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The best sequence is the exploration of the cavern, where O’Brien’s effects shine the best. In the last few days people have gone missing and cattle have been killed, our three heroes finally find out it’s giant scorpions when the damn things attack Teresa’s ranch for the cattle, then the locals in the nearby town, and then two telephone repair men. What you can’t see is all the slime and drool. This is the only practical in-camera scorpion effect, this is what they look like up close. They eventually find the body of the officer and take it back for examination only to find he has a hole in the base of his neck and is loaded with poison. Arturo Ramos (Carlos Rivas), are there to study it, but are presented by a mystery involving the weird sounds the giant ants from Them! (1954) make (these scorpions even roar), a missing police-man and a police car that appears to be trashed in a way no earthquake would trash a police car. Scott and his other Geology Professor buddy, Dr. This takes place down in Mexico in the wake of an earthquake what everyone’s going to soon find out is deep within a nearby volcano the quake has opened up a fissure to a hidden cavern teeming with giant scorpions and other freaky looking creepy crawlers from prehistory.

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The movie stars Mara Corday (previously seen in two other “nature run amok” flicks, 1955’s Tarantula and 1957’s The Giant Claw) and Richard Denning, of Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954) fame as rancher Teresa Alvarez and Geology Professor Dr. His original design is below the retail box covers! Every time we went to the store I would spend some time in the model kit aisle looking at the boxes. Famed artist, Syd Mead, designed the art for those two. The two that made the most impression on me were the scorpion and the mantis due to the artwork. I so wanted them, but my mother wouldn’t buy any model kits that had to be glued together, because that meant my father would have to put them together, apparently he didn’t like the ones that needed glue, and wouldn’t you know it these Gigantics required glue. That was back when I was in my late 20s, obviously my opinion has changed in the intervening years, thanks to repeated viewings on TCM.Īnother great memory I have from the early 70s are the “Gigantics” model kits from Fundimension! There were four of them, a giant tarantula, scorpion, mantis and wasp! I remember coming across them at a local retail store in the toy department. I loved Willis O’Brien’s stop motion effects, but was bored by the story and characters. I’m afraid to say, at that time, the movie didn’t ‘whelm’ me at all. You know, I never even knew there was a giant scorpion movie in existence until I got older, and didn’t end up finally seeing it until the late 90s, when I bought the VHS. There was a giant wasp movie called, Monster From Green Hell (1957), that I was aware of but never wanted to see because I saw a photo of the giant wasps in a monster movie book once and they looked incredibly lame. This is probably the only “Big Bug” movie from the 50s I never saw when I was a kid.

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Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the blu-ray I reviewed in this article. Sold as is.This will be packed very securely in a sturdy box and shipped via first class mail which includes tracking.(Warner Bros. I've seen nice complete Giant Wasps sell in the $125 and up range. Also, of course, perfect for parts to complete A Giant Wasp you already have. Maybe you'll build it like I had intended. Well, that never happened so now it's time to send it off to someone else.

Even the bottom of the box is color illustrated! At one time I had plans to build it anyway as I thought it would look very cool as it was or even make a 'Penny Arcade' out of cardboard for a backdrop. I always loved the graphics of the box and displayed it on my 'Monster Shelf' for years. See them all, zoom in for best looks at condition and items present. all views of box top, bottom and all sides all pieces of the model that are in the box and all sides of instruction sheet. The box has a lot of obvious wear and tear. Number of parts not listed on box so I am not sure if or how many other parts are missing. What I definitely see missing is the 'Penny Arcade House.' Many of the parts are still on the plastic trees some are not. Please Note: This model has never been assembled but it is incomplete.

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This was part of the super-cool 'Gigantics' series which included the Gigantic Wasp, The Colossal Mantis, The Huge Tarantula and the Rampaging Scorpion. Gigantic Wasp Invades Park! Model Kit #1-503 from fun dimensions dated 1975.

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