Collectors Club
Monday, March 8th, 2010 — No Comments
The MIMP Collectors Club was a mail-in offering that gave fanatics a number of benefits and exclusive memorabilia.
A check or money order for $5-10 would get a year-long membership in the club, with perks such as an official membership card, a “Monstership Certificate,” startling stickers, Monster Keeper totebag, March of the Mini Monsters game and two issues of the Monster Mailer, the official MIMP Collectors Club newsletter.
The membership card was made of plastic and was stamped with a unique membership number. The front had a line for members to sign their name and the back was “signed” by Joe Morrison, Vampire and Warlock, much in the same way it was on the Monstership Certificate.
The March of the Mini Monsters board game was a large board game featuring an illustration of Monster Mountain printed on glossy paper. Individual colored squares had drawings of each series 1 monster and were colored red, purple, green or yellow. Additionally, there were colored squares to cut out that were used in conjunction with the illustrations to advance through the game, along with a few extra squares with directions to skip a turn, go back so many spaces and so on. A red plastic decoder was included to unscramble messages throughout the game.
The six-page Monster Mailer newsletter unfolded across a sheet of paper as wide as three standard-sized sheets, with information printed on both sides. Included were games, a monster-drawing contest, a history of Spring-Heeled Jack, an update on the upcoming Super Scary figures (referred to as “Series III” here, as the real series 3 was never fully released) and Dinosaur figures (oddly skipping over the Super Creepies entirely), and order form for other MIMP memorabilia, letters from fans answered by monsters themselves (including the first mention of a MIMP cartoon) and a message from Joe Morrison.
Although two issues of the Monster Mailer were promised, in reality only one issue was ever printed and mailed out, and the “year long” limit to the membership held no real weight.
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