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unusual facts about model kit



Fang of the Sun Dougram

However, plastic model kit manufacturer Revell released many of Takara's Dougram kits as characters in their Robotech Defender series, and Takara sold much of their diecast toy line through American toy stores in the mid-Eighties.


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Aluminum Model Toys

Around 1966, AMT obtained the plastic model rights to Star Trek, and developed a model kit of the Starship Enterprise, beginning a long association between AMT and both science fiction and television.

Best Guy

Hasegawa issued a "Best Guy" edition of their 1/48 scale F-15J Eagle model kit to promote the film.

Hot Curl

The pot-bellied surf god quickly became a nation-wide sensation appearing in SURFtoons comics and as a plastic model kit, selling hundreds of thousands of copies.

Nightmare Theatre

For most of its run, the late-night program opened with a shot of a mist-shrouded castle (in actuality, a touched-up Addams Family Haunted House Aurora model kit), accompanied by sound effects borrowed from Walt Disney's Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House and music pilfered from Neal Hefti's score for the 1966 Roddy McDowall film Lord Love a Duck.

Pontiac Banshee

Revell released a 1:25 scale plastic model kit of the Banshee IV.

SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors

This is the same theme song that has been featured in promotional animation for the BB Senshi Sangokuden model kit series.