Clinton Frankenstein bucket

[Count Zero]

i agree with you & i like your painting comparison.
if these repops were cheap - i'd pick up a few for the yard to use as planters or something. or even paint one up & use it to hand out candy this year.

i spoke with the seller & the initial run consists of around a dozen pieces.
for selfish reasons i was hoping this one wouldn't sell... so that way maybe the seller would drop the price...but... as of the moment - i believe it already has 2 bids on it.... so.. yeah.

[hugohernandez]

Green plastic would be very cool, translucent for sure.

The planters just don't do it for me, they seem cheap and distasteful.    LOL.

I am still sticking with the theory that the lamps also came with base sawn off since we have 2 pictures and 2 people who claimed to have see more, at least 4 without bases.

[Monster Bob]

Crooked bases likely didn't sell when these were new, and likely happened in the cooling process. What Mom would have bought a crooked lamp? Few. Easiest and cheapest solution? Cut the base off and sell them that way. And they would have sold.

[Maceo1]

Crooked bases likely didn't sell when these were new, and likely happened in the cooling process. What Mom would have bought a crooked lamp? Few. Easiest and cheapest solution? Cut the base off and sell them that way. And they would have sold.

You may be right. The Glenn heads were so crooked on the bases that nobody would buy them.  Specially if they were planning to put a lamp shade on them.

Mom: " Sorry Billy, that is too crooked, put it back where you got it from. "
Billy: " Aww, shucks ".

[Monsters For Sale]

You may be right. The Glenn heads were so crooked on the bases that nobody would buy them.  Specially if they were planning to put a lamp shade on them....

The full lamp blow mold had two major problems.

The hot mold tended to sag at the neck line under its own weight, making the head tilt to one side or the other.

The perimeter of the base was often VERY thin (like the nose) in spots.  Guess it was just hard to force enough plastic into the extremities. 


The bottom picture above is my Frank Lamp.  It has both problems.  It tilts a bit more than the picture shows.  I had put some small item under one side to lessen the appearance of the list.

If a person had a lamp with a really thin base, it could get very dented or even easily be pierced.  The simple solution would be to eliminate the base altogether.

Too bad it was not cast as two separate pieces - or roto-cast.

[hugohernandez]

Adam thanks for sharing.    I agree that what Monster Bob spoke of, that the company saw the flaw and continued selling chopped topped.

[Monsters For Sale]

Adam thanks for sharing.    I agree that what Monster Bob spoke of, that the company saw the flaw and continued selling chopped topped.

It would explain why they are so bloody rare.  Not many turned out well enough to sell.

[Maceo1]

Spot a lamp ?

[Dr. Jitters]

i agree with you & i like your painting comparison.
if these repops were cheap - i'd pick up a few for the yard to use as planters or something. or even paint one up & use it to hand out candy this year.

i spoke with the seller & the initial run consists of around a dozen pieces.
for selfish reasons i was hoping this one wouldn't sell... so that way maybe the seller would drop the price...but... as of the moment - i believe it already has 2 bids on it.... so.. yeah.

Hi, Count! and greetings, friends.  There are new pictures on the ebay listing that show some finer detail of the bucket.  I'm the guy making and selling these and I know I haven't been on this message board in forever, but I'm one of those casualties of Facebook.  Finally got on it and now addicted.  Anyway, I realize that there's a slight controversy to the re-pops, but my inspiration comes from the beautiful sculpture of this thing and that I had always wanted one and thought re-pops could and should be cheaper than the one I bought years back.  The price is not super cheap, but seems to be about right compared to other items -- for example, I saw someone selling a repro box for the Frankie speaker, just the box, for 90 bucks -- or someone selling the nice Moebius Bride painted for 130.  Anyway, the pricing is kind of establishing itself as this auction goes on. 

I'm still getting used to the process of selling on ebay.  I took the first pics with my laptop and the newer pics with my phone and uploaded them.   I realize opinions vary on things, so to each his own! 

[Monsters For Sale]

...I'm the guy making and selling these...

More power to you!

Hope you find your market.  You have bidders on your first listing, so it looks like you will.

[Dr. Jitters]

Thanks!  Appreciate it.

[Monsters For Sale]

Spot a lamp ? 

Yeah.


                                     Frankenstein - Jack-O-Lantern - by Trendmasters - 1993

[Maceo1]

Awww !   I was going to post that.  Good one.  (I thought it was 1995 item)

[Monsters For Sale]

I also have the same 1993 date for this version:



At 10", it is 1 inch shorter than the  pumpkin.

I think they were both sold as K-Mart exclusives.

[Monsters For Sale]

Things just got... interesting:




                                                     (Click on the pictures above to see larger images.)

The listing:

http://tinyurl.com/ybg7y6lh

This is not the guy in Burbank, CA.  This one is in Fort Wayne, IN.


Hark!  Is that the sound of bricks splashing toilet water all over the country?