Comments on: Polar Lights Model Kits: I Might Have Lost My Head… https://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/746-polar-lights-model-kits-i-might-have-lost-my-head%e2%80%a6/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 19:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Scott https://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/746-polar-lights-model-kits-i-might-have-lost-my-head%e2%80%a6/#comment-152091 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 19:37:09 +0000 http://www.collectormodel.com/?p=746#comment-152091 The above kits, in particular the Chamber of Horrors Le Guillotine kit are getting hard to find at a reasonable price. Any chance of seeing reissued? I’d especially like to find the one with extra “glow in dark” figure.

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By: CaesarAPE https://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/746-polar-lights-model-kits-i-might-have-lost-my-head%e2%80%a6/#comment-721 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:49:34 +0000 http://www.collectormodel.com/?p=746#comment-721 Thanks Round 2 for re releasing these kits in Glow in the Dark!!! I hope you will be doing the same for the ENTIRE Polar Lights/Aurora monster/Horror kit line (Dracula, Frank, Mummy, etc , including the 16″ Godzilla!!)

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By: Mark McGovern https://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/746-polar-lights-model-kits-i-might-have-lost-my-head%e2%80%a6/#comment-694 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.collectormodel.com/?p=746#comment-694 jon,

If I didn’t love what Round 2 is doing, I wouldn’t be here. That they take the trouble to add a goodie of some sort to each reissue just warms my heart with each new release. So you and I are apparently on the same page, since you defended the company with that pasionate run-on sentence (I’d mention that you spelled it “sentance”, but as Jamie pointed out, sarcasm doesn’t read well…). At the same time I agree with Bats to the extent that, since R2 does listen to its customers, one assumes that they will accept constructive criticism as well as unbridled praise.

For example, my excitement over the metal landing legs that will accompany the Klingon Bird of Prey reissue is tempered by the fact that I’ve already purchased an inferior resin set for my original issue BoP. What’s Klingonese for “Rats!”?

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By: Bats https://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/746-polar-lights-model-kits-i-might-have-lost-my-head%e2%80%a6/#comment-687 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:32:59 +0000 http://www.collectormodel.com/?p=746#comment-687 Well Jonathanadams, you do sound a tad preachy but not without reason. However the key word in your sermon was BLOG. I’ll give you a moment to let that sink in. As far as Kudos to polar and Jamie and alkl the fine folks at polar goes…I give my share. FEW folks are as big of a fan of Polar lights, it’s staff or what they do than me and I do not hesitate to give praise where it’s due. However, in modeling, ACCURACY is the name of the game no matter how big a fan you are of the folks providing the product. Therefore I have every right to question thier use of the “stunt” car, for Daisy’s vehivle rather than the “beauty” car. Because…as you so rightly pointed out, this is a blog, and subject to the opinions and statements of ALL those who participate.

So, wether it be a screw up with Enterpise (done purposely) decals, incorrect representation of a car, or the wrong name on the box…I will point it out if someone else doesn’t first.

You also pointed out that this is a company that listens and even has a blog for us to post on. Very true, and they wouldn’t be the company they are today if they didn’t listen to both kudos AND complaints. This is how they get better and if noone points out the mistakes, they may never know so I feel it’s a good thing that outspoken members like me poiunt these things out.

Of course we could just heap them over with compliments and kisses and hope they magically improve that way.

Bottom line…if Polar Lights didn’t want to hear the good AND the bad, this blog wouldn’t be here. Appreciate it by being honest with them.

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By: Aurora1Craig https://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/746-polar-lights-model-kits-i-might-have-lost-my-head%e2%80%a6/#comment-686 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:51:26 +0000 http://www.collectormodel.com/?p=746#comment-686 I think that you used good insight when it came to the Guillotine Kit box. You did not insult or terrify the box ,It was well thought out! Don’t confuse the people in the past that destroyed the original Bama work on the Square Glow boxes! If they (Aurora) took as much time as you did I think they could of saved the original Bama Art work! Also when I purchased (many) Glow Witch, Munsters home, and now the Guillotine, Polar Lights Not only gave you the regular parts, Plus the Glow parts and the price was very reasonable!! Instead of charging $30-$40 they were under $22!! Fantastic!! Polar Lights round 2 I fell is one if not the BEST Company in the year 2000+!! enough kissing butt, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!! Please re-release as many older kits Plus GLOW!!! bye for now; Aurora1Craig, Plus you should start a PL Club!

