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[Scatter]

Only a few months ago, I saw reference (online) to a character that once appeared on "The Smurfs": a Grandpa character, who had returned from a 500 year exile (and was then never seen again). I'd never even seen a pic of him before - but yesterday, at a local market, I noticed some "Smurf" bootleg twinpacks. They had some versions in piles, but one lone twin pack contained (with Archer Smurf), one poorly-painted figure wearing a long beard (now repainted by me), and a gold cap and overalls! I had just found Grandpa Smurf!


Grandpa Smurf by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

Gotta love them bootlegs brother!

[marsattacks666]

Papa SMURF(tm), is looking extremely scary. Lol. 

[Therin of Andor]

Papa SMURF(tm), is looking extremely scary. Lol. 

No, it really is Grandpa SMURF(tm), Papa SMURF(tm)'s papa!

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[Monsters For Sale]

This may be a minor find at best, but I was pretty happy to get it:









This is a plastic one gallon bucket with a thin metal handle.  It was made by Shamrock Industries in "Mpls., Minn".  It is artist signed on the pumkin under the large bat, by "Kling", with a circle dotting the letter "i".  There is no date on the bucket - but the way the state is abbreviated suggests it was not made recently.

I bought it because it had a nice Frankenstein graphic plus almost all of the iconic Halloween images.  There is Frank, a full moon with flying bats, a rat, dead trees, a Mummy, a ghost, a large bat, 2 pumpkins, a spooky-faced tree with an owl, a witch pouring the contents of a beaker into her boiling caulron and another dead tree.  All on a nice Halloween-orange background.  Sadly, there is not an arched-backed black cat or a carved jack-o'-lantern.

The plastic bucket is 6.75 inches high (not including handle) by 8 inches in diameter.

I asked the seller if this bucket was sold as is, or if it had been sold with a lid and filled with Halloween cookies, etc.  She thought she remembered it being sold as is.  I have my doubts.

But I do know I love my little "find".

[Zombiology]

Looks cool, Adam.  There are no minor finds.  I would have picked these up too.

[Monsters For Sale]

Looks cool, Adam.  There are no minor finds.  I would have picked these up too.

It's just one bucket.  I photographed all 4 sides.

[Unknown Primate]

Looks pretty damn cool to me!

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

I love that Halloween bucket. There's something about the picket fence, the wild grass, the bare trees and the orange autumn sky amid the spooks and monsters that really jars a feeling in me that recalls my childhood Halloween adventures. It seems to capture perfectly that magical twilight hour when trick-or-treating begins and worlds of the mundane and the fantastical are the closest.

[The Creeper]

Great looking bucket!

[GAKENSTEIN]

Putting that one on my bucket list!

[marsattacks666]

Cool Hallowe'en bucket. Nice classic Hallowe'en images. I dig the Frankenstein's monster.  Shamrock Ind., huh?!

[Monsters For Sale]

Cool Hallowe'en bucket. Nice classic Hallowe'en images. I dig the Frankenstein's monster.  Shamrock Ind., huh?!

Yeah. 

All I could think of was, I wondered if they also made Halloween masks and really irritating commercials to the tune of "London Bridge Is Falling Down".

[Dr. Creature Feature]

I Just got these at a garage sale today and am EXTREAMLY EXCITED! I don't normally look at Pez dispensers but my mom did and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw them and what makes it even better is they were a Dollar each




I still cant believe that I got a Creature from the Black lagoon Pez for one thin dollar and it's all thanks to my eagle eye mother!

[Unknown Primate]

GREAT grab, Dr. CF!  Your mom rocks!

[Gasport]

DAMN! You certainly struck gold at that garage sale...congrats!