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Friday, 2 April 2021

King Crater - In the Court of the Cratered King

After Kevin posted his wonderful custom Crater Critter 'Glubber', I contacted him immediately to request a version for myself. As ever, Kevin kindly came up with the goods and this week, King Crater arrived in all his royal splendour!
I struggled to collect all the figures back in the day, but the very first box I opened held an orange Glubber and a purple Gloob. 

After that however, and my response to the sickly sweet cereal, I wasn't allowed to buy any more so had to resort to playground dealings with my schoolmates, which managed to procure me a Miss Venus, who tragically was lost in the open hearth at home and a purple King Crater (sans crown) who has been cosseted over the last few decades, lest he befall a similar fate. Then, in the mid 2000's, I found some repro figures and completed my set and got the King a new crown.

So KC has been very close to my heart ever since, as one of a favoured line of aliens. I wonder if he is so special as he reminded me of the Terrence Cuneo paintings of the Tripods in the serialised edition in 'Tell Me Why' around the same time. 

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7 comments:

  1. MISH4/02/2021 11:53 am

    And no better place to show off King Crater and his pals than the Jonny Astro crater.
    Great stuff guys.

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  2. WOTAN4/02/2021 2:07 pm

    You clearly know your craters Mish!

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  3. WOODSY4/02/2021 3:49 pm

    No crater love have thee!

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  4. WOODSY4/02/2021 6:30 pm

    Great work Kevin! Those Crater Critters always remind me of some cards I had as a kid called Krazy Kreatures https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/113660238496?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&itemid=113660238496&targetid=1140163974889&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1006991&poi=&campaignid=12128858833&mkgroupid=117045676459&rlsatarget=pla-1140163974889&abcId=9300480&merchantid=115104660&gclid=CjwKCAjwgZuDBhBTEiwAXNofROA7EEKxBt5bspPlXjmRitLKQ4NvRxo9M3ow2uMqCgJJzcZcxazxFBoCAG4QAvD_BwE

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  5. KevinD4/02/2021 6:32 pm

    Thanks, I don't really remember any except Glubber which I had as a kid but I didn't collect any others.

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  6. Anonymous4/06/2021 11:20 am

    If you have any Kingly Critters take good care of them as they may be worth $$$s.

    At an auction near me last week here in Oz, a purple Kingly Critter with full intact crown went for $A186. That's about GBP100!

    Cheers, Tony P

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