Year: 2021

  Jamie B sent me this. The Monsters in Motion site is a wonder, an amazing collection of garage kits for obscure '50s sci fi monster flicks. This one really captures the, uh, appeal of Creeping Terror, that's for sure. It should come with a sound chip that has a single scream that you…

Happy Friday! We're out of Gigantics, but lots of you talked very affectionately about Aurora's dinosaur kits, so here's one of those. Certainly a rather better paint job than the sort of two tone ones I personally attempted. Aurora's Prehistoric Scenes line mixed cavemen with the dinosaurs. Not accurate, but fun!

Happy Friday Eve. This was my favorite one of these, maybe because of Black Scorpion? Anyway, it was a sweeeet kit.

Man, these were neat. I mean, anyone who grew up on '50s big bug movies loved these. Of course, now we have all these incredible garage kits and statues for every obscure flick you can think of, but back in the days these things were a real breath of fresh air.

Man, I don't remember this one at all. I wonder if this was the last one and didn't get distributed as much or something. I will say I think the other bugs lend themselves more to being super gigantic. Wasps and such could be scarier if they were the size of small dogs or…

I think there was a gap after the Aurora kits came out, but then another company (I think it was Fun Dimensions) realized that there was no copyright or licensing issues on generic, 50s-style giant bugs. These were very fun because they came with these dioramas with crushed cars and running victims, etc.

I definitely owned this one, a couple of them over the years in fact. It's a rather generic Godzilla, clearly not based on any particular suit. Again, though, this might have been the first widely-available piece of Godzilla merch in the US, so it was pretty damn cool none the less. The glow in…

Weirdly, the most dynamic pose of any Aurora monster model kit went ot the Phantom of the Opera, perhaps indicating his origin as a silent film character.  I never thought about it, but the line really was very Chaney-centric. Lon Sr was represented by both the Phantom and the Hunchback (fittingly a victim in…

So...first of all, obviously, NOT Frankenstein. Also it's interesting how the green skin thing really caught on. All the toy manufacturers (not that "all" were that many back then) went with the green skin thing. I wonder if that's how Universal was licensing the image back then. You can tell Universal didn't own the…