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The convenience store chain 7-11 also participated in the 1992 "Monster Bash" promotion from Pepsi.  Here are three of the monsters on Super Big Gulp cups.











Missing are Frankenstein, Bride and the Wolf Man.

[Mike Scott]

Wish I had me one of those! There was a bunch of Creature ephemera from the '90s that never turns up on ebay!

[Monsters For Sale]

Ralston made The Addams Family cereal in 1991.  The cereal sported 6 different cut-out pictures.


One of the pictures was featured on this saleman's sample box:




Here are the others as they appeared on the back panel:












Also offered were 4 different flashlights:

[jimm]

Those are great cereal boxes, why I didn't keep any I do not know....

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This Post Honeycomb box is from Canada, 1992.  It once contained Glow-I-the-Dark Addams Family Temporary Tattoos.





I could not find a picture of the back of the box or the tattoos - Anyone out there have any of these tattoos they could scan for us?

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These two Munsters Halloween buckets held Carl's Jr. kids' meals in 1992.


Seen from various angles:









What a fun way for a monsterkid to receeive his hamburger & fries!

[Haunted hearse]

These two Munsters Halloween buckets held Carl's Jr. kids' meals in 1992.


Seen from various angles:









What a fun way for a monsterkid to receeive his hamburger & fries!

Did they make any toys to go along with them?

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Did they make any toys to go along with them [Carl's Jr. Munsters Halloween Buckets]?

I didn't find any.  Maybe another member recalls these.

[aura of foreboding]

Did they make any toys to go along with them?

Generally the buckets are considered the "toy." 

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Generally the buckets are considered the "toy."

Over the years McDonalds has given out lots of generic Halloween trick-or-treating buckets like these.  I guess the size is OK for tots going out on their first couple of years.

They sure would have been inadequate when I was of trick-or-treating age.

It would be useful for keeping crayons and little loose toys off the floor.

[Haunted hearse]

Generally the buckets are considered the "toy."

That was true of last year, when McDonalds gave out Scooby Doo buckets, and this year, when they gave out Monster High buckets.  No toy, just the buckets.

[aura of foreboding]

  That was true of last year, when McDonalds gave out Scooby Doo buckets, and this year, when they gave out Monster High buckets.  No toy, just the buckets.

And it has always been the case, going back to the first McBoo Pails in the late 1980s. 

[robodog]

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.






Werewolf - Side A:




Werewolf - 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?)

This isn't a generic werewolf. this is the Coors Beerwolf! He used to be in his own ads in the 80's. They used to have giant statues of him  in stores that talked when you pushed a button on the display. They had one set up in the Beer section of the Kroger's I used to go to as a kid. That thing was awesome!

[ravenloft]

Old Universal Monsters cardboard sign from the 1990's. Probably a grocery store promo for Pepsi 12 pack sale displays or something. I scored it secondhand from a comic shop for a pittance, like 5 bucks. No UM actor/character likenesses, from the sad generic monster days but still hanging proudly in my monster room.

[Ghost]

Old Universal Monsters cardboard sign from the 1990's. Probably a grocery store promo for Pepsi 12 pack sale displays or something. I scored it secondhand from a comic shop for a pittance, like 5 bucks. No UM actor/character likenesses, from the sad generic monster days but still hanging proudly in my monster room.

It is actually from 2001 as the generic monsters are identical to the 2001 style guide. I don't think it is a Pepsi or Doritos display. Not sure what it's from.



Here is the thread about the style guide with more images.

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=20296.0