serleran wrote:I don't imagine they are worth a whole lot. At least, I would not pay much for them.
g026r wrote:They were available for years (well into the '80s, if not well into the '90s), so I can't imagine they're worth much either.
grodog wrote:The bulettes at least are still available from school supplies catalogs/suppliers; I haven't checked into the rust monsters (nor the owlbears, which I've read @ http://www.thiel-a-vision.com/?p=327 were also part of the same sets/available in the same time periods: is anyone able to confirm/deny??).
grodog wrote:The bulettes at least are still available from school supplies catalogs/suppliers.
TheMilford wrote:I'm guessing if it's true that this supplier will be getting a few orders shortly...
b-36 wrote: It backs up what I've always thought: Given the fact that the designs we are discussing were being produced as plastic figures in the early 1970s, and would seem to pre-date many of the fantasy role playing publications in which they appear, I have always assumed that the concept for the Rust Monster and Bulette (and maybe some of the others) came FROM the figures and was used BY early role players and then TSR, and not the other way around (I think many assume the Hong Kong figures were "borrowed" from the pictures in the Monster Manual, et al, and not the other way around). But there are definitely others here who may know more about that, or can shed further light . . .