Boodega Frankenstein's Monster

 Super7 is bringing back their Boodega event again this Halloween season and one of their offerings is  this Boodega edition Universal Monsters ReAction Figure pays homage to the climax of the classic Frankenstein film and is packaged in the iconic throwback-style diorama box! Available on 9/26 on Super7.com!

The King of the ( POP) Monsters

All hail the king, watch your back Stay Puft

League of Extraordinary Bloggers - Universal Shelf Expression

Hey I'm back for another League of Extraordinary Bloggers topic!

Come on, with a name like Monsterfink, what did you expect me to have a wall of?

The only problem with collecting Universal Monsters stuff is finding new areas of the wall to add more stuff to...

Go check out these other members of the League and their shelves

Cool and Collected has Gone Ape
Nerdy Life of Mine

Topper Motorized Monster Maker

THEY WALK AND DO THINGS! YOU MAKE THEM!

Every once in a while I come across a monster related toy that baffles me, one that I don't remember seeing anywhere or having my grubby claws on at some point. I recently attended a toy show and one of the items being sold at a table was a large box with the colorful logo reading "Motorized Monster Maker" I made a mental note to investigate it but I had the little monster with me and she was sulking because there were no Monster High Dolls around and I never got back to look at it closer. A little research later and I'm kicking myself in the bolted on ass that I didn't.

Made by Topper Toys of Elizabeth NJ in 1969 and sold in 1969 & 1970 the kits were similar to Mattel's Thingmaker and Creepy Crawlers. Basically you purchased a starter set which included the (very rat fink lookin') Ogre kit and an oven like the Thingmaker. You got two static bodies and one motorized body and the molds and goop to make the head, arms and legs of the monster. You had to purchase the other mold kits separately. If you didn't get enough of Ogre in the starter set, he had a mold kit too. If you used up your 3 monsters and wanted more, you could buy an accessory kit to customize your monster, which did not include the mold (or oven).

There were seven monsters in the line including:

Bobo Bones the Mummy

Resin model of Bobo made from the original molds

original Bobo's box contents

O.G. Ogre - He Swings his club and stalks his prey

Original O.G.

Galaxon - Waves his Laser gun and walks

Repro resin model kit

Dr Shriek - Walks and Takes of his Head

Repro Resin model kit

 









Willy Weird Wolf - Claws and Stalks

Repro resin model kit

 










Hairy Harry - Swings his Club and walks

and Robot, an exclusive mold available only at Zayre a now defunct department store

Now as you've probably guessed these things are RARE and EXPENSIVE, finding any information on them is difficult but if I've peaked your interest then make your way to the Facebook fan page for the Motorized Monster Maker (it's where most of my pics came from for the article) and if you want the cheaper (but not by much) repro resin models then make your way to Monsters In Motion.

Godzilla Tokyo Vinyl

With all the cool stuff coming out of Toy Fair this week, these little gems seem to have been lost in the shuffle...

pics from Figures.com

Big Frankie - Aurora to Mezco

Let me regale you with the tale of Big Frankie.

Originally designed to be a toy, the manufacturer Aurora got cold feet and released the figure as a model instead. The fact that the sculpt was more of a caricature then a realistic version of Boris Karloff as the Monster made it less appealing to the kids that were buying the extremely successful line of monster models the company made. That and his price tag being five times that of the regular models resulted in poor sales and a short run. This results in the model being highly sought after by collectors.

This brings us to Moebius Models and their re-release of the model. The kit is beautiful and comes in a Glow in the Dark version as well, but carries a price tag of $109.99.....too much for this here Fink.

Now we have Mezco and their upcoming Giant Frankenstein. for all I know that could be the name but I'm calling him Big Frankie and he's gonna have a home here at casa de Fink as soon as he hits the market.

Mad Monster Party figures

Holy crap, how long have I wanted figures from this movie. Probably since I first saw the movie as a wee tot. I know I know we had the vinyl figures years ago but I wanted more, and I finally got them.

Here's Uncle Boris Frankenstein as portrayed (vocally anyways) by Boris Karloff. The sculpt is FANTASTIC, you can see the sculpture work of the original stop motion model on this figure's face. And the accessories complete the package with the spider monster from Felix's tour of the castle and the test tube containing the Formula for Destroying Matter.

Dracula looks just like the movie and vicariously the Jack Davis artwork. He looks ready to crack his original Bat-man jokes. The bat accessory is great but now has me ready to track down an Iron Tail figure from the Here Comes Peter Cottontail line.




















































and here's Fang, The Frankenstein Monster, must i say anything here, just look at him.





























I cannot wait for this line and I really hope it does well enough for future series so I get a Creature and Wolfie.

Photos came from cooltoyreview.com  - go check them out

Munsters Wave 2 - Hot Rod Herman

If you couldn't already tell I'm a huge Munsters fan, have been since I watched them in reruns on WPIX out of New York every morning  as a child. So of course I bought the figures and I'll be buying the Marilyn/Eddie two pack coming soon, (as seen here) and now we have the latest additions to the line and they are from one of my top two episodes of the series - "Hot Rod Herman"

Here's Herman in his Punk Rods outfit. Poor ol' Herman got all hyped up on Eddie's talk about how his pop (Herman) could out drag his friend's dad. Unfortunately after Herman met the other dad and foolishly (it is Herman after all) got talked into betting the family car, better known as the Munster Koach he finds out the dad is a professional mechanic and racer. Naturally Herman loses and returns home to be scolded by Lily. Grandpa has a plan though...

Grandpa assembles his own dragster, the Drag-U-La, made famous in the Rob Zombie song of the same name. And the following weekend he puts the rail up against the Koach and of course wins it back. Of course how do you compete with a rail that plays "Oh Promise Me" in second gear? Anyway here's Gandpa in his racing gear. Man that is a perfect likeness.




Here's Lily with her sun umbrella to watch from the stands while Eddie chews his nails ( real iron nails)

Man I still really hope we get a Spot head in the staircase soon.

Photos came from cooltoyreview.com  - go check them out