7-11 MONSTER Slurpee Cups!

[ProfGriffin]

Greetings Night Creatures.

Ok, so...

Slurpee...I grew up with these frozen concoctions.  Frozen, slushie, flavored and yummy.
Comparable to Icees or Slush Puppies or heck, a watery snow cone.

The 7-11 company branded these drinks and provided them in many different collectable cups.  By far the most famous were the baseball slurpee collections and of course the amazing Superhero Cups which covered both Marvel and DC and were really expansive across the Universes of these two company and using some really rare characters...(a Baron Zemo Slurpee Cup?  Yup.  The Inhumans?  Uh-huh.

But I digress.

My favorite as a kid was The Joker cup.  But closely behind that was the MONSTER Collection.
These Monsters were not officially licensed and featured generic monsters of myth and legend.
The Vampire, The Zombie, The Mummy, The Monster of the Moors, The Troll, The Headless Horseman, Medusa,
etc...

Here are some of the cups that I have (both from my childhood and collecting on Ebay)



Hydra, Golem, Zombie, Monster of the Moors (Headless Horseman and Roc in back)



Vampire and Mummy



Close up of Werewolf.



The backs of the cups had these great overviews of the monsters in a dire serious tone.
I drank many a slurpee out of these wonderful cups...they are hard plastic, brittle and shatter when dropped (or if it slips out of your hand when you are riding your bike)

These cups were a big part of my childhood...a childhood filled with monsters.

-Prof. Griffin

[gracebuster]

Those are crazy.

I love that they include THE GOLEM!

[Tom Smith Monsternut]

You mean the Frankin-Golem
Look at his head ! it's a Frank head if I ever saw one.

[Trap-Door Maker]

Wow. I had forgotten all about those! Thanks for posting the pics!


PB

[mike c]

I had the Headless Horseman and Zombie cups, and a third (for some reason I can't recall which it was, but I want to say The Werewolf, so let's pretend) and kept them nice until the Northridge earthquake in Jan of '94, when all my toy shelves, as well as everything else in our house, got demolished.
Actually, demolished is exaggerating, but a lot of my stuff got just pulverized... and the cups where shattered beneath a TV set that came from the bedroom across the hall (my house was a mile from the epicenter, and that TV must have shaken across the hall, seriously)... this was also when my Phantom model kit lost his hands.
But I remember those cups, and those childhood bikeriding summers, very fondly. It is a pleasure to see them again, thanks for the post.

Mike C.

[The Phantom Creep]

Boy those were good times riding the 'ole bike up to the 7-11 and drinking a coke, cherry mix slurpee out of monster and superhero (and -yawn- baseball players). I have an almost complete set of the Monster cups. I'm missing one cup, but I don't remember offhand which one.

[Illoman]

Boy those were good times riding the 'ole bike up to the 7-11 and drinking a coke, cherry mix slurpee out of monster and superhero (and -yawn- baseball players). I have an almost complete set of the Monster cups. I'm missing one cup, but I don't remember offhand which one.

Same here! I used to take my lawn mowing money, ride my bike to 7-11 and buy comics and Slurpees. I had many of the Marvel Superhero cups (and still do). I also at one time had a huge window poster advertising the Marvel cups, but had to sell it in a time of need.

Sniff...

Mike

[hhwolfman]

  I have some of those but,  didn't know they did a werewolf. Cool. HHW 

[ProfGriffin]

I like reading the Bike-riding memories...

That's what a Slurpee was....something to enjoy on a bike, while riding through a beautiful summer day.
Regarding the superhero cups...they also had (and I really want to replace mine) cups of Marv Wolfman's , Tomb of Dracula, and Werewolf by Night...and Ploog's Monster of Frankenstein.

I think they even had a Brother Voodoo cup....

Don't know if they ever made a Simon 'Zombie' Garth cup.

[neonnoodle]

Gosh, I don't remember those...are they mid-70's cups?  Never saw them, I'm sure.

[The Phantom Creep]

So I've figured out that I'm actually missing 3 of the cups from this series. The Golem, The Vampire and 1 other.

And I have extras of The Mummy and The Ghost Riders if anyone needs them.

[ProfGriffin]

So I've figured out that I'm actually missing 3 of the cups from this series. The Golem, The Vampire and 1 other.

And I have extras of The Mummy and The Ghost Riders if anyone needs them.

LOL.

I actually am in need of a Ghost Riders Cup.  If you haven't already passed it on...
I'll contact you off list.

[1975]

I have never seen those before, fun!

[poseablemonster]

Those are really cool.  I never had any 7-11 stores around me so I never had 'em, but I would have flipped for them as a kid.

[Illoman]

Those are really cool.  I never had any 7-11 stores around me so I never had 'em, but I would have flipped for them as a kid.

We had one that was probably a mile from where I lived. Looking back, at the traffic of the street where it was located, and the distance from my house, there's no way I would let me kids ride their bikes alone to the same places and distances I did as a kid. Wonder why that is? Tougher times? Has the media just scared me more?

I went back to where I grew up, and the school I walked to when I was in 2nd to 4th grades: it was *far* from my house! It also went right past a woods! I look at that and wonder what the heck my folks were thinking!! I guess they figured there were lots of other kids walking the same route so it'd be safe.

Mike