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[Bowelrock]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

The POS Theifago was vouched for by a very good friend of mine.. Unfortunately he was lied to about his reputation.. Had My friend not backed "thiefago" I would have never sent him a shell.

 

[Onkelpsycho]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

Sorry to hear... Man, this sucks... I still dont understand these people...

I think this first comment from videobob is sarcastic, hm?!? This guy is so dislikable...

Who is this guy named Thiago?!? I remember that name somehow...

Why always the bad guys have big and cool working places?!? :angry

 

[slimesquare]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

Thiago is gbfreak83 from gbfans

 

[Bowelrock]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

Thanks for that info Matt

 

[Tweekem]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

I agree with the post earlier... Im very glad to read things like his... not cuz I like to know some people are scum... but it lets us new guys know what and whom to avoid. Thanks for the info.. hope this guy gets whats comin to him.

 

[GBRob]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

Man, videobob made it sound like he had your permission in his videos by using your name.

Side note, does he ever change clothes??

 

[Onkelpsycho]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

Man, videobob made it sound like he had your permission in his videos by using your name.

Side note, does he ever change clothes??

He dont have to change clothes... He picked up some self-cleaning shirts in the future... :lol

 

[Gary Weaver II]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

Oh man... I just ran across his videos regarding this pack. Both his "sizzle" vid and then his two commentaries to the GB Community.

Nice to see he's just as classy as ever... :lol This is pretty much the same thing he did within the BTTF Circles for years. Nice to see he's not limited to just ripping off the BTTF and DeLorean guys.

-Gary

Man, videobob made it sound like he had your permission in his videos by using your name.

Side note, does he ever change clothes??

 

[slimesquare]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

does ebay not care if he is stealing some one elses work?

 

[Art Andrews]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

Ross, if you are just going to post these kind of things publicly when we don't jump through hoops as fast as you would like, why come to us privately at all?

We are looking into this and working on it and trying to decipher what is going on.

 

[Bowelrock]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

I wasn't aware you were still looking into it Art. Thank you for continuing the pursuit into the issue.

 

[Bowelrock]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

Bob has no permission to use my name or any other persons for that matter. I have reported him to youtube many times for privacy violation and harassment over this issue. Nothing has been done. Matt, As far as ebay goes i think he is pretty much screwed Gbfans reports every auction as well as myself. I have also called them and filed a report over the phone. I'm told he will not be able to list replica items any further if they are forced to pull down more that 2 or 3 auctions.

 

[Bowelrock]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

They have relisted my shell under a false listing and are now selling under another ebay user. They are using a photo of the real shell with photos of the suppoesed master and mold to another completely different shell. User legendary collectibles more than likely Trendkiller. Tcbtexas aka video bob can no longer sell them on ebay. This is still my shell I am posting this live auction so it will be known and flagged if that's a problem please remove it.

Ghostbusters Proton Pack Shell WITH MOTHERBOARD!!! | eBay

 

[renesisx]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

I'll get flamed to hell for going against the groupthink here, and I'm not defending Videobob - he pisses off a lot of people a lot of the time - but aren't you all just "recasting" Sony's original pack? What makes it OK to copy Sony's pack but not someone else's?

 

[Bowelrock]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

I paid for the original so its my personal property. It was not made by a member of any message board, It was produced buy a studio who paid someone over 20 years ago to make. Being an original prop item i am ok to mold it. Bob recasted a shell that i sold. I personally made the shell from a mold that myself and a friend made/own. I was to date the only person offering these castings. What Bob is doing is stealing from me as a person.

This would be no different if someone recasted the bigi71 shell. Bijorn/bigi71 made the original master and sent it to a memeber of GBfans.com. He began selling copy's with permission from the bijorn "the original builder." If one of these bigi71 shells were recast the situation would be identical. Only difference being the master came from a member who built it. MY shell came from a studio that paid for the original work. I own the master for my shells. It is the only one of its kind. This is why its not ok to recast it. Can i be anymore clear? Thankfuly the person i sold the shell too received a flawed pull from my mold, even after my offer to make him another. Apparently this cloud has a silver lining, These recast shells have nowhere near the quality or the detail of the other shells i have sold thankfully.

I suggest you use the search function to find the dozens of threads about recasting before you ask a question like that.

 

[Java]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

What you just wrote could have been written by many intellectual property owners about China, or Napster, or Torrents, etc.

I never, ever support recasting.

It might be your personal property but when YOU duplicate it for $$ you run the risk of somebody else taking your no-longer-one-of-a-kind item and doing the same thing. Videobob is the China of the prop community.

Did HMS give YOU the OK to recast their work? Just a question, no need to suggest the Search function. Been around for a while and know the RPF recasting rules and support them fully.

 

[Zombie Killer]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

Java, HMS was hired and got paid for their work and the prop by Sony. It is Sonys property. HMS has no permission to give.

 

[slimesquare]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

well they haven't stopped this one yet

GHOSTBUSTER'S Production Made PROTON PACK from Universal Studios | eBay

 

[slimesquare]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

They have relisted my shell under a false listing and are now selling under another ebay user. They are using a photo of the real shell with photos of the suppoesed master and mold to another completely different shell. User legendary collectibles more than likely Trendkiller. Tcbtexas aka video bob can no longer sell them on ebay. This is still my shell I am posting this live auction so it will be known and flagged if that's a problem please remove it.

Ghostbusters Proton Pack Shell WITH MOTHERBOARD!!! | eBay

I think that shell was made off of the pics vincent took, either that or he has a fake master pictured in the auction

 

[dexter1138]

Re: My Sony/Universal studios proton pack shell has been recast. With help from RPF U

I'm confused, HMS didn't make the original packs for Ghostbusters, they may have recast something to produce the ones for Universal Florida, but I thought those were produced in house.

It sucks when you get recast, but when you guys mold on Studio Property you always run the risk of a C&D from Sony or Matty. Word is that after the trap Matty will produce a low end pack.

Honor among thieves never seems to work out huh?

I think the recasting rules need to be re-examined.

Recasting an original sculpt, master based on nothing or a licensed product would be a no no, but recasting an existing prop that's been around for years, who's to say that HMS didn't make and sell more than one of these? They seem to have a steady supply of other castings they've sold over the years.

Recently someone in the junkyard wanted to recast an original sculpt produced 20 years ago because the guy isn't around or he recast their work.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

You've obviously made your money back, why not lower your prices and sell them so cheap, these guys couldn't sell any?

Dex

just watched a few of Bob's videos, funny guy and his response to GB Fans was priceless. It's very disturbing that a website owner would try to lay claim to Ghostbusters, ridiculous. if this guy does have a show on Discovery, he'll have a lot to talk about.

The only thing I see bad about this whole fiasco is the fact that you guys have painted a huge target on your backs and forums like GB Fans and the RPF for that matter. It's only a matter of time before Sony gets wind of what's really going on and start going after you guys.

Sad day, very bad for the hobby.

Dex