What was your 1st monster toy?

[ramsey37]

I am guessing that I was 4, but no older than 5 at the time.  That would have made it 1969, but I am sure they sold them for more than a year.

I got both the T-Rex and the Triceratops Christmas 1973. They were listed in the Sears Wishbook that year.
George

[Bogey]

I got both the T-Rex and the Triceratops Christmas 1973. They were listed in the Sears Wishbook that year.
George

There it is.  Then they made them for multiple years.  Thanks, George!

[Scatter]

I think my first monster toy was the Mattel Herman Munster talking doll (full body). I had him till I was about 27 years old, and I went through a "born again' experience and threw everything I owned away (what a mistake!)

Oh crap.......I'm a Christian, and I don't find any contradiction between my faith and my love for monsters. I can only imagine somebody "spiritual" influenced you to do that, and they should be kicked in the groin by a mule for it.

[Scatter]

My first exposure I had though not really a monster was seeing my father's friends kids Tarpit kit.  Wow!  I stared at that thing for hours.  Loved it!  I never got one you know why?  Because they haven't reissued the DARN thing...That's WHY!  Moebius has since done Monster Scenes, they need to start cracking on the Prehistoric scenes....

Oh, my first monster toy?  1980's Remco line.  I had them all.  They would regularly invade the Star Wars universe and Dracula would suck Luke's blood dry.  Don't have any to this day because my "friends" broke in our house, stole all my toys and burned my freaking house down.  Jerks!  Anyway that was a long time ago.  I was hoping in my trades for the PopTops that I would get some but alas, no one sent any.  But I sure am grateful for what you DID send!

Your "friends" stole your toys and burnt down your HOUSE? How does that happen precisely? How old were you/they?? Were there arrests?? Did you hunt them down and kill them years later?? If not, can I help you do it now??

[Scatter]

Anyway, my first monster toy was the Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows Game.



Ah, the memories!!

[ChrisW]

Not quite sure...
First Aurora was definitely the Wolf Man, received in the Summer of '63.
Another early monster toy was the large Frankenstein target game with the styrofoam balls.
Even earlier, though, I distinctly remember being dressed up on Halloween as a skeletal prisoner in striped suit. Since that was before kindergarten, I would have been four, which makes that 1961.

[Sleepyhollowstudios]

Since I was born in 1986, my first monster toys (well, they weren't even toys) were the Pizza Hut holographic cards and cup lids. I still have my Dracula cup lid. You inserted the straw into his mouth, which I always thought was pretty funny.

My first toys, however, were the Burger King Kid's Meal toys given out in 1997. I thought it was amazing to have the Universal Monsters in my Kid's Meal. That was a good October.

-Andy

[Illoman]

It would have to be this Munsters Colorforms playset. I got it for my 6th birthday. I can't imagine I had anything monster related prior to this:



Mike

[darkmonkeygod]

It would have to be this Munsters Colorforms playset. I got it for my 6th birthday. I can't imagine I had anything monster related prior to this:

Mike

Great photo Mike!

[jjktkk]

A rubber grizzly bear.  And I had 3 of the groovy ghoulie figures, mummy, frankenstein, and werewolf.

[Illoman]

Great photo Mike!

Thanks, DMG. My Mom made that Batman cake. She always made me and my two brothers a themed cake depending on who our favorites were at the time. I remember her making a killer Captain America Kirby face out of icing. I kept that part in the freezer for years! She also made me a Spider-Man and a Banana Splits cake, among others.

Mike

[Jscareshock]

Mine, I believe, was the MPC monster checkers set.  I remember playing with the monsters in red and black (still have all the originals but one).  THey fought well against my Marx army men.
Thereabouts I then acquired the Palmer monsters with the gun that fired ping pong balls or was it darts? at the creatures to knock them down.

THen came Monster Old Maid.  After that I was batman addicted and didn't return to monsters until I was a teen.

[Mitchellmania]

This dino (thanks for the pics that michblk posted in a thread here: http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=1918.0



As far as Universal goes, the Phantom Glow kit.

I had one of these!! I used it to attack my Marx Knights carry all playset!!

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

My first Monster toy was a Christmas gift,when I was 5 years old..
It was Godzilla...he stood about 2 feet, he had a red lever on his back,and when you pulled it down,his flaming tongue would come out.
If I remember right, it seems he could shoot his fist off as well...I cant remember if he growled or anything else.
we have pictures somewhere, I will have to see if I can locate them...

[Monolith]

That's the Godzilla from the Shogun Warriors line that you got.
I got one at a toy show about 12 years ago. Here's a pic I took of him.

Mitchellmania---I had that T-rex AND the Marx knights play set, too! I still have a couple of the little knights and vikings in a box somewhere.