OH BOY! ITS A LINCOLN MONSTER!

For those readers who enjoy monsters like me here's a great video by Plaid Stallions about Lincoln International Monster toys.

Its GRRRRReat!

https://youtu.be/QbOkNDBhrJU?feature=shared

The Final Article: our Custom Lincoln Victim Carded Figure

 Finally I'm pleased to present our finished custom Lincoln Monsters Victim figure.

The dressed doll and the card have been ready for a while.

The delay was in finding the best blister for the card, a Lidl macaron box.

The superb card art was by Wotan Bill.

The brilliant tailoring was by Franzi E.

The sourcing of the doll, cloth and blister and final assembly by Woodsy

The Moonbase International Victim. Hope its been worth the wait.

More Home-Made Lincoln Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula's Daughter

 Continuing with my custom Lincoln Victim project, I've had a crack at two more DIY figures.

The Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula's Daughter.

Not the same dolls as the Victim. I can't find my spare Mod Misses.

These are old Rexard Queens I had hanging round. No professional tailor this time though.

I may do a Mummy too.

What do you reckon readers? 

BRIAN'S NEW LINCOLN MONSTERS BY SPECTRA - X

Hi Woodsy.

Here's the special Limited Edition Lincoln Monsters Blood-A-Rama Shock Fest set.

Frankenstein's Monster and Count Dracula are faithfully restored with a few new wrinkles( I like Drac's ghastly green face!) and they are now stars of imaginary movies; " The Evil of Count Dracula" and " The Power of Frankenstein".

Included are some promotional pics and a "certificate of membership just like the fan clubs of yesteryear. The figures' box art shows both original artwork and new artwork .They even come packaged in a sleeve that looks like an old VHS rental box!

The figures are also very well built and clothed, making this set a solid value. A void in my monster collection has been filled, and my "monstrous " childhood past has been re-visited.

Enjoy the pics!

- Brian F 

Monster Base 

NJ USA

Test Shot Monster Dolls

Intrigued by Wotan Bill's idea of further female monsters in the Lincoln International style of the Girl Victim posted yesterday, I had a mess around this afternoon.

Here are basic ideas for the Mummy, the Bride and the Daughter/ Queen.

Dolls simply to hand were used for convenience so sizes vary. It would be a Mod Miss in the final thing.

All up in the air and yet to settle in the cauldron.

See what you think. Ideas welcomed. 

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backgrounds; a Frozen poster and this great book.

The Lincoln Monsters Re-Issue Promo Clips

Paul A kindly sent me this top clip a while back and it fits neatly into our current them. I think these are the same figures, from Spectra-X, that Brian at Monster Base has bought.

Intriguingly the girl Victim appears briefly in the film too!

I've since found a more recent clip from two months ago.

What do you think readers?

Victimised!: Re-creating a Lincoln International Monsters Victim Doll

 This is a story that goes back a good few years. Parts have been blogged, some parts not.

This is the whole story.

Always a monster nut I loved monster action figures as a kid. Figures like Lincoln International's classic monsters. 

So a while back I was amazed to see a strange girl doll on Plaid Stallion's Lincoln Monsters page (pictured).

What?

The rare 1970's doll was called The Girl Victim, a risky choice given that Aurora ran into a lot of trouble with the same named kit ten years earlier in the 60's.

Image: property of Lincoln Monsters.com

Just over two years ago I thought I'd actually found the doll in a Selby charity shop but this was a big red Sindy herring.

 https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2022/09/sometimes-great-motion.html

Then I saw that Plaidstallions had already ID'd the real doll, a mini vintage Barbie called Mod Miss.

https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/modmiss.jpg

Now I had a name to go on!

 I searched and searched and eventually got this bagged Mod Miss from Italian Ebay. 

I was chuffed!

The game was on. I could maybe make my own Lincoln Victim figure after all!

All I needed was the right material. I sampled one of the pictures online and sent this image to an online cloth printer. I kept it economic by simply ordering a napkin.

The result was excellent, although I worried it wasn't enough material.

I asked our good friend Franzi E, a trained tailor in Germany, to do a favour when we visited last month and have a go at making the doll's onesie.

I needn't have worried. Franzi made such a great job of the little outfit that there was material left over! 

Complete with lace trim here's Franzis fabulous work.

The next job was the backing card. The original never had one, a loose doll in a Spiegel catalogue box of monsters.

I asked Wotan Bill what he'd do and he kindly produced this first fabulous draft inspired by the poster for Dementia 13.

After some discussion and a few changes Bills final artwork was terrific.

With the doll, the suit and the artwork, I added one final touch - and inspired by Auroras Frightening Lightening kits - some Glow in the Dark paint on the doll's exposed parts. 

All that remained to do was put everything together.

Bill's artwork glued on card [my lack of proper post-glue smoothing let it down i think]

My doll with Franzi's suit on the card.

And finally, a blister I found.

Eh, voila! 

Our custom MoonBase International Victim Doll.

And so we've come full circle. Job done! It's been monstrous fun! 

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Final observations: 

The blister's temporary until a better one turns up. The Glow in the Dark paint worked - pictured below. I went on to find three more proper Mod Miss's in a Selby Charity shop! 

By way of comparison, here's BKC's, a professional German customiser's version of the Girl Victim, along with a few of his other many customs.

I don't think ours is too far off the mark after all. What do you think readers? 

The Fading Pawprints of Halloween Night

I do love a good monster pawprint. There will be lots of them around this morning!

There are two that really had an impact on me as a nipper. Both from the 1950's and both seem invisible ..... at first.

The monster from the id stalking the ship in Forbidden Planet. Who can forget those one-toed footprints and those creepy boinging steps!

Is Forbidden Planet possibly the birthplace of modern science fiction films?

 

The Demon in Night of the Demon, that huge fire devil summoned by the runes. There is a classic scene where the monster pads its way along the forest floor.

I often conclude that this is the best monster movie ever made. You?

Have you got a fave footprint readers?

LUSTIGE GESPENSTER PARADE: GERMAN HORROR STICKERS

 I recently saw this sticker set online.

Horror Parade and Lustige Gespenster Parade.

By Americana of Munich.

The albums look great!

Fantastically detailed cards and pages.

They came in 10 pfennig packets. You got three sticker pictures.

Well over a hundred!

The art looks original and not lifted.

What do you think?

Anyone got a set?