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Which of these would you like to see as a plastic model kit?
Now that plastic-kit companies such as Monarch and Moebius have come onto the scene, rescuing thousands of us from the despair that hit when Polar Lights was dismantled, I thought it would be fun to revive this blog for a few weeks and ask people to help me consider potential new plastic-kit subjects.
Some things that will appeal to longtime hobbyists are obvious. We love the Universal Monsters. We love comic book heroes. We love stuff that reminds us of those.
Polar Lights branched out with some different, neat subject matter. The Headless Horseman from “Sleepy Hollow” is one of my personal favorites. I love the Three Stooges as well, and even the Drej Alien. I’ve never gone for the Beatles or Kiss kits, but I appreciate that they exist.
The poll below is built from a list of “drive-in classics” I found. I don’t think a single one of these has been turned into a plastic kit, and I think many of them have potential. There are at least two very good reasons I think plastic kit producers would consider these subjects. First, a lot of them are simply great movies many of us have enjoyed. “B” material, sure, but GOOD “B” material. Second, the licensing that would be required to produce such subjects in styrene isn’t terribly expensive.
So, what do you think? Which of the titles below would interest you? And if you want to state exactly which character in a movie (such as an anthology like “Tales of Terror”) would interest you, please use the comment feature to do it.
The poll is set up to accept your vote once a day (used to be once a week). I left five blank at the bottom in case something new comes up worth adding.
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Thanks for looking.
THE POLL
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By Steven Prange
February 25, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this
Actually ANY of the Beach Movies would be great.
By Denis McDougall
February 25, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
How about: The Colossal Beast
By James Nichols
February 26, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
Any Dr. Phibes kit should naturally have the option of Vincent Price’s likeness or the scarred, skull-faced appearance.
By Mark McGovern
February 26, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
Yikes - vote on only one movie per week? This could take a while!
Ditto Mr. Nichols’ comments on a Dr. Phibes kit. I daresay that any models based on Invasion of the Bee Girls or The Beast Within could wind up being pretty risque. Perhaps they would best be produced as resin kits by Lunatic Fringe.
And it’s hard to imagine that the market would ever be large enough to warrant the production of a model of Richard Boone sticking pins in a map from the film I Bury the Living, but I’ve been wrong before…
By Kirk Durfey
February 26, 2008 8:44 PM | Link to this
The Monster that Challenged the World would be my first choice, though a Dr. Phibes kit would be very cool…
Didn’t Midnite Movies have It, the Terror from Beyond? Or am I just imagining things?
By Denis McDougall
February 29, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this
If you make a Monster Model kit…any Monster Model kit…I’ll buy it! IN MULTIPLES!!! I’ve been waiting since Polar Lights…I’ll buy them all. On this you have my word.
By Masao
March 1, 2008 7:39 AM | Link to this
The Wild Wild World of Batwoman is one film considered so bad as to be featured on MST3k. Like many others, it also failed to make your list.
Why not add other to your list with a box to fill in the title??
BTW, since many of these have fallen into Public Domain, licensing should not be a problem.
By Masao
March 1, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
While I am here I noticed this blurb as some kind of description of the author:
Todd P. writes about model kits and other stupid middle-aged-kid stuff.
While I understand that this was probably intended as some kind of jest, It is neither funny nor accurate.
Considering that the current generation is incapable of building models kits, it is hardly appropriate either.
Model building requires the following skills:
-Reading -Math -The ability to translate words into instructions -The ability to follow instructions -Hand-eye coordination, and -The ability to identify a real object and differentiate it from a “3D” model.
Since the above abilities defy the definition of the term stupid the author’s description does not apply.
BTW, in case you haven’t guessed, for those of us with the above listed faculties, the foregoing description of stupid is offensive.
To keep this on topic you could also add Something Weird
By mrmurph
March 2, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
I too would buy multiples of any kit on the list, though I’d probably have to hold my nose when purchasing some of them.
Phibes would definitely be my first choice, and I’ll repeat my suggestion from modelers’ forum for a teenaged frankenstein or werewolf (admittedly they probably wouldn’t be huge sellers ).
By mrmurph
March 3, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
Dr. Phibes is a natural, but I’ll restate my suggestion for teenage frankenstein /werewolf. The Poe pics would make great dioramas with multiple figures.
By Mark McGovern
March 3, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this
My second vote was for a model kit based on Tales of Terror. I was thinking that a nice kit could be made of the “Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” vignette in that film. It could have two figures: Basil Rathbone being throttled by a dripping, goopy Vincent Price. Check out the film if you’re not sure what I’m talking about - then you’ll wonder how anyone could waste a vote on Frogs.
You’ll also see that if the manufacturer of a Tales of Terror kit wanted to include a Debra Paget figure, it certainly couldn’t hurt sales…
By Todd P.
March 10, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this
The poll is closed! Thanks to everyone for playing. Keep watching the ever-more-interesting styrene horizon; perhaps a few of these characters will come lumbering your way someday.