I spent more than my fair amount of time, building these and Aurora prehistoric scenes in the early 70s, never came out very good but still fun building them
Aurora's Monster models constituted a significant aspect of my growing up years in the 60s. If only I had kept the long rectangular boxes because James Bama's artwork was second-to-none.
As a little kid in the early 70s I eventually got all of these monster model kits and put them on my shelf. I remember the instructions now that you pulled them out. I didn't want to use the glow body parts for the monsters since the colors would be way off so I just used the black parts and painted on them. I didn't know what primer was but they came out pretty good since I was also a good artist and my attention to detail was high level. I used some of the glow parts for scenery like the rats, skulls maybe a branch etc. And yes when the lights went off for bed I enjoyed looking across at the models on my shelf and they would glow.
I received the Wolfman model as a birthday present aged 8. It terrified me. So I 'donated' it to my best friend....dumped it under his bed and left it there!
The original longbox version had the art of the Wolfman leaning out from a tree, and it didn't look anything like the kit. So, when they went to redo the kit as a glow kit, they had the art entirely redone to look more like the model.
I fondly remember building these as a kid and not so fondly recall the total 💩 glue that melted the plastic and never held up. Today we have superglue. Which, back then, was Crazyglue ! Of all the improvements to the modeling hobby, Superglue is a game changer and deserves its own praise!!!
i built all these in the 70's, and i'm wondering if i remember correctly: weren't the "sprues" (the plastic frames with the pieces attached) more square to fit in the square boxes, with ALL the pieces attached (not just the glowing pieces as shown here)? now i see the major pieces broken apart and bagged; maybe to fit in the narrower boxes?
In the 60s we moved from central Edinburgh Scotland to a council housing estate ( a scheme in local parlance - hence being labelled a schemie by friends who remained in the city 😂 ). My paternal grandmother often had me stay over, she lived in Easter Road. Easter road was my favourite place to be back then. A shop called Pirrets stocked the Aurora kits and I bought a fair few. Gran thought me a morbid kind of child 😂. A book exchange ( Bobby's bookshop ) was a good way to get Marvel and DC comics back then too but being a return 3 books/comics to pay for a " free " one meant I never held on to any of these gems. It seems I likely had a first edition Spiderman but no way would I hold on to a single comic if I could use them for part exchange, few sixties kids could have foreseen the collectable market that would form some decades later 😢 Not having a sense of geography I often filled out forms for Sea Monkeys and X-RAY specs, I'd then ask Mum about zip codes and would be upset that I was never going to receive the wonders promised in the advertisement drawings 😅 🤦 As dear old Dad would remark " that laddie's heid is full o' shite " 😊
Great video thanks .... built them all when i was pre 10 yrs old now ... im waiting on ups i have 10 monsters and some testors on the way..... monster kidd to monster grandpa i am.
Thank you for this review on these wonderful kits. Back in the 60s I built the Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, and my favourite the Hunchback on his turntable. I don't know if these kit's are still available in the UK, I will have a search on the net. Thanks again. Terry
I know that phantom of the opera is available at Amazon for $19 US and Hunchback is available at BBTS for $20. Not sure if they ship to UK though. Cheers!
Hi! If anyone has a pipe line into getting Aurora monster kits(the repops not the one from The 60's and 70's) I would appreciate. I had those in the 70's but they got thrown away and later Polar lights repros but due to certain circumstances had to sell.But I would like to restart again.I have a large Frankie, a Witch,a Hunchback, a Dracula(Moebius),Frankenstein, Creature fron the Black lagoon, Jeckyll/Hyde.I would pay A reasonable price for them.What scares me is some of the prices that are asked for Repops. I saw on line a Luminator "Mummy" going for 293.00 dollars US, wich is ridiculous. Anyway keep modelling fellow Monster lovers😊😊😊😊😊
The original box art was obsessively good - and I can't understand why re-issues make them look so bad. Even the re-issues that obviously have the rights to the Bama designs spoil it by adding big blurbs to it. 😞
I spent more than my fair amount of time, building these and Aurora prehistoric scenes in the early 70s, never came out very good but still fun building them
I built the Mummy model when I was a kid-about 1966. It's eyes would follow me as I walked by it. Scared the you-know-what out of me.