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By: JamieH https://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/746-polar-lights-model-kits-i-might-have-lost-my-head%e2%80%a6/#comment-685 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:17:36 +0000 http://www.collectormodel.com/?p=746#comment-685 Thanks, Jonathon. We know there are more people out there who love our product than hate it. We also know fans can be rabid sometimes. We’re fans ourselves with high expectations.

btw, I know Mark was just ribbing me… It’s too bad sarcasm never reads well.

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By: jonathondadams https://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/746-polar-lights-model-kits-i-might-have-lost-my-head%e2%80%a6/#comment-684 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:38:00 +0000 http://www.collectormodel.com/?p=746#comment-684 Not to preach, but does anybody just build models and talk about all of the cool and new kits on the horizon? Between catching typo’s and trying to figure out what year Daisy’s car is… “check these facts closer in the future”???? Whatever happened to “wow, I’m excited about this kit” or “the Guillotine’s probably not going to end up on my shelf, but the quality is still there.” As consumers, we so often feel that “we” are always right, but sometimes it might help to take a step back and realize that we’re talking on a blog (-hosted by a company that actually listens to input from modelers-) and be thankful that companies like this one are still out there and still continuing to make quality kits, listen to the public & constantly strive to bring new & classic kits back to life. Ok, I know that was one heck-of-a run-on sentance, but just wanted to say a little something like “thanks” to a really stand-up company, that always goes the extra mile.

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By: JamieH https://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/746-polar-lights-model-kits-i-might-have-lost-my-head%e2%80%a6/#comment-683 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:28:58 +0000 http://www.collectormodel.com/?p=746#comment-683 Mark- Looks like I just can’t get anything R-I-G-H-T anymore.

Yeah, Bama saw them as “a job” and grew old unaware of the impact his artwork had on modeling fans. As an artist, I’ve always took a stand against reworking someone else’s art but jumped right into this one for some reason. Principles shminciples I guess…

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By: Mark McGovern https://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/746-polar-lights-model-kits-i-might-have-lost-my-head%e2%80%a6/#comment-682 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:17:12 +0000 http://www.collectormodel.com/?p=746#comment-682 Jamie,

James Bama’s work has always stood on its own. When Polar Lights (and Revell and Cinemodels) reissued the Fab Four monster kits in their original long box format back in 1999, I snapped them up as quickly as I did when I was a wee model builder in 1963. It was Bama’s box cover paintings that snagged me, man and boy.

I understand that he himself didn’t think particularly highly of those paintings – to him, they were merely commercial assignments. We fans are the ones who value his work so highly (the artist is always the poorest judge of his own work), and we’re the ones who have been outraged over Aurora’s purely commercial decision to alter the paintings for the Glow in the Dark, square box reissues.

You had to do something similar with the Guillotine reissue, but so what? Manipulating the image in Photoshop is a far cry from defacing Bama’s paintings directly. And if, like the original painting, your alteration helps to sell more Guillotine kits then everybody wins. Everybody except perhaps the frightened parents who will worry that the 1/15 scale Guillotines will turn their little darlings into serial killers.

I’m less concerned about your alteration of James Bama’s work than I am about the typo in this sentence of your blog: “That rings pretty hollow just to right it.” The word “write” in that sentence would be right; “right” is wrong.

Right?

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By: crowe-t https://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/746-polar-lights-model-kits-i-might-have-lost-my-head%e2%80%a6/#comment-681 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:34:04 +0000 http://www.collectormodel.com/?p=746#comment-681 I did some research on Daisy’s Roadrunner and found the ’74 Roadrunner was used in the earlier 1st Season Georgia filmed episodes and the ’71 was used in the later California filmed episodes.

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