Wind Up Super Monsters

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This is an ad from Canadian Tire of all places and I totally remember it, these guys were in my stocking one Christmas. Originally they were made by Azrak Hamway (AHI) . The three figures included a suspiciously familiar "Rex Dinosaur", the Creature from the Black Lagoon and King Kong, each shot sparks from it's mouth while walking.

Below is an original Creature (you can tell the originals because they have toes on their feet and are marked AHI) which I'm happy to say still sparks.






According to the 1976 AHI Catalog, these originally came carded but I seem to remember them just being in a counter display box.

After AHI stopped producing them, the molds for these seem to have gotten around Hong Kong as they continued to appear in stores up until the 1990s, for all I know they're still around, below is a King Kong I found recently, that was definitely a later release:

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[vulcan2074]

I want those Super Monsters. There just so adorable looking. I mean scary LOL
Sammy

[starsky]

pretty cool!!

[kryptosmaster]

Those are cute.
I'd so buy those POTA ones.
Rich

[toys2cool]

I love that little creature

[Meule]

The amount of Batman toys in that catalog is amazing, with those and the monsters my parents would've gone nuts from all my nagging

[clemso]

Way cool

[HardyGirl]

Very cool, and I love the POTA stuff too!

[Wee67]

They were probably not AHI at the time, but in 1986 I worked at a small store that sold nothing but wind-up toys. We had basket filled with those. I loved "Rex" because I thought the sparks were a pretty fun representative for Godzilla breath.

[BendyZaius]

I have a bunch of knock-offs of the Creature I bought at a little toy store near me a few years back. They were 2 bucks so I cleaned them out. I sold them for 15 bucks each at monster shows for a while. I think I still have 5 or 6 left. To my knowledge, the original AHI versions come in a counter display box and the carded versions were never released.

[mazinz]

I still have the godzilla and kong ones. I picked them up at some souvenir shop in the 80's

[jasonmego1277]

Those are definitely pretty cool. Something else to add to my lists. LOL !

[Marvelmania]

Really like those. Little, tiny monster walkers ... reminds me of the movie The Creeps

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I remember these! Back in the day I had to go for speech therapy once a week, and the hospital gift shop sold them. I'd get one or two each trip. We amassed an army and sent them to harass a freind's sister's Strawberry Shortcake figures.

Don C.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Those windups are so cute!