FREE MONSTERS - Premiums & Give-A-Ways

[jimm]

It IS Fred Gwynne playing Herman.  lol

Yes, no mistaking that!

[Monsters For Sale]

Here's a favorite of mine.  I can't remeber what product this promoted, but the winner got to meat Elvira, and spend the night at the Bates Motel.  Two of my favorite horrors on one cup.

That cup was from 1989.

Here is a variation on the design that is dated 1990.  Looks like Pepsi/Universal did the promotion for at least 2 years.  (This cup is glow-in-the-dark.)

[Monsters For Sale]

This pin-back button was given out by Frankenstein Pub, 504 Union Street, Aberdeen, Scotland.





I had heard about the place existing before.  When I looked up the address in Google Maps, I found that it is no longer in business.  It has either become "McGinty's" or is a vacant storefront.

[Street Worm]

Here's a kinda sorta premium & give-a-way

The guy who owns the bar I drink at got this in 1994 as part of a 'Grandpa's Kahlua Mud Slide' promotion
& gave it to me-



He's about 18" wide, 19" long, die cut cardboard with the same photo on each side and is meant to hang
upside down

[Hepcat]

The April 1971 issue of National Lampoon contained a great parody of those "Free Inside" cereal premium offers that were once so common.

The box:



Inside the box:





The irony though is that whoever bought those cereals and actually kept the prizes, and especially the boxes(!), has the last laugh now.

[jimm]

Never would have thought to keep toy packaging, let alone food packaging as a kid, guess that$$$ why

[Monsters For Sale]

This is not a monster freebie.  It is just an addition to the post about the Pizza Hut 1992 Halloween promotion that produced the monster cups with high relief caps and trading cards.

This is the individual serving pizza box, opened up to show top and bottom:



I never did find my box so I had to fall back on this eBay auction photo.

(Even though this was a little throw-away item, I wish we had similar special items this Halloween.)

[Monsters For Sale]

These dumb little monster-related toys are supposed to be McDonalds Chicken McNuggets in Halloween costumes. They were given out in Happy Meals in 1993.


Here is the store display:




Here are the loose toys:  (Note the Vampire is missing his widow's peak and bat.)




Before you start on "what could be lousier than McNugget monster toys...", ponder this downer just in time for Halloween:

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trending/McDonalds-replaces-Happy-Meal-toys-with-books.html

So much for "happy".

[aura of foreboding]

The McNugget Buddies are seriously some of my favorite Halloween toys.  Great memories of them. 

[Monsters For Sale]

McDonalds offered 6 "Hotel Transylvania" Happy Meal toys in 2012.

The toys:




A display:

[Monsters For Sale]

Sony Pictures joined with Wal-Mart to offer a "Hotel Transylvania" toy premium with their Blu-Ray/DVD/Ultraviolet release of the movie.  Available exclusively at Wal-Mart.

The set:




The loose toy:

[Monsters For Sale]

These 1989 Coors Brewing Co. cardboard "Monster Mugs" standees were designed to be displayed on table tops. Flat, they are about 7.5" x 5 ".  Set up for standing on the table, they would be about 6" x 4" x 3".  The backs promoted "Coors", "Coors Light" and "Coors Extra Gold Draft" beers.

Flattened and held up by the "handle" on the right, they make simple, hand-held masks.


Creature - Side A:




Creature - Side B:




Frankenstein - Side A:




Frankenstein - Side B:




Mummy - Side A:




Mummy - Side B:




Werewolf - Side A:




Werewolf - Side B:




Witch - Side A:




Witch - Side B:




Given the Monsters whose Mugs Coors chose to feature, I have to wonder if there were not also a Vampire produced the same year.

(Just how many beers would an adult have to consume before he would follow the instructions printed on the back and play "peek-a-boo" with one of these?)

[terrypierson]

Love this thread.

[BRICK]

Here is a rare freebie from the second generation Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, a calendar/mini-poster for the year 2000.

[Monsters For Sale]

These "monster" cups are from Tastee Freez restaurants and reported to be from the 70's.
I am including them in this "Modern Monsters" thread just to keep all the FREE MONSTERS in one place.

Not sure what makes Angel a monster, but Jethro certainly qualifies.








Frostee Freez must have had more than 2 characters in this set - anyone know how many were issued?