What Do You Know About.........?

[Street Worm]

Ben Cooper?
The best I've found (from the "Gallery Of Monster Toys)

Ben Cooper built its reputation on manufacturing Halloween costumes and novelties. Its dominance in the rubber toy market began in the late 1960's, when it released the Flying Fun Things. These crudely sculpted super-heroes were molded in a horizontal flying position and dangled from an elastic band. Ben Cooper built on the success of the Flying Fun Things by releasing a broad range of rubber figures over the next decade.

In 1973, Ben Cooper introduced its rubber monsters. It marketed them under different names and styles, the most distinctive being the "House Haunters." Characters included: Witch, Devil, Scarecrow, Black Cat, plus generic versions of Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, and even Aurora's Forgotten Prisoner skeleton model.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Was there a real Ben Cooper?
Know anything else?

Next up.........
What do you know about " De Horribles"



were any of these translucent?

Last but not least-

Rubber Creatures Based on Topp's Ugly Stickers

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">any one know anything 'bout these?

& yeah,
I gots a Rubber Monster thing going on........



Ugly Stickers

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ May 17, 2005 07:53 PM: Message edited by: Street Worm ]</font>

[Street Worm]

Cool link-

http://www.raumhafen.de/galerie/rubber_guys/

that has nothing at all to do with what I'm looking for..................

[Street Worm]

Forgot about these..............

Russ Berrie Co.

These oily rubber jiggler creatures were popular from 1966 - 1969. Many folks hung them on their rear view mirrors of their cars. The craze was abruptly halted as these were known to be made of a petroleum oil based rubber which is somewhat toxic if one was to chew on them!

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">ah oh.....................
(I always thought they were delicious) [img]redface.gif[/img]
............................

& a packaged "De Horrible"
on Ebay

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ May 19, 2005 06:30 AM: Message edited by: Street Worm ]</font>

[toymank]

well, that explains alot about you, then! [img]wink.gif[/img]

...I wish I had petroleum-based toys as a kid... [img]frown.gif[/img] by my time, all we had were pointy objects that could shoot... we got jipped! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[TCM Hitchhiker]

You know, I read an article a VERY long time ago about Ben Cooper, I believe in Scary Monsters, but not sure, The details I remember are few. I will have to dig around and see if I can find it.