…when accuracy wasn’t an option.
We were happy with what we could get our hands on. Every new mask was the next big thing back in the day.
I remember several other small sites that shared pics of Myers masks and goodies back in the day. Seems like they all vanished throughout the years.lol(Luckily Derek salvaged the “Steve Todd” page) I remember talking to Josh Warren and was disappointed when he had to shut down his Fruit of a Loomis site.
I enjoyed viewing the mask gallerys the other sites had to offer. Back then I didn’t know how to order them since there were no contact info so I’d just drool over the pics. Words like NO(Nightowl) made no sense to me back then.lol
Here’s one defunct site I managed to find recently.I’m assuming it’s the old Halloweenmovies.com site.
Gotta love the list of old skool goodness.
Ah, back when we treasured masks as the were hard to come by… All I had in 2004 was a UL75 and a Nemesis soon after, but that was it, I had no idea where to get a good mask… Yeah, Steve Todd’s page was a holy grail of pics, so many times did I drool over the masks on that page!
These days, high end masks are ten a penny and they don’t feel quite as special as they used to, there was more mystery surrounding the makers and finishers… Am I getting old? Haha. Great thread!
I must say I am very excited about this site, my mom got me into scary movies when I was very young her favorite being Halloween 1 she tells me about going to see it in the theaters, and the first time I ever watched it I fell in love with the genre. And for a long time would collect cheap mask that were only sold at Halloween stores and was all ways disappointed. But I would tell friends and they would laugh at me for wanting to capture a true piece of a movie. But now I have found heaven on this site, the same people with the same love of collecting. And I have only been a member for a short while now but the things I have learned is amazing. Thanks Derek.
Great looking back it really is,hits home big time for me,there was a time when all i owned was an MMP Samhain and to me it was the best mask on earth and i wanted for nothing else and thought nothing could better it,EVER.i really loved that mask and treasured it.then i discovered MM.NET and it changed everything for me,even though it brought me to see there are/were far more accurate obtainable pieces around and was lucky enough to own and still own them i hate the fact i have been spoiled so much in the hobby,i take things for granted very easily and so much high end stuff is attainable at the touch of the BIN button or the hit up of an email to a good friend and i can have 5 75k’s on my doorstep in a few days.i don’t treasure masks in the same way i did and i hate that fact.
Thanks for posting this K! I have come across that page you posted several times over the past few years while doing some deep internet searching on Cinema Secrets masks. Whenever I’ve stumbled into it I’ve always had a sense of wonder looking at those various masks listed with their descriptions & prices. It makes me very sad to think that I was totally in the dark about this stuff back then and I really wish I had known. Cool piece of history there
I still wish I could find snippets of the old layout of MyersMask.Net (or whatever it was). Those were the first replica Myers masks I’d ever seen, and at the time (from what I remember) they were AMAZING, lol.
I think I remember seeing an H6 that had bright red hair and thought it was the absolute shiz.
I think about this sort of thing a lot lately. This is why I love to see people starting original sculpts in the projects section. Of course all of the big dog makers are all going for that same look these days - as close to the kirk as possible. But I like to think back to when they were going for distinct looks in scenes, original Myers sculpts not just Kirk. Masks like the 2nd STAB with the castle stretch and the various H2 masks with the dick stretch sculpted in. Sometimes miss that…
I still remember the launch of the HE mask on The HMA. Everyone was praising it as the be all, end all of Myers masks at the time. That changed really quick!
Steve Todd’s Pics was one of the sites I always visited in the mid to late 90’s. My SSN Sandman proto was all I needed though back then.
I found out about Sean Clark and his Sean Clark 75 through one of the old Myers fan sites, probably one of the first versions of the official MM.net site (before other sites merged into it and the ownership changed a few times). I e-mailed Mr. Clark and asked if I could get a wearable version and received a Sandman mask a good while before they were ever available, I think '97 or early '98. When he finally got a website and the Sandman went up on it I thought “Aw man now that’s the mask I want.” basically because the dim overhead lighting in the pics brought out all the details I couldn’t see in my Sandman in broad daylight or my room’s night lighting.
It was a good while until the Nightmare/Nightwatcher, and NMM 78 came along, which were the next masks to catch my eye, and I never knew how to order most of them because either the websites were not available or they were hard to find. I barely remember the DBII, but I remember the KH/DW being big and the Second Stab being big as well, but most of the prices were way out of my league. The Sandman and my Sandman proto were a bargain for today’s masks, but it was still a lot for a kid in high school. You pretty much had to search around on multiple Myers forums to see what’s what. I didn’t sign up on this site until 5 or so years back because of how confrontational the site was in previous incarnations, I remember there always being debates and arguments and such. Heck even when I signed back up I remember asking a simple question about what the actual title for the code name of a mask was (as I was pout of the loop for a few years) and some people jumped in to ridicule me not knowing it (and I never received an answer). I actually think I did sign up before, but I only posted a couple of times and forgot my name and password.
I think to an extent it’s still difficult for those getting into the hobby to find a lot of masks as a lot are still only available first hand via e-mail or PM’s on this site, but there are a lot more websites for companies (and they look a hell of a lot better than the Geocities and Angelfire sites from way back when).