Aurora Plastics Corporation was founded in March, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York. Aurora’s founders retired in the late 1960s and in 1969 the company was sold to the first of several outside investors. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, toy and hobby company Playing Mantis created a division called Polar Lights (as a reference to "aurora") which reissued many of Aurora’s most popular monster figure kits. Today you can be swept away in the wave nostalgia with these fine offerings for just pennies on the dollar.