Collection Time MPC Figures, we are going to take a look at three MPC different items. Next, our very good friend Finally, another very good friend Mark Mcdermott had to deal with voting.
Collection Time MPC Figures Kung Fu Others
1. Police Standing firing rifle
2.Keeling firing a machine gun
3. Police with pistol and rifle
The missing pose is a police officer with a club. The figures were done in white and blue.
Voting
Our very good friend Mark Mcdermott had a problem of voting today. I will let him explain.
Being denied the right to vote in person today … I had no mask on and was slow walking in with an oxygen tank… I was blocked further down the hall from entering the polling area which was a long walk for me inside the building..I kept a safe distance away from him .. I explained my serious health issues ..he told me I had to wear a mask or leave the building…i refused and told the poll worker you better make some calls …i will be arrested before I leave ..and once again explained my COPD and heart conditions…he gave a rats ass and was clueless to the Election board guidelines…I was totally in the right ..at the same time their were several neighbors who asked out loud why I was being denied and came over and hugged me and said do not give in …one told the poll worker you picked the wrong guy in a dog fight ( love you guys)…the poll worker was on the phone and absolutely pissed . After 10 minutes they LET ME VOTE…..I Will vote in person no matter what ..I want the experience of the voting booth and would have crawled in no matter what…and would have done anything to protect my rights …i guess Dominic was pissed that I opened carry my oxygen tank …..Any negative comments directed at me go F— Yourself
Not censored? Amazing,,good luck sir
Way to go! So glad you won and got to exercise your right to vote. Nobody is enforcing COVID restraints on all the clowns out ‘destroying and looting for freedom’ .
MPC monsters: I had forgotten what a truly impressive set this was. I have the witch and the wolfman-type figure (I remember reading that they had to avoid calling it the Wolf Man for copyright reasons), so it’s time that I finally completed the set. My online search shows that they were produced in a lot of colors, but the most innovative was a ghostly green that was actually luminous. (Getting a photo of those figures glowing in the dark would be a real test for any camera’s low-light capability.)
So, inspired by this post, I wondered: how well has the world of horror been covered by figures manufacturers ? Interestingly, the only sets I can immediately think of are comedy offshoots: The Addams Family (original 1960s tv version) in resin, and The Munsters in metal, but straight horror appears to be sparsely represented. The “stars” of the Universal Studios legendary movies have been widely covered in 1:12 by the classic Aurora model kits of the 1960s and their later recasts, but how many of them had counterparts in our favorite scale ?
Stewart
Palmer did a series of monsters. They are somewhat crude, but you get Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, etc.
Great question. There’s also Multiple Toys King Kong playset and newer issue Godzilla playset (manufacturer’s name is escaping me now). But true 54mm scale (if that is what is meant)…
Thank you for these contributions. It looks like there will prove to be a decent number of horror figures once we start looking. Yes, 54mm scale is what I meant. It is what I tend to assume any figures to be, but I have been mistaken several times on eBay, due to not reading the description properly, and figures would duly arrive which have been maybe 30mm or even 100mm, but that’s OK. They are all part of the fun of collecting.
New made SDS large 24 poses monsters classic creatures set in tube made in china are awesome as well/
I been looking x this MPC officers in blue long time
I’m looking x Master Po too as classic Greek figure rather than Asian style x my collection as w small change paint can be adapted easy .
Best .
This brings back some great memories! I have a set of the MPC Monsters in glowing green. The set my brother gave me as a kid was on the ghost ship. I remember the ship was green and the sail was white plastic and ‘tattered’ in appearance. The monsters were in 4 colors, 2 in a given color: black (vampire, werewolf), flat purple (mummy, witch), orange (Frankenstein monster, executioner) and green (skeleton and Death). I’ve seen the monsters having swapped out the colors so that any of them could be any of those colors. I’m guessing that a standard set had all 4 colors, but which ones were a given color changed. I have a typical MPC accidental pose of the werewolf. It appears he was taken out of the mold too soon and his head is tilted back as if howling. I found him in a junk box at a show and swooped him up. I have lots of MPC figures where accidents like this happened and they were a good thing.
I have great memories of the Palmer monsters, too. I own all but the Frankenstein, Gorgo and Dracula figures. I suppose this is ‘wrong’, but I painted my King Kong black and Creature, It,and Cyclops are a ghostly green.
I had gotten the Palmer monsters from my brother, but there was no Gorgo or Dracula and the It had a terrible mold flaw giving it a hole and a bubble gut. Then, I saw them in Two Guys store. My mother got them for me and the It was blue. I’m told that’s a rarer color. I have no idea where they ended up, but I suppose I gave them away when I turned 18 just like I did my toy soldiers.
Great memories indeed! A full set of glowing green will be a wonderful sight. You are right about the colors: my witch is black, and google images show all the figures in more than four colors, possibly due to recasts. The mismolds sound like what Bob Ross called happy accidents, and we must be thankful that MPC’s quality control did not prevent them reaching the shops. A less happy accident is the urge to give things away when we reach a certain age, a decision we can only come to regret later, but thankfully the arrival of eBay has made the task of retrieving them a lot easier than it once was.
Scroll down for a “wonderful sight”:
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/MPCciv.html
Good pics on Kent’s TSHQ site for MPC fantasy figures:
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/MPCciv.html
That was interesting! Monster checkers. That would be fun to have. A full set of the monsters in black makes that game worth getting, right there.
HA! First, hope you are OK over there. We’re REALLY on the Crazy train here in the States. YOW!! Second, they really did marketing back then. Now figures come in a bag, and, if lucky, a header card. Imagine ACW checker games today??
I guess it IS a good time to not be there. I’m actually embarrassed that there are so many easily led, violent (in the name of peace) and illogical citizens in the country I gave so much to protect.
Anyhow, I’m mostly just bored here. the food situation has improved and mobility inside the country has improved. International flights are rumored to open up SEP 1. Still a long way off.
I’m glad for some improvement ,but sorry you need wait so long till September 1st .
No priority in early flight to army personnel !?
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I’m retired and I get zero consideration. Can’t use the PX, chow hall or Commissary, despite my orders specifically stating so, despite my rights as a retiree. Uniformed personnel coming and going out for end of tour can get mil flights, but that’s it. Exceptions; life, limb or eyesight, Red Cross immediate family messages. The DoS has repatriation flights, but I need to get to Kuwait to outprocess, debrief, turn in company equipment, first.
The skeletons in Monogram’s Rommel’s Rod kit are pretty nifty pieces, and maybe “more to scale,” but alas aren’t soft plastic.
Kung Fu , some of MPC better sculpted figures !