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<blockquote data-quote="SAVORY100" data-source="post: 441318" data-attributes="member: 5830"><p>I think its really tough to define and I wonder if just the terms Grail, Holy Grail, Personal Grail are all the same thing but both overused and used differently by everyone that uses them... This thread at least seems to support that there are a variety of possible uses and reasons why its used.</p><p></p><p>My 'Grail' example goes back to me spending a couple of year's looking to get a Model Trem Han. A bugger to find, even more so from a reputable source and no matter where you look it was never going to be a pocket change pick-up... for me and my budget for an individual piece it was pretty off the chart to be honest. I wanted it to have the original blaster and was willing to not have a box; they're ugly and I'd be unlikely to display it, so a lack of it for a lesser cost was an OK call for me. Still took a long time and a lot of looking... </p><p></p><p>Now is a Model Trem Han with a genuine gun a grail? To me it was, yes. </p><p> - It was uncommon to rare; not sure I've seen one on eBay ever, certainly not like some 'grail's', something you can, with a full wallet, pick-up every week.</p><p> - It was, quite frankly, expensive.</p><p> - It was not something I'd find without doing some leg work.</p><p></p><p>I imagine to some in the right circles it's nothing like a grail, some folk though have multiple pre-production 2D &/or 3D items because at one time for them, they were 'affordable' but to me any one of their many items might be a grail item.</p><p></p><p>None of the above takes away from the very basic fact that the term Grail is massively over used on items that can indeed be picked up week after week on eBay or similar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SAVORY100, post: 441318, member: 5830"] I think its really tough to define and I wonder if just the terms Grail, Holy Grail, Personal Grail are all the same thing but both overused and used differently by everyone that uses them... This thread at least seems to support that there are a variety of possible uses and reasons why its used. My 'Grail' example goes back to me spending a couple of year's looking to get a Model Trem Han. A bugger to find, even more so from a reputable source and no matter where you look it was never going to be a pocket change pick-up... for me and my budget for an individual piece it was pretty off the chart to be honest. I wanted it to have the original blaster and was willing to not have a box; they're ugly and I'd be unlikely to display it, so a lack of it for a lesser cost was an OK call for me. Still took a long time and a lot of looking... Now is a Model Trem Han with a genuine gun a grail? To me it was, yes. - It was uncommon to rare; not sure I've seen one on eBay ever, certainly not like some 'grail's', something you can, with a full wallet, pick-up every week. - It was, quite frankly, expensive. - It was not something I'd find without doing some leg work. I imagine to some in the right circles it's nothing like a grail, some folk though have multiple pre-production 2D &/or 3D items because at one time for them, they were 'affordable' but to me any one of their many items might be a grail item. None of the above takes away from the very basic fact that the term Grail is massively over used on items that can indeed be picked up week after week on eBay or similar. [/QUOTE]
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