New AURORA article up at CBR

Would have loved to see some of these get produced like Gort, the three War Machines and Capt. Aurora!

I love the notation on the fay Wray model - "Fay had average-sized breasts, please don't overdo."

John P said:

I love the notation on the fay Wray model - "Fay had average-sized breasts, please don't overdo."

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strangly enough, overdoing them is easy to do, even when you dont mean to. sculptors like form, thats all. (i got a similar notation from disney on my nightmare before christmas sally sculpt. "too busty: reduce", and i thought i had been very subtle with her!)

Man, you can only imagine what they could have produced. I love the "Not a collection of stovepipes" comment on Gort! :roll:

Awesome article.

I think that the stuff in that article should for a "To Do" list for those two new start-up styrene kit companies we have been hearing about here recently.

Huzz

Man, that is an awesome article!

Glad you guys enjoyed it. It will appear in the next issue of Toy Shop Magazine as well.
Anthony Taylor

I would love to have seen a two figure Klaatu & Gort styrene kit.

Zombie_61 said:

I would love to have seen a two figure Klaatu & Gort styrene kit.

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Definitely !! And flying saucer sold separately !! ( wash my mouth out ) I MIGHT even go for that !!! :thumbsup:

Nice job on the article AT! There is alot of stuff that dreams are made of in there...and yes, I would think that Monarch is looking at this stuff for sure!

But then again...one can dream too!

MMM

Zombie_61 said:

I would love to have seen a two figure Klaatu & Gort styrene kit.

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Billiken did an absolutely kick-butt set of Gort & Klaatu in vinyl several years ago. The Michael Rennie likeness is amazing - so amazing that Lunar Models cast the head, added a goatee, and slapped a badly sculpted body under it for their LIS "Keeper" figure, as far as I can tell.
Thanks for the encouragement, MMM!
AT

A Taylor said:

Man, that is an awesome article!

Glad you guys enjoyed it. It will appear in the next issue of Toy Shop Magazine as well.
Anthony Taylor

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When is that coming out?
And where can I buy it?

Aurora missed so many good ideas, and put out so many strange airplanes and weird old cars that I had no interest in as a kid. They were stuck in the past.
Clint Eastwoods 'man with no name' should have been a no brainer for a figure, or Raquel Welchs 'cavegirl'.

Nice interview AT - it was nice seeing some other concept sketches as well - there were a few there I never saw.

Agreed. Too bad some of them never saw the light of day, like that War of the Worlds diorama with the three Martian flying machines.

Huzz

"Punch 'em chop 'em baldies"; I LIKE that! The article reminds me that I was one of the many who wrote Aurora requesting the Jupiter II. And I just remembered that I wrote it in pencil, too.

TAY666 said:

When is that coming out?
And where can I buy it?

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Should be in a couple more weeks - sometime late Jan or early Feb, I think.
Toy Shop is available in most comic stores and magazine outlets. Borders or Barnes & Noble should have it, if not they should be able to order it.
AT

ChrisW said:

Nice interview AT - it was nice seeing some other concept sketches as well - there were a few there I never saw.

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Thanks, CDub! How about an interview with you on PL kits you designed that never made it to production?
AT

If you think there's any interest I'd be happy to answer questions you might have.

Chris