PODCAST: Rando Rob 0080 – Vintage Monster Books

[m00npie]

These monster books from the 1970s made me think I could build my own masks, monsters, and special effects. I couldn’t, but I tried! YouTube: […]

Source: https://podcast.robohara.com/rando-rob- ... ter-books/

[AArdvark]

Re: Movie Monsters book

I had that exact same book and got it from the same Scholastic book fair. It's been 50 years but I can still remember the Young Frankenstein bio taking about the zipper in his neck! It made me want to make a costume but my skills were just as bad.

The only real costume I ever made was this.

That's me on the right. I was at a party with my friend, who went as a black guy. Times were different then

[Flack]

Those books were great. Even though I never made that looked any good, it made me think I could, and that was almost as good.