Official Universal Movie Monsters (Remco, 1979) PART TWO

 

Picking up from where we left off last time, here is the Remco Wolf Man (or "Wolfman" as it says on the packaging, even though it was two words in the title of the 1941 Lon Chaney film).

His chest is molded in brown, because they know it's going to show under his clothes.  The "rope" belt tends to fray badly.  Thank goodness I never tried to untie it, as lots of kids managed to.  Speaking of, ever since I was a kid, I always thought my figure had some sort of painting error with the eyes, but in recent years (thanks, internet) I've discovered that's not the case, and they are all like that.  In Remco's depiction, they seem to be going for one of the promotional photos that show Chaney looking to one side.

Lastly, The Mummy, whose bandages are portrayed via printing on the fabric, which actually works quite well.  

Here you see the button that allows the "Monster-Crush Action" to work! What you can't see is that the arms are slightly scalloped, allowing them to move like that.  Here is a photo of a naked Dracula (hide the children!) from a previous Ebay auction that shows this:

[for educational purposes only]

As promised, we conclude with the very rare, free pack-in items that were included with these figures.  There were actually two possibilities during the production of these figures: an iron-on patch of the monster in question or a glow-in-the-dark ring featuring a skull and crossbones.  Although a Frankenstein's Monster patch does indeed exist, my figure came with the ring, which now that I think about it, is really pretty lucky.  Even more lucky is the fact that I somehow didn't destroy it in trying to wear it as a kid!

The back of the patch, which you never see.  As I'm sure you can imagine, most of these patches didn't survive the 70's!

 

By the way, you've probably already read Part One of this post, but you might want to go back and look at a couple of photos I just added of a boxed example of the rare Monsterizer that appeared on Ebay fortuitously this week! It's pretty awesome, and you can have it for the price of a used car!