WHO DID YOU FORGET TO REMEMBER?

This is a re-release from around 20-odd years ago of

AURORA's FORGOTTEN PRISONER OF CASTEL

MARE (occasionally rendered as Castlemare).  Unlike

previous MONOGRAM reissues of Aurora models, the

copyright details on the base had not been updated and

it still bore the date of 1966 and the Aurora logo.

The reason for this was that previous reissues

had been under the Monogram name (hence the name

and date of the manufacturer being amended), whereas

the Prisoner kit's very first post-Aurora release was as a

replica model, complete with original long-box ('though

without the FAMOUS MONSTERS Of FILMLAND

logo), and therefore the mould for the base had never

been altered since its original 1966 release.

I had the glow in the dark version of the kit around

1971, acquired in a swap of my FRANKENSTEIN kit

with a nearby neighbour, GEORGE COOPER.  We later

swapped back, but I still recall my fascination with the extra

little luminous parts that came with the model.  I took the re-

placement Prisoner along to George's house sometime in the

mid-'90s (he was still living there) to show him, and it af-

forded me a strange pleasure to 'connect' the replace-

ment with the house where George's original had

once resided.  Yeah, I know - weird, ain't I?

The kit was reissued again relatively recently by

MOEBIUS MODELS, with its luminious parts and

the Famous Monsters Of Filmland logo reinstated on

the replica Aurora box.  The pictures below are the built

and painted Moebius kit and box - I hate to admit it, but

it's just a 'tad' more ormately painted than my own.  Drat!

Perhaps I'll tart mine up a bit one day.  Incidentally, back

around 1970, WARREN's CREEPY #34 published the

Prisoner's 'origin' as a comic strip.  It was similar to

POE's The CASK Of AMONTILLADO.

And in case you were wondering, 'Castel Mare'

translates as 'Castle by the Sea'.  Now you know.

Gotta go - somebody in the cellar needs fed!

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