What was your 1st monster toy?

[Hepcat]

I remember the trolls being sold in quarter vending machines at the supermarket.

[voyttbots]

Mine was the Marx Prehistoric Animals set in 1960. The one I wish I still had was the Godzilla board game but not sure which year I got that. I got King Zor in 1962, I think. And the Godzilla board game in 1964 or 65.

[bigbud]

Just spotted an Ideal Monster Lab on E-bay currently at $685! That would have been one of my first monster toys, but never knew it existed back then!  Buddy

[packy120353]

Definition of monster toy is kind of gray...rubber spider from a vending machine? 1950s steel space ship bank? Odd Ogg?  They just put me in the mood for my first Aurora kit, I want to think it was Frank but can't be sure but I would call that my first real monster toy.

[lblambert]

Not sure of this counts as a monster toy but it's the first I can remember

[Wicked Lester]

I've had several. One was a grim reaper with a removeable head. I'm not sure of the company.

That would be the MPC Pop Tops from around 1964. I had a purple witch and a yellow executioner.
There is a brief thread on it here with a couple pics. They have remade these fairly recently but the plastic is shinier and they are not quite as cool.

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=4304.0

[Hepcat]

Not sure of this counts as a monster toy but it's the first I can remember

Shaker Makers were a very popular line of toys in the seventies. There were several different ones.

[creechaholic]

AHI creature jiggler (the smaller one) My dad got it for me when i was about 7 years old. Don't have it anymore, can't remember what happened to it but i now have 3 in my collection...

[drmark7]

Christmas 1961 Great Garloo; I remember waking up on Christmas Eve and hearing my Dad out in the living room playing with it. I could hear the whirr of the electric motors and wondering what was going on out by the Christmas Tree. // My first "real" monster toy was the Aurora Frankenstein, purchased at Disneyland at Tinkerbell's Toy Shop in Fantasyland. When ever I'm at Disneyland I make a pilgrimage to that toy shop and visit the counter where they had a huge stack of those great kits.

>>>When ever I'm at Disneyland I make a pilgrimage to that toy shop and visit the counter
>>>where they had a huge stack of those great kits.

I'm curious... All these years later... your trip back to "the same counter"... What did you find???
Was there anything to compare with the joys of Aurora Monster Models or anything retro/ worthy???

Just wondering...

[billyatom]

1960s light green Creature pez.

[aura of foreboding]

>>>When ever I'm at Disneyland I make a pilgrimage to that toy shop and visit the counter
>>>where they had a huge stack of those great kits.

I'm curious... All these years later... your trip back to "the same counter"... What did you find???
Was there anything to compare with the joys of Aurora Monster Models or anything retro/ worthy???

Just wondering...

Disneyland only carries its own merchandise/toys anymore.  (They used to carry high-end, specialty lines up through the early 2000s, but I don't think they do that anymore either.)  No outside vendors are welcome, and that's just as well -- since Disney's park merchandise is usually a cut above anything modern toy makers produce. 

[horrorhunter]

Mine was a Haunted Hulk, which helps explain my obsession with it. That, and it's cool. 

[Dr. Madd]

Those plastic monsters with the switchable heads.

[Hepcat]

It's tough to believe that you're not able to name that particular monster figure line.

[Darkside1]

  Can't remember the first one I played with as a kid, but collecting, my first item was the Remco Addams Family Lurch figure. I purchased from Toy Scouts in Akron, OH in the late 80s. The founder, Bill Bruegman, was such a great guy and authority on 60s toys of all kinds.
  Wish I knew if he was still around, as he was a super nice guy!