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  • Member since
    September 2015
  • From: The Redwood Empire
Organ player horror model?
Posted by Aaronw on Sunday, October 4, 2009 6:00 PM

I remember building a kit when I was a little kid, maybe 7 or 8 (so probably 1974-76) of a guy playing an organ and there was a monster that would spring out of a hiding place in the organ making the player leap back or throw his arms up. I think it was called something like play it again sam.

Does that ring any bells for anyone? I also built a King Kong and Godzilla with glow in the dark parts around the same time. I thought it might have been an old Aurora kit but the recent re-issues of their old horror kits don't look like the same kind of stuff being mostly static displays. 

This was one of my first models so I've been really curious to know more about it.

  • Member since
    January 2009
  • From: Central CA
Posted by Division 6 on Sunday, October 4, 2009 6:49 PM
Sounds like a Haunted Mansion model like the Pirates of the Caribbean kit's that where out.
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    April 2006
  • From: Navan, Ontario
Posted by Jagdwolf on Sunday, October 4, 2009 7:55 PM
AaronW, lucky for you, I still have a lot of comics from that time period. (I was 9 in 1974.) I'll have to go through my collection, but I know exactly the kit you're talking about, as it was advertised in a number of them, including Walt Disney's original Pirates of the Carribean series.
  • Member since
    April 2006
  • From: Navan, Ontario
Posted by Jagdwolf on Sunday, October 4, 2009 8:11 PM

Okay, how about this? MPC produced four Haunted Mansion kits in 1974: The Vampire's Midnight Madness; Play It Again, Sam; Grave Robber's Reward; and Escape From The Crypt.

 

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    September 2015
  • From: The Redwood Empire
Posted by Aaronw on Monday, October 5, 2009 12:30 AM
That's it thanks. With Round 2 having the MPC molds and bringing back many old sci-fi kits maybe there is a chance this will get re-issued.
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    April 2008
  • From: Philadelphia PA
Posted by smeagol the vile on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 7:51 AM

I might learn toward no on the re-release, mainly because its a disney kit and I assume they would need permission.

The detail on the organ is quite nice in that kit, to bad the majority of the other stuff would need replacing.

 

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