Here's some screencaps of Aurora Models that have appeared in some flicks.
First up here's a shot from Monster Squad, you can clearly see a glow Dr. J and Hunchback. Also a Tskuda Creature and Metaluna Mutant:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_013copy.jpg




Here a shot from Pee Wee's Big adventure, there's an Aurora T-Rex on the window sill:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_039copy.jpg



From the 40 year old Virgin, there's a PL/ Aurora Wolfman and an Addar, Aurora, PL Cornelius:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_235copy.jpg



From Fright Night, up on the shelf behind Evil Ed you can make out a Mummy and the legs of the Wolfman. In the Second shot, the legs of the Creature are visible back there:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_174copy.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_198copy.jpg


From the Horror Comedy House, on the left is Frankenstein, on the right The Wolfman:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_149copy.jpg

Here's some More:
Lotsa models in this one, this is From the 70's telemovie version of Salems Lot:
In the 1st shot you can see a Mummy, MOM Frankie, Drac & Dr, J:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_370copy.jpg


Here Mark is holding a MOM Frankie and you can see an Addar Dr. Zaius on the back shelf:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_369copy.jpg



This a scratch built graveyard w/ Aurora monsters aound it:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_399copy.jpg


In this shot you can barely make out a Godzilla on the right side, next to the head:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_248copy.jpg


Not a model, but kinda neat, An Inflatable Twiki from Better off Dead:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_217copy.jpg

Cool post! Thanks!

thanks for posting these . very cool . i remember seeing that graveyard dio and thinking how cool it was .
hb

And don't forget the very very fuzzy Godzilla in the top right of the lower Fright Night picture.

Fernio - Very Cool! We've talked about these a number of times here on the board, but it's a whole 'nuther degree of coolness to actually see them - Thanks so much for posting!

Here are a couple more:

From Home Alone, it looks like a Dracula up on the upper right top shelf :

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_205copy.jpg



And from Galaxy Quest, not any Aurora models but Brandon is Building An AMT style Protector (Why AMT ERTL RC2 whatever, never produced one of these is beyond me) Also a G. I. Joe, Macfarlane figure and other toys back there:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_133copy.jpg


Anyone know of any others?

Not a movie but a Simpsons ep
http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/gallery/screenshots/1f07/1f07_066.jpg

Speaking of the Simpsons.From Homer's Phobia, Here's a Godzilla (looks a bit like the Godzilla prototype from the 70's):

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_001copy.jpg


In the second pic, looks like a Digger Wierd-O:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_025copy.jpg

That is a very cool assortment of frames. Thanks for sharing.

Somthing is not right with the photo from Monster Squad. The kid has two Aurora Glow Kits from the early 70's and an early 1990's Tsukuda Kit? An unbuilt stash, or, his mom didn't throw out the empty boxes? I know it's only a movie... It's still cool that model kits made it into the movie. I hope to see this movie some day.

I never noticed the Aurora Dracula before on the big broher's shelf in Home Alone.

I think the Tskuda kits came out around '85 or 86 about the time the movie was filmed.

That puts the dates of the kits only 10 years apart, assuming the aurora kits went out of production in 1975 or so.

The Galaxy Quest Photo also has a Frankenstein bust and what appears to be a mumy bust. Probably both resin kits.

In the mid 80's you could still find glow kits fairly easily, around that time I found a glow Dr. J and Drac still sitting at a hobby store across town. (for $2.00 ea!) In the Galaxy Quest pic you can also see a Terminator skull(behind the fan)

Excellent stuff!! Thanks heaps for posting ferneio!:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Any more?!?

Chris.:):)

Discovered some more from the 1987 Fantasy Flick-The Lady in White:

On the shelf below creepy Katherine Helmond at the window:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_102.jpg

Here's a daylight shot (neat Robby on the left):
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_107.jpg

Another daytime shot:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_203.jpg

Behind Alex Rocco on the shelf,there's a Dr. J and Hunchback:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_148.jpg

Next to this kid are a couple:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_191.jpg

Closeups of the big 3:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_006.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_021.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_036.jpg

wow, you guys have great eye sight, I have watched these films and never even noticed the kits until you pointed them out :)

Simon

Weren't there some in the opening credits of "Creepshow" in the kids
room?

Another 1987 movie that had some cool kits was "The Monster Squad" , in the kids treehouse they had alot of boxed aurora kits , tskuda vinyl monsters as well and another movie not monster related in any way was with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Mcgovern in He Said/She Said 1991 they both are tv newscasters who fall in love , and at his desk he has some monster kits .

Some movies that come to mind that could have models in them would be The Princess Bride, Big, and The Last Starfighter. All of these movies have scenes in boy's bedrooms and there probably is something in their room.

That Wolfman's base seems odd, apart from being all red. From here looks like it could be a whole other base?

"The Incredibles" shows some Aurora-like model boxes, IIRC in Mr. Incredible's home study.

On a recent episode of Two and a Half Men (rerun), Alan was building the Polar Lights Mystery Machine.

Speaking of how amazed some of us were that AMT or any other model company did not release a plastic model version of the Protector from Galaxy Quest, I just saw this the other day:
http://www.culttvmanshop.com/assets/images/products/pegasus/galaxyquest/pegprota0rt.jpg

If anyone has already posted this on this forum I apologize.

In one episode from the Dick Van-Dyke Show from the 60's, there's a scene in Ritchie's bedroom where you can clearly see his shelves full of Aurora model kits. I recall Superman, and the monsters. Don't know the episode though. Anybody?????

In one episode from the Dick Van-Dyke Show from the 60's, there's a scene in Ritchie's bedroom where you can clearly see his shelves full of Aurora model kits. I recall Superman, and the monsters. Don't know the episode though. Anybody?????

The Episode Was -The Man from My Uncle (1966)
Don't See Superman, but you can see King Kong,Bride of Frankie,Frankie,Mummy,Wolfman,Dracula,Wierdo Francis the Foul and the Guillotine!
Some Screen caps:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_009-1.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_047.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_064.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff111/foj3000/NDVD_026.jpg

most recent sightings Super 8 movie had a main character that built models, including hunchback of notre dame