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Frankensteins Monster wind-up toy by Robot House.
This and many more my collection are on eBay if anyone is interested. www.ebay.com/usr/horrorncomics
...winning the Mister Monster-verse Beauty Pageant. Congratulations Wolfman!!
For the Toy Sunday group. Theme - Happiness
The Aurora Plastics Corporation was founded in March, 1950 and initially produced aircraft kits before moving onto automobiles in the 60s . Their fortunes improved considerably when Aurora acquired a license from Universal Studios to create a line of kits based on Universal monsters, which became the company’s most popular offerings. Aurora's kit of Frankenstein appeared in 1961, and was followed by twelve other monster figures that were issued and reissued in various versions through the early 1970s . The art on most of these boxes was provided by James Bama , who later achieved recognition as the cover artist on the numerous ' Doc Savage ' paperbacks .
Inside this envelope are four postcards featuring monster scenes from the Movieland Wax Museum. This envelope was sent to a subscriber to Famous Monsters magazine in 1963.
These are the small Elwar monster buttons. They are 1" in diameter and were sold in vending machines. The card on the left is an original vending machine display card for them.
A few years back I turned up my nose at that Van Helsing figure, until a few pictures by an IG user called Monster Pete showed me the error of my ways. Pete's great black & white photos of Van Helsing tracking and battling various classic monsters were visually appealing, and his well-written fictional journal entries by Van Helsing himself completely captured the gothic horror spirit.
So finally, after all that time, I was pleased to shoot a series of my own like this, and I really enjoyed depicting this figure on the hunt for one of my favorites, the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Here it's representing a member of the species some half a century prior to the movie.
From the journal of Abraham Van Helsing:
July 15th, 1899: The string of disappearances in Rio de Janeiro led me to the underbelly of the great jungle metropolis, to forgotten corridors and walls of encrusted bricks long unseen by man. There, in the shadowy confines, my worst fears were confirmed: the tunnels had been infested by some being, or perhaps several beings, amphibian in nature and exhibiting qualities of mankind as well, a kind of hybrid equal parts disturbing and fascinating to the scientific senses. It remains unknown what stirred this antediluvian creature and caused it to take refuge in the sultry caverns not of nature, but of human construction, where for untold years it prowled the waterways and vanished beneath artifical underground lakes. In those dank hallways we stalked each other at length, and many times we clashed, until in the end I observed the prehistoric stowaway as it was swept in the man made currents and submerged in a swirling maelstrom that was surely impossible to escape. With this event, safety was preserved in the streets and courtyards above, yet my scientific curiosity cried out against it, despairing at the sight of knowledge drained through the darkness beyond rusted iron bars. It is only that selfsame curiosity which tempers my feeling of woe, for it wonders, what remains here in the depths? What clutch of eggs, nestled in an uncharted alcove, will hatch a new opportunity to bolster science and make a successful, peaceful link between the population of the surface and that of the watery underworld?
This figure..er..package was given to me a few years back by a friend. I was very surprised, because up until then I didn't think it possible that a Universal Monster product made by Sideshow Toy could have escaped my radar. I was very obsessed with the stuff. All my buddy knew was someone had sent it to him, and he couldn't even remember who.
Supposedly this item is very rare. It really is a sealed package with accessories minus the Invisible Man figure. I don't know the item's origin, only that they are pretty scarce. I have researched it a bit, but it seems even Sideshow employees are sketchy on the information (Way to keep decent records of your products there guys!), but have confirmed it is authentic.
I saw someone on eBay trying to sell one for $200.00. He claimed in the item title that only five were made, and they were made for employees, but then in the description it said only three were made. I think both numbers are bullshit, and there were most likely more produced. It is very possible they were made for employees, and probably people Sideshow conducted business with at the time. If it had been a retailer exclusive, I, and many others, would know about it.
It does not surprise me that the guy's on eBay didn't sell for $200.00, even IF there were only five made. Though it is a really fun novelty, when it comes down to it, there is no figure (or IS there? muahahaha) and I don't see even the biggest Invisible Man fan paying that much for an empty (or IS it? muahahaha) package.
Sideshow are not the first to do something like this. They were obviously inspired by Invisible Jim, a figure I really wish I had. But then, maybe I do! :D
If anyone has any information on this Invisible Man, please let me know.
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