Monster XMas grab bag

[Tom Smith Monsternut]

Shannon I added a suprise extra item to your package and I'll be sending out in the AM
Best..
Tom

[neonnoodle]

fmofmpls's monster soaky just arrived and it's gorgeous!  I looked up the info on this Dracula soaky and found that it was only produced as a prototype.  Wow!  Hopefully my box of goodies has arrived or will soon arrive.  Thanks!!

Neon Noodle

[hhwolfman]

Richard and I exchanged gifts all went well. May I say he is a master. I got an extra and also sent him some extra goodies for being an extra good Monster kid this year. He Makes the best Monster items. I am very proud to Have Olsen Monster goodness in the Wolfman's Layer. Thanks again. HHW

[poseablemonster]

I have got to chime in here and second the kudos to Richard Olsen.  From his great graphics work for the UMA Toy Tour to his amazingly inventive and flawless customs (did I mention his buttons?), Richard is a gifted monster creator.  We are all lucky to have him as a member of the group, and as a monster pal.

[neonnoodle]

I believe Richard is also one of the great filmmakers on the Monster Kid Home Movies disc, right?

[Scary Terry]

Had a great time opening my package and discovering all the unexpected extra goodies inside.  Thank you Robert -- a million times over.  What a wonderful way to make a Merry Christmas a SCARY Christmas!  let's do this again next year....!

[darkmonkeygod]

Hey Tom,

Dug out the secret element of yours yesterday from the underground catacombs (the horror, the horror), expect to mail it tomorrow...

[fmofmpls]

I believe Richard is also one of the great filmmakers on the Monster Kid Home Movies disc, right?

He is indeed! Richard's vids are some of the best of the entire disk!

[fmofmpls]

Been meaning to get over and say thank you to neonnoodle for the wonderful box o' gifts! Really enjoyed going through the all the loot! Thanks again Rod! Looking forward to this thread again next Xmas!

[Richard]

>>>Richard and I exchanged gifts all went well. May I say he is a master. I got an extra and also sent him some extra goodies for being an extra good Monster kid this year. He Makes the best Monster items. I am very proud to Have Olsen Monster goodness in the Wolfman's Layer. Thanks again. HHW<<<

HHW went to the trouble of offering a large assortment of gifts for me to select from (in case there were things in his gifting that I already had).  He went through his "extras" boxes and sent pics of all sorts of items. It was like opening up a Christmas catalog and "makin' my wish list"! ANYWAY, I selected a number of things (for him to select a couple of gifts from) NEVER EXPECTING that ol' Santa-HHW would send EVERYTHING I asked for! But he did! THANK YOU, HH!!!

I decided that I needed to include something else in MY gifting to make up for his generosity...so I added a Wolf Man Magnet Set to the puzzle I was sending. I felt that, since HH is the Wolf Man, he needs to have the magnet set in his collection.

My thanks to Tom Smith for suggesting this fun X-Mas exchange! I hope we all can do this again!
Thanks again, HHW, for the kind words...AND the gifts!!!
Best,
Richard

[Richard]

poseable monster wrote:
>>>I have got to chime in here and second the kudos to Richard Olsen.  From his great graphics work for the UMA Toy Tour to his amazingly inventive and flawless customs (did I mention his buttons?), Richard is a gifted monster creator.  We are all lucky to have him as a member of the group, and as a monster pal.<<<

Yikes! THANK YOU, Andy, for your kind words!!! One of the blessings of being in the UMA has been the opportunity to meet such wonderful, friendly, knowledgeable monster kids...and you are one of the best, Andy!!! THANK YOU always for your friendship, my UMA brother!!!

Richard

[Richard]

neonnoodle wrote:
>>>I believe Richard is also one of the great filmmakers on the Monster Kid Home Movies disc, right?<<<

fmofmpls wrote:
>>>He is indeed! Richard's vids are some of the best of the entire disk!<<<

Hoo, boy~THANK YOU guys!...but, great filmaker? Moi???!

Ahem...
I WAS LUCKY to be included on Joe Busam's "Monster Kid Home Movies" DVD! It was a "right place at the right time" sort of thing. To be included with so many famous well known folk was such an honor and privilege for me! MANY kids made 8mm home movies in the past. I was lucky to still have my films only because my mother kept them all those years. I made 2 or 3 other 8mm films in that time period with my friend Bobby (he was the Frankenstein monster). Bobby's mother kept those films for a time but wound up tossing them out in the 70s so they are lost.
My films on the DVD are crude at best. But my hope is that they show the true spirit and feeling of WHAT WE ALL FELT when our interest in monsters was younger... when, in mind and body, we really were monster kids

Best,
Richard

A quick piece of trivia from the DVD which may be known...
The Marx Frankenstein robot running the projector at the end credits on the DVD...is the SAME one I am "running" in the opening sequence of my 1963 Frankenstein/Wolf Man film. And the projector is my mother's original DeJur projector that we always viewed our home movies on (And the same one I used to show my films with at The Monster Bash in Pennsylvania).
Older, slower, and beat-up like me...they have survived.

[Tom Smith Monsternut]

I got your present today Shannon 
Boy those Killer Panda toys are so cool ! I never saw them before ..so cool!:)
Also thanks for the Jiggler Bride and Creature ! I never could find a Bride now my collection is complete.

Many thanks..
Tom

[packy120353]

Message to Minion - "The Eagle has Landed" - I finally mailed your present today! I propose we create a town square with a Hunchback whipping wheel, a stockade and a raaaack. For my crime of being so late with your present I voluntarily place myself in the stockade for ridicule and scorn. As you all walk past on your daily business, feel free to throw tomatoes, stale bread or used women's socks at my face. I deserve it, and I will remain here until someone in the group takes pity and releases me. Otherwise I will become the forgotten prisoner. And nobody will feed my tarantula. Anyway Minion I hope you like it and Merry Christmas! Tom thanks for starting this tradition.

pk

[darkmonkeygod]

I got your present today Shannon 
Boy those Killer Panda toys are so cool ! I never saw them before ..so cool!:)
Also thanks for the Jiggler Bride and Creature ! I never could find a Bride now my collection is complete.

Many thanks..
Tom

Excellent!  Glad you didn't have the KP monsters.  I sell them in the store but had run out over Christmas.  Dark Horse distributes them in the States, both as three packs (like the one I sent you) and as individually packed characters (you CAN see which ones you're getting).  Besides the Frank, Bride and Mummy, there are also a Nosferatu, Invisible Man, and the Vampire from London after Midnight.  I've been told they want to do a second series, and we've pushed them, so who knows...

Excellent on the Bride, and everyone needs more Creature in their life!

Best,

Shannon