Aurorus Fossil Puzzle Kit Card and Revival Kit

Aurorus #699:

"Using its diamond-shaped crystals, it can instantly create a wall of ice to block an opponent's attack." ~Y Version Pokedex entry

While half of your team was unearthing the massive Tyrantrum skeleton, the other half was busy at the Ambrette Town Fossil Lab trying to figure out what kind of ancient pokemon left behind the hundreds of vertebrae you found at the first Kalos dig site. The lab staff quickly identified it as Aurorus, the tundra pokemon. These pokemon have long necks and tails, hence the many vertebrae. Aurorus were also common prey of Tyrantrum 100 million years ago. While the Ambrette Town scientists were familiar with the pokemon, they'd never collected this many bones before and now had enough to test their new revival technology. Your team had collected several complete Aurorus skeletons and after a few failed attempts, the Ambrette Town Fossil Lab team was able to revive a living Aurorus! They immediately got to work studying the now living creature. While the Ambrette scientists studied Aurorus, you got back to solving one last mystery. Some of the vertebrae were smaller than the others and may have belonged to something else.....

The next Pokemon Fossil Puzzle is here! Each part has had its tolerances fine tuned to be easily assembled but tight enough to stay in place. The model comes in a kit card print profile and a spare parts print profile, but I've also added something new for this one. This model also has a "Revival Kit", basically a (living) Aurorus model that fits around the assembled skeleton. You encase one or both halves and the pieces are held in place by inserting the pegs on the sails through the slots at the top of the head into the skull.

To match the aurora borealis look that inspired Aurorus' sails, I used a gradient filament (Giantarm pastel rainbow PLA) and in order to get a quicker color transition out of the filament I printed 4 sails at a time instead of 2.

I hope you enjoy printing, building, and bringing to life this ancient Pokemon. Happy printing!

Fun fact: The cover photo was taken in Tromsø Norway, I initially planned on photographing the model with the northern lights but learned the hard way how difficult it is to capture them on film.