MPC Monsters Appreciation Thread

[horrorhunter]

Another MPC Prehistoric Monsters window box playset pic I found on Google Images. This is a shot from the top. Really cool and really scarce.

[japfeif]

This is a tough one. MPC window box prehistoric "monster" playset. Captured this pic on the web, I've never even seen one of these. Very scarce.

Yes, that is mine. I sent the pic to a friend who has a dinosaur figure website a couple years ago. I guess all that stuff becomes fair game for a Google search! It's extremely rare and I consider myself quite fortunate to have it! The other one that Horrorhunter posted ("The World of Prehistoric Monsters" windowboxed set) is another one I am pleased to have in my collection. Please feel free to grab any pics you guys find off the Internet and post....I think it's important that folks know some of the super cool dino sets MPC came out with. Their figures might not be as detailed and as sharp as Marx, but no one could beat their packaging!!!

For anyone interested, I posted some time ago about my upcoming book on Marx and MPC prehistoric sets. I am please to report it is now finished and ready to be sent to the publisher after numerous delays and false starts. Ads are now posted in Playset Magazine and the Prehistoric Times. And yes, the pic of this boxed set is included! :-)

I will post when the book is actually available for anyone interested. Hope was okay to post this cheap plug here!

[Hepcat]

Yes, it's certainly OK to plug your book here. But post some pictures of your collection(s) in the appropriate thread(s) on this forum as well!

[japfeif]

Yes, it's certainly OK to plug your book here. But post some pictures of your collection(s) in the appropriate thread(s) on this forum as well!

Good idea! Will do. Most are not on Flickr or ipernity or anything but I will get on that! :-)

[spastik4plastik]

man, you guys have some GREAT collections of these. i LOVE them but only have a few and none in packages. and none of the pop tops.
looking for the grim reaper, the executioner, the frankenstein/zombie and the vampire in the semi translucent purple and the skeleton and werewolf in the bright green glow in the dark so i can at least have a matching color set of those colors

[horrorhunter]

This Pop-Top Horrors ad is for the scarce carded version with all eight figures. My parents bought one of these for me back in the mid '60s. Lotsa head swappin'.


Can you imagine tripping over a whole Master Carton of a dozen of these gems in a warehouse? One of these scarce carded versions of all eight Pop-Tops with undamaged packaging should bring at least a grand on eBay, and could bring twice that or more.

[Hepcat]

Can you imagine tripping over a whole Master Carton of a dozen of these gems in a warehouse?

Oh man! What a dream that would be!

[bigbud]

Can you imagine tripping over a whole Master Carton of a dozen of these gems in a warehouse?

Or how about a warehouse find of several mint boxed MPC Horrorscopes?  It happened for a friend of mine. That would be something!

[Darkside1]

  Did your friend keep them all?

[horrorhunter]

Or how about a warehouse find of several mint boxed MPC Horrorscopes?  It happened for a friend of mine. That would be something!

Wow! Did he keep one and sell the rest over time? It would take awhile to liquidate several identical items that valuable. I think I would keep one and maybe sell one or two, then hang on to the rest for awhile. Heck of a good nest egg there.

[spastik4plastik]

a pic of my orange figures (the only color i have all 8 figures in)


didn't know where else to post this since it is only 1 figure and only comes in one color. i thought this might be the most appropriate place. one of my favorite things,,,

the witch from the Houghton Mifflin learn to read set. slightly taller than an mpc and slightly smaller than a palmer.

[horrorhunter]

The orange MPC Unbreakable Weirds look really cool against the background of Marx trees.

That witch is rad, too. I've never seen one. That would make a fun piece in a custom playset.

[Darkside1]

 I agree. I love that Witch, very cool.

[Hepcat]

a pic of my orange figures (the only color i have all 8 figures in)

the witch from the Houghton Mifflin learn to read set. slightly taller than an mpc and slightly smaller than a palmer.

You are as well aware of the MPC Pop-Tops which are significantly taller than the Palmers, are you not?





The size differences can be seen here in Toy Ranch's display:

[Haunted hearse]

This Pop-Top Horrors ad is for the scarce carded version with all eight figures. My parents bought one of these for me back in the mid '60s. Lotsa head swappin'.

Interesting that the executioner is the one figure without a head you can remove and swap.