Hi
The world of toys is filled with great men and women, who have given us wonderful toys, and some of the sickest minds on the planet.
From the 1970s is this Shrunken Head Sculpture Kit by Whiting: a Milton Bradley company. Copyright date 1975. Product number 1516-X1. Fortunately, you did not need real human heads - dried apples would do, decorated with the various items included in the kit. The resulting Shrunken Heads could then be hung up and displayed.
The advertising begins 'Turn apples into shrunken heads with the Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture Kit'. It then goes on to say 'Look for Vincent Price's pretty face on the cover'. Vincent Price, surrounded by heads, is indeed featured on the box top, with the quote "Create your own collection of delightful Shrunken Heads". Followed by 'A craft for the whole family', and 'Ages 12 to adult'. A boy and girl are shown on the side of the box.
Short article on this set.
Old print ad.
Photo showing the contents of the box, including a plastic device called the Shrinker for speeding up the apple drying/head shrinking process.
Instructions for the set.
Several photos of the box and contents.
Good Grief!
Photo from Worthpoint.
Paul Adams from New Zealand
Enjoyed this cool vintage toy review, Paul. Bet it was fun.
ReplyDeleteYes, thanks for this Paul, I love this set. Good old Vincent Price putting his face on the box. I wonder if he was worried about his own head!
ReplyDeleteI picked up a shrunken head at a hot rod show that hung from the handlebars of my beach cruiser, thing is I have no idea what is was made from because it kinda melted in the sun and became really sticky which loosened the "hair" attached to its head, it attracted flies too which became stuck on contact of the thing, all in all quite disgusting which I guess was the purpose of the thing in the first place
ReplyDeleteMaybe it really was a shrunken head MJ! That has to be the best first line for a song, I picked up a shrunken head at a hot rod show! ha ha. Class!
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