The unfortunate reality is that if your frame of reference on these props is a bunch of made up facts and hearsay at some point when the real information comes out it is going to collide with the trash. At that point before you post please remember that rubbertoe is the artist that makes the props that we study and replicate. Please post with the respect and decency that deserves.
You call for people to post with respect and decency immediately after calling them liars? Dude, no one one this forum is a CT sock puppet, no one works for him or is otherwise invested in his success. No one has any reason to lie. Nor has anyone leveled accusations of lying at Rubbertoe, QMx or anyone else involved in the manufacture of the licensed prop. I said before that I don't care whether you believe me in regards to my
knowledge that CT had access... I just ask that you not call me a liar. And before you say again that you have not called me (and others here) liars, re-read the quote from you above... namely the part about "made up facts." To be clear: "made up facts" are also known as "Lies." Get some class and disagree without casting accusations on people who are trying to help other make informed decisions about their future purchasing options.
You need to ask yourself, what is more likely. If that thing is a being used in the show is it more likely that the BBC bought a prop from someone who is pretty much actively stealing from them or that they simply made one up new or from the parts they have. Now the question has also been answered by the person who does the props for the show (there simply is no more credible source than that period).
To the best of my knowledge, the BBC never manufactured a 9 Sonic with a narrow slider channel. If I am correct on that, that makes the posted image most definitely a modified CT. However, only ASP9mm knows the source of the pic, so no one else can really verify that source's claims that it is to be used on the show as accurate or not. If Nick says that no CTs are being used on the show, then I am inclined to believe him. But that doesn't mean that the mystery prop was made by the BBC, it could just as well mean that the mystery prop was never something associated with the show at all.
CT makes money off of making sonic screwdriver props. It is not good for business if the prop maker from the show makes the masters (eg. undeniably accurate) for a competing company. The only recourse is to try to challenge the accuracy of the masters as here.
Ummm... neither CT nor anyone else has questioned the accuracy of the Robatto/QMx product... in fact, here is a quote from CT himself, which you can find in his Twitter feed: "unless one of us ****s up, there shall be no difference to the prop."
What HAS been criticized is the fact that the product was announced a YEAR ago and work on getting it into production is only just now starting. CT has doubts that the QMx will ever make it to market, but I don't doubt that they'll be able to get it out and I don't think anyone else here has expressed that same doubt, either.
My guess is that the prototype was made exactly like the screen used pieces but has not been battered from filming.
Brilliant guess. I really wish I had come up with a theory like that a few posts ago... Oh, I did?
It takes no longer to make the screen used props well than it does to halfass them. Why would the prototype be made any different than the screen used ones other than minor hand made artifacts?
Um, actually, it does. That's why people halfass things. If it weren't faster, our vocabulary wouldn't even contain the word halfass for you to misdefine.
Now how about an apology to those, like myself, against whom you have made libelous accusations?
