Enterprise NCC- 1701 and Klingon Battle Cruiser both in 1/1000 scale. The brands’ initial releases were the first U.S.S. Availability of this kind of fan and professional research allowed the new Polar Lights kits to be accurate from the beginning. Access to photos, reruns of shows, and eventually the access to home video allowed modelers to study their favorite spacecraft to compare their kit to the true filming miniatures used in the shows’ production. By that time, modelers had become more particular than they might have been when building their first kits as children. Polar Lights gained the Star Trek license in 2003 and began producing new kits based on the license. New kits were introduced along the way based on various licenses such as Forbidden Planet, Scooby-Doo, The Simpsons, and Lost In Space among many others. The kits always reproduced the original packaging and tried to emulate the look of the vintage instruction sheets. Sometimes kits were completely retooled while in some cases bagged shots were purchased using existing tools. The brand went on to recreate many Aurora kits. Polar Lights initial model kit release was a reproduction of the Addam’s Family House kit and was offered at first as an FAO Scwartz exclusive. Aurora had released many pop-culture-oriented kits based on popular superheroes, TV shows and movies most notable was their selection of Universal Monsters figure kits. It started as a brand that would re-create long out-of-production kits that had been manufactured in the ’60s and ’70s by the Aurora model company. POLAR LIGHTS was established by Tom Lowe at Playing Mantis in 1996.
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