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Thursday, October 31, 2019

MPC is for Many Pestilent Creatures!

Bit of a box-ticker, but - like the Cherilea Chinese the other day - a nice set, while also perfect for Halloween!

MPC's 60mm horror figure set, I think I have all of them, and seem to remember reading that some of these are 'late' colours and some 'early', which - as they all came together from serious collectors - must make mine an intermediate sample!

Count Dracula; Death; Dr Frankenstein's Monster; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Playset; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Horror Play Set; Living Dead; Lurch; MPC Horror Set; MPC USA; Multiple Products Corp.; Multiple Toys; Mummy; Night-stalker; Plastic Skeletons; Psycho; Ripper; Serial-killer; Skeleton; Skeleton Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Grim Reaper; Vampire; Werewolf; Witch; Wolf-Man; Zombie;
The set references various tropes of popular culture as applied to horror, gothic sensibilities or the occult and from top left to bottom-right in either image are;

Count Dracula/Vampire type
Dr Frankenstein's Monster/Lurch type
Wolf-Man/Werewolf (with bat's ears?)
Mummy/Zombie
Death/The Grim Reaper
Living Dead/Skeleton (with pet bat)
Psycho/Night-stalker/Ripper/Serial-killer type (the one I don't like!)
Witch (with drunken pet bat!)

Count Dracula; Death; Dr Frankenstein's Monster; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Playset; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Horror Play Set; Living Dead; Lurch; MPC Horror Set; MPC USA; Multiple Products Corp.; Multiple Toys; Mummy; Night-stalker; Plastic Skeletons; Psycho; Ripper; Serial-killer; Skeleton; Skeleton Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Grim Reaper; Vampire; Werewolf; Witch; Wolf-Man; Zombie;
Pretty standard MPC base marks and hole, really just here to make the post!

Count Dracula; Death; Dr Frankenstein's Monster; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Playset; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Horror Play Set; Living Dead; Lurch; MPC Horror Set; MPC USA; Multiple Products Corp.; Multiple Toys; Mummy; Night-stalker; Plastic Skeletons; Psycho; Ripper; Serial-killer; Skeleton; Skeleton Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Grim Reaper; Vampire; Werewolf; Witch; Wolf-Man; Zombie;
Now this is nice; obviously around 120mm, and made in a sort of . . . well . . . foamed polystyrene? But not expanded, soft packaging type stuff, it's more like the recycled mixed polymers you get turned into beams for residential-street name-plates or park bench struts? Anyway - it's tough and hard wearing, a bit cartoony but really a nice sculpt of a Count Dracula type vampire about to pounce.

I just can't remember where it came from; I think it was a purchase, but it may have come from someone, so apologies if I'm not crediting you? And no markings of any kind, so a branding/origin still sought for this fine chap.
 
He's the Charbens 4-and-1/2-inch range, they did several and a Batman & Robin

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