Dracula Kite - 1960's

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

I bet Gary Busey was the buyer of that kite. (That would only make sense if you've been watching "Celebrity Apprentice", and even then it would only make sense to Gary Busey).

[charp13]

Hahahaha!!! RRW- But please don't let Meatloaf think that he bought it instead!

[Toy Ranch]

I'd be a buyer at $200 or so, lol.  Maybe a little more.  The thread was started because I was thinking about it and wondering what info there was out there.  I'm not a serious buyer for one. 

I started thinking about it looking at this cool Werewolf kite that Packy Paul found in a dollar store a few years ago and sent me one.

[Hepcat]

I ran downstairs and found the ad in Monster Mania

I like the part about menacing your neighbours!

[CreepyJeff]

I have to say the number a thread like this - reporting a vintage "news to me" item is in my top couple reasons I love the UMA so much.  Thanks for the info and pics, Richard and for Bobby starting it!

[Wich2]

Looks a little like the kite they used at the of Frank ("Count Disco") Langella's DRACULA...

[Mike Scott]

I like the part about menacing your neighbours!

I like the "Count of Dracula" part.

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

Wow, I found the Vampire Kite I had as a kid on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Stanbel-Vampire-Plastic-Kite-/110680118079?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c50c933f

I also had one that was inflatable that was a vampire bat with fangs. Neither of them lasted more than one day.

[Toyvet]

Great information Richard !  Never knew it existed.
Thanks

[darkmonkeygod]

Quite a few years ago, I saw a Dracula Kite sell on eBay for quite a high price.  I don't recall exactly what it was, but well over $1000. 

I remember it as selling for 3500 to 3800, but kept no record of it. Very cool to see the ad.

[Toy Ranch]

I remember it as selling for 3500 to 3800, but kept no record of it. Very cool to see the ad.

That was another range of price that popped into my head as possible.  Just can't remember, but it may very well have been just that.

[poseablemonster]

I love kites.  Flying a kite is one of the few activities I did with my dad when I was a kid.  I always picked out a Gayla BAT kite with the bloodshot eyes, and we took it to the open field at the Evangelical Church in town.  We always flew it until it was destroyed, stuck in a power line or some other such tragedy; I don't think we ever actually brought a kite home from any of our Spring kite flying afternoons.  I have a couple replacement kites that I have had since the late 80's - early 90's:


Anyway, that is probably a reason why I think this Dracula Kite is so cool.  Not 3 grand cool, though!

[Hepcat]

Wow, I found the Vampire Kite I had as a kid on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Stanbel-Vampire-Plastic-Kite-/110680118079?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c50c933f

I'm surprised that you haven't bought it.

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

Hepcat,

I needed my spare cash for my Walpurgis Night adventures this weekend. Plus, as cool as that kite is, I wouldn't know what to do with it now. I don't think it would display well, and if I actually took it out to fly, it would get destroyed in one day just like all my kites did! It's just not something that made want to hit the "buy it now" button.

[Dr.Terror]

That Lugosi kite is amazing covered in awesome sauce!!! WOW!

I had a Dracula kite as a kid in the early 80's.   I can't find pictures, but it was shaped the baby bat, except with an image of Dracula and some tassles.  The image was similar to the Ben Cooper Hairy Scary Dracula costume.

Gayla still makes the "Baby Bat"   I usually get a new one every few years.   Last spring I got my nephew a BB.