C3PO Error Card Score

cyberpyrot

Sr Member

• Jul 10, 2015

• #1

Just got my C3PO Error card not sure if I need to send it to PSA to get graded or Ron Jeremy

 

NeoRutty

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• Jul 10, 2015

• #2

Nice!

I saw they are making large versions of the old cards for SDCC... THAT one shoulda been on the list

 

cyberpyrot

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• Jul 10, 2015

• #3

NeoRutty said:

Nice!

I saw they are making large versions of the old cards for SDCC... THAT one shoulda been on the list

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that would be awesome

 

sskunky

Sr Member

• Jul 11, 2015

• #4

I have one of these. I have the full sets of the ANH, ESB and ROTJ CARDS AND STICKERS.


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Hammer3246

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• Jul 11, 2015

• #5

I had one as a kid " the card that is " wonder what it's worth today?

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Halliwax

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• Jul 11, 2015

• #6

What the heck!? I've never heard of this!?

 

cyclocrosschris

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• Jul 11, 2015

• #7

I have both versions. If legends to be believed. IIRC the corrected version is less plentiful, therefore...rarer????

 

ktflory

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• Jul 11, 2015

• #8

cyclocrosschris said:

I have both versions. If legends to be believed. IIRC the corrected version is less plentiful, therefore...rarer????

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That is possible, but quantity comes second to desirability. Just because there are fewer corrected versions doesn't mean as many people want that version. Collecting is a volatile hobby sometimes.

 

sskunky

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• Jul 12, 2015

• #9

Apparently the story goes it was put out by a disgruntled employee.


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OdiWan72

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• Jul 12, 2015

• #10

Sorry for asking, but what is the actual "error"??? :confused

Markus

 

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Andy Preston

New Member

• Jul 12, 2015

• #11

It's simply a piece of the costume coming away. Here's a different pic showing the same thing...

 

Andymac84

Sr Member

• Jul 12, 2015

• #12

Indeed :lol that's actual an error. I was so fixed about the card and its shape. I totally forgot to watch the motif itself.

 

Halliwax

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• Jul 12, 2015

• #13

funny I've never heard of this until now, can't believe they didn't catch that the first time lol

 

mugatu

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• Jul 12, 2015

• #14

I had always read that it was an early hatchet job attempt at "photoshopping" with cutout photos, to give Goldenrod his golden rod. I found that hard to believe at the time.

 

Halliwax

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• Jul 12, 2015

• #15

mugatu said:

I had always read that it was an early hatchet job attempt at "photoshopping" with cutout photos, to give Goldenrod his golden rod. I found that hard to believe at the time.

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LOL im in tears

 

Treadwell

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• Jul 12, 2015

• #16

cyclocrosschris said:

I have both versions. If legends to be believed. IIRC the corrected version is less plentiful, therefore...rarer????

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That's what I've read as well.

There is no "error". An error card would have a misprint of some kind. This was looked into a while back (I think in a Sansweet article in the official magazine) and someone at LFL confirmed the aberration is on THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE of the set photo. It was not retouched. The "corrected" card is the retouched one.

Remember the costume's "shorts" are of a flexible material. It had probably split along the side and part of it, freed from tension, sprung forward.

 

MrSinistar

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• Jul 12, 2015

• #17

Andy Preston said:

It's simply a piece of the costume coming away. Here's a different pic showing the same thing...View attachment 500087

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Wow, I never seen that pic before. I had a feeling it was the flexible pants ripping off, but seeing it in that angle makes so much more sense.

 

cyberpyrot

Sr Member

• Jul 12, 2015

• #18

You guys are bunch of kill joys. You probably tell you kids there is no Santa. I was happier thinking he was in fact a Human-cyborg relations protocol droid produced by Cybot Galactica.

 

Edwardowan

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• Jul 12, 2015

• #19

Andy Preston said:

It's simply a piece of the costume coming away. Here's a different pic showing the same thing...View attachment 500087

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correct. the old story of a ticked off employee retouching the negative was debunked. the photo you show here is a set of many from different angles showing the damage and it was just an optical (if not imaginative) illusion of it being something it was not. I have two of those cards and like stated below, because of the controversy the card was reissued retouched so as not to alarm anyone. the "fixed" one is the rare card as the so called X rated card went out by the thousands long before anyone made note of it.