Salacious Crumb puppet in new SW Insider

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

There's a question in the "Scouting the Galaxy" section of SW Insider about a Salacious Crumb puppet that looks like one that was done by someone here years ago. Anyway Steve Sansweet replies that one was done for an Australian con Cantina diorama and said this about the one in question; "I believe his design (Gary Armstrong, the maker of that puppet) was ripped off by at least one unprincipled bootlegger".

Now I know he has to come down on people who make unlicensed stuff because he works for Lucasfilm, but I thought it was in bad taste that he called anyone else unprincipled. Unless the guy mentioned above was hired by Lucasfilm to make that Salacious Crumb (which Sansweet implies in the article that he owns) then that guy is also an "unprincipled bootlegger". In addition this guy didn't create Salacious Crumb so he was also copying a copyrighted character. They are all unlicensed.


BTW, I'm not putting down this Gary Armstrong, just how Steve Sansweet characterized anyone else who made a Salacious puppet.

 

[SgtFang]

Can you post a scan/pic?

Thanks.

-Sarge

 

[rileyreplicas]

I find it interesting that he makes that comment when he has in his possession quite a few unauthorized "bootleg" props. :rolleyes

I agree, I know he has to say that but he could have been a lot more tactful.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SgtFang @ Dec 9 2006, 09:33 PM) [snapback]1374757[/snapback]</div>

Can you post a scan/pic?

Thanks.

-Sarge
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Yeah I'll try to do it tomorrow. I don't have access to a scanner right now.

 

[CTF]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sluis Van Shipyards @ Dec 10 2006, 01:46 PM) [snapback]1374742[/snapback]</div>

There's a question in the "Scouting the Galaxy" section of SW Insider about a Salacious Crumb puppet that looks like one that was done by someone here years ago. Anyway Steve Sansweet replies that one was done for an Australian con Cantina diorama and said this about the one in question; "I believe his design (Gary Armstrong, the maker of that puppet) was ripped off by at least one unprincipled bootlegger".

Now I know he has to come down on people who make unlicensed stuff because he works for Lucasfilm, but I thought it was in bad taste that he called anyone else unprincipled. Unless the guy mentioned above was hired by Lucasfilm to make that Salacious Crumb (which Sansweet implies in the article that he owns) then that guy is also an "unprincipled bootlegger". In addition this guy didn't create Salacious Crumb so he was also copying a copyrighted character. They are all unlicensed.


BTW, I'm not putting down this Gary Armstrong, just how Steve Sansweet characterized anyone else who made a Salacious puppet.
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I might be reading this wrong (I had a late night.), but it seems he's coming down on recasters (so to speak), not the person who made this version of S. Crumb, but the person who made copies of it (this version) after the con.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

They weren't recast as far as I know, they just made a new version as a puppet.

Here's a pic from the magazine:

 

[SgtFang]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sluis Van Shipyards @ Dec 11 2006, 09:26 PM) [snapback]1375905[/snapback]</div>

They weren't recast as far as I know, they just made a new version as a puppet.

Here's a pic from the magazine:

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BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... :lol :lol :lol

I'll have to tell Phil we're (in)famous.

Thanks. :thumbsup

-Sarge

Oh- and for the record, the Australian one Steve's reffering to is an entirely different sculpt. We sculpted ours after seeing what the Australian ones were going for on eBay.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Aha. So you're one of the unprincipled bootleggers. :lol

 

[SgtFang]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sluis Van Shipyards @ Dec 12 2006, 09:42 PM) [snapback]1376729[/snapback]</div>

Aha. So you're one of the unprincipled bootleggers. :lol
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-Sarge