Sunday, 2 March 2025

Drawing Blood: Create and Draw Monsters Electric Set

I would have loved this set as a kid, Create and Draw Monsters. Its a 'complete electric designers set'. I cant read the makers name but the box art is terrific!

I saw this set on auction so saved this snap last year. No doubt part of the Sixties Monster craze, I'm unsure how electric drawing worked. 

You?

4 comments:

  1. Paul Adams from New Zealand3/02/2025 1:03 am

    The maker is Lakeside Lifetime Toys, and the box has a copyright date of 1964. The electric part of the set is a mains powered lightbox, and you make up a Monster by tracing various monster parts from printed Guide Sheets. Just sent you some more information.

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  2. I dont have one of these, but I do have a Mighty Man and Monster Maker kit.It consists of 3 sets of plates; legs, torsos and heads.the plates have raised lines that you trace br dragging a crayon across a piece of paper placed over the plates.The plates are designed so you can mix and match the body parts for a different creature( or hero) each time...make sense?

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  3. How cool! Believe it or not, I had Lakesides's "Create and Draw Space" set, similar lightboard but with an outer space theme! Some very cool space designs in there, although it was basically just a tracing set - but good enough for me! SFZ

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  4. I certainly would've loved creating my own monsters with this sets, Woodsy. Love the creepy box art as well

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