Monster of the Day #3206

Yay, Friday! Two weeks to T-Fest! See some of you in Dallas.

This is pretty great. However, the question is, do you make the monsters look like the filmmakers wanted them to look (as they do here), or really reflect the dogs in obvious masks look the film actually provides. I’d probably go with the latter, like the Amok Time Party Beach figure that has a visible gap between the monster’s bodysuit and flippers. However, Monsters in Motion has been in this market for a while and probably knows their consumer base.

  • Gamera977

    Personally I’d go with screen accurate but that’s just me.

    BTW: To me the guy looks more like Steve Martin with brown hair than James Best.

  • kgb_san_diego

    Man! Now I want the one with the Collies!

  • Rock Baker

    That’s the question that has been asked when building monster kits -are they kits of the character or of the suits themselves? A Billiken kit of one of the Ultraman monsters went so far as to include a visible zipper!

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I think he looks a bit like Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen. This could be a dramatization of one of his typical covers. “The Day Jimmy Invented a Growth Serum!” Edit: oops, wrong placement.

  • Ken_Begg

    That’s not James Best, it’s the cowardly boyfriend.

  • Gamera977

    Thanks! Haven’t seen the film in almost a decade. Saw it about a jillion times on MST3K- funny how some parts are burned into your brain and others you forget.

  • Eric Hinkle

    By the by, talking ‘Killer Shrews’, has anyone actually seen the sequel film to this on Amazon Prime?

  • That was the best part of the movie! When the obnoxious drunk who caused all the troubles thought it clever to go off on his own and discovered that it was more shrewed than he anticipated.

    See what I did there? See what I did there?

    I got millions of thoughts like that all day every day!

    Millions!

    Millions!

    It’s a wonder I get anything done…