dualedge
Sr Member
The MR may not be accurate in almost every way... but you have to agree that it being metal IS cool! That is the wow factor, specially for the non hardcore costumers. I have both ACME and the MR and wear the MR at Cons because people will tap on the helmet and I've had the fin yanked several times. I don't want to put my ACME through that! Also I've learned for pictures to always look to the side or at an angle to minimize squished head look. It may not be accurate, but I still give love to the MR!
- Jeff
Re: Jeff & Nickytea - I don't blame you guys at all for liking the MR. Jeff, I understand your reasoning for wearing it to cons. It's definitely more durable. Doesn't it constantly make you look up? My experience with one was that it was surprisingly back heavy because of the fin.
And I do NOT have any intention of knocking anybody that likes the MR at all! I like it... I'm just a bit of an obsessive about Rocketeer helmets. Ultimately though, all of this stuff is aesthetics and personal taste anyway, y'know, so to each his own.
For me personally, the metal factor is sorta cool for me strictly as a novelty factor but you've gotta remember, for a few years I got to own a 100% legit, screen-used hero helmet. Nothing much compares to that in my book, y'know? You haven't known cool until you've looked at yourself in a mirror while wearing a helmet Bill Campbell wore and you got to watch on screen in the film (no matter what it's made of.) :cool That's just the two cents of someone really obsessed though...
I prefer the original production method also because I know the details of it and I also have a tendency to like the nostalgia of screen-used prop collecting when it comes to Rocketeer stuff. For me personally, that boils down to accuracy to the way it was done originally. That's not to say anybody that likes it a different way is wrong in my book.
Steve, thanks for the info! Words straight from the horses mouth!
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