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Polar Lights made us into a community. We gave tips, hints, advice to the lovelorn. We asked questions. We sought the answers to life, liberty and the pursuit of just the right color for the TOS Enterprise.

Some went a little further and shared suggestions to improve the hobby experience. These are just a few.

John P: I'm proud and pleased to remember my single contribution to the hobby - I kept suggesting PL repop the old Aurora triangular stand and sell it singly or in 5-packs. I loved that stand, and I still think it's the most graceful model stand ever. Well, Lisa said she checked with marketing (or whoever), and they said it wouldn't be cost effective to just make stands.

So I said, well, how about, when you repop a vehicle kit like the Batplane or the Spindrift, which had that stand with it, you repop the stand in the kit! And Lisa said something like "John, you're an extremely intelligent, extremely handsome genius!" (Those may not have been her exact words...)

Hence, when the Batplane and Spidrift came out, they had the classic Aurora stand in the box! And hence, I bought five of each kit right away, just to get the damn stand, many of which now proudly support many of my SF vehicle kits. And hence, my wife asking why in the hell I bought five Spindrifts and five Batplanes.

Arronax: I made two contributions to the hobby but the one I’m most proud of were the PL Jupiter 2 decals which I’m told still sell to this day. The other contribution was the Spindrift decals, BTW.

Phrankenstign: My small contribution which I was very proud of at the time was that I talked Lisa into offering the Polar Lights Dealer Catalog for sale in the E-Store. To this day, they are still a bit hard to come by. I can only imagine how difficult it would be if they'd never been offered for sale there. The catalog was where one could find pics of the Godzilla with Babies kit that was subsequently dropped from the schedule due to its calculated high cost of production.