Sparkling Super Monsters

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This past summer I encountered something I didn't know existed and yet I could not live without, it's a bit of rack toy joy. Much more after the jump:




It's an unused display box of AHI wind up little walkers and while it's obvious these (a) aren't manufactured by AHI and (b) not licensed, they still use the original name which is knock off gold. I would assume that these were produced in 1980s sometime.

What I really like about these is how many people had em as kids. I have non toy collector friends who freak out when they see this display.

The assortment is heavy on the Creature and light on King Kong, which is odd because I never find the Creature in the wild.

The big tells in these and the original AHI ones are the key and the feet, you can see more at Azrakhamway.com

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[sauce]

Hoooooooooowheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Werewolf]

I have one of the later Creature ones. Cute figure and still sparks.

[spacecaps]

They used to have these as prizes in the arcade at the United Sakes of America Roller Rink. I've still got mine and just recently found two robot ones of the same size. Just like the monsters, they spark when you wind them too. Here are the robot ones in with my Mattel Space toys...the blue guy to the left of Vincent and the orange guy to the right with the bug eyes. What really would have been cool is if the sparks came out of their chest instead of their mouths.

[mazinz]

I found out about these guys in the very early 80's (was it 70's?). There used to be a Smokey the Bear commercial that had the Godzilla one walking (though the one in the commercial I think was a goldish type color)

I picked them up in the early 80's at I think Disney world or somewhere when I went to visit Florida. They still make them today. Great stuff. Love that display box!!!

[cjefferys]

Wow, those are really cool, I never had one of them. Closest I got is a Godzilla "sparkie", he doesn't have a wind up key to make him walk like these guys do, but he does have sparks come out of his mouth when you rev him up via the wheel on the bottom.

[Bruce Banner]

I had the Creature one.
After a while, the sparking action ceased.

[wilbs518]

Those are awesome!

[Wee67]

Around '86, I worked in an all wind-up toy store in Philadelphia called "The Last Wound Up." (I know, awesome name.) and we sold these guys on a regular basis. Godzilla was by far the biggest seller. I was actually surprised about the AHI connection. It wasn't until I started hanging out with you guys did I hear about it.

[palitoy]

They used to have these as prizes in the arcade at the United Sakes of America Roller Rink. I've still got mine and just recently found two robot ones of the same size. Just like the monsters, they spark when you wind them too. Here are the robot ones in with my Mattel Space toys...the blue guy to the left of Vincent and the orange guy to the right with the bug eyes. What really would have been cool is if the sparks came out of their chest instead of their mouths.

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Those are also by AHI, under the name "Star Fleet"