ghostryder
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Trying to remember - in this video - wasn't it alleged the owner of Heritage was the one who bought/bid/won some of the bigger ticket games?
Alleged Screen Used Hero TOS Phaser up for auction (now the aftermath)
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Yes, they were. Also, Heritage questionable acts go all the way back to the coin boom of the 80’s where they were charged with fraud at the time.
I can’t find the article but I believe it is in this thread somewhere.
I haven't searched through 88 pages to find it either.
I believe that the jist of it was that the same people that were GRADING the coins, were SELLING the coins. And they gave themselves undeserved grades so they could then sell the coins for more money. Something along those lines. I feel bad for not finding the specific answer.
TOS Phaser
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I have always tried to stay out of this fight - because I wanted to learn about TOS Hero Phaser Props and because I had no agenda.
Like "Gregatron" I am sick of the self-styled "experts" who claim only they know the truth. It was always obvious (to me) they did not!
Has anyone invited the Youtuber to view this thread in the "comments section" of his Youtube video or is this person part of the Fake Phaser Cabal (FPC) that has been selling screen used phasers for over 50 years now?
Clearly this Youtuber - believes the "cover story" that Herb Solow (aka. Desilu Studios) cut ties with Wah Ming Chang. (???) I found no evidence of Desilu Studios "cutting ties" with Wah Chang in either of Herbert F. Solow's books: Inside Star Trek: The Real Story or Star Trek Sketchbook: The Original Series. In fact the opposite appears to have been the case! Solow reported in Star Trek Sketchbook "...the cost of the communicators was very reasonable." My impression was Herb Solow was very impressed with Wah Chang's work.
Perhaps "Feek61" can answer the question of how many Desliu Studios Invoices were made out to Wah Ming Chang (if it is not already posted earlier in this thread)? For example: isn't the Desilu Studios invoice number, for "reworking" the phasers, much lower than the invoice number for the practical Communicators that Wah made? (I do not recall seeing dates on the Desilu invoices.)
At any rate - as others have posted on this thread - it won't be long before another of the four "practical" aka "Hero" phasers, that were made before filming of the first season began in July 1966, by the Desilu Studios props department, is posted on an auction website...
JPH
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Solow and Justman didn't have a problem with Wah, the propmakers union did, therefore it became a Desilu problem. The legend is Wah smashed the Romulan Bird of Prey model to bits as a result.
Because truth and historical record matter.
robn1
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I made a detailed comment on his Wah Chang video with a link to this thread, it was deleted within 10 minutes.
I'm not surprised. Some people just don't want to know or have their own agendas. That is why I have given up hope of the truth ever being widely known or accepted.
feek61
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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!
I did not watch the video but there was never an issue with Wah other than the union issue. The production continued to use him after the union issue surfaced by buying "already built" stuff that just so happened to be exactly what the production needed. From memory, he continued to create stuff from the show well into the second season. I think the styrofoam cubes for "By Any Other Name" was the last but I may be mistaken.
I did not watch the video but there was never an issue with Wah other than the union issue. The production continued to use him after the union issue surfaced by buying "already built" stuff that just so happened to be exactly what the production needed. From memory, he continued to create stuff from the show well into the second season. I think the styrofoam cubes for "By Any Other Name" was the last but I may be mistaken.
I replied to a couple of comments in the hope that they don’t get deleted as quickly, but the fact is that this video will help spread the falsehood of the hero phaser and turn it into legend. Someday in the phaser will reappear for sale and there won’t be as many of us to debunk it.
NakedMoleRat
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In the year 2138, where YouTube is an interactive holo-projection, yet another phaser from the series will appear.
The culprits will probably take another stab at it sooner than that, since this fraud was so successful.
JPH
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BINGO!
And when eventually busted, they will just claim all the prior sales were legit.
B...but it was so lucrative w...we tried a fake prop THIS TIME. Not the last umteenth sales.
As records become electronic rather than old, yellowed, dusty paper, opportunist will make up whatever is convenient and simply leak disinformation through the channels that want the attention of telling you first..
Considering that many replicas similar to the auction phaser (albeit non-heroes, and offered AS replicas) have been up for sale, over the past few years, it seems likely that the next step would be to pass more and more of them off as originals. Especially since this one sold so successfully. Of course, that's what happens when there's corruption at pretty much every level, to say nothing of bribery and threats of litigation. It's no accident that HeroComm dropped off the Earth after initially being so gung-ho to get to the truth, after all.
Aside from us, all of the voices who were "in the game", and therefore in a position to challenge the auction phaser, were silenced.
asalaw
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I believe, IIRC, that the phasers document we’ve all seen is a remittance advice, not an invoice. I don’t recall what the other one is, but if they’re not both the same type of document, there’s no reason their numbers would tally. (A remittance advice is a document produced by accounting to show that a check has issued, and often accompanies the check.) The documents are both, IIRC, on Desilu letterhead, which means they are not invoices from Wah to Desilu, but documents emanating from Desilu. OTOH, I may have this all confused with the tricorders document. Maybe someone could post images of them?
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