More Auroras That Never Were-

[Street Worm]

Checked out the (always cool) Junk Drawer today,
and found a few new things-

Metaluna Mutant Model Kit Illustration Original Art (Aurora, 1974).

Having found great success with the Monster Scenes, Comic Scenes, and Prehistoric Scenes model kits, Aurora planned to produce a series of Science Fiction Scenes. These models were to include the Time Machine (from the same-named film), the "War of the Worlds" spaceship, Gort from "The Day The Earth Stood Still," Robby the Robot, and the Metaluna Mutant from "This Island Earth."

Although artwork and even a few prototypes were produced, the line never came to pass, much to our chagrin!

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& some box art stuff



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[Peter Peeker]

wonder why they never happened?

seems like a sure bet to me...

[TCM Hitchhiker]

Man, you just KNOW those Aurora Sci-Fi kits would have been great!

[Street Worm]

I think they went out of business-

Monster Scenes (The Most Politically Incorrect Toys of All Time) didn't help [img]smile.gif[/img]

&

...When Nabisco [who bought Aurora out in 1973], shut down Aurora in 1977, all the company's physical assets -- molds, presses and so on -- were sold at auction.

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[Cemetery Can]

I never understood why Dick Tracy had a Space Coupe [img]redface.gif[/img]

I think I saw these pages after some links you posted some time ago, SW. One of them has a really cool Aurora-esque The Fly garage kit complete with art? Now if only Polar Lights would bring in some all new retro-style kits like those. I would love a Metaluna Mutant!

[Street Worm]

Originally posted by Cemetery Man:
I never understood why Dick Tracy had a Space Coupe [img]redface.gif[/img]

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That's Dick Tracy in the 60s-
(The Space Coupe & the Moon Maiden stories)
considered by many (not me) to be a low point in the Tracy history........

Dick came back to earth around the time of Apollo 11~

1962
? Answering the call to land on the moon by president JFK, Gould creates a Magnetic Space Coupe, an engine-less machine invented by Diet Smith. This sequence introduces Tracy's moon period, a time when Dick Tracy's Space Coupe takes him to the moon where he solves cases as the head of security for the Moon Governor.

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[toymank]

Just reading about those Monster Scenes kits...

"Canadian Kids To The Rescue"

yeah, that's right, pansies [img]wink.gif[/img]

[Street Worm]

yes, the Norman Lear, Alan Alda influence in America ruined a great many things that were cool in the '60s............

& NEVER sell your model company to a cookie company!
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[Street Worm]

This is cool-(wish I had these skills)

Jim Bertges' friend was always bummed about the old Marx monsters and the fact that they never made a Dracula figure to complete the set.
So he made his own and passed these photo's over to Jim!

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Marx Universal Monster reissues-



Good pics of the on this page