Frunkstar
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The waffling pattern is all wrong from what little I know about it 
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tiefighterboy
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tiefighterboy said:Frunkstar said:The waffling pattern is all wrong from what little I know about it
Yeah, There is a tape that can mimic it, but it still does not look correct. Easier to buy a sealing unit, if you want to fool people. Good thing these guys do not know how to do it.
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Many thanks, I shall avoid.
Hi guys really paranoid about this latest purchase for some reason, could just be me, but check the pics and tell me if all looks good.
thanks, in the flesh the card name looks darker and the year copyright text looks dull white and the same on the Made in text, but looks like the same card
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220916029307?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
Probably being worried for nothing but would appreciate feedback.
thanks, in the flesh the card name looks darker and the year copyright text looks dull white and the same on the Made in text, but looks like the same card
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220916029307?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
Probably being worried for nothing but would appreciate feedback.
With regard to fakes on ebay, i thought ebay were totally against fakes and if found to be selling any fake or repro item (not just star wars) then your listings get pulled and you can be banned. Is Star Wars bypasted with this rule?? Im utterly fed up of seeing auction with the sentance: 'This figure has been cherry picked for its quality and painstakingly and proffesionally resealed to its original cardback. Why is there so much of it on the bay when ebay are supposedly against fakes??
aussiejames
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because they get their cut of money regardless :evil:jedi_masters said:
Yep Ebay are full of ****, just look up Nintendo Dsi's for example you will find them by the dozen being sold from China alll quite obviously fakes and they even give you a memory card full of illegally copied games. As long as Ebay gets a cut it's all OK.
tiefighterboy
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jedi_masters said:
As a reformed repro manufacturer, I will say that they do catch people (They did me on several occasions). They will pull all your auctions and warn you first time out. The auction must be reported by someone in the community (They do not look on their own for repro auctions). One thing I did find funny back when I was doing it was that I was small time and seemed to get my auctions shut down all the time. The other bigger, higher volume recard/repro guys seemed to go unchecked. I complained about this at one point and Ebay stated it is like people speeding and that the cops can't catch everyone (It appears they only catch the sellers who do not have the highest sales volumes). Anyways you can report these guys to Ebay via their copyright infringement/ Reproduction area.
Dark Sith Lord
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ODB said:
You can say that again! :roll: Thats why its better to stick to the forums mate! :wink:
Imperial nut
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ODB said:
:lol: instant fix,, tha sounds familiar,,, i remember wanting a pile of stormtroopers and trawling through here and RS and nothing was there or in the right price,, cue ebay bidding to get the fix,, even placing a bid would take the edge off it
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OMG! -
http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1076154/
http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1076090/
http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1076154/
http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1076090/
Imperial nut
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Yep i was just reading that a second ago.
And to be honest i am scared,, i was about to start getting the army back up and running but now i dunno.
Probably only on forums,, actually probably only on here.
But really i hope he replys and says something as that is scary.
if some wanted a minty army they just conntact and he moulds to order,, or ebayers start selling them and it all goes to pot. :evil:
if he did them like his Fetts in a different colour and with no paint ,, then that would be fine,, but these are immpossible to distinguish from the real deal in a photo.
And buy the time you bend the arms to test,, your money is gone to some ebay ****,, who is all "i didnt know"
And to be honest i am scared,, i was about to start getting the army back up and running but now i dunno.
Probably only on forums,, actually probably only on here.
But really i hope he replys and says something as that is scary.
if some wanted a minty army they just conntact and he moulds to order,, or ebayers start selling them and it all goes to pot. :evil:
if he did them like his Fetts in a different colour and with no paint ,, then that would be fine,, but these are immpossible to distinguish from the real deal in a photo.
And buy the time you bend the arms to test,, your money is gone to some ebay ****,, who is all "i didnt know"
This is what happens when you let someone like Mark Poon sell reproductions on your forum. He states "they can't be passed off as originals" BOLLOCKS! These will now enter the market and no one will be able to tell if they are buying originals or customs. RS should have banned him a long time ago but they like to pick and chose when they apply their own rules with regards to customs and fakes. I saw this coming and ranted on the subject sometime early last year.
I'm not gonna say anything on that thread as i'll just end up being rude but this is a little reap what you so for RS and the members who've been lapping up his customs and fakes for years.
I'm not gonna say anything on that thread as i'll just end up being rude but this is a little reap what you so for RS and the members who've been lapping up his customs and fakes for years.
