More Repro Figures To Come

[vintage studio]

anyone with a smart question?

Now go **** yourself.

Very elegant, worthy of you.

 

[tiefighterboy]

anyone with a smart question?

Now go **** yourself.

Very elegant.

I try my best. Thank u.

 

[vintage studio]

I try my best. Thank u.

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Indeed, just the best you can do.

 

[Frunkstar]

Its pretty clear cut on both this thread & on this forum, for the most part most of us have no major issues with pure custom work & projects, but repro's are another matter & will never gain any favour with a vintage collector.

As for what Mr Replicator is doing - it's clearly a huge damage to the collecting community as a whole & something I would be distancing myself from if I were in your position if indeed you plan to purely remain interested in the custom arena, but hey thats just my opinion for what it counts.

i wish you luck if customs is what you plan to carry on doing, but as said, allying yourself with a known counterfeiter will have a huge knock on effect in the way your work is perceived & your future sale IMHO

 

[vintage studio]

Thanks a lot Frunkstar, I apreciate your position on this, and your advice also. It is a good advice, full of wisdom and made in good faith, I will give the best attention to it.

 

[walkie]

I actually like these figures and can see them for what they are customs.

Personally I don't see the point of the 4 figure set, or the Darren Orme box. I'd prefer to these these sold separately or packed on a mini blister.

I can see from what you've posted your keeping away from making repros which is good as there's no love them here.

Looking forward to getting my hands on one of these customs when they come up for sale, and if it's a pack of four I'll have to find another three takers for the spares.

 

[yoda]

Hi have been reading these posts about this repo stuff. Is there figures being made at the moment that can fool people? Or are all vintage figures ok to buy at the moment?

 

[vintage studio]

Gentlemen,
just to clarify any doubt that is still on the air about if the intention of my project is to create repros instead of high quality customs, I will share with you some captures of images that were uploaded in The Vintage Studio facebook page on June 23, when the first inyection test shot IMAGES were sent to me, please read the date of the publication and mainly THE DESCRIPTION OF EACH IMAGE. Feel free to visit The Vintage Studio facebook page and check the edition tab, you will confirm the description was added the same day the picture was uploaded:

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k137/doublezeroseven/capture-20150801-105900.png
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k137/doublezeroseven/capture-20150801-110403.png
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k137/doublezeroseven/capture-20150801-110028.png

Please put special attention here please:

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k137/doublezeroseven/capture-20150801-110453.png

After that, the inyection first test shot was shipped to me for phisical approval before bulk production, and I got it on July 13.
On July 14 I published this disclaimer, and tagged several people there, friends of all and known and respected gurus of the caliber of Bill Mcbride, Michael French, Dan Curto, Tom Berges, Chris Georgoulias, Kim Simmons, and many others, transparently alerting everyone of what Im doing and the nature of my project, please check the capture and the people tagged:

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k137/doublezeroseven/capture-20150801-110724.png

Of course, they knew of what I was talking about because I shared my project to this respected gurus of the hobby, months before of the launching of the disclaimer, requesting their opinions and feedback. No one gave a red light to proceede.

And finally on July 15 this thread is opened, avoiding intentionally or unintentionally (dont want to make assumptions) to address all clearly published disclaimers, and creating and unnecessary concern about me creating repros in bad faith; all those concerns were properly addressed, and all that was needed to clear them was to check the pictures and read the descriptions published weeks before.


About the project, Im not going to conduct it from the shadows to fool anyone, as happened with the poon-troopers. Im telling very clearly everyone what it is about; I have designed it not to sell a figure, instead to provide an experience. The experience to remember how it felt to get a Kenner vintage figure never released before on Christmas morning, to remember the emotional link with our personal "good old dad" making an effort to give us a toy, the experience of the dreaming in the next figure not yet released but already anounced in the catalog insert... things like that.
If you are 39 years old and down probably you will not get it, but if you are 40+ years old, you know what Im talking about.
This project is not born to fool anyone, it is here to give something....and a figure you probably wanted and never get:

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k...eting promos vintage studio poster 1-vert.jpg


Here is the link to the Facebook page of The Vintage Studio, please feel free to visit it and confirm the images I have shared:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-vintage-studio/892567474117950?ref=ts&fref=ts

 

[vintage studio]

I actually like these figures and can see them for what they are customs.

Personally I don't see the point of the 4 figure set, or the Darren Orme box. I'd prefer to these these sold separately or packed on a mini blister.

I can see from what you've posted your keeping away from making repros which is good as there's no love them here.

Looking forward to getting my hands on one of these customs when they come up for sale, and if it's a pack of four I'll have to find another three takers for the spares.

Thanks a lot Walkie,
I will be very happy to provide you a sandtrooper.
Let me explain you about the purpose of the 4 pack, You actually havent noticed it is not just one figure what we are talking here, actually there are four, with the pauldron in the four different colours of the patrol: orange, black, gray and white.
Of course they will be available separatelly in loose condition, or probably in a blister card, but I think people will request the 4 different figures to create the patrol, so the idea of the package is to provide all four at a better price than buying one by one, and with a plus that is the package in vintage desing and a catalog insert. Believe me, you will not need takers for the spares. , there are not spares in the 4 pack.

