Weirdness at the Dollar store

[Walter_J]

i remember haveing that exact toy when i was small. maybe it was a sign?

Me too.

 

[barsoomcore]

There's no question that toy existed. I had one ages ago -- probably around 1973. I remember looking in the Monster Manual and thinking, "Hey! There's that wacky little thing I got with my plastic dinosaurs!" The similarity is so close I would have trouble believing it was a coincidence.

If it WAS an attempt at a glyptodont, it was a durn poor show, is all I can say. The dinosaurs themselves weren't much better, based on modern science but for the time they at least looked like SOMETHING. I just couldn't figure out what the antennae-wearing propeller-tailed little guy was supposed to be.

Until Gary Gygax.

 

[Vargo]

Nope, different set of toys.

There was a D&D SPECIFIC line of toys that included a rust monster - I do remember this for certain. I remember seeing them at Toys R Us, sometime in the mid-1980s. I know the time period, because I remember a certain guy making fun of them who I knew at the time.

I also clearly remember there being a rust monster and a fighter, and not much else. Oh, and for some reason I want to say that the fighter's name was the same of the fighter in the "choose your own adventure"-style module in the back of the "last" red book Basic D&D game that came out.

 

[Peasily]

pictures of bulette and rust monster

My brother and I also got the Bulette and Rust Monster in a pack of plastic dinosaurs in the 70's. We had always wondered what the heck they were, until we discovered D&D and AD&D around 1984.

This person here

http://www.rpg-collector.com/Html/curiosites.htm

has a picture of them. The ones I had were brown and yellow, though. I actually still had them up until 1991, when I lost them while moving to a new state.[/FONT]

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

This person here

http://www.rpg-collector.com/Html/curiosites.htm

has a picture of them.

What does he mean, "oversized?"

The Rust Monster is about 2 inches long, so a little bit oversized for use along 25mm figures.

Just advance it, dire it, enlarge it (shouldn't all Rust Monters have reach?), and have at it!

 

[der_kluge]

I WILL OWN THESE TOYS!

Scary - what dollar store was?

Someone on Mortality.net mentioned they had found them at a Rite-Aid pharmacy. There weren't any where I was living at the time, but I think there might be some in this area now, I should look...

Here's a pic I found of the Bulette -

http://www.whiterose.org/dr.elmo/GPMMC/Magical-Beast/Bulette.html