one so I say all out anarchy in this thread is A-ok. >:D
Quote from: zombiehorror on January 28, 2015, 12:03:07 PM
This thread was never about toys....it was about cups (i.e., memorabilia)! :o Therefore it's been in the wrong section from the day one so I say all out anarchy in this thread is A-ok. >:D
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Quote from: ProfGriffin on February 14, 2008, 09:57:56 AM
Greetings Night Creatures.
Ok, so...
Slurpee...I grew up with these frozen concoctions. Frozen, slushie, flavored and yummy.
Comparable to Icees or Slush Puppies or heck, a watery snow cone.
The 7-11 company branded these drinks and provided them in many different collectable cups. By far the most famous were the baseball slurpee collections and of course the amazing Superhero Cups which covered both Marvel and DC and were really expansive across the Universes of these two company and using some really rare characters...(a Baron Zemo Slurpee Cup? Yup. The Inhumans? Uh-huh.
But I digress.
My favorite as a kid was The Joker cup. But closely behind that was the MONSTER Collection.
These Monsters were not officially licensed and featured generic monsters of myth and legend.
The Vampire, The Zombie, The Mummy, The Monster of the Moors, The Troll, The Headless Horseman, Medusa,
etc...
Here are some of the cups that I have (both from my childhood and collecting on Ebay)
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/ProfGriffin/P1010007.jpg)
Hydra, Golem, Zombie, Monster of the Moors (Headless Horseman and Roc in back)
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/ProfGriffin/P1010014.jpg)
Vampire and Mummy
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/ProfGriffin/P1010012.jpg)
Close up of Werewolf.
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/ProfGriffin/P1010013.jpg)
The backs of the cups had these great overviews of the monsters in a dire serious tone.
I drank many a slurpee out of these wonderful cups...they are hard plastic, brittle and shatter when dropped (or if it slips out of your hand when you are riding your bike)
These cups were a big part of my childhood...a childhood filled with monsters.
-Prof. Griffin
I totally dig these 7-11 drinking cups. Just bought a set of them. Great memories, when I was a kid, my friend and I would go to 7'11 and try to locate the cups.