Greetings! Important question for us all.

[James]

Hello,

My name is James and I have recently become addicted to Ugly and Slurfie hunting!

That said, it really all started 28 years ago on the Isle of Wight, England when I was age 6 my Dad bought me a few finger monster jigglers and a knock off 'Margaret' tentacled creature from a beach shop. Of course all now lost to the sands of time but the memory has lived on... and now reignited with a vengeance my collector gene.

I'm currently awaiting my first batch of Slurfies to arrive from the U.S. after waiting patiently for some to come up on our favourite auction site. I've been looking longingly at the Uglies on there too but the 'buy it Now' prices are rather high at the moment.

I keep reading that (to paraphrase) "the same moulds have been reused and resused and are still in use today". However... I can't see any 100th generation Uglies or Slurfies in any material for sale today. I've spent a few weekends trawling the beach shops and pound shops of Weymouth and West Dorset. I've tried googling for days, waded through Alibaba... they just don't seem to be in production or for sale any more...

Does anyone, anywhere still see them for sale newly produced even if they are far removed from the original generation?

James

[Astronit]

Hi James, If you are referring to reproduction casts of the original 1960's Topps Teacher's Pet Rubber Uglies then no, they haven't turned up in new form for a few decades. However the variations can sometimes be found in different forms rather than rubber creatures.

[James]

Hi Mike,

These variations in different forms, can you give some examples of any that are at all available now?

You clearly have an amazing collection, I've seen a great many pictures of it over the net :-)

Have you ever considered documenting visually all those you have in some form of online 'database'/wiki? I know that might well be a never ending task but it would be invaluable for collectors looking to do comparisons on variations and morphology (or Ugly evolution/devolution as I'm tempted to view it).