Show off your Weekly Finds.

[Monsters For Sale]

it was a planned purchase not a find

how many of these franken buckets do think have survived and are either sitting in a collection or waiting to be found at a thrift store or something?

No way to tell.

I remember one member who told of finding one on top of a "free items" pile.  It made me wonder if yours came from a garage sale or swap meet.

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=23581.0

[Count Zero]

geez louise that was a great read!

thanks for pointing that thread out
i had never seen it before.

id flip my chit if i ever found one in the wild like that!

[horrorhunter]

This original gumball display card arrived in the mail today.



Love the graphics! 

[horrorhunter]

Here's another gumball display card I got from the same seller.



Jokes, anyone? 

[Monsters For Sale]

Here's another gumball display card I got from the same seller....

...Jokes, anyone? 

It is its own punchline.

[Hepcat]

This original gumball display card arrived in the mail today.

Here's another gumball display card I got from the same seller.

Wow! Gumballs plus either space invaders or monsters is a nigh unbeatable combination!



Does anyone remember these gumballs? Was there simply an imprint of an image tattooed on the surface of the gumballs?



The image on the Monster Balls card is taken from one of the stickers that were included in the Leaf Spook Stories set from early 1962:

[horrorhunter]

Does anyone remember these gumballs? Was there simply an imprint of an image tattooed on the surface of the gumballs?

The gumballs I remember were unmarked. The card was just hype to get kids to buy the gumballs.

[SpeedierThantheGrave]

Jokes, anyone? 

Don't choke!

[Count Zero]

i love the leaf monster balls card!
ive got one displayed with eyeball gumballs in a penny oak acorn

didn't leaf also do a vampire gumball one too?

[Hepcat]

The gumballs I remember were unmarked. The card was just hype to get kids to buy the gumballs.

Well the gum must have been really delicious anyway!



Approximately what year would this have been though?

[SpeedierThantheGrave]

Approximately what year would this have been though?

Hep, there's a 1964 copyright down in the fine print. 

[horrorhunter]

Approximately what year would this have been though?

I was just speaking generally about when I was a kid in the mid '60s through the early '70s. Most of the gumballs I remember were unmarked and most machines had very few prizes and lots of gumballs. There must have been marked gumballs as well (like those in Count Zero's vending machine pic), but I just remember the unmarked multi-colored ones for the most part.

[Hepcat]

i love the leaf monster balls card!
ive got one displayed with eyeball gumballs in a penny oak acorn

Love it! Vintage gumball machines are boss.

Since gumball machines were a big part of my life when I was a kid, I bought three vintage ones in 1981 shortly after I started re-accumulating the treasures of my younger days. One I sold to a friend, but the other two I repainted and still have. Here's one of them:



I also bought a Bozo gumball machine at a toy show about seven years ago:





The only Bozo machine I ever saw as a kid was in Ken's Variety on Wharncliffe Road but it was so cool that it left quite the impression on my mind. I therefore had to buy the one I saw at the show.  I need to take it apart though since it's not working. It seems to be jammed somehow.

[Haunted hearse]

Love it! Vintage gumball machines are boss.

Since gumball machines were a big part of my life when I was a kid, I bought three vintage ones in 1981 shortly after I started re-accumulating the treasures of my younger days. One I sold to a friend, but the other two I repainted and still have. Here's one of them:




The only Bozo machine I ever saw as a kid was in Ken's Variety on Wharncliffe Road but it was so cool that it left quite the impression on my mind. I therefore had to buy the one I saw at the show.  I need to take it apart though since it's not working. It seems to be jammed somehow.

Well there's your problem right there. One should never attempt to substitute gumballs with Jam.  Jam tends to harden with age, and obviously interfere with the workings.

[Hepcat]

So it's the jam! I never would have guessed.