Series 4
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 — No Comments
The fourth series of MIMP figures came out in 1992. Mistakenly labeled “series 3″ in the Monster Mailer newsletter, most likely because the actual series 3 was never released to stores for whatever reason, the fourth batch of monsters once agains consisted of a set of 24 figures (numbers 97 through 120) and were labled “Super Scary.”
The Super Scary monsters came in neon yellow, neon green, purple and an intense salmon color (somewhere between neon pink and neon orange). The monsters were now worth up to 100 points, and those worth the most (such as Charon, Thunderdell and Hanuman) came in glow in the dark yellow and green. Each series 4 monster also had two colors of paint applied to some of its features to give it additional detail–faces, hands, hair and so on were painted black, red, orange, yellow and green. The monsters were a bit taller than those in the past three series as well.
Series 4 was sold in 6 and 12 packs–the latter doubled as a display case, presenting the monsters against a haunted house backdrop.
1992 also marked the release of the MIMP cartoon, which premiered Halloween on ABC’s Saturday morning children’s programming lineup. The pilot episode was preempted in many areas by sports coverage, and no series ever came of the single show, as was suggested in the Monster Mailer newsletter.
Super Scary Howlers were released to coincide with series 4. Unusually, despite being labeled as “Super Scary,” none of the four monsters featured were from series 4; Vampire, the Monster and Werewolf were all from series 1 and Swamp Beast was from series 2.
Morrison Entertainment and Matchbox upset many Hindus by featuring an Indian diety–in this case, Hanuman–as a monster, and the figure was later replaced with a Dybbuk in some of the 12 packs. This marks the third time a Hindu god was featured as a monster in the MIMP toyline and was later removed from circulation. Despite this, none of the three figures (Kali, Ganesha and Hanuman) are considered particularly rare.
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