Before you buy them on eBay, I recommend checking KB Toys if you have any around you. KB had a pretty significant number of these up to a few months ago. They’re not on the website, but they might be in the store.

$70 isn’t too bad a price, considering they were selling for $13 apiece at Toys R’ Us (which would total $65 for the five of them).

Let’s use the creature as an example, since he’s the best of the set. He’s skinny – way too skinny. He didn’t look malnourished in the movie. You’re saying that’s okay, but if McFarlane produced an Alien figure that was way off proportion, would that be just as okay?

And while the 70′s Remco figures were cool for the time, I’d have a problem with a company producing figures that looked that way today – kids have gotten a bit more sophisticated in their tastes.

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You’re right about the price issue, though I feel like I addressed that in my review.

As for the “license” thing, that’s where I think we just have a different perspective. To me, “Universal Monsters” means Frankenstein, Dracula, the Gillman, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man (and maybe the Invisible Man), but again, not the actors who played them. The Universal Monsters have been marketed for decades since the death of the actors (and in some cases, other actors played those monsters in Universal films), and more often than not, it was just the most basic aspect of the character’s look that was used–probably because the actors’ estates have their own licenses.

Out of curiosity, do you view the old 1970s Remco figures as not really being a “Universal Monsters” toy line because the figures didn’t look much like the actors?

I don’t mean this to sound argumentative, I’m just curious what your perspective is. “Universal Monsters” seems to mean two different things to us.

Of course, you’re throwing out the idea that they are based on a specific license (if they aren’t “Universal Monsters”, then don’t call them that), and you’re evaluating them based on a price that’s almost half what they were originally.

But if you’re happy with them, that’s all that counts. Tastes are always going to be different.

Anyway, Michael was off on the review on these. I agree with your review more.