Monster of the Day

Monsters! Bikinis! Rock 'n Roll! This film has it all. I like that the model features the old school hot dog mouth too, rather than the retconned fumetti fangs. Check out also the (probably out of stock) Amok Time figure, which has a cheeky gap at the ankles between the monster suit and the…

  I actually have a built up and painted figure of a Saucer Man in my living room, and it's very nice. However, this kit is great. Hats off--and heads off--to any tribute to the great Paul Blaisdell.   REVISION: Answering the note below about the color of the Saucer Men, here is a…

One year I went to WonderFest, a convention down in Kentucky for model builders. I went with a model building friend from the library I used to work at. It wasn't entirely my bag, but I did like the anniversary showing of Return of the Living Dead--shown on a stand-up screen in a hotel…

Sweet! These are expensive kits (and limited editions, so they sell out all the time), and I would have to hire someone to paint the things, but man, that's cool. By, admittedly, an extremely narrow definition of 'cool'.  

  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.