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Okay, for the sake of you folks under 40, back when i was a kid LONG before 9000 channels on your cable TV, video games, IPODS, computers, Photoshop 3D Studio max and all that other crap, we had netwoek TV, pencil and paper and MODEL KITS you bought at the store! I built a lot of model its when I was a kid. AURORA Products was well known for their TV and Movie tie-in kits. They did all the Universal Monsters, lots of TV and Movie spaceship and vehical kits, BUT the one kit they NEVER did was the JUPITER TWO! Rumor has it, someone suggested it to some big shot at Aurora, who response was:"It's boring. Who'd want to build it?" And that was the end of it. Aurora did kits of just about every other Irwin Allen TV show vehicle, and made great profits off of them, but never the Jupiter Two. I know a lot of guys who desperately wanted to build a kit of the J2 but until the last few years there was never one available in the USA. ANyway I thought it would be fun to create a FAKE Aurora model kit box for a fictitious Jupiter Two model kit, usimg the Jupiter two artwork I have been working on for the last couple of months. The box style is from Aurora's 1970s period, a period, oddly enough, when Aurora did not offer any kits from any Irwin Allen shows. So it really is a work of fiction on many levels.

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Okay, for the sake of you folks under 40, back when i was a kid LONG before 9000 channels on your cable TV, video games, IPODS, computers, Photoshop 3D Studio max and all that other crap, we had netwoek TV, pencil and paper and MODEL KITS you bought at the store! I built a lot of model its when I was a kid. AURORA Products was well known for their TV and Movie tie-in kits. They did all the Universal Monsters, lots of TV and Movie spaceship and vehical kits, BUT the one kit they NEVER did was the JUPITER TWO! Rumor has it, someone suggested it to some big shot at Aurora, who response was:"It's boring. Who'd want to build it?" And that was the end of it. Aurora did kits of just about every other Irwin Allen TV show vehicle, and made great profits off of them, but never the Jupiter Two. I know a lot of guys who desperately wanted to build a kit of the J2 but until the last few years there was never one available in the USA. ANyway I thought it would be fun to create a FAKE Aurora model kit box for a fictitious Jupiter Two model kit, usimg the Jupiter two artwork I have been working on for the last couple of months. The box style is from Aurora's 1970s period, a period, oddly enough, when Aurora did not offer any kits from any Irwin Allen shows. So it really is a work of fiction on many levels.