Glenn Strange Candy bucket Question

[Ghost]

I understand the Frankenstein bucket was released as part of a series of three or four buckets as a Halloween item one year. Do the other buckets surface often? How much do they typically fetch?

How do you understand this? What are the three or four buckets available? What information have you seen to lead you to such a conclusion? I would love to see any of the other examples if you could point us in the right direction.

[Ghost]

It sounds like you are referring to this post which I thought was a tongue in cheek joke.

Now you can put on your new Creature costume, take your ultra-rare Clinton Plastics Creature Bucket and go again.

Only to have said author verify with a "FOAF" (urban legend term for Friend of a friend) sighting.

My contact at the defunct ABG factory, Dennis, says he had a friend that worked at Clinton. and he saved a couple Creature Buckets for himself.

[Hepcat]

How do you understand this? What are the three or four buckets available? What information have you seen to lead you to such a conclusion?

From one of the Frankenstein bucket threads on this board! The reason the Frankenstein bucket is relatively scarce is mothers weren't inclined toward the Frankenstein bucket. They preferred the jack-o-lantern(?) and ghost(?) and witch(?) or whatever they were.

It sounds like you are referring to this post which I thought was a tongue in cheek joke.

No I am not! A Creature bucket would have been a sure loser with mothers too.

[Ghost]

From one of the Frankenstein bucket threads on this board! The reason the Frankenstein bucket is relatively scarce is mothers weren't inclined toward the Frankenstein. They preferred the jack-o-lantern(?) and ghost(?) and witch(?) or whatever they were.

A search of this site under multiple terms and looking in every bucket thread yielded no such information to me. Could you kindly point me to the right thread? I can't imagine such a thread being part of the purge awhile ago as it is definitely on topic. I am aware of a small pumpkin and a skull stick, the Stange bucket, Strange lamp, Strange candy dish, and Strange speaker. I would love to see any other pictures of Clinton Plastics co. Halloween merchandise.

[Hepcat]

I'd love to go back and find the post(s), but that's precisely the problem. I believe it was from about two years ago and I haven't a clue as to where to find it. And that's precisely why I asked. There was a reference to other Clinton Halloween buckets made at the time, and I'm now wondering what they were. One of the Halloween blow mold collectors on this board probably knows.

[Ghost]

Well I searched and read every thread even the ones several years old under these terms "Frankenstein, Clint Plastics, Clinton Plastics, Clinton Co., Clinton Company, Clint Company, Glenn Strange, Glen Strange, bucket, pail, lamp, speaker; and failed to find it. I hope someone out there can. Google, Bing, and Yahoo yielded no results either. No auctions at Hakes or Ebay within the search limits.

[Ghost]

My understanding is that the scarcity of the Glenn Strange Clinton Plastics items were because of limited production and distribution. With even less movement among known examples once collectors obtained one. I do not have any first hand knowledge and was not even born in the decade they were commercially available at retail so I rely heavily on the information gathered here by those who lived it, who own it, and who remember it when it comes to collecting monster items before my time.

[frankenstein73]

There aren't any other uni monster vintage 60s buckets ive seen besides the glenn strange bucket, nor do I think there are or ever were any.
I believe this current confusion is stemming from a conversation about the 1999 sideshow frankenstein bucket and there were supposed to be other buckets released when that one was. A wolfman, mummy, and dracula i think, not sure exactly which ones, either way they never saw the light of day. Rumor was there Might have been prototypes? And a production photo somewhere? Can't recall.

My contact at the defunct ABG factory, Dennis, says he had a friend that worked at Clinton. and he saved a couple Creature Buckets for himself.

This statement is adam being ornery and adding to his awesome april fools day prank! Still working quite well I might add.
Try to keep up people.....lol

[Monsters For Sale]

There aren't any other uni monster vintage 60s buckets ive seen besides the glenn strange bucket, nor do I think there are or ever were any...

...This statement is adam being ornery and adding to his awesome april fools day prank! Still working quite well I might add.
Try to keep up people.....lol

Yeah.  Shame on me.

(For newer members:  http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=25455.0 )

I also kidded Mike Scott about putting on his full-body Creature costume and carrying his ultra-rare Clinton Creature bucket when he went trick-or-treating in one of the threads at the UMA.

There ain't no such critter, folks.  I wish there had been other Clinton buckets and that they were of the same quality as the Frankenstein model.

(I just can't bring myself to use those stupid little Happy Faces in my posts.)

[Hepcat]

Arrrgghhh!!! What a hornet's nest!

Well I searched and read every thread even the ones several years old under these terms "Frankenstein, Clint Plastics, Clinton Plastics, Clinton Co., Clinton Company, Clint Company, Glenn Strange, Glen Strange, bucket, pail, lamp, speaker; and failed to find it.

The key search term would be "mother" in the Vintage Monster Toy forum. While I found many other fascinating posts/threads using it (which I'll now bump up), no I didn't find the post on which my hazy memory is based.

There aren't any other uni monster vintage 60s buckets ive seen besides the glenn strange bucket, nor do I think there are or ever were any.... This statement is adam being ornery and adding to his awesome april fools day prank!

I didn't think there were any other Universal Monster buckets. I thought there were other Clinton Halloween buckets! And my "confusion" has nothing to do with Adam's Halloween prank. It may however stem from this post here:

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=9652.msg152168;topicseen#msg152168

It would seem strange though for Clinton Plastics to have only produced this one model of Halloween trick or treating bucket.

[Ghost]

Arrrgghhh!!! What a hornet's nest!

The key search term would be "mother" in the Vintage Monster Toy forum. While I found many other fascinating posts/threads using it (which I'll now bump up), no I didn't find the post on which my hazy memory is based.

I didn't think there were any other Universal Monster buckets. I thought there were other Clinton Halloween buckets! And my "confusion" has nothing to do with Adam's Halloween prank. It may however stem from this post here:

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=9652.msg152168;topicseen#msg152168

It would seem strange though for Clinton Plastics to have only produced this one model of Halloween trick or treating bucket.

109 results in Vintage toys alone with the search term "mother" not a single one references any other Clinton Plastics buckets. The only references to hysterical mothers forcing industry change or selections or the availability of any monster item or scarcity because of motherly disapproval are your own posts. The only substantiated incidence being the Aurora Monster Scenes model kits.

[Monsters For Sale]

Sadly, these never got produced:

Any thing to do with these?

[Monster Bob]

Another thing I have always pondered is why are the Head Speaker and Halloween Bucket made by two different companies? Or was it the same company that changed names? Of was it one company bought out by another? Or ...?

[horrorhunter]

Did Clinton make anything else besides the Strange Frank Bucket?

[Monster Bob]

You'd certainly think so.