{"id":3289,"date":"2009-05-12T07:13:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2009-05-07T11:52:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T15:52:33","slug":"moebius-monster-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3289","title":{"rendered":"Moebius Monster Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/aurora-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Aurora Kit\" title=\"Aurora Kit\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I don&#8217;t miss much about the 1970s&#8211;<em>especially<\/em> the fashions&#8211;but one thing that gives me a nostalgic pang is the wonderful Aurora model kits featuring classic movie monsters.  My grandparents owned a hobby shop and my dad did some gorgeous detailing on several of the models* for display.  I have very fond memories of the toothless old Witch in her workroom, the Mummy shambling out of his sarcophagus, and the Victim&#8230;being strangely ineffectual.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m thrilled to discover that Moebius has reissued seven of Aurora&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss_t?url=search-alias%3Dtoys-and-games&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;field-keywords=moebius+monster+scenes&#038;x=20&#038;y=19\">Monster Scenes<\/a> models, right down to the wonderful box art.<\/p>\n<p>I may have to get the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Moebius-Monster-Scenes-Hanging-Cage\/dp\/B001L847L8\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;s=toys-and-games&#038;qid=1241711268&#038;sr=1-1\">Hanging Cage<\/a> as a desk accessory.  I&#8217;m always looking for new ways to keep people out of my cubicle.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/I><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*I do mean gorgeous.  Things like gluing fake fur all over the werewolf.  My family&#8217;s motto is, &#8220;If a Thing is Worth Doing, it is Worth Overdoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t miss much about the 1970s&#8211;especially the fashions&#8211;but one thing that gives me a nostalgic pang is the wonderful Aurora model kits featuring classic movie monsters. My grandparents owned a hobby shop and my dad did some gorgeous detailing on several of the models* for display. I have very fond memories of the toothless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}