Not content with having already directly ripped me off by directly recasting my Sankara Stone, this neanderthal goes ahead and rips off Pedro’s (Restaurajones) work. Well, when you can’t make it on your own, why not rip off from the best, right?
(Top photo is of the Laretrotienda bootlegs. Bottom picture are Pedro's original work-in-progress sculpts.)
He even designated each with the same numbers that Pedro did on his own sculpts. LOL I reached out to Pedro personally and it turns out that it looks like Laretrotienda (real name is Alberto Cerezo Ledesma), or someone he “hired” because I don’t think he can sculpt his way out of a paper bag, sculpted these from scratch, but clearly used Pedro’s stones as direct reference as all the tells are nearly identical though there are several differences throughout, certainly in shape, detail, and finish. But where it gets really interesting (and scummy on Alberto’s part) is that Pedro tells me Laretrotienda was following his Instagram posts for a while. Pedro recognized the user handle as he’s well aware of this scumbag as I’ve made it well known on some forums and on social media. He lurked around for a while, then Laretrotienda abruptly blocks him out of the blue. Presumably his only intention was to grab as many reference pictures as he could from Pedro’s Instagram and hide the fact that he’s blatantly copying him by blocking him so Pedro cannot view Laretrotienda’s posts. The guy is not only a slimy prick but a pathetic coward.
Now I know what some of you are probably thinking… “at least he’s not directly recasting and actually took the effort this time to sculpt them.” That’s absolutely true. But it’s the manner in which he did it that is scummy and deserves to be exposed and trolled to the max. And to try to duplicate all of the tell-tale maker’s marks that differentiate Pedro’s stones from all others is yet another thing that I can tell from my conversation with Pedro that this new development irks him.
Side note, did anyone see his diorama of Storm Troopers drowning in mashed potatoes? It's a delicious masterpiece! Just add gravy.
ROTFLMAO