Today we look at "Monster Maker" by Whitman (Western Publishing) from 1977. While this game isn't as cool as the Mighty Men & Monster Maker I found back in 2019, I can see how this could be fun for the pre-school to about 6 years old set; the game recommends ages 4 to 8, but I can see a 7 or 8 year old getting bored with it.
I found this particular game out of the box with just the lid cut out. I'm not quite sure why that would have been done unless the box was damaged severely.
This game was bought at another rival of Toys R Us, Toy Chest. I was desperately trying to remember the name of this store for yesterday's post. At one time, we had a Toys R Us, a Toy Chest and a Children's Palace within a 1 mile radius.
I've included the instructions at the bottom, but essentially, children take turns spinning the spinner and selecting the body part the arrow lands on, adding it to their board.
If the part landed on is already in place, the player must skip that round. First child to finish his monster wins. As you can see, the monsters are more silly than scary.
Unfortunately, I'm missing a couple body parts for this fellow.
Monster Maker isn't a very popular game for collectors based on the selling price on eBay. It must not have clicked with kids.
The design of the monsters is making me a bit nostalgic for spooky kid books I read when I was a lad, but if I had owned the game itself it would probably have been played once and then put away to gather dust in the back of a cupboard.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I suspect happened to this one.
Deletesurprised you only get to choose hands, feet, and ears, but then again that's a lot for 6-year olds to handle, so maybe it's just right. i would like more choice in the faces!
ReplyDeleteI could see kids getting hands and feet all mixed up! It is cute - matching skills, body parts recognition, turn taking - all good skills for preschool.
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