Fabulous !
Aurora's Monster models constituted a significant aspect of my growing up years in the 60s. If only I had kept the long rectangular boxes because James Bama's artwork was second-to-none.
As a little kid in the early 70s I eventually got all of these monster model kits and put them on my shelf. I remember the instructions now that you pulled them out. I didn't want to use the glow body parts for the monsters since the colors would be way off so I just used the black parts and painted on them. I didn't know what primer was but they came out pretty good since I was also a good artist and my attention to detail was high level. I used some of the glow parts for scenery like the rats, skulls maybe a branch etc. And yes when the lights went off for bed I enjoyed looking across at the models on my shelf and they would glow.
i had the mummy. i wish i still had it
I received the Wolfman model as a birthday present aged 8. It terrified me. So I 'donated' it to my best friend....dumped it under his bed and left it there!
The original longbox version had the art of the Wolfman leaning out from a tree, and it didn't look anything like the kit. So, when they went to redo the kit as a glow kit, they had the art entirely redone to look more like the model.
I fondly remember building these as a kid and not so fondly recall the total 💩 glue that melted the plastic and never held up. Today we have superglue. Which, back then, was Crazyglue ! Of all the improvements to the modeling hobby, Superglue is a game changer and deserves its own praise!!!
i built all these in the 70's, and i'm wondering if i remember correctly: weren't the "sprues" (the plastic frames with the pieces attached) more square to fit in the square boxes, with ALL the pieces attached (not just the glowing pieces as shown here)? now i see the major pieces broken apart and bagged; maybe to fit in the narrower boxes?
In the 60s we moved from central Edinburgh Scotland to a council housing estate ( a scheme in local parlance - hence being labelled a schemie by friends who remained in the city 😂 ). My paternal grandmother often had me stay over, she lived in Easter Road. Easter road was my favourite place to be back then. A shop called Pirrets stocked the Aurora kits and I bought a fair few. Gran thought me a morbid kind of child 😂. A book exchange ( Bobby's bookshop ) was a good way to get Marvel and DC comics back then too but being a return 3 books/comics to pay for a " free " one meant I never held on to any of these gems. It seems I likely had a first edition Spiderman but no way would I hold on to a single comic if I could use them for part exchange, few sixties kids could have foreseen the collectable market that would form some decades later 😢 Not having a sense of geography I often filled out forms for Sea Monkeys and X-RAY specs, I'd then ask Mum about zip codes and would be upset that I was never going to receive the wonders promised in the advertisement drawings 😅 🤦
As dear old Dad would remark " that laddie's heid is full o' shite " 😊
Funny…very different locations but very similar memories…Love it
Great video thanks .... built them all when i was pre 10 yrs old now ... im waiting on ups i have 10 monsters and some testors on the way..... monster kidd to monster grandpa i am.
That is awesome!
Thank you for this review on these wonderful kits. Back in the 60s I built the Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, and my favourite the Hunchback on his turntable. I don't know if these kit's are still available in the UK, I will have a search on the net. Thanks again. Terry
I know that phantom of the opera is available at Amazon for $19 US and Hunchback is available at BBTS for $20. Not sure if they ship to UK though. Cheers!
Hi! If anyone has a pipe line into getting Aurora monster kits(the repops not the one from
The 60's and 70's) I would appreciate. I had those in the 70's but they got thrown away and later Polar lights repros but due to certain circumstances had to sell.But I would like to restart again.I have a large Frankie, a Witch,a Hunchback, a Dracula(Moebius),Frankenstein, Creature fron the Black lagoon, Jeckyll/Hyde.I would pay
A reasonable price for them.What scares me is some of the prices that are asked for
Repops. I saw on line a Luminator "Mummy" going for 293.00 dollars US, wich is ridiculous.
Anyway keep modelling fellow Monster lovers😊😊😊😊😊
The original box art was obsessively good - and I can't understand why re-issues make them look so bad.
Even the re-issues that obviously have the rights to the Bama designs spoil it by adding big blurbs to it. 😞
In 63 ,I payed 13$ now there $70 by time you Finnish its $100 what kid can afford it