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I'm fine with repro as long as: a)I know it's repro, and b)I'm only paying for repro. My Ledys look much better in their repro boxes than they do loose; Wonder Girl is workin' her fake necklace, etc. I'd rather have original, but I don't lose sleep over repro.
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Doc has always been good about marking repros, although not perfect as he mentioned, we always knew his intentions were not to fool anyone, just allow thousands upon thousands of old figures to shine once again. When CTVT started up, they were not as committed to marking repros until this community (and their dealers) stood up and demanded they make it a priority, which helped immensely. Since then, other makers of figures and parts seem to have taken that to heart.
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benbarb really does have unmarked china made items.
He helped me connect with a factory in China many many years ago,
long before the factories there were open to dealing with small time
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I could believe that. I have had a number of packaged hero boots in the common colors ie: blue, yellow, red, green, that were not Doc's. I believe the predecessor to CTVT had some as well. They could be the same ones. They're much thinner than Doc's and mostly translucent.It's not a doll it's an action figure.Comment
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I'm not used to repro makers being that responsible. In fact if anything repro dealers, for the most part, in the Star Wars community take pride in striving to make items that can fool people. I think that's one of the reasons that AFA has taken a stronghold with some SW collectors. Not that AFA is always perfect and I certianly do not use or endorse thier services, but they do try to weed out the fake weapons and capes that are out there.
Gotta say that I'm enjoying the small but hard hitting MIB Mego collection I've put together so far. More fun than I've had collecting (licensed) Star Wars over the past few years.... Just gotta get a Jokermobile....
Cheers
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Most are pretty accepting of the Repro items for the reasons discussed throughout this thread.
Goodness gracious though, if you ever show up and start a thread selling Repo items.Comment
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Hmmmm....
Thinkin' on this, I get the impression that the Mego collector group is populated by a lot more folks who collect because they like the figures; and the Star Wars group has more who collect as an investment. Not that both gorups don't have both type of collector, but the ratio seems different. So more Mego fans are happy to get a part, repro or not because they want it to finish their figure (as has been said: a lot of Megos don't look right if they're missing stuff) whereas a lot of Star Wars collectors are considering resale. hence the overall acceptance of rero for Mego fans.
That; and the 8" Mego figure lends itself to customizing more than the 3.5" SW figure.
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I guess this auction it a timely reminder of what is not acceptable with repro items. Essentially it is a Mystery Astronaut head with all DM Bruce Wayne outfit. Seller claims "no repro parts" and wants to start the bidding at a modest $500.00!
Original Bruce Wayne Mego Secret Identity Mint Rare NR - eBay (item 300486665295 end time Nov-07-10 09:52:01 PST)Comment
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Other than the already stated " I want to know it's repro" it all depends of the figure with me. There are handful of instances where when choosing how to complete, the figure
repros enhanced the dsiplay. A GREEN bow for Green Arrow finally. A nice, rich dark blue cape for Batgirl vs.a faded and tattered original one. RED boots and gloves for Iron Man that match his head. Other instances repros won't do such at removable masks/cowls, Thor's helmet/boots for example.Comment
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I think that may be a bit of a misconception of SW collectors based on the minority of SW collectors that collect AFA items exclusively, and are more concerned with having a high number grade sticker than a nice toy for thier shelves.
Most of the SW collectors I'm friends with are of the variety that just want decent condition pieces regardless of if it's MOC/MIB or loose and collect because they genuinely like the line of toys and the nostalgia factor involved.
And I think that you'd agree that any collector, Mego, SW, Or any toy line in general, that's "invested" thousands of dollars into a nice boxed/moc collection doesn't want to lose money when they either have to, or want to sell it off. While it's not, or at least shouldn't be a main factor in collecting toys from any line, it's there to an extent.
I think another factor on repros is cost; A real loose SW weapon is around $3 to $5, where as a repro is $1 or so, and most SW collectors, myself included would rather spend an extra $4 and have it be 100% Kenner, not to mention that there are tons of legit Kenner weapons available at any given time. A legit replacement accessory for a loose Mego can run pretty high at times, and that's IF there's one on the market at the time. I completely get why they're accepted more in this hobby than SW(availability, cost and repro makers that are a contributing part of the community,rather than scammers that are mocking it).
The repro Bruce Wayne on Ebay with the seller trying to pass it off as real is a sad reminder of what happens when well done repros fall into less than honest hands. I could cite a dozen examples of people doing the same thing with repro parts on high end loose SW figures like Vinyl Cape Jawas, and Double Telescoping sabers. The problem, as I've mentioned before, being that the people that make repro weapons including near perfect Jawa capes and DT sabers, WANT to fool people with them. No marking them as repro, or with a manufacturers name like DM does. A legit loose DT Saber Ben or Vader is a 2k+ piece, so it's no joke when someone gets scammed with a near perfect fake.
Just as there are people that would be more than happy with a DM made Alter Ego figure on the shelf, there are people happy with repro DT sabers and VC Jawas. I'm not one of them, but, IF they're properly labeled as repros and there were obvious differences in them from real ones, that's great compared to what I'm used to dealing with when buying SW items.
I'm a relative newbie to the Mego hobby. I still reference the gallerys and guide here regularly when looking at items I'm interested in. So don't take any of my culture shock at how accepted repros are here as me being snobby about them.
Cheers
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