More Junk

[CreepysFan]

 Absolutely love the Uggly Wugglies, used to buy those all the time.  Also have owned the suction third eye before. As usual really great stuff there Ray, thanks for sharing these treasures.

[toysoldierman2001]

Ray,do you display all this stuff or is it packed up and you take stuff out as needed?

[raycastile]

Interesting how you notice things in a photo that you don't notice when you actually have the toy in your hands.  On the vending card, I see that the finger in the upper right corner is coming off the card.  Didn't notice that until I saw the photo. 

But more interestingly, look at the foil sticker at the lower right of the Screechers card.


"Give toys for safe trick or treating."  Even then, they were worried about razor blades and poison in Halloween candy.  I remember parents started worrying about that the last couple years I was trick or treating.  Earlier, I don't remember it being an issue.  But my last couple Halloweens, my parents had to scrutinize the candy and toss out anything "suspicious."

[raycastile]

Ray,do you display all this stuff or is it packed up and you take stuff out as needed?

Right now, this junk is just lying around on the floor, kind of like you see in the photos.  But the rest of the junk in this thread is packed in boxes.  Those boxes are pretty full, so I need to start a new box.

I have one of those ridiculous Sideshow premium format Creatures.  I just keep it in the box, since I have no place to display it.  So I have this big, dumb box standing like a 2001 monolith in my bedroom, obstructing my freedom of motion.  I've started stacking all manner of junk on top of it.  So now I have three or four layers of junk teetering atop this Creature box.  So it is a $250 pedestal on which to stack my dimestore junk.  I kind of like the absurdity of that.

[Gasport]

JUNKTASTIC!! Thanks for sharing, Ray!

[NekroDave]

Ray, do you, or anyone else here, have the "Parts of Body" box of rubber body parts? I saw them on Ebay awhile back and I thought I'd saved the pics, but I can't find them. The box was full of eyes, ears, fingers, etc.. and the art on the box was the greatest thing ever. It was a bunch of surgeons operating on someone but they were basically just cutting him him up! There were bloody limbs on the table and stuff. It was hilarious. I really should have bought it.

[mjaycox]

I have a box that goes with those AHI sparkers done in exactly the same style. The mystery deepens...Mine don't say AHI either, but they are originals. Note Godzilla's feet. And the box has Creech on it! Yay! see below:

This is the piece that most interests me.  It is apparently a bagged AHI sparking Godzilla.  It doesn't say "AHI" anywhere on the package, but it has the Super Monsters name and AHI-styled fonts and artwork.  It's the original version of the toy.  The feet have toes, unlike the later ones.

[raycastile]

I do have the "Parts of Body" box.  It will turn up eventually in this thread. 

Very interesting, Matt.  I've seen display boxes filled with the later versions of this windups.  Did yours come filled with toys?  Is it a mix of originals and reissues?  I see you have a Godzilla with toes and a Kong without toes.  Did they both come out of that box?  I've personally examined "fresh from the case" boxes of those toys and they were all toeless.  The only ones I've seen with toes were the AHI versions.

[mjaycox]

The pic is one I took. The King Kong was an old one I had. A Creature with Toes and a Godzilla with toes were the only ones in the box when I bought it. I was going to sell King Kong, Godzilla and the box on Ebay. But then I thought better of it. Kept the Creature of course.

The guy I bought them from said they were all his from when he was kid. He didn't elaborate any further than that. I don't know if he acquired all the items at the same time. Even if he insisted he did, memory is notoriously imprecise.

What I find interesting, and what intrigues me most is your Godzilla appears to have the proper original toes or is that just the photo. Since these package designs are clearly the exact same era, it makes me wonder if indeed the toed versions did come out of this box.

I DO NOT, however, feel this is an AHI issuing of these things. I think they must have come out after the original AHI wave, as  the box art doesn't resemble anything AHI-ian from any of its major 70s periods. My guess is that these are from the same era as when the Ben Cooper Jigglers got re-released  by another company and reissued in a display box with art superficially similar in style to this.

Very interesting, Matt.  I've seen display boxes filled with the later versions of this windups.  Did yours come filled with toys?  Is it a mix of originals and reissues?  I see you have a Godzilla with toes and a Kong without toes.  Did they both come out of that box?  I've personally examined "fresh from the case" boxes of those toys and they were all toeless.  The only ones I've seen with toes were the AHI versions.

[raycastile]

My bagged Godzilla does have toes.  I've also got these sparkers with toes:



I agree that the bagged Godzilla and your box, Matt, are probably not AHI issues.  But I'm not sure that I would say the artwork does not resemble AHI.  I'm going to look at an AHI catalog and see if I can find an image of the carded Godzilla sparker.

[darkmonkeygod]

Here's mine. AHI never released a Godzilla as they never bought the license. I'd be very surprised if the bagged one you bought (which is super cool, btw) has an AHI copyright on the foot. The Creature pictured in your latest post shouldn't either, based on everything we've seen.

[raycastile]

Dang, that's awesome.  Thanks for posting that.  I don't remember the last time I saw one of those on a card.  I'll check my Creature to see if it has any AHI info on it.

[raycastile]

OK, I checked all three of the toys in that picture.  The carded Kong does have Azrak-Hamway copyright info on the bottom of his foot.  The loose "Godzilla" and Creature do not.  All they say is "Hong Kong."  But they both have toes on their feet and they have the same red windup key as the carded Kong.  Matt's loose Kong has no toes and a different key.  I've seen other ones with metallic keys.

How did you know that the Creature would not have AHI info?  What was the giveaway?

Somewhere buried in a toy box, I believe I still have my windup AHI Creature from childhood.  It came off a card, so it is definitely AHI.  But I'm not sure where it is.  It would take a well-funded expedition to find it.

[poseablemonster]

Resurrecting Ray's junk thread...here's some junk I got recently.  Several display cards from vending machines and other nifty junk:

[darkmonkeygod]

How did you know that the Creature would not have AHI info?  What was the giveaway?

Somewhere buried in a toy box, I believe I still have my windup AHI Creature from childhood.  It came off a card, so it is definitely AHI.  But I'm not sure where it is.  It would take a well-funded expedition to find it.

Just saw your post from July. The AHI Creature has green feet. Never seen one that didn't, never seen one with green feet that wasn't AHI.