Recent content by James Latta

Mike I wish we had the opportunity to interview you. That would have been a great interview. But as you know we didn't meet until a few years later.

Egad Phil !! How could you? OMG, I look as horrendous in photo frame-grabs as I did on television. lol. Those images are from the little collectible show "The Sci-Fi Trader" that aired on the Sci Fi Channel in 1993, 19 years ago and 2 to 3 years before Icons was founded. Originally...

Oh lord those are some over-statements Teddy! R U Trying to get me in trouble with those? There is an extraordinary amount of talent here on the RPF and countless talented people from all over the world. I contributed to the hobby / industry but also made numerous terrible mistakes. I hope...

Here is a tale.... The Tale of the Aliens M-41 Hero Pulse Rifle Exhibit at Comic Con 1996. To ship the original Aliens M-41 Hero Pulse Rifle into the U.S. in the early 1990's before the founding of Icons, was very complicated. Numerous shippers, including FedEx did not want to touch it. I...

Hi Teddy, Only "1" of the Icons Hero pulse rifles was produced. Fred in Paris, France has it in his Icons Museum collection. He acquired it from a collector who purchased it from a buyer here in L.A. Supposedly it was molded to produce the Hollywood Collectibles Group pulse rifle. But as far as...

RK, the IP address for that eBay seller is not mine for one. Nor is the pay pal address / name on the bank account which is already known by several of the eBay winning bidders who have come forward. If I was the seller, or connected to the seller, my complaint letters to eBay and Pay Pal...

Hemi, With all do respect, do you know any members here who can verify that you are not Greg Stone? I do not say this to try and get you banned. I am just asking. As it would be good to know since you have emailed me directly and you were the first to post on that locked down eBay thread. Do you...

"Surreal" would be the word for sure. lol. As was the eBay fiasco thread. I have heard that thread was locked down and a member who was posting was banned. So I suppose I can get back to telling some behind the scenes info here shortly. The Aliens shipping container story find etc.

Far fetched? Ask crew member Mike Okuda about the tour of the Enterrpise video and the sneaking onto the Paramount backlot etc. Or go watch it. It's infamous in Los Angeles. As far as the Chinese Theater Star Trek hands and footprints story, the chase is documented in an LAPD police report...

This individual is the person, who along with a fellow fan dressed up in Star Trek: The Next Generation costumes that were fan-made, parked near Paramount Pictures and during lunch, walked ( snuck ) onto the studio backlot. The security guards at the gate assumed they were just extras working on...

Okay, got a tip-off on that eBay seller. If it is who we think it is? Many will gasp here. Evidently he was banned from the RPF many years ago and has a record going back decades. Infamous would be putting it lightly. Evidently he still has an RPF member account here and has continued to...

I will get back to the stories and try and get some photos posted up here shortly. Just trying to deal with the fall-out of that eBay drama, of which I had no part of.

I would like the pay pal account name / address of the eBay seller who recently posted up a ton of photos of Icons prototypes that did not exist and auctioned them. I have my suspicions and do not think the RPF will be surprised when it is revealed here. Anyone who can provide me with that...

I would like to know the pay pal account name that was used by the eBay seller who recently auctioned off all of those rare Icons prototypes, so that the seller can be called out by name here on the RPF. If anyone won any of those fake items, which were eBay auctions that simply featured...

"Got to try on Docs mind reading device from the first film while visiting the prop dept." This prop was rented, replicated and the original and the replica ended up back at Universal Studios after the David E. situation. The replica was fabricated by a talented prop maker and was very quality...