As a lifelong Green Lantern fan, I find this product very cool. As a teenager, I purchased an
Aurora Superman model kit in a discount hobby shop for one dollar, and converted it into a Green Lantern figure, using a knife and sandpaper to remove the spitcurl, belt, and boots, and putty to plug up the holes in the shoulders where the cape was supposed to attach. It started me on a model-kit kick, and over a couple of years I converted two other Superman kits into Hawkman and Adam Strange, two Superboy kits into the Flash and Black Lightning, and a Tarzan kit into the super-villain Kobra.
This kit is much cooler, with its transparent plastic power-ring hand and mid-air flying pose. I wish that it had been around back then. It costs almost 25 times what I paid for my discounted Superman kit, but hey, that was more than 35 years ago. Prices go up.
It's made by a company called Moebius Models, which manufactures a whole
line of science fiction model kits and products. Check out
their website.
I still have one unassembled Superman model kit left. It isn't in the original box, but all the parts are there. I really ought to turn it into something one of these days...
On a slightly different subject, I was just looking at the stats for this blog. Among the search terms that have brought people here, I found (twice) the phrase
Green Lather Showcase comic. Should I be foaming at the mouth?