Imperial nut
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yeah pete,, i knew little of him except for the rocket fetts,,, but they seemed harmless,, these however are not customs but fakes.
A custom does not look like the origional, whereas a fake tries to copy the origional exactly.
Ggrrrrrrrrr blood boils. :x
A custom does not look like the origional, whereas a fake tries to copy the origional exactly.
Ggrrrrrrrrr blood boils. :x
I agree. How do you think he paid for these tho?... What do you think gave him the inspiration to take things further??
Also, as well as the boxed uncoloured Fetts he did exact replicas of the reissue Fetts that ToysRUs did recently. Some could argue those were "fakes" too as opposed to customs.
Also, as well as the boxed uncoloured Fetts he did exact replicas of the reissue Fetts that ToysRUs did recently. Some could argue those were "fakes" too as opposed to customs.
aussiejames
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nah the ToysRUs Fetts have that massive big rocket.PGowdy said:
Imperial nut
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:evil: some one must be buying lots of his stuff,,, i know most collectors would have got a purple rocket fett when they first came out as it was a novelty thing.
And their colour and the fact the they were well known to have never been produced made it impossible to pass em off as fakes.
if they were marked then i would rest a little easier but really this means i am gonna have huge trouble building the army again.
Or **** it maybe i will just mail him and ask him to run me off 500 stormies for a few hundred and be done with - not ($7 x 500 = $3500 )
And their colour and the fact the they were well known to have never been produced made it impossible to pass em off as fakes.
if they were marked then i would rest a little easier but really this means i am gonna have huge trouble building the army again.
Or **** it maybe i will just mail him and ask him to run me off 500 stormies for a few hundred and be done with - not ($7 x 500 = $3500 )
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Looks like he has been well and truly put in his place on the RS board judging by the number of deleted posts.
What always annoys me about these things is the fact the the creator never puts an end to all of the potential problems by just stamping reproduction on the item.
I understand that there is a market for these items and was having a chat with a member on here the other day who is happy to buy repro weapons for his sons collection. His son wouldn't care if they had repro stamped on them and later in life, should he want to get rid of them then they will not find their way into people's collections unknowingly because they would have this stamp.
In this case - making the limbs softer is a load of bull crap - if you can go to the trouble to do this then go to the trouble to stamp them properly.
What always annoys me about these things is the fact the the creator never puts an end to all of the potential problems by just stamping reproduction on the item.
I understand that there is a market for these items and was having a chat with a member on here the other day who is happy to buy repro weapons for his sons collection. His son wouldn't care if they had repro stamped on them and later in life, should he want to get rid of them then they will not find their way into people's collections unknowingly because they would have this stamp.
In this case - making the limbs softer is a load of bull crap - if you can go to the trouble to do this then go to the trouble to stamp them properly.
Dark Sith Lord
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PGowdy said:
Completely in agreement with you Pete! Has he been banned yet judging by his deleted posts he has? :?
aussiejames said:
I'm talking about the mocs he did not the ones in the little boxes. I didn't see what kind of rocket they had but for all intents and purposes, from what i could see, they looked identical in every way.
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tiefighterboy
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PGowdy said:
and every other guy in the repro business is destroying the hobby. :wink:
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Urgh... This is annoying... I was thinking of army building some Stormies and then I saw this thread on TIG.... Not good. :evil:
As for the ToysRus repro of Boba, don't worry, it's very distinguishable as a repro:
The original Kenner version on the left and Hasbro's repro on the right, you can see that the repro is taller, its arms stick out more, the peg hole in the foot is much more smaller so to fit the modern pegs in modern vehicles and playsets, and the head is slightly thinner and looks different. Plus it has Hasbro's copyright info stamped on the back of the figure, and as for the card it comes on, it has a completely different cardback:
Hope that settles things on the Boba repro, but I'm still a little unnerved at those Stormies... I mean... If he can do this, what's next?
As for the ToysRus repro of Boba, don't worry, it's very distinguishable as a repro:
The original Kenner version on the left and Hasbro's repro on the right, you can see that the repro is taller, its arms stick out more, the peg hole in the foot is much more smaller so to fit the modern pegs in modern vehicles and playsets, and the head is slightly thinner and looks different. Plus it has Hasbro's copyright info stamped on the back of the figure, and as for the card it comes on, it has a completely different cardback:
Hope that settles things on the Boba repro, but I'm still a little unnerved at those Stormies... I mean... If he can do this, what's next?
