Fantastic looking helmet - whatever generation or casting it is. Nice score but a shame if you had to pay top dollar for it under the assumption that it was the same generation as all the castings that SL sold directly.
Being out of the hobby for a long while made me realise that it's such a shame people have to pay top dollar for the honor of having a casting such as this. We're all fans, collectors etc. Unless it's the actual screen used or made for production prop then everyone out there who is into this stuff should be able to get one without paying another mortgage for it. There's a real lack of "sharing" and an awful lot of "elitism" and "ego" when it comes to these sorts of things.
I couldn't care less if 20,000 of them are made. My desire to spend money on these things is not dictated by being one of only "10" to have one in the world. That sort of thing is only really something to brag about when it comes to owning actual screen used items. Everything else is just a copy and every fan should be able to get one.
What you say holds much truth if we as a community of people can't also come together and except that the replicas we all collect are just
that copies of a copy then at the micro scale we are no better than greedy politicians and corporate big wigs who take all the worlds resources for themselves and leave the rest of us out cold.It begs one to think if we as normal people can't without ego and the idea of only the cool kids can be part of the group find away to let others who are also just as big fans find away to own the nice pieces affordably then what is the point of it all
How I see it as normal people we have to change an be better and more fair and little things like allowing another human being the joy of
easily obtaining something that brings joy to them just as much as it has brought me joy is a start in fixing everything that is wrong with the hobby and dare I say the world
I believe in an ideal situation it should be made that for piece such as these the molds should be passed down so to say
or sold and kept in the community and together the community at the time can decide if more casts should be made and sold
or if someone has diseapeared from the community that all cast's then become the property of the various owners and they can then decide
to remold and provide more casts so that others can also have a chance to own something amazing with lineage
But again it is a free world and if the owner doesn't want more copies made they are more than free to do so
Yes it is a lot of "elitism" and "ego".But if everybody could have everything in the hobby...would it not be boring?
Its also funny to be on the hunt for good stuff.
Establish new contacts.And if you really want you can get the good stuff at the end.It needs only time.
Or you can also buy a good helmet with lineage from Mark...his CFO ROTJ is very nice.Not so much details like other Authentic casts...but a great helmet.
I can also see this side of the coin it is very fun to say I own one of the very few rare helmets
and I will never sell my copy I will take it to my grave lol it's nice to brag and there is nothing wrong with that
and it is fun to say I am one of the few people who own this piece and im like one in 10
But we also need to admit it can also go wrong in a bad way
for we need only look at all the super rich people who have this mentality to the extreme it's fun for them to
look down on other people the poor of the world because they have everything and we don't have anything
It can also lead to people lording over others and deciding who can be part of the click and who can not
I understand in our human minds yes going to the effort to obtain a piece that is truly rare and unique
and only sharing it with a trusted few and then it gets recast ed and it ruins everything truly about the uniqueness of the item
But it is also a question of how can we as people who are meant to be a community of fans who help each other and refrain from making the hobby negative for some. There are many genuine people who just want to also own a piece like the few and also want to be privy to the inside info
yes there are bad apples who recast and I despise those people but there has to be another way to make the community inclusive to people no matter what there financial standing or if they are in or not
If we are not careful the collecting community can become like politics or drugs it has been shown
keeping people from something they want leads to bad behavior but allowing them to get what they want affordably and easily
is better in the long run
One way of seeing recasting is it allows people to obtain an item that brings them joy easily and affordably and to fufill their desire to own
the same piece everybody els want's .That being said I don't condone recasting at all it is vile if someone steals anothers hard work and is rightfully and evil in the community
But I do think as a community we should look into honorable members becoming custodians of authentic lineage items
and providing them honorably to those members who are in good faith or something in that line as humans we are not black and white morally
if someone is in a pinch or wants to make a extra buck they are going to break rules its just how we as people are
Well this is my philosophical rant it's crap the SL was recasted I hate it but perhaps we should look at this and discus it how we can
accommodate those who want authentic cast's in a honorable way to the community so that the alure of messed up people recasting items fade out
as that is the only way I see it going away most people would rather support honest members of the community than re caster scum
