What was your 1st monster toy?

[Hepcat]

I think that the toy was actually re-issued later on with the "Land of the Giants" series of items.

Yes the Land of the Giants Space Sled Remco released in 1968 bore a striking resemblance to the Remco Super Car we've been discussing:





I'd be grateful if somebody could explain that coincidence to me.

[skully]

Hi Hep.  Thanks again for great work showing this.  Honestly,  I don't have a clue as to why Remco would have re-issued this toy associated with Land of the Giants,  maybe they were just looking for further profit from a neat toy, or maybe just figured it looked like it belonged to be included with space, sci-fi stuff and everything else associated with TV shows, such as Land of the Giants, and others such as The Invaders, Time Tunnel, etc. of the times.  Your last photo actually shows one of those protrusions broken off the small back wing like I was talking about to watch out for.

[marsattacks666]

Glasslite Dracula. Another favorite

[Hepcat]

Honestly,  I don't have a clue as to why Remco would have re-issued this toy associated with Land of the Giants,  maybe they were just looking for further profit from a neat toy....

That would have been precisely it. The Super Car was incredibly innovative in concept and design. Why tie it to just one short-lived TV show? If anything it should have been rereleased again and again perhaps accompanied by a stable of Remco adventure/action figures, e.g. Cosmo Cliff & Mars Mission Omega!

[Palifan]

Glasslite Dracula. Another favorite

I would love one of these on the card but I think I'm priced out now a days.

Ian

[Hepcat]

Glasslite Dracula. Another favorite

Strange that they would have been sold in the States with unilingual Spanish text. Where were they marketed, mainly from Texas to California?

[Doh!]

Not precisely a monster toy, but as a wee lad I also had the Tin Man robot from Wizard of Oz:

http://www.theoldrobots.com/TinMan.html

[Krel]

The first monster toys I remember having were the Hamilton's Invaders.  Then I got the Mattel Thingmaker Creepy Crawlers set, so the poor Blue Defenders job got a lot harder.  :lol:

Not a monster, but the first S.F. toy I remember having was a blue Robby the Robot, with a corded remote. 

David.

[Hepcat]

Do you still covet and collect Hamilton's Invaders and Mattel Thingmaker/Creepy Crawler items?

[fearliath]

My first was the Remco Mini Monster Phantom of the Opera. I was 4. I vividly remember my mom letting me get it. It was on an end cap right were you go to checkout at the grocery store of all places. Pretty sure it was on clearance or she wouldn't have let me get it. She only let me get one and I was trying to choose between the Phantom and Wolfman. Chose Phantom. Ironically, I ended up getting them all for my birthday later EXCEPT Wolfman. Not having Wolfman haunted me every year to the point that when I would play with the monsters they would be trying to search for the Wolfman half the time. I say every year because for whatever reason my mom kept the Mini Monsters locked away with the Halloween decorations so I could only play with them for one month of the year (so it was a heck of a treat when I got to).  I didn't end up getting Wolfman until I bought him on eBay when I was 28 years old...