This is a scan of the Polar Lights Reissue from the 1990s - their first in a long line which eventually covered 11 of the original 13.

 

This is my build-up from 2024, and it came out much, much better than I had hoped for.

The nameplate was leftover from a purchase I made years ago; unlike the other Aurora models, tthe original kit doesn't have a nameplate.

When I had finished the face, I could have sworn that I recognized it. My family figured it out - it looks like Linsday Lohan!

 

I broke the thin clear tubing through negligence. The only way I could get it back together was with a glob of Alves putty, which I fashioned into a coupler and then painted black.

The flame under the stand actually looks lit up; it's only a trick of the lighting.

 

I attached an extra lightning bolt to the table just above the nameplate.

I don't know where it was supposed to go on the kit; the instructions were vague.

I replaced the chains with real ones from a jewelry kit because the styrene chains didn't really fit unless you heated them up and bent them.

This was the first time I was able to build the kit with the body flat on the table and the head just touching the headrest. The fit of these pieces drove me nuts when I was a kid.

I also had to drill new holes for the chest restraints and the foot restraint. The original holes in the table were spaced too far apart for the restraints to fit without bending them outward, which put way too much strain on them to stayed seated.

 

 

My old kit from the late nineties.

I bullt this when my kids were under six, so I left out the severed hands and arms that were strewn across the floor. I reconciled myself to it by reasoning that James Whale (director of "The Bride of Frankenstein") wouldn't have stooped to that kind of vulgar showmanship. Of course, I could have been wrong.

 

The original box art was designed for the typical Aurora long-box.

This version is a bit of a rarity - there's more information, gross as it is, on the bottom as compared to the official box (far left).

This painting may still exist.