MONSTER SCENES

BOXES & INSTRUCTION SHEETS

Retailer's Booklet (Repro)
Giant Insect Box (Repro)
Dracula Box (Repro)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Box (Repro)
Animal Pit Box (Reconstruction)
Bride of Dracula Box (on Disc)
Bride of Dracula Instructions (on Disc)
Dungeon Box (Reconstruction)

NEW MONSTER SCENES KITS

Monster Scenes Skeleton (GLOW)
Monster Scenes Feral Cat
Monster Scenes Saber Tooth Rabbit

MONSTER SCENES LTD KITS

Bride of Dracula with Base (Retired)
Invisible Man with Base (Retired)
Doctor Deadly's Den (Retired)
The Parts Pit (Retired)
The Iron Maiden (Retired)

NEW “SCENERS” KITS

Invisible Man with Base (taking Orders)
The Doctor’s Den (taking Orders)
The Parts Pit (Coming Soon)
The Iron Maiden (taking Orders)
The Sinister Stake (In Development)
The Scream Queen (Coming Soon)

KIT PARTS

Dracula - Part X - Original Base (Resin)

Mr. Hyde - Part X - Original Base (Resin)

Giant Insect - Part 1 - Right Tail (Moebius)

Giant Insect - Part 10 - Body Bottom (Moebius)

Giant Insect - Part 14 - Leg Upper Half (Moebius)

Giant Insect - Part 2 - Left Tail (Moebius)

Giant Insect - Part 3 - Body Top (Moebius)

Giant Insect - Parts 11 to 13 - Leg (Moebius)

Gruesome Goodies - Part 1 - Table top (Resin)

Hanging Cage - Part 19 - Lock (Resin)

Pendulum - Part 15 - Crank Bracket

Pendulum - Part 21 - Waist Restraint

Pendulum - Part 22 - Leg Restraint

Pendulum - Part 8 - Blade

Victim - Part 3 - Right arm

Victim - Part 4 - Left arm

Victim - Part 8A - Leg half front

Victim - Part 9A - Leg half rear

Victim - Parts 10B & 11B - Legs

Victim - Parts 8A & 9A - Legs

Victim - Part NA - Original Base

The Most Notorious Toys of All Time?

Few products have the distinction of ruining their creator's careers, but the debacle that followed the introduction of the Aurora Plastic Company's series of Monster Scenes Model Kits has to rank as one of the greatest since the original Monster destroyed the life of Victor Frankenstien.

Hitting the market in the early seventies, these snap together kits allowed kids the opportunity to mix and match four original horror film characters with torture chamber devices and create their own "Monster Movie Scenes". Scaled down to 1/13th scale from Aurora's original Monsters series, kids could presumably fit more of these kits in limited shelf space. There were 4 original accessory kits - "The Pendulum", "The Hanging Cage", "Gruesome Goodies" and "The Pain Parlor" all of which more or less operated with moving winches and plastic blades.Of the figure kits, the Frankenstien Monster and Doctor Deadly (the mad Scientist) posed no problem with parents. However, the addition of the scantilly-clad and large-busomed Vampirella kit raised some eyebrows and another female kit, "the Victim", set off howls of protests among women's groups. Apparently, she was designed to fit too well into the torture devices. The slogan for the series... "Rated X for excitement" didn't help either.

Feminist & Parental Outrage
Newspaper letter writing campaigns followed. Even Rowan and Martin's "Laugh In" gave Aurora the "Fickle Finger of Fate" award for the series. In New York, the company was in damage control mode. Having just been taken over by Nabisco, Aurora pulled all the kits from American stores and sent them off to Canada -- presumably where the children were harder to "corrupt." Renaming The Victim kit "Doctor Deadly's Daughter" and changing some of the controversial box art were two measures employed to head off the type of reception the kits were met with stateside. The comic on the back of the instruction sheets was also elimated. Faced with a large inventory of kits and having tooled up for three new ones (the now ultra rare Dracula, Doctor Jekyll & Mister Hyde and the Giant Insect) Aurora dumped everything into their plant in Rexdale, Ontario.

Canadian Kids to the Rescue - Entire Inventory Shipped North
Monster Scenes thrived in Canada for a time, where the three Canadian kits had a
fairly successful production run as well as the rest of the original series. Two more kits were on the drawing board and original sculpts and box art had been done for "The Dungeon" and the collection's centrepiece... "The Animal Pit".

The Dungeon was to be a two-walled backdrop and work as a focal point for the figural kits, while the Animal Pit (with its 14 inch gallows) came complete with a winch and waist restraint for lowering the "Victim" into a pit that contained a hungry, mutated animal. It seems the concept for this one came before the original U.S. protests. Not suprisingly, these two large and expensive-to-produce kits were never to see the toy store shelves, as Nabisco finally decided the controversial series was not something they wanted to continue...the Monster Scenes series was finished.

Aurora re-released the Canadian Dracula and Mister Hyde kits in their Monsters of the Movies series, though not in the same colours the originals came in. The Monsters of the Movies Dr. Jekyll kit contains two of the original Canadian 1/13th scale Hyde heads, though it puts them on a newly-crafted 1/12th scale body.

Today, only the Dracula kit has had a recent production run... that being a limited edition MOTM series put out by Revell. Even in model kits, it seems, the old Count can never die.

Monster Scenes Rise Again !!!

In 2004, the first of the NEW LINE of Monster Scenes Resin Kits was created by noted kit sculptor Molemento Pete Parlagreco. The Monster Scenes Invisible Man was hailed by series fans as an exact match in style and proportion to the original kits. The Bride of Dracula soon joined the series.

2006 saw James Webb join the team with his release of Dr. Deadly’s Den, followed later by the Parts Pit.. a kit named after this very site.

By 2008,Monsters Scenes had risen from the grave.. and were available in styrene for the first time in 35 years. Dencomm and Moebius models teamed up to re-release the original kits. Only Mr. Hyde, and Dracula remain un-released.

An ORIGINAL Monster Scenes Dracula, seen here with his rare second set of legs, menaces an original Dr. Deadly’s Daughter.

A look a the box art created by famed artist Dave Dormand for Monster Scenes Limited’s Bride of Dracula kit, sculpted by Molemento Pete .

A Monster Scenes Mister Hyde checks out all the Gruesome Goodies in Monster Scenes Limited’s Doctor Deadly’s Den kit, sculpted by James Webb.

The never released Aurora prototype of the Dungeon, set to go in 1973 but cancelled when the series was scrapped by Aurora.
DENCOMM will be releasing this soon !!

“I REMEMBER THAT NIGHT... IT
WAS A REALLY CLOSE SHAVE !

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DENCOMM and Moebius have ressurected the
series.. even producing special Limited “Prototype”
Editions of several kits from the Series. Check them out over on Monsterscenes.net