The Great Old Ones: UMAers 40 & Over

[Zardoz]

Well count me in too! I'm 54 and wonderin' where all the time went.    The first monster that really grabbed me was the original Godzilla in black and white It was awsome it made me tingle all over I was hooked!  Well hello you bunch of old dudes and dudettes. 

[charp13]

Universal Steve!!  I never would have known that all those things could happen to a human (Except for the ladder accident), and I am amazed that you are around to talk about it    Man, I get the willies when I think about your spine problems!  Do us all a favor and finish up so you can hang around here and talk about monsters!  I have all the confidence in you that you will be a stronger human than any of us, when that suture heals up!

[tv horror]

I've just found myself a new hero, you are The Man Steve. I wish you all the best for a speedy recovery and you will be in my prayers.

[Universal Steve]

Thanks guys. I really appreciate the kind words. I consider myself just hitting my stride. It has been a long journey and I am looking forward to a longer one in the futire. After all, someone is going to have to build the stack of models on my bench . But most importantly someone has to watch over my family. My son just turned 27 and is engaged and my daughter will be 25 in October.  They both live at home but probably next year they will leave. I need to be there to help them in case they hit rough spots. My wife and I probably wont know what to do with ourselves when they leave.

[Street Worm]

For the first time in my life, I feel my age (55) - I think it's all catching up to me!

You & me both...

I think roofer years are kinda like dog years-
so 30+ years of roofing houses times 7 (is it?)
I'm feeling all of my 54 years (every damn morning) 

[Count_Zirock]

My wife and I probably wont know what to do with ourselves when they leave.

Stock up on Viagra and Aspercream!

[Unknown Primate]

Well hello you bunch of old dudes and dudettes. 

Hello right back atcha, Z!

[Unknown Primate]

You & me both...

I think roofer years are kinda like dog years-
so 30+ years of roofing houses times 7 (is it?)

Happy 210th!!

[Street Worm]

lol...
well I guess I feel pretty good for 210~ 

[Scatter]

My wife and I probably wont know what to do with ourselves when they leave.

Ummmmmmmm...........personally, I'm not going to have that problem. Nope. 

[RedKing]

Welli just turned 40 last May so here I am! I did get to catch the very tail end of the Monster Craze-I remember the big Aurora glow monster boxes at the toystore up to around1977 and I grew up watching monster movies on UHF TV every weekend straight through when I graduated school in 1989.I had thebig and small Remcos(I never had the big Phantom and Creech, but I still have al 6 of the little Remcos), Shogun warriors (including Godzilla and Rodan) andsomegfood flicks at the drive-in-Godzilla vs Megalon,Giant Sopider Invasion (scared the CRAP out of me when i was 5!), Kong 76, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, At the Earth;s Core, People that Time Forgot, Godzilla vs Cosmic Monster,SSSSSS (another one that terrified me), Orca, Godzilla On Monster Island, and some kung fu movies too.

[Unknown Primate]

RedKing - YOU are a Monster Kid and Kaiju King rolled into to one!

[Zombiology]

Turning 56 next month.  Started with Science Fiction theater and bought every monster model I could find when they started coming out.  Couldn't get enough.  Friends used to look at me weird because there were times I would rather live in a world of monsters than of Vietnam.  I used to cock an eyebrow at them and ask, "Oh, you'd rather live in a world where Jack, Martin and Bobby died?"  I look back at a lot of escapism from the 60s and think of it as the golden age of escapism.  But who didn't need to escape back then.

As to battle scars.  Had heart surgery in 98 and kidney surgery last year.  In 98, heart stopped three times in the emergency room before they got me stabilized.  Stopped five more times on the operating table before they got the pacemaker in.  I had been clinically dead.  Another surgery a year later and was able to remove the pacemaker as the previous surgeries held.  The strangest one though was in 67 when they put me in the hospital Friday night for appendicitis only to discover on Sunday morning that it was constipation   The only good thing was watching Jason and the Argonauts saturday afternoon on the 13 inch black and white in the upper corner.  They even lured me into the building with ice cream only to take it away because of the appendicitis.  &%#* mad doctors!!

I wonder if the youngin's thread is comparing battle scars?

[CULT of FRANKENSTEIN]

I'm 51 and was part of that elite group of kids whose parents would find my copies of FM, CoF and routinely throw them in the trash! I literally dug them out and hid them in my room. A couple didn't survive: I had the issues of FM with the Creature on the cover by Gogos, and the one with the close up photo of Chris Lee as Drac. Somehow I couldn't retrieve those issues. Funny how I still remember that. Also funny how my copies of Monster Times survived.

I carried around a copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula when I was in grade school (the Airmont edition) but never actually read the novel until I was in my 40's. I remember seeing Cagney's Man of a Thousand Faces and the next day in class (seventh grade) instead of listening to the teacher wrote my own bio of Chaney based on what I'd learned from the film.

My dad would buy and help us build and paint the Aurora Superman, Robin, and Bat Plane models. It wasn't until I was ten or eleven that I started my collection of Aurora monsters.

[CULT of FRANKENSTEIN]

I wonder if the youngin's thread is comparing battle scars?

nope