All My Ducks in a Row

 Imbued with an urge to spring clean the attic, I've stacked my old VHS tapes and sorted them alphabetically (yep, I've too much time on my hands!).

In a similar vein I've uncrated my old horror paperbacks and lined them up neatly in a bookcase.

When I get time (!) I'll sort these alphabetically too.

Always good to have a cold beer to hand when doing stuff like this!

Are you spring cleaning readers?

MONSTROUS HANDS

 I love obscure facts about obscure toys.

Here are Lincoln International's monsters.

I read on the brilliant Plaid Stallions that the hands of the Werewolf, Mummy and the Fly were based on the fabulous hands of the Aurora Wolfman, pictured below.

My own observation is that maybe Imperial's Classic Movie Monster Wolfman has the same hands too.

Have you any of these toys readers?

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Another hand!

Create and Draw Monsters 2

I just saw the item on the Monster drawing set, which looks like great fun, and did a little quick digging. This is what I came up with.

The Create and Draw Monsters Complete Electric Designers Set was made by Lakeside Lifetime Toys. It comprised a mains-powered lightbox, with a 15 Watt lamp.

Translucent sheets of Monster elements were placed on the illuminated drawing surface, and traced on to a fresh sheet of paper. The Monster or scene was made up of various bits and pieces, in any combination you choose.

The set came with several Guide Sheets, coloured pencils, etc. The box having a lift-off lid.

The end of the box says Copyright Lakeside Toys, MCMLXIV [1964], Division of Lakeside Ind., Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota. Made in U.S.A., and various Patent numbers.

Lakeside would later come up with the Barrel of Monkeys game. They also made other games, as well as puppets, and bendable figures.

Four photographs from Worthpoint

Paul Adams from New Zealand

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?

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?