SuperMonster市City! is a celebration of Monsters, Superheroes, and Villains in travelling museum exhibitions, books, special events, and more! SuperMonster市City! was co-founded by master collector David Barnhill and curator Stephen Yogi Rueff. The travelling exhibits are derived from Barnhill’s collection of 200,000 toys, posters, games, and films. Rueff, as Managing Director and Curator, places the objects in social and political contexts through reflective and informative texts, artist profiles and commentary. Barnhill and Rueff enjoy sharing America’s iconic mythical figures from America’s Golden Age of toys. Head over to www.supermonstercity.com/ to learn more about bringing our exhibition to your town!
Absolutely I remember! I must have only been like 6 or 7 when I got some that were made so you could put them on a string to make a necklace, I still have a few! I remember the model kits, but I don’t think I ever had one.
Good find. I was a wannabe spy kid. I was lucky enough to be able to keep all this stuff. We have a new exhibit called Spies and Space, Toys of the Cold war era. Take a look at our web site.. for info on where it is next... cheers for watching .
From what I know it is a collectors item. Not many survived and it is such a big iconic toy. Mine is missing a few pieces, it seems the box is incredibly rare.
Man, i had (2) gray vikings: wings on helmut with a sword, second, one blowing viking horn with a spear. Neighbor probably got em, his daddy didn't really believe in toys 😐
This toy was such a massive rip-off. I remember spending all of my Christmas money one year to buy one of these and it wasn't cheap. It worked great and made some really nice items, but they only gave you enough liquid to wet your appetite and make a handful of items and then you were out of luck. No way my parents were shelling out money for bottles of goop, so the toy basically sat there unused and was quickly given away.
I was fortunate enough to grow up in the late 50's early 60's and we had some fantastic toy companies back then. Mattel, Marx, Hasbro, Ideal, Milton Bradley, and Parker Brothers to name just a few.
The wallets with the colored acetate , was a secret emblem concealer, whatever was text/Logo printed in a certain color on the card magically disappeared when the card was in the wallet, and was only visible when you pulled the card out. A different toy, Secret Agent Zero-M had a similar notepad / clear sleeve, and a colored pen, for writing "invisible messages".
We now have a traveling exhibit called Spies and Space : Toys of the Cold War Era. All my spy stuff is now on display. Pretty cool, and thanks for watching.
I had one. But yes, playing with them leads to breakage. The crank that played the voice broke off on ours from cranking it too much. It was the coolest. I'm thinking it was 1963, maybe 1964.
Yeah and so many parts to lose. He was a friend from the moon. My dear Robot Commando just was smashed when a mountain of boxes fell on him. And Big Loo just seems to harken to a more innocent age. Thanks for watching
The artwork on these are spectacular, just really beautiful detail. Any one of these could be blown up poster sized and be an AWESOME addition to any room. Also, that green lamp !! I just love it! I just wish these videos were longer.
Thanks for watching! Yes any one of those cards could be a poster. I keep most videos short because I am told people don't watch long videos. I have shot many many of them on all sorts of stuff in the collection. And the stuff tours. Check out our newsletter, sign up at SuperMonsterCity.com Cheers, glad you enjoy them.
These guys would fit in from mid-World War 2 into the early post-war period. The “guy on patrol” with the Ushanka hat is holding a SVT-40 (sniper variant, but the scope is mounted in the wrong place). As the name implies, the SVT-40 was available in 1940, but mass production was FUBARED by Operation Barbarossa. The sniper variant was abandoned by 1942 or so, so this guy has a fairly uncommon weapon for the time. The “aiming snipers” have Mosin-Nagants, which are the most common Soviet sniper rifles of the era. They were first put into production in the 1890s and were also copied. Great weapon.
I had one of these. I fully expected it to be able to clean my room. Heh. Broke the voice device within the first week. Still had a ton of fun with it. *It scared my sisters silly.
I have way too many Frazetta prints framed and all over my house ( is it possible to have too many Frazetta prints framed???) Also loved the Bama Doc Savage Covers too.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for posting this sir. I love ALL of your videos and this one really hits home with me. I am in the process of putting my “memory room” together and it’s just so wonderful reminiscing about the items from our past. I have SO MANY “Indian Jones” type discoveries of my own. THANK YOU again for your time and please keep posting! “ I search for the past, to give to the present, So that the Future doesn’t forget it” ❤️💯🇺🇸🥰
Yeah , so very glad you enjoy our videos. I have a house fulla stuff and I wanna share it. We are all subject matter experts of our own lives.. if we don't tell our stories and help our pasts be understandable.... who will?. Again thanks for your heartfelt response
Very cool. I love scrapbooks.. they tell a tale. I have mine from my Great Grand Mother and Grand Mother. And alas I never had The Hamilton rifle, did yours survive to the present day??
U. N. C. L. E. is my favorite TV show, I was 12 when the show came out and anything connected the the show I bought, if I wasn't for sale I would make it, like the pen communicator. Great memories, thanks!
Yeah , I wore black turtle neck shirts for years. Glad you enjoy our videos . What happened to all your stuff? Nowadays I don't think folks realize how big U.N.C.L.E was... it was huge. Go sign up for our news letter on our website... our Spies and Space exhibit goes out 3 times next year, cheers for watching.
Again thanks for watching. We have a new exhibit on toys of the cold war. It will be touring in the States next year. Check out our webpage and sign up at the bottom for our newsletter.. Cheers.
I still have my Creepy Crawlers, Fright Factory and Creeple Peeple! And they did have a set come out in the 90s (I believe) that cooked the GIANT bugs, they were still aluminum molds but a light bulb oven. I also learned to make my own plastigoop so I don’t have to buy a million bottles of it off the web. I typically make a huge bowl of bugs for kids to take from when trick-pr-treating along with candy.
Wow , when I was a kid , I too made bugs to add to the trick or treat bowl. None of the later thingmaker sets did it for me. How did you figure out the formula for plastigoop?? Thanks for watching. Cheers
@@supermonstercity2938 - I don’t remember exactly what initiated my search but I came across videos of fishermen who make their own fake bait. They do a very similar process but they heat up the plastisol and then inject it into 3D molds. The difference is that what they typically use is much softer and tears rather easily. They talked about using a “hardener” so I tried some of that; way too hard. So I played with some mixtures to try to get the right balance. I was successful but it was kind of a pain always mixing the right amounts. Then I tried Dead On Plastix - one of their hardeners alone was just the right consistency. It looks white, turns clear, so I also used some dye for different colors, the same dyes that fishermen use. It’s not cheap if you only want to play with it a bit and make a few bugs, but my grandson and I were making tons of stuff in different colors. I bought a stash of plastic bottles just like the ones that came with them originally, so I’m able to mix and save recipes for different colors. The only problem I’ve had is with glow-in-the-dark; the only way to do it is with a powder, and it doesn’t dissolve very well in the goop and it usually will settle at the bottom of the mold when cooking. I may just have to play around with it some more.
You were a little younger than me, so a lot of your toys came out later than the ones I remember. I do seem to remember a mechanized Godzilla that shot marbles! I was really young so it had to be about 1965 or earlier. I just remember it scaring me (but thrilling me at the same time) - I’m guessing it got pulled from the market pretty soon too because it was too dangerous. Yet they still sold hot plates to 8 year olds (Creepy Crawlers).
What a great song! We don't have a copy of that, but what a great song! I was a fan of Link Wray and the rest of the 70's music world outsiders. Thanks for reminding us about it! Here is a link to a RU-vid video of Link Wray's The Shadow Knows: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dWK_bQCGGNY.html Enjoy! -Stephen/Yogi, SuperMonsterCity! curator
