GLOWS IN THE DARK
emblazoned on the front of their boxes. It was horror heaven as a child to have "Plastic Dead Men"(as the astute Professor Anton Griffin likes to call them) that I could "play" with and with a little imagination have some monster mayhem. The model kits though were a little different, it was kind of like being Dr. Frankenstein. You riffled through a box (a coffin is basically a box), get some body parts (plastic of course), and assemble the pieces (alas the kitchen table was my lab, paint and glue was my electrical equipment I suppose) into a gloriously ghastly grotesque. Good times.
Now these kits that you see here I remember seeing in stores, but alas they did not come home to join me in my childish crypt. I've always remembered them because there designs were so different from the classic Universal Monsters. Just look at the Werewolf & the Vampire there smiling and it gives them a disturbing look, but at the same time their fiendishly fun. I never thought an inexpensive way to acquire them for my collection would be possible...well until August anyway. MPC models will be unleashing these kits again at an affordable price ($12.99 each) and of course as they did back in the 70's they will GLOW.
Here's the website for MPC...
http://www.round2models.com/models/mpc
They can be purchased here...
http://www.monstersinmotion.com/cart/attack-of-the-b-movies-item-list-a-h-c-19_119/fundimensions-haunted-glow-head-werewolf-mpc-kit-p-15477
And if your curious about Professor Griffin's childhood experience with "plastic dead men"
go here...
http://gammillustrations.bizland.com/monsterkid3/html/plastic1.html
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