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[Strontium Dog]

I was sorting through my collection today, and I was surprised to see we'd never had a thread on the forum dedicated to this bizarre and colourful series. Now these might not be the greatest MIMP out there, but they're a decent LRG series in their own right, and they deserve to be documented.

Super Creepies were widely available in singles, 6 packs and 12 packs, and it was possible to get all 24 if you bought the two different 12 packs.

This is what I got, and just as with the dinos, I think this only represents a portion of what's out there:

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[BananasAreGood]

Can anyone help complete the picture?

I've got a pale green Horntail Moth #138, with red antennae, black eyes and brown abdomen, and a neon yellow Jumping Spider #123, with red rocketpack and green head with black eyes.

These were just about the coolest thing ever when they came out. Brilliant marketing - what do kids who like monsters also like? Bugs and other creepy-crawly thingies. I certainly did. They may not be the best-regarded series among collectors, but I've still got a soft spot for them.

Dan

[dielaughing]

I've got a yellow armoured cockroach, the murky green colour lightning bug and also saw green versions of eastern toe biter and scarface scorpion on ebay lately.

I agree, this series never seems to get much recognition and its a bit of a shame really.

Howard

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Ah, one of my best Xmas' ever, when I got both of the 12-packs. How nice. That was when I was at the age where I couldn't stop parents from throwing the packaging away, so now I'm "re-acquiring" the 12 packs. One down, one to go!

[Mrjoespider]

I was sorting through my collection today, and I was surprised to see we'd never had a thread on the forum dedicated to this bizarre and colourful series. Now these might not be the greatest MIMP out there, but they're a decent LRG series in their own right, and they deserve to be documented.

Super Creepies were widely available in singles, 6 packs and 12 packs, and it was possible to get all 24 if you bought the two different 12 packs.

This is what I got, and just as with the dinos, I think this only represents a portion of what's out there:

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Can anyone help complete the picture?

I have a green one eyed jack
green armoured cockroach
orange scar faced scorpion

there my only doubles pm if you want any theyre not in great shape so ill just post em to ya

[DarrylWestley]

Equally shocked there has never been a mention of them!

Although by the time these were released as a child my interest in MIMP was wavering.
I was a lover of insects and spiders so these were certainly interesting, I was very fond
of Astaroth from the previous series. If only they were slightly more rubbery!

I was considering having them on the www.monstercollecting.com

I shall take a group shot of my own collection to compare with yours Strontium Dog.
Few there of yours I have never seen before: Neon Yellow Bedbug, Ladybug with black
markings, Orange crabspider.

TwoHeadedBoy - Which 12 pack do you own? I have one of them, see photograph.
Wondered if you have the other would like to see photograph

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[TwoHeadedBoy]

It's the other one (as in, the one you don't have). Just won it the other day from eBay, £5.50!

Thinking of getting a full set of these pyramid packs, I now have both from Series 1, one Super Creepy, one Super Scary and a Space Aliens one. They're great!

[Strontium Dog]

Still collecting these! Up to 55 unique figures now, though still lacking the aforementioned green #138 Horntail Moth. Have yet to discover any figures in more than three colour schemes.

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[dielaughing]

Hey Danny, great pic, I'll take a photo of my super creepies as a comparison as I think I've got a couple you haven't.

[dielaughing]

Here it is,

I've seen an Orange black widow somewhere and I think a green scarface scorpion. Might be mistake though.

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[Strontium Dog]

Oh yes, you've got a few there I don't have:

#121 Tarantula - Orange
#125 Turret Spider - Green
#127 Soldier Beetle - Green/Yellow
#138 Horntail Moth - Green

And this establishes that every figure is available in at least two colour schemes.

I've got the green Scarface Scorpion now, funny that you don't have the orange one as in my experience, that's the commonest figure of the lot! I must have half a dozen of those in my trade pile

Also, if the pictures on the Super Creepies leaflet are reliable, there also exists a yellow Scarface Scorpion. That would make 60 known variants, 12 sculpts in two colours and 12 in three. I wonder if that's all of them?

[dielaughing]

Yeah the orange scorpion is the most common as far as I remember, I used to have it as my brother got it in a single pack years ago, and I had a yellow mexican bed bug from the same source, but managed to lose them along with a a bunch of others like a neon yellow griffin and neon green roc, curses haha.

I'd have got the orange scorpion by now but whenever I see one on ebay they are usually either in a silly high buy it now auction and I've got the rest of the figures or in a lot going for a high price thats the same. Kind of anoying really.

[keywolf]

-Also, if the pictures on the Super Creepies leaflet are reliable, there also exists a yellow Scarface Scorpion-

I only have Scarface Scorpion in yellow!

[dielaughing]

Any chance you could photograph it at all? It would be very interesting to see because if it is it would mean that maybe there are more than 3 versions of the figures and then me and strontium dog would suddently find we've got a ton more to discover:-D

[keywolf]

Sure, here you go: (hope this works)

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[Strontium Dog]

Yes, nice photos. That's exactly the same colour as on the Super Creepie booklet, so that's 60 variants definitively known to exist.

[andy53600]

Still collecting these! Up to 55 unique figures now, though still lacking the aforementioned green #138 Horntail Moth. Have yet to discover any figures in more than three colour schemes.

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My God!!! Never seen so many paint variations on figures of this series! Guess I can almost see why Matchbox continued this pattern wid the dinos.

How on earth did you manage to acquire all these Strontium? I mean, can already plainly see the majority of 'em are from the 12-packs, but the others must be from either the single or 6-packs (which I consider to be exceptionally rare).

Anyone else here notice how scarce unopened super creepy 6-packs are on ebay these days? I've been lookin' out for some for ages now. Could say the same for the super scary packs too.