 

[Bonsai_Tree_Ent]

To create a moulding tool is extremelly expensive, the sandtrooper tooling mould costed me 22.000 dollars.

Hello Arturo, I have a small but much loved collection of custom figures myself (all figures never produced, including a Sandtrooper made from genuine vintage parts, which I think I paid around £25 for).

I wonder how the economics of this will work. You have paid $22k for tooling to produce a limited edition run of 250 figures, that is already $88 per figure. Add in labour costs - let us be kind and say just 1 hour per figure to mould, paint, package and then post them. That is 250 hours, at minimum wage of $10 per hour = $2500. There will also be a further cost in materials: plastic, paint and the replicator boxes.

You are looking at over $100 in costs to you per figure. How much do you think you can sell these for? My fear is you will be losing a lot of money.

 

[Frunkstar]

To create a moulding tool is extremelly expensive, the sandtrooper tooling mould costed me 22.000 dollars.

Hello Arturo, I have a small but much loved collection of custom figures myself (all figures never produced, including a Sandtrooper made from genuine vintage parts, which I think I paid around £25 for).

I wonder how the economics of this will work. You have paid $22k for tooling to produce a limited edition run of 250 figures, that is already $88 per figure. Add in labour costs - let us be kind and say just 1 hour per figure to mould, paint, package and then post them. That is 250 hours, at minimum wage of $10 per hour = $2500. There will also be a further cost in materials: plastic, paint and the replicator boxes.

You are looking at over $100 in costs to you per figure. How much do you think you can sell these for? My fear is you will be losing a lot of money.

That's the thing that hit me straight away too, production costs weighed against final asking price, the figures IMO don't add up unless you are thinking of charging what I would deem to be extortionately high prices for what are in reality custom figures which should (in an ideal world) not be too expensive IMO??????????

 

[steve obi wan]

Why ? :shock: I am personally not a fan of reproduction or custom figures , it's not my reason for collecting, however if it's an to share an experience and not fire out more reproduction crap then . What the hay !

 

[Dantooine]

He probably meant Honk Kong dollars?

I've not got a problem with the figures, I just don't know why the pauldron is so small? Looks a bit off to me.

 

[itfciain]

Please put special attention here please:

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k137/doublezeroseven/capture-20150801-110453.png

After that, the inyection first test shot was shipped to me for phisical approval before bulk production, and I got it on July 13.
On July 14 I published this disclaimer, and tagged several people there, friends of all and known and respected gurus of the caliber of Bill Mcbride, Michael French, Dan Curto, Tom Berges, Chris Georgoulias, Kim Simmons, and many others, transparently alerting everyone of what Im doing and the nature of my project, please check the capture and the people tagged:

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k137/doublezeroseven/capture-20150801-110724.png

Of course, they knew of what I was talking about because I shared my project to this respected gurus of the hobby, months before of the launching of the disclaimer, requesting their opinions and feedback. No one gave a red light to proceede.

You should be very careful about name dropping all these people just because you tagged them in some random post - I was taking to Chris G a couple of weeks ago and he knew nothing of you

 

[tiefighterboy]

This thread was dead. Why do you continue to try to justify your use of Orme and China manufacturers??? I am personally sick of you and more so Orme. I agree with Iain..many of the people you have named probably would not desire to have their names linked to you or any of the potential mess that is going to come from this.

Actually Kim Simmons will soon become a very familiar name to you. :wink:

 

[Bill McBride]

I have no idea what's going on here, nor do I have anyinvolvement with these projects.
This is the first I'm seeing any of this

Bill

 

[tiefighterboy]

and there you have it. Brilliant. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Bonsai_Tree_Ent]

I've not got a problem with the figures, I just don't know why the pauldron is so small? Looks a bit off to me.

I agree the Pauldron on Arturo's looks too small - really that element is the main draw of the Sandtrooper custom so it should be big and proud!

Arturo, the figure in the top right is my own Sandtrooper custom, made with a genuine vintage figure and only costing £25. I really think you need to look at the economics of this. Take a look here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CRAZY-Toys-Black-white-STAR-WARS-CLONE-TROOPER-STORMTROOPER-FIGURE-S234/391019396220?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3D7fa8b35398274714b5a4ec3a6888230e%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D161764036628

That repro 2 pack of Stormtroopers selling for under £5. That is what the market deems these as being worth, I do not think you are going to be able to sell them for the $100+ amount you require to make any profit.

 

[tiefighterboy]

Of course, they knew of what I was talking about because I shared my project to this respected gurus of the hobby, months before of the launching of the disclaimer, requesting their opinions and feedback. No one gave a red light to proceede.

Just in case it gets edited like all his other comments seem too

 

[steve obi wan]

The plot thickens