When I saw this walking green monster by Durham toys I thought, hmmm, I've seen something like that before.
A book on model kits sprang to mind and then Lindberg.
Lindberg's monster kits.
here they are as they appear on the amazing Universal Monster Army site.
Well, maybe not a match but I think Durham and Lindberg dipped into the same zany pool to come up with the wacky monsters.
What do you think?
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WOTAN Wades in:
Rather than create a new post, I just thought i'd tag onto this one. It looks to me like these models are influenced by Native American ceremonial masks and costume. Edward S. Curtis spent several years documenting the North American Indian in a series of photographs and ethnology studies and his work is probably the most thorough study of long vanished tribes. But look at the similarity in some of these designs. http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/toc.cgi
I think Lindberg have borrowed more than a little from Native American mythic imagery and ceremonial masks.
ReplyDeleteI see what you mean. Well spotted Wote!
DeleteDurhams monster looks like Dino from the Flintstones!
ReplyDeleteI thought Dino was a large Brontosaurus?
DeleteThe body of the Durham monster looks like a pill bottle, with arms, legs, and a head added. The Lindberg kits are certainly a close match to the Indian masks - really creepy.
ReplyDeleteI agree, creepy Lindberg. I wonder of they are hard to find?
DeleteThe Krimson Terror model looks somewhat like the puppet 'Eccles' from The Telegoons?
ReplyDeleteIt does, it does! ha ha
DeleteThey were lousy kits- I bought one in the 1960s and it was just two halves of indifferently-mounded plastic and a piece of "fluff" for the hair. -took it back to the shop.
ReplyDeleteha ha, that's hilarious Andy! You took it back! What dd they say?
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