What was your 1st monster toy?

[Dr.Terror]

Remco Frankie doll.   Which I still have.  He now sleeps in the Monsterizer he wanted 30 yrs ago. 

[Yokaiman]

I believe it was AHI Frankenstein's Monster.

[judd]

The first was the Shogun Warriors Godzilla.  The lever broke so I sold it but I have a non broken replacement sitting on my shelf. 

I also had the 9 inch Remco Dracula.  I don't have him anymore.   

[Mitchellmania]

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.

I know different now (too late), I don't know if someone told me, or I was over zealous, but it was after a Billy Gram Crusade, and I threw away all my rock albums (my entire RUSH album collection with picture discs ), my monster and model collection (with my Herman Munster)  all went on the curb. 

[Opera Ghost]

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



Ah, the memories!!

Very cool! We had the more comic looking cover version

[Opera Ghost]

I know different now (too late), I don't know if someone told me, or I was over zealous, but it was after a Billy Gram Crusade, and I threw away all my rock albums (my entire RUSH album collection with picture discs ), my monster and model collection (with my Herman Munster)  all went on the curb. 

I did the same thing with my GI Joes and Captain actions before going to college. Man!

[GodzillaGirl]

I lived in Japan when I was a kid, and if you're familiar with children's Japanese TV and films you'll know I had tons of monsters to choose from!  I can't recall which came first, but my earliest monster toys were a Gojira (Godzilla) model kit that had motorized wheels on the botton and breathed sparks, and a menko card featuring the monsters from "War of the Gargantuas."  I wish I still had them of course, but being an Air Force Brat required a lot sacrifices...the worst was having to get rid of our toys whenever we had to move!

[Opera Ghost]

I lived in Japan when I was a kid, and if you're familiar with children's Japanese TV and films you'll know I had tons of monsters to choose from!  I can't recall which came first, but my earliest monster toys were a Gojira (Godzilla) model kit that had motorized wheels on the botton and breathed sparks,

How cool is that GG! I think I've seen one of these before.

[GodzillaGirl]

How cool is that GG! I think I've seen one of these before.

If I remember correctly, my brother and I had the exact same Gojira models.  We put them together one evening with the help of an older neighbor kid who was babysitting us at the time, but mine didn't actually work when it was all put together.  My brother had quite a bit more experience working with model kits (and that wicked glue), so his worked perfectly of course! 

[GodzillaGirl]

I just remembered my other first monster toy!  I'm pretty sure this came way before my Godzilla model and the menko card.  Again, I lived in Japan for a few years when I was a young child.  My family lived on a USAF dependents housing base (closed many years ago) in Chofu and all the kids who lived there used to buy treats from a small store owner through a hole in the security fence that surrounded the base.  While all the other kids mostly bought candy and other edibles, I always went for the "gashapon" (vending machines that dispense little toys in plastic capsules).  Back then, gashapon consisted of very small oval-shaped plastic containers, usually some ugly gray color, with a plastic or rubber creature inside.  Gashapon have since evolved into larger containers with very nice, finely detailed snap-together action figures inside.  Anyway, the gashapon I used to get from the store owner contained rubber finger-puppet creatures.  I didn't know what these were called so I just used to refer to them as "rubber monsters."  I believe they are actually called "jigglers."  I loved those things!

Looking back, I now feel kind of bad for the store owner.  He had to cross a rather dangerous road to get to the hole in the fence just to gather a few yen from us gaijin kids.  He either needed the money desperately or he was an incredibly nice guy...maybe both!

[pongo]

Colorforms Outerspace Men.

I loved the Outer Space Men. I just happened to be going through my old photo's and found this. I also just won an Astro Nautulis by Four Horsemen off of EBAY. Good price since there so hard to find already.

My original Outer Space Men

[Hepcat]

The first monster items I ever had were the Leaf Spook Stories gum cards in 1961. But the first actual monster toy I had was a Hasbro Marble Maze which my mother bought for me at Woolworth's in downtown London a year or so later.

[Dr. Madd]

I've had several. One was a grim reaper with a removeable head. I'm not sure of the company. I also had a spider game of some kind, and a monster machine molding kit and the remco dracula and Frankenstein.

[Hepcat]

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.

Now that's beyond belief. "Friends" they certainly weren't.

[darkmonkeygod]

I loved the Outer Space Men. I just happened to be going through my old photo's and found this. I also just won an Astro Nautulis by Four Horsemen off of EBAY. Good price since there so hard to find already.

Great photo! Cool that you are picking up the new versions by Four Horsemen, but don't overpay for them, they are readily (and perhaps exclusively?) available from the Four Horsemen's webstore: http://www.shopfourhorsemen.com/ouspmenfofis.html.