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From Wikipedia: Mad Monster Party is a 1967 American stop-motion animated musical comedy starring the voices of Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett and Phyllis Diller. It has become a cult film.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let me state right off the bat that I have never seen this film, don\u2019t know much about it and am not connected to it in any way, shape or form\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..EXCEPT:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 1995, a very good and talented friend of mine – Charlie Stoddard (you may remember him from the Uncle Floyd Show) – asked me if I could help him out with something.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He was VERY into this type of scene and actually had the ability to create molds of the movie\u2019s characters and create perfect resin likenesses of them from those molds.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Because he was creating a business with them, he needed many copies of each character. I had the time and the space (my old and recently-retired darkroom) and the training to create exact chemical solutions and follow strict procedures to get the job done.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSure – sounds like fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He drove up, brought me the molds and chemicals and showed me what to do.<\/span><\/p>\n It turned out to be a bit more difficult than I anticipated. This resin solidified REALLY quickly. I still have my first original resin creation from 25 years ago and I still find it amazing\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..and it\u2019s NOT a movie character.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Apparently, I was pouring resin from a cup into a funnel, which I imagine was inserted into a mold. The resin never made it into the mold:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The resin made it into one-piece stop-action art.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So that’s the one item I\u2019ve had that reminds me of that time in my life a quarter-century ago\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.until I recently found another one of those tucked-away mystery shopping bags of stuff:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And looked inside:<\/span><\/p>\n These are some very-yellowed rejects that I apparently kept.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Because I haven\u2019t used the darkroom in all this time for anything (still waiting on that call from the Smithsonian), I STILL have the shirt I wore when working on these resin pieces and it\u2019s STILL hanging from the darkroom\u2019s inside door handle:<\/span><\/p>\n I have no idea why only part of one letter of \u201cGUITAR\u201d is still green (Guitar World<\/span><\/em> was a magazine I shot for), but I think the shirt\u2019s kind of cool-looking in a sloppy, artsy-fartsy way.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So now that I have all this newfound stuff and it\u2019s October, it\u2019s kind of a ready-made Halloween post, no?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On to the defective pourings (from which I\u2019ve removed a LOT of yellow):<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know most of their names, but I think we all know Frank:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026.and his lovely Bride (her voice and look in the movie were provided by Phyllis Diller):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n NO idea who this is, but he has two flags behind him that say, \u201cBig Daddy is our Leader\u201d (Garlits or Roth?):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I think this is The Mummy:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n No clue:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Don\u2019t know her either, but these had resin-thinness problems under the arm (left) and in the skirt (right). Her sign says, \u201cI love to go out at night – WAY OUT\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Further research reveals that this was a 1966 Aurora kit called, \u201cThe Vampire\u201d and I found 3 examples of finished products from the kit:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n No idea who or what this is, but it\u2019s really tiny:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not so tiny is Francesca:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This guy looks somewhat related to Francesca in a similar non-tiny way that went straight to his head:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n From what I can gather, this character\u2019s name is Yetch and he\u2019s Frank\u2019s butler:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dunno who this lovely lady is, but what a great head of hair she has! I took all the yellow out of the second pic and I think I can see fingernails in the picture, but that level of detail couldn’t really be gotten from the mold:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Finally! Someone we all can identify – Gilda Radner\u2019s second husband:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Leftover sign, probably belonging to one of the above people\/creatures:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n