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Monsters For Sale

Quote from: darkmonkeygod on December 02, 2015, 03:39:03 PM
... In 1981 Remco introduced the Mini Monsters, non glowing 3&3/4 inch action figures and a play case/haunted house. They added the Creature and the Phantom to the 9 inch assortment then as well, and released a Creature/Phantom make up kit to accompany the Dracula/Frankenstein's monster set. The Monsterizer continued to ship.

1982 brought about the glow in he dark Mini Monsters on cards that have a graphic starburst with "glow in the dark" written in it. The play case got the glow treatment as well. I think the full assortment of six different 9 Inch figures and Monsterizer were still available, as were both make up kits.

1983, the final year of Remco Universal Monsters from this licensing run, saw another change to the cards of the glow Mini Monsters, adding an explosion graphic behind the figure. The Mini-Monster Monsterizer also became available. The 9 inch line was discontinued but a line of puppets, Monsters At Home, featureing Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, The Creature, and Dracula were released and used modified head and hand sculpts from the 9 inch line.

Are there Canadian market card variations?  I seem to remember them being mentioned before - but I can't recall seeing them anywhere.
ADAM

darkmonkeygod

Quote from: Monsters For Sale on December 02, 2015, 05:25:06 PM
Are there Canadian market card variations?  I seem to remember them being mentioned before - but I can't recall seeing them anywhere.

There are Canadian versions of the six mini-monsters in their glow in the dark permutation, but nothing else that I'm aware of. Ideal, under license from Remco, released the first four 9 inch monster in the UK but nothing else according to distribution catalogs.
Shannon aka monsieurmonkey on UMA Y!