What was your 1st monster toy?

[BlackLagoon]

So what was the 1st monster toy you ever had? Where did you get it? Do you still have it? Any extra cool memories about it?

The 1st monster toys I ever played with were my uncle's Remcos...which I fell in love with enough that I begged for my own.

Soon after I would be the proud owner of Dracula and The Creature...who regularly traveled in my pocket.

[monsterphile]

It was probably a monster jiggler.  Everytime we visited my grandmother in NY, she would get me something like that from the local store along with comic books and such.  I don't have any of them still, but I wish I did.

Rob

[tv horror]

My Aurora Phantom which I got and painted in 1967 and I still have along with my Forgotten prisoner, Frankenstein monster. I will always treasure these models because my late father bought them for me  and helped me make them. 

[fmofmpls]

I lost my monster toy virginity to Milton Bradly's Monster Old Maid card game. Playing that card game at my grandmother's house was one of my earliest encounters with uni-merchandise. Then came the Aurora model kits and Spook Stories gum cards. My life went downhill from that point on. 

[Type3Toys]

Mego Human Wolfman was my first "monster" toy.

[hammerfan]

Aurora Frankenstein.

[michblk]

General, I thought for sure you would have said it was a Monster Jiggler...  

I think for me, it would have been probably an Aurora Glow Godzilla.  As far as Toys, I'm guessing the AHI's.  I still have them today.

BK

[fmofmpls]

General, I thought for sure you would have said it was a Monster Jiggler...  

No Brian, that didn't come my way until 35 yrs later when I married my wife. It's been jigglin' ever since. 

[OldTimey]

The Barnabas Collins model kit (MPC 1969).

[BaronLatos35]

My AHI Frankenstein. I must have been in Kindergarten.

My favorite was my 3.5" Remco Dracula. Phantom was cool. I also loved Remco's Frankenstein and Dracula Make Up kit.

[Street Worm]

Aurora Frankenstein for me, too-

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

As a baby, I had a stuffed gorilla, but that's not specifically a monster.

I had plastic Marx dinosaurs and some dinosaur model kits before my first Universal Monster toy.

At the time, I loved rubber bats, spiders, snakes and bugs, so we always looked at the rubber toys in the department store on the weekends.

That's when I got what I believe was my first monster toy: a stinky, oily Wolf Man jiggler.

[Opera Ghost]

Aurora Dracula, around 1968....which I no longer have, but have bought about 4 times since

OG

[Monster Bob]

I can't remember what came first- Aurora Frankenstein, Remco Munsters, Monster Old Maid, Big Loo, or Marx Yeti.

One of those...

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The Aurora Frankenstein kit was the first Monster Toy I discovered in a store- a long defunct drug store. I can still place myself in the moment, holding the kit in my 4 year old (or so) hands. I think I heard strains of  "HAAAAAA-LLELUJAH..."!   "HAAAAAA-LLELUJAH..."! in my head, whilst endlessly staring at that cool Aurora box art...amazed by the vivid yellow/green monster against the  purple sky, thinking, 'look at him...standing in the tall grass in a graveyard...reaching at me'. More of a thrill than being scared. Frankenstein didn't scare me. Now Wolf Man and Dracula...they were scary.

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I also recall the similar experience "holding and staring" at these in a store:

Aurora Creature kit (*at*) ALEXANDER'S VARIETY STORE (I loved frogs as a kid, and this thing looked like  a rabid frog with teeth- I hadn't seen the movie at that point)

Aurora Munsters Living Room (*at*) KRESKE'S (I wasn't sure what it was...a room in a box? A flat playset?
A puzzle? All I knew was I was in love with Lily Munster at the time)

A 6 foot PYRAMID of Aurora Big Frankies on an aisle end cap at a department store called TOPP'S.

Jaymar "Dracula" puzzle- the freaky artwork stunned me! I wasn't sure what this was either, but I figured it was a puzzle. I saw it somewhere on vacation.

[Wicked Lester]

I had the hollow 6 inch Marx dinosaurs. Love those. And this guy I got when I was 4 or 5,I think.
They are all long gone.