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… Read Article →

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… Read Article →

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… Read Article →

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… Read Article →

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… Read Article →

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,… Read Article →

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… Read Article →

While the technology of the day didn’t allow for the mass produced, affordable models themselves to look much like the actual actors (sometimes exacerbated by the paint jobs; in this case I… Read Article →