The Only Monster Playset

[RPM]

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[Hepcat]

The Marx prototype is incredible love it anyone have idea on what potential value could be

Well since it didn't go on to be developed into a play set sold on store shelves, I'd hesitate to ascribe much if any historical importance to the prototype. There's also no fuzzy monster kid nostalgia associated with the piece since none of us had a play set derived from this prototype.

Moreover the prototype isn't actually very nice as a finished piece. It seems to have been thrown together at the last minute in a haphazard fashion. The wall pieces don't actually fit together and it betrays paint chips/scratches and glue residue. I wouldn't even call the piece a finished prototype therefore.

I'm accordingly concluding that the value of the "prototype" is very limited. Less than $100 I'd say.

[Mike Scott]

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Oooohh! Learn somethin' new every day! 

[Palifan]

That's quite an impressive prototype that I'm sure someone out there would love to own. Reading through all the information supplied by the seller it almost feels like you could recreate this play set yourself by sourcing all the parts that are used in it as it sounds like it was made up of pre existing parts.

I'm not sure anyone would go to the trouble of doing this but it might be a much more affordable way to own one of these and could be a fun project to spend some time on.

Ian

[Hepcat]

And from what im understanding MPC was a subsidiary under miner, and in the 80's just changed the name to MINER.

Miner Industries had acquired the Multiple Products Corp. back in 1967. 

The lighter colored glow ones I believe were a frito lay giveaway from what I remember.

To my knowledge, the Frito Lay figures were non glow colors (black, orange, purple).

Darkmonkeygod is correct. The MPC figures that Frito-Lay distributed as premiums were black, orange, purple and green. The first time the MPC Weird Monsters were molded in the glow colour was in the Miner Dragon Crest playset.

The Toy Soldier Company has offered good quality repops of the MPC Weird Monsters in a neon green colour for a number of years.

...I've got a bag of the glow figures produced by Miner from the same time they released the Dragon Crest set....

This one I presume:

[darkmonkeygod]

This one I presume:

I think that is a photo I took of the very example I own.

[Hepcat]

I can't find where you originally posted that picture though.

[Hepcat]

Anyway, sometime in the late 70's or early 80's, MPC did put out a full playset with monsters in it.  It's not a monster playset exactly, but they are an important element in it.  It's called Dragon Crest.



Even still, it's pretty cool.  Dragon Crest, the only monster playset.

Sort of. A variant of the Dragon Crest playset appears in the 1982 Sears catalogue under the name Mysterious Castle:











While the contents of the two playsets were largely the same, it's rather tough to say since there was actually some variance in the contents of Dragon Crest from one playset to the next. But the presence of the Mysterious Castle Playset in the 1982 Sears catalogue implies that the Dragon Crest playset was released in 1980 or 1981.

[BigShadow]

There are a few of the green Dragon crest figures going for $10.99 each on Ebay.  That Mysterious Castle Playset is really cool looking.  I've never seen either set for sale before.