How Do You Guys Display Charms?

[poseablemonster]

Sounds like we had similar childhoods.  My pal and I used to scout the alleys in the neighborhood to find glass soda bottles to return for the deposit at the corner Tom-Boy store, where we would promptly deposit our change into the vending machines in hopes of a monster jiggler.  I got my Kooky Spookys from the pharmacy up town.  They had a counter display full of the prisioners and the sports guys.  I ended up getting them all eventually, but I had to hustle for the $ to get 'em.  I think that is why they meant - and still mean - so much to me.

[Bogey]

I have 6 of them hanging here and they are kick to have.  Love 'em!  I am looking now for a very large white jiggler skeleton I had as a kid.  It would break from time to time and my mom would melt it back together.  Time to go treasure hunting.

[poseablemonster]

I have 6 of them hanging here and they are kick to have.  Love 'em!  I am looking now for a very large white jiggler skeleton I had as a kid.  It would break from time to time and my mom would melt it back together.  Time to go treasure hunting.

It's not this skeleton, is it?

[Bogey]

Very possible.  A year or so after owning this one they started coming out with smaller ones in different bright colors.  I almost have to feel the rubber.  It was a bit different in texture as it was "soft" and "mushy" feeling.  However, I thought mine had an open jaw and a bit of black through it and I believe it may have been off white.   Awesome sample though!

[poseablemonster]

Maybe more like this one:

It's over 2 feet tall and very soft rubber.

[raycastile]

Maybe more like this one:

It's over 2 feet tall and very soft rubber.

I have one of these coffee-colored skeletons, but as a kid I had the same jiggler in milky white.  I used him as a space jockey in my Alien games.  The Death Star cannon was his gun.

[Bogey]

Maybe more like this one:

It's over 2 feet tall and very soft rubber.

Wow! Size and feel correct.  Mine was a bit whiter.  When were these made?  Mine must have been early to mid 70's.

[poseablemonster]

I'm guessing you are correct; early to mid 70's.  I recall having a whiter one as a kid, too. 

[NekroDave]

Great pictures, Andy! I have to admit, every time I see you guys post about this stuff, I just don't get it. I can't seem to muster up any interest in these sorts of things. But with the boxes and display cards all together like that, I can start to see the appeal. Don't think I'd ever start buying them myself, mind you, but now I can at least see where you guys are coming from. (I hope that doesn't sound like a backhanded compliment, either. I mean it, great pics...)

[poseablemonster]

Great pictures, Andy! I have to admit, every time I see you guys post about this stuff, I just don't get it. I can't seem to muster up any interest in these sorts of things. But with the boxes and display cards all together like that, I can start to see the appeal. Don't think I'd ever start buying them myself, mind you, but now I can at least see where you guys are coming from. (I hope that doesn't sound like a backhanded compliment, either. I mean it, great pics...)

I know what you mean, Dave.  There are some areas of collecting that I just don't get, either. For me, the rubber monsters and monster charms were a big part of my childhood.  I guess that is some of the appeal for me.  But there's also that "cheeze" factor, too.  I like cheezy, stylized monster toys; usually more so than the ultra-detailed collectors items.  Also, I was hit in the head with a brick as a child; so that could be some of it, too.

[NekroDave]

Ok, ok.. I know this is gonna sound like a joke...but...

I really was hit in the head with a brick as a child!!! 

I'm not making this up. I was about 3 or 4 I think and I was playing underneath our back porch. My brother had decided that he was gonna "help" clean up a big pile of bricks that were at the bottom of the driveway...and just started chucking them over his shoulder. I don't think he knew I was there and next thing you know, I'm running up the driveway screaming, just covered in blood (I've always been a bleeder..), my mom freaked out when she saw me, etc.. .

A few stitches later and I was ok... and I never got the urge to collect rubber monster charms. So... we'll chalk it up to your childhood memories. 

[Bogey]

Well, I love 'em and I do not have an excuse of a brick.....

[poseablemonster]

Man, I wasn't joking (really) either!  I actually did get hit in the head with a brick, too.  A kid attacked me when I was riding my bike through an area of town that was particularly bad, and I got majorly whalluped.  I learned my lesson, and you are right - it probably didn't have much to do with my collecting habits.

[Gasport]

Well, i'm glad both you guys survived your getting hit in the head with a brick incidents and just have to chime in here to comment on how impressive Andy's charm collection is. I've always liked them and accumulated an average amount as a kid, but simply didn't keep track of them over time. To see such a massive collection on display all at once is truly overwhelming. It allows me to see many i had as a kid that i otherwise would have forgotten about. Thanks for sharing that with us all!

[Bogey]

Bump:

Been on a charm craze lately and do not see slowing down anytime soon.  Had to come up with a display that worked for my small monster nook.  Here it be:









and made this one "shine" a bit more:





You will notice a few non-charm and non-monster items strewn in.  I especially enjoy the pirate charms as well as the Dick Tracy pins.  Just stuff I think is cool and actually adds to the "gumball type prize effect", IMO.  The wood box is just from Hobby Lobby and the silver one is a Goodwill find.  Thanks Bobby and Andy for the sending many of these my way (along with the extra goodies) and especially answering all the questions you both fielded about charms.  Much appreciated.