Favourite creature from the black lagoon figure?

[samurainoir]

What's yours?

Vintage 1980 REMCO Glow in Dark CREATURE from Black Lagoon Figure MOC # 871 | eBay



CREATURE FROM BLACK LAGOON TRANSLUCENT 8" FIGURE Sideshow 1991 MIP | eBay

[stevenlore]

I had the little creature from Remco as a kid. But my favorite is the Sideshow version.

[thunderbolt]

Mom got this for me one XMas.

[samurainoir]

Wow, the sideshow 12" is going for some top coin

SIDESHOW Silver Screen Creature From The Black Lagoon 12� 1/6 Figure NRFB!! (747720201910) | eBay

The Creature Walks Among Us 12" Figure Lagoon SIDESHOW 1:6 SCALE NEW sealed box | eBay

SIDESHOW CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 12" 1/6 Figure FACTORY SEALED, Halloween (747720201910) | eBay

Creature from the Black Lagoon 12 inch figure by Sideshow | eBay

[samurainoir]

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Mom got this for me one XMas.

Very cool, who made this one?

[thunderbolt]

I dunno, its one of those motion figures from Halloween.

[Gorn Captain]

I have a bunch, I'm missing the Sideshow, which is crazy expensive, and it bothers me slightly that his rubber outfit, when you pose him, get folds where there shouldn't be any. I wish they would have sculpted him solid with joints.

I love the Sideshow 8" and the new Diamond "Creature with damsel-in-distress".

And can't wait for the new EMCE Creature, of course...

[samurainoir]

Creature From The Black Lagoon Super Size 22" Figure Universal Monsters | eBay

AMOK TIME - CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON - SUPER SIZE VINYL FIGURE | eBay



CREATURE FROM BLACK LAGOON 12" FIGURE Hasbro Signature Series 1998 MIB Karloff | eBay
Universal Studios Monsters ~ CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON ~ 12" Figure ~ NEW | eBay

[Splitty]

---^ I have that Hasbro one, he's awesome!
He looks really small next to my huge standee though:


Of the Universal Monsters, the Creature is easily my favorite, but I don't actually own very many!!
My favorite is the 12" Sideshow ones, regular the silver screen edition, but sadly I don't have any.


My secondaries would be my Telco Mottionette, like Thunderbolt's. I don't have any good pics taken yet tho.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/splitty...57626539570005

I love the Sideshow 8" and the new Diamond "Creature with damsel-in-distress".

And I really really like the Diamond Select ones with victim too. Dramatic! Don't have that either.


And I just cannot get enough of the tin-wind up figures: Nope, don't have that as well!


And the minimates are cute. And those I can afford.

[MIB41]

Without question my favorite to date is the Sideshow figure. I snapped him up the second he came on the market. I can't wait for the EMCE Creature. Paul and co. really kicked major arse on that figure. I'm beyond impressed. I will buy two of him.

[darkmonkeygod]

I just can't choose. There's a huge personal history there for me, I've loved that character since I was five and the film, its sequels, the character, costume, design, rights, story, and many other aspects have multiple places in my life.

As a child, finding the Remco Mini-Monster on the pegs at the K-Mart my grandfather and I frequented when I would visit my grandparents town was a near religious experience. I vividly remeber FEELING that I must be dreaming, excitedly explaining to Pop (that's what everyone called him and the name I knew him by) how incredible it was. So there's that. Though I wouldn't know about it for almost another decade, the Remco 9 inch figure is another favorite, much derided pajama suit and all.

I love the AHI wide waist version, it's a well made toy for its time - aside from the paint issue - and a cool stylized representation of the Creature (modeled on the first Aurora kit). I stared at the photo and drawing in out-of-date ads in Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine for I don't know how many hours.

Sideshow's 8 inch and 12 inch figures are a zenith of film accuracy a beautiful sculpting. The Amok Time figure is a fave, I dig stylized versions and it's the size of a toddler. I also have a passion for the tiny superdeformed Horror World gashapon figure made in Japan in the mid-eighties. I could go on and on, but the end result will be the same: I just can't pick one, but I'm really looking forward to the new one from Mezco!

[Tothiro]

I'm really, really looking forward to the EMCE DST version (and planning to buy a second one to kitbash).

As a kid the Remco 3 3/4" was with me on every single trip to the pool... but the favorite is probably the 9" fig. I almost wore out my thumbs making him grab things, but I was always wishing the arms were jointed too.

Someday I'll get an AHI creech, but I don't think it will dislodge the Remco for nostalgia reasons.

[palitoy]

I never had a creature figure as a kid, which is weird because i was OBSESSED with him at an early age. I took this book out 50 times:



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The only Creech toy I ever had as a kid (AND LOVED) was quasi figurish:



Vintage 3 3/4" Creature from the Black Lagoon Windup | eBay

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Cindy brought that book (and several other from that series) home from the library when they were discarded a few years back. The boy reads them every Halloween. Great stuff. I wish I had seen them as a kid!

Chris

[palitoy]

^Cindy brought that book (and several other from that series) home from the library when they were discarded a few years back. The boy reads them every Halloween. Great stuff. I wish I had seen them as a kid!

Chris

A lot of monster kids have Famous Monsters to blame for their obsession, for me it was all Crestwood. My local library still has the Godzilla book I memorized.