Dime store/gumball machine rubber monsters?

[Barlow]

Ok, I've got memories of all sorts of rubber jiggler type monsters and other creatures that were found in the late 60's and early 70's in gumball machines and dime stores. I remember there was a gumball in Miami Bowl (a bowling alley on the southwest side of Chicago) back then. My parents always picked them up for me when they went bowling, as a surprise (though they soon became an expected gift! LOL!).

I remember a platypus type, one that was a simple lizard, and some really freaky ones like these:







Does anyone know of a major website that shows pictures all sorts of these things? I'd love to find some of the ones I had. Especially the green plain looking lizard one, the playtpus, etc. I'm dying to find pics and info on them. Any and all rubber lizard, monster, and other items from gumball machines. Anyone?

[chrisnurse]

I've got the one pictured at the top and a few more that were UK Gumball toys, I'll post images when I get time to take some photos. They seem to come up on ebay often also.

[Toy Ranch]

They were made after the Basil Wolverton and Norman Saunders drawings on Ugly Stickers by Topps.

http://www.normansaunders.com/Ugly,01.html

[OldTimey]

I had hundreds of these things as a kid. I remember catching a large bass with a yellow alligator I got from a vending machine. 

[raycastile]

I've got tons of that stuff, but not close up photos.  It's hard to get nice shots of those tiny things.  Those pics at the top of the thread are pretty good.

I'd like to do a proper photo shoot of my rubber Ugly Stickers one of these days.

[Barlow]

Thanks Toy Ranch! Wow, I remember even more of those! 

Still trying to find the platypus one, the lizard one, and some of the dinosaur-like ones.

[raycastile]

Can you try to draw a picture of some of these?  I might have the ones you are talking about, but I'm not sure.

[Barlow]

Given my pathetic art skills, I'm not sure it'd help. 

But yeah, let me try to at least draw out a few and see if I can get them to look somewhat recognizable. Hopefully I can get it close enough that someone would recognize them.

[chrisnurse]

Thanks Toy Ranch! Wow, I remember even more of those! 

Still trying to find the platypus one, the lizard one, and some of the dinosaur-like ones.

Was this the platypus monster? These are a few of mine, I've got to find the rest. These are from the UK, 1970s....

[Barlow]

I've seen that one somewhere, but no, that isn't the platypus one I'm thinking of. It was thicker, and more like a real platypus.

[Toy Ranch]

Was this the platypus monster? These are a few of mine, I've got to find the rest. These are from the UK, 1970s....

The only one from the "rubber uglies" set in this picture is the wide yellow one with the hairy arms.  The others are different rubber monsters.  Not that they are diminished in any way by not being part of that set.

[chrisnurse]

The only one from the "rubber uglies" set in this picture is the wide yellow one with the hairy arms.  The others are different rubber monsters.  Not that they are diminished in any way by not being part of that set.

I know they ain't. I've got a lot of the old rubber uglies boxed up somewhere, the rest are later (70s)  UK gumball critters, but the platypus sounded very much like the little guy at the front.

I also had a number of very small, harder plastic rubber uglies - they were pencil toppers, does anybody know if these were cheap copies?

[Toy Ranch]

I'd say they others are HK gumball critters.  We had them here, too.  They are all very cool! 

[chrisnurse]

I'd say they others are HK gumball critters.  We had them here, too.  They are all very cool!  

I used to love these things, there were much smaller, bady cast oily rubber versions of those generic guys that we got in the UK, none of those lasted as they'd get covered in fluff, hair and dirt

[ChattyLMS]

Were those the squishy rubbery toys that felt something like Creepy Crawlers?  I never like them much they felt like cold flesh.  My brothers had them.  I think they all found their way into the garbage.