Dracula Enters the Scene

Dracula

Dracula joined the Monster Scenes models today.
When Aurora cancelled the Monster Scenes line back in the early seventies, the Dracula kit was ready for release. Along with Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and the Giant Insect kits, it was later released in Canada, but not in the USA. The original kit is extremely rare and highly sought after by collectors. Dencomm through Moebius Models had already released the Giant Insect, but not the other two models as they didn't have the molds. Monarch Models released the kits as a set in November of 2015. Regrettably, Monarch went out of business in 2016, making this set its last release. Limited to only 1000 sets, the kits were never offered to hobby shops or distributors.

Rejected Christmas Toys...

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Ages 6 and up. Batteries not included. Ponies sold separately.

Recreating old posts...

Using the Waybackmachine, I have been able to recreate some of the older posts that have been lost when Blog.com bit the dust. Check out some of the older posts from 2013-2015!

Monster Scenes Store Display

Repaints and a Big Score

Monster Scenes models have been the focus for the past couple of weeks as The Dungeon and Animal Pit models were recently brought out and assembled and painted. Afterwards, all the old models were added to the new ones to create one big scene, seen in the previous post. While setting up, it was determined that some of the older models were in need of some attention.

One Big Monsterous Scene

I completed The Animal Pit. All of the models have been brought together to form one large scene. The paint job on the big zap generator and the pain parlor control panel have been overhauled from the light blue that was used originally to a more aesthetically pleasing aluminum.

Monster Scenes - The Dungeon

I've been meaning to build The Dungeon and The Animal Pit for while now. During the Thanksgiving break I found the time to build them both. I will post pictures of The Animal Pit later, but for this post I wanted to show off the completed Dungeon...

Instant Life (Film)

Instant Life tells the story of Yolanda Signorelli von Braunhut, the heiress to the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys fortune, who is engaged in a David and Goliath legal battle with the toy corporation Big Time Toys to regain control over her husband’s iconic aquatic novelty. Now dispossessed of her sole source of income, Signorelli von Braunhut lives alone without electricity or running water on the Sea-Monkeys estate along the Potomac River where she struggles to restore the novelty’s reputation by regaining ownership of the Sea Monkeys and re-introducing the secret Sea-Monkeys formula to the world.
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Some of Lance Russell's greatest moments

Lance Russell along with Dave Brown were the announcers on Championship Wrestling in Memphis, TN. With a career spanning more than fifty years, Russell was arguably one of the most recognizable voices in professional wrestling.

He first began announcing matches at WHBQ channel 13 before heading up the long-running Saturday morning wrestling program on WMC channel 5 with Dave in 1977.

RIP Lance Russell

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) - Memphis wrestling legend Lance Russell died Tuesday morning at the age of 91.

Russell was a wrestling announcer in Memphis for decades, calling matches alongside Dave Brown at WMC Action News 5.

Heaven needed another commentator for all those dream matches up there...