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AURORA NEWS AND INFORMATION CENTRAL
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PARTS PIT "CASTING CALL" - VICKIE NEEDS YOU!!
Well, with our old Aurora kits getting more and more valuable there seems to be a trend to hang onto incomplete rare kits. I'm sure everyone is hoping to magically find a part here or on Ebay to complete a kit, but the truly rare stuff is getting harder to find. The same pieces always seem to be missing. I'm looking for Parts Casters who will make up resin pieces that will be listed here. If you have parts and are capable of repro-ing them in resin, DROP ME A LINE - Parts
Pit Mike |
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"LOST AURORA" DINOSAUR
IS UNEARTHED -
IT'S A STEGGY!!
Here's one you may not have seen before... Back in 1973 when the Prehistoric
Scenes series was in full swing, Aurora had plans to release a huge "Plated
Dinosaur" kit... the Stegosaurus Armatis.
Designed on paper by Dave Cockrum, the sculpt pictured to the left is
the pattern made for the kit. From it's style many attribute this work
to Aurora sculptor Bill Lemon. Judging from the base shape, it looks like
it would sit in next to the Allosaurus and Armored Dino kits. Sizewise,
it would have likely scaled out one-third larger than the Triceratops,
but was never released.
The location of this sculpt...
if it still exists... remains an Aurora mystery.
By the way, Aurora also had sketches for an Iguanadon and Brontosaur. |
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MONSTER SCENES RARE GIANT INSECT ONCE HAD
VASTLY DIFFERENT ORIGINAL DESIGN SKETCH
When the Monster Scenes series was banned in the United
States, three kits in production went north to Canada to be manufactured and sold in that country only. One
was the Giant Insect, a winged bug that looked
like a cross between a dragonfly and a scorpion. Kit colours were sap green (like the PS Styracosaur) with clear amber wings and eyes. This kit is now approaching
the $4,000. mark for a MIB example. However, as this TOP
SECRET Aurora development blueprint shows, the Insect we all know
and covet was not the first design.
Here we see the Vampirella kit riding a Scarab type insect complete with multi-jointed legs and moving
mandibles. It is likely that this version never made it beyond this blueprint
stage. What is especially interesting is that this kit would have included
a set of spread-eagle Vampirella "riding" legs. Wonder what
scenes young boys would have created with THOSE! |
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PROTOTYPE MONSTERS OF THE MOVIES
MUTANT
AND BRIDE OF KONG
DISCOVERED TOGETHER
Here's another couple you don't see too often. On the
left, the unreleased Monsters of the Movies Fay
Wray was meant to go with a 1/12th scale King Kong. Rumour has
it that the Kong was intended to be articulated to fight the Prehistoric
Scenes T-Rex. This Fay bears a striking resemblance in design to the Monster
Scenes Victim and the Prehistoric Cro
Magnon Woman.
On the right is the also unreleased Monsters of the Movies Metaluna Mutant from "This Island Earth".
Whispers about this kit have it as part of a Sci-Fi Scenes series that
would have joined up with the Prehistoric Scenes kits through a Time
Machine kit.
Both these prototypes were unknown until an Ebay sale
2 years ago by an ex-Aurora employee. I wonder if Peter Jackson knows about Fay. |
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MONSTER
SCENES BRIDE of DRACULA RETIRED
TO MAKE WAY FOR DOCTOR DEADLY'S DEN and a NEW AMAZING ENVIRONMENT KIT
The Monster ScenesBride of Dracula now joins the Monster Scenes Invisible Man in the now "Officially Retired" category. Two new Environment kits are now available that interlock with the ORIGINAL SERIES.
All this and still lots more planned for the Monster Scenes line. For more on these kits see the New Products section of the Pit.
IF YOU'VE GOT ANY AURORA RELATED NEWS, DROP US A LINE HERE AT THE PIT.....
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