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[raycastile]

Any you can get your hands on.  Thanks!

[chrisnurse]

OK guys, just spoke to my buddy - he said that he was there yesterday and they had a few Skeletons and Jason figures, I've asked him if he wouldn't mind grabbing some! I'm away for a week now with no internet, but will be seeing him next weekend - so I'll give you a shout if there are any left.

[michblk]

Within the past couple weeks, I received this wonderful print from Frank.



A McFarlane CandyMan as I'm going to see Tony Todd next month at Motor City Comic Con and have him sign it.



A Daredevil #1



BK

[GAKENSTEIN]

BTW Are you guys after the Universal Monsters or any I can get my hands on?

I would LOVE just a Franky, Drac, and Werewolf!!  Cheesy frightful fun!

[Toy Ranch]

If you have any left over you can't find homes for here, I'll take them off your hands if you want, so buy them all and you won't get stuck with anything.

[hhwolfman]

Hello Boils and Ghouls, It has been a while. I have been working non stop for months. Sorry I haven't been around much. I went to the Tuscon Toy show last weekend. This is what I picked up. Enjoy. It is good to be home again. HHW

[Gasport]

Welcome home...NICE score! I have one of those Mr Bones chatter skulls in the box, too. Love the graphics. Here's another version with the same title. Wonder if they're related? CONGRATS!

[hhwolfman]

My Buddy Picked this up for me, a while ago. Just haven't had time to post it. AS you can tell it has some problems. It amazes me these are still around.



Yes it is a 18 inch Franky Candle. It does need some TLC, and I am just the Wolfman,  to give it to him. 

[hhwolfman]

Welcome home...NICE score! I have one of those Mr Bones chatter skulls in the box, too. Love the graphics. Here's another version with the same title. Wonder if they're related? CONGRATS!

Hmmm, They could be  I think I have seen another Mr Bones Skeleton in  a Clear tube. Very nice. HHW

[Toy Ranch]

Wow HH, nice scores and especially that candle!

[raycastile]

The candle is pretty cool.  That's the kind of piece I'd like to see in person.

[darkmonkeygod]

The candle is pretty cool.  That's the kind of piece I'd like to see in person.

Visit Shawn! He was out here years ago and I took him by my pal's now defunct store, Dr. Tongue's 3-D house of Toys. I used to babysit the place for Mark, the owner, off and on and had a Christmas list for the place, including the nearly mint Frankie candle. He always gave me great prices and first pick, and he had this candle for quite some time, always wanting more than I was willing to pay. I bring Shawn in and he flips, picking out quite a bit of stuff. He gets to the case with the candle, which I don't think he had ever seen before and asks Mark how much. Mark, just not remembering our dickering over it - I probably hadn't mentioned it in a year - sez "I've had it forever, how about..." and quotes Shawn HALF of the lowest he'd ever gone on it in our previous conversations. Shawn yells out "SOLD!" and I'm throwing out "WTF?". But I'm a good sport and a good pal, and Shawn was a bigger Frankie fan (he's since expanded as pix will attest) and was payin' cash. We got it packaged in my warehouse I think, and it arrived in GA safe. I think he took it on the plane, but I can't recall. Anyway, search out the pix of his monster room and you'll see it. All I can say is, had it been the Creature (and to my knowledge there is not a Gill Man candle), it would've been a bad scene.

[Toy Ranch]

Hey, I know Dr Tongue!  Great guy....  We used to do business and hang out when he came up to Seattle for toy shows.  A buddy sent me  the article when he closed the store.  That was a great store...

[darkmonkeygod]

Hey, I know Dr Tongue!  Great guy....  We used to do business and hang out when he came up to Seattle for toy shows.  A buddy sent me  the article when he closed the store.  That was a great store...

Yeah, it was a place of legend, and the legend does it no justice. Mark was just over here at my new (to me) house Friday, installing the display cases I bought from him when he closed her down. Matter of fact, I helped him close the store in April '05, and like I say, I baby-sat it for years and years. He told me he'd do the install if I ever moved, as he had 'em built and they are kinda part of his family (and they are 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide).  Funny enough, the fourth matching sister went to mutual friend Jamey who owned Gallery Bink one storefront from Dr. T's and Jamey married and bought a house recently and there was no room for a monolith and I had no room so he ended up selling it via craigslist. A few weeks later Mark calls me and sez "You fall on hard times or what?". Turns out he had forgotten Jamey took one and Mark and his lady were at the coast, casually wander into an antique store and Mark says "That's mine!". The wife and the proprietor are perplexed, as he's pointing at some dinner ware, and ask him and he snaps out of his surprise and says "No the CASE!". Turns out the woman who bought it owned that shop and Mark just happened in and, of course, recognized his spawn. Small world, huh? Your pic on FB looks familiar to me, and I've been attending shows and even setting up at a few for 30 years, so I imagine our paths have crossed too. Hopefully someday (er, year) soon we can meet up. The Kentucky show is just at the wrong time for me, but there'll be somewhere I'm sure.

[Toy Ranch]

Yeah, it was a place of legend, and the legend does it no justice. Mark was just over here at my new (to me) house Friday, installing the display cases I bought from him when he closed her down. Matter of fact, I helped him close the store in April '05, and like I say, I baby-sat it for years and years. He told me he'd do the install if I ever moved, as he had 'em built and they are kinda part of his family (and they are 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide).  Funny enough, the fourth matching sister went to mutual friend Jamey who owned Gallery Bink one storefront from Dr. T's and Jamey married and bought a house recently and there was no room for a monolith and I had no room so he ended up selling it via craigslist. A few weeks later Mark calls me and sez "You fall on hard times or what?". Turns out he had forgotten Jamey took one and Mark and his lady were at the coast, casually wander into an antique store and Mark says "That's mine!". The wife and the proprietor are perplexed, as he's pointing at some dinner ware, and ask him and he snaps out of his surprise and says "No the CASE!". Turns out the woman who bought it owned that shop and Mark just happened in and, of course, recognized his spawn. Small world, huh? Your pic on FB looks familiar to me, and I've been attending shows and even setting up at a few for 30 years, so I imagine our paths have crossed too. Hopefully someday (er, year) soon we can meet up. The Kentucky show is just at the wrong time for me, but there'll be somewhere I'm sure.

Funny how that works with seeing stuff you had turn up somewhere else...

Tell him I said hi next time you see him

I lived in Seattle from 1989 - early 1997 and set up at toy shows and some antique shows in Seattle and sometimes Portland (loved doing the race track show!) during those years.  I had a shop called Mr Haney's Curio Emporium in Seattle and later my partner Steve and I had Toonerville.  Steve put on the Just For Fun toy show in Seattle and I was always there for the early years of it until we moved to Arizona (and later back to Dallas).