What is your least favorite monster toy collectible or genre?

[horrorhunter]

I like most '60s stylized figures (MPC/Palmer/Nutty Mads/Niks), as well as realistic figures (Marx). I also like good quality modern jointed/clothed figures (Sideshow/DD).

Sorry I can't join the negativity-fest. Not. 

[marsattacks666]

I love crappy 1960's toys. Sometimes old crappy toys are cool.

I think there more crappy 60s toys than well-built. But that is the charm of 60s toys.

[Mord]

Sorry I can't join the negativity-fest. Not. 

We're not going to throw any more negativity fests if you keep that up.

[marsattacks666]

  We're not going to throw any more negativity fests if you keep that up.

Gosh, darn it!!!

[Rockshasa]

Sorry I can't join the negativity-fest. Not. 

Least favorite monster toy collectible! This is a negative thread , so you can get away with being negative here. Just don't be mean or nasty. If you don't like something...shout it out. I just didn't want this thread to turn into a bunch of arguments. It's a rant thread though...so you can rant and not worry about being flamed.

[Wolfman]

I think there more crappy 60s toys than well-built. But that is the charm of 60s toys.

Especially the ones that survived intact.

JP

[marsattacks666]

Least favorite monster toy collectible! This is a negative thread , so you can get away with being negative here. Just don't be mean or nasty. If you don't like something...shout it out. I just didn't want this thread to turn into a bunch of arguments. It's a rant thread though...so you can rant and not worry about being flamed.

Okay....
I'll be the first to admit it. I cannot stand Louis/Marx Great Garloo.
...and yes, it is a Holy Grail. Just not my Holy Grail( Blasphemy)
How can that crappy-looking toy be so sought-after. Rhetorical.
This is NOT a jab at Marx Toys. Most Marx Toys were really
cool.

[Jim Bertges]

Okay....
I'll be the first to admit it. I cannot stand Louis/Marx Great Garloo.
...and yes, it is a Holy Grail. Just not my Holy Grail( Blasphemy)
How can that crappy-looking toy be so sought-after. Rhetorical.
This is NOT a jab at Marx Toys. Most Marx Toys were really
cool.

Mars, you might feel differently if you'd had a Garloo back them. Put yourself in a 9 or 10 year old mind set and have a look at the Great Garloo TV commercial.  I teamed my Garloo up with my Kenner Girder and Panel construction set and it was like having my own living monster movie in my bedroom. It doesn't get much better than that.

[jimm]

Not a big Garloo fan either... Even less so that tall robot ( Big Lou)?

[raycastile]

I'm not a "white mask" fan. I collect masks, but don't own a Michael Myers mask. If I were going to buy one, I'd buy a TOTS version. I don't understand people who have to have every (licensed or fan-made) MM mask ever produced. I love John Carpenter's Halloween. It is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. I like HII and HIII well enough. HIII is becoming something of a classic in its own right. I don't mind Rob Zombie's Halloween films, though I think they are misfires. But I can't stomach HIV, V, VI, H2O, or Resurrection. I really hate those films. I've tried to sit through them, but it is torture.

Can you have a worse movie title acronym than HIV?

Anyway, back to masks. I know there are collectors who obsessively fill entire rooms with MM masks. (They call them "white masks," for all of you who are not hip to the young folks' slang.) They will pay thousands of dollars for a fan-made MM mask that looks just like every other fan-made MM mask. And of course, the licensed MM masks are a disaster, save for the TOTS ones. And all those masks from the "middle" films were disasters on the screen, let alone as replicas.

I know there are people who obsess on Frankenstein or Creature and buy every little thing available on those characters, good or bad. But to have shelves full of 20 copies of the same blank, white face staring at you...I have a hard time identifying with that.

One of these days, I guess I should buy a TOTS Myers mask just to say I have one. One or two TOTS variants would be all the MM latex I'd ever need.

[raycastile]

Mars, you might feel differently if you'd had a Garloo back them. Put yourself in a 9 or 10 year old mind set and have a look at the Great Garloo TV commercial.  I teamed my Garloo up with my Kenner Girder and Panel construction set and it was like having my own living monster movie in my bedroom. It doesn't get much better than that.

I've never had a Garloo. I'd like to have one eventually. Though I suspect that, if I haven't bought one by now, I probably never well. There were a few years when I was regularly searching ebay to find a deal on a mint-in-box example. If I had found one with an unpunched serving tray, I probably would have coughed up the money, as long as it was well under $1,000. But I've never seen an unpunched one for sale. Last I checked, which was a while ago, boxed ones were going for around $700. I remember they spiked and depreciated, as have a lot of collectibles over the last 15 years.

[Mord]

 The Garloo had the same basic functions as the Marx Glenn Strange Frankenstein. I much preferred Frankie, but had no problem with Garloo. I looks very goofy today, but back in the day...

[horrorhunter]

Garloo is one of those toys that I would like to have at the right price, but I won't come anywhere near spending what they seem to sell for. There are many high end monster toys that fall into that description for me. Stuff I never had as a kid, but exude that Monsterkid look and spirit that I love. I've recaptured the important stuff to me already. The rest is just gravy, but I'm not dropping a fortune on gravy.

[Wolfman]

I'm not a "white mask" fan. I collect masks, but don't own a Michael Myers mask. If I were going to buy one, I'd buy a TOTS version. I don't understand people who have to have every (licensed or fan-made) MM mask ever produced. I love John Carpenter's Halloween. It is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. I like HII and HIII well enough. HIII is becoming something of a classic in its own right. I don't mind Rob Zombie's Halloween films, though I think they are misfires. But I can't stomach HIV, V, VI, H2O, or Resurrection. I really hate those films. I've tried to sit through them, but it is torture.

Can you have a worse movie title acronym than HIV?

Anyway, back to masks. I know there are collectors who obsessively fill entire rooms with MM masks. (They call them "white masks," for all of you who are not hip to the young folks' slang.) They will pay thousands of dollars for a fan-made MM mask that looks just like every other fan-made MM mask. And of course, the licensed MM masks are a disaster, save for the TOTS ones. And all those masks from the "middle" films were disasters on the screen, let alone as replicas.

I know there are people who obsess on Frankenstein or Creature and buy every little thing available on those characters, good or bad. But to have shelves full of 20 copies of the same blank, white face staring at you...I have a hard time identifying with that.

One of these days, I guess I should buy a TOTS Myers mask just to say I have one. One or two TOTS variants would be all the MM latex I'd ever need.

I agree. As far as I'm concerned the original Halloween is THE only Halloween movie for me. A true classic. Don't even get me started on the Rob Zombie films. Ugh!

As far as the masks go, I bought one from Nightowl's Justin Mabry. I love it, and would never need to buy another one because the eye holes are 1/100 of an inch further apart, or whatever dumb reason why one mask is different from another.  Amen on that one brother.

JP

[Hepcat]

I just didn't want this thread to turn into a bunch of arguments. It's a rant thread though...so you can rant and not worry about being flamed.

Well that takes the fun out of it.