The Rise of Skywalker: Episode IX Graflex

[Halliwax]

You guys beat me all to it, hellish couple of days

 

[Halliwax]

Roman’s 100%

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

Without a clamp to lock the top and bottom together I feel like we’re going to need a double-ended connector (a short pipe with 4 tabs) to slip inside the Graflex halves to lock everything together and make it solid.

 

[AnubisGuard]

Without a clamp to lock the top and bottom together I feel like we’re going to need a double-ended connector (a short pipe with 4 tabs) to slip inside the Graflex halves to lock everything together and make it solid.

Make the midband "rivets" out of small set screws. Slip the shells in, tighten, and done.

 

[Ron]

I think it might be a TGS flash and I say that only because TGS posted a message on their Facebook page that seemed to hint their replica was used in the movie. Otherwise I myself can't tell whose replica it is.

 

[SethS]

It's a Roman 2nd gen.

 

[Drew Baker]

Roman’s 100%

It's a Roman 2nd gen.

Yep. With that photo from Ridire Firean I don't know how much more proof there could be.

I'm tempted to use a vintage to make mine just for the irony.

 

[Halliwax]

I think it might be a TGS flash and I say that only because TGS posted a message on their Facebook page that seemed to hint their replica was used in the movie. Otherwise I myself can't tell whose replica it is.

Romans 100%

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

Similar to the launch bay sabers, do we know if that saber is the screen used hero saber or a touring replica? The glass eye isn’t turned down like the EP 7/8 hero.

We might want to wait for more promotional photos to surface and see better the details of the screen used hero.

 

[KramStaar]

The midband has a brushed finish and the rivets have slight indentations to the top and are not the same as the deep hole rivets used on the grip. The wrap around the midband is a brown textured leather.

 

[Drew Baker]

The glass eye isn’t turned down like the EP 7/8 hero.

The glass eye in the teaser wasn't turned down either.



More info would always be better, of course.

 

[Kylash]

Do those look like Romans grips too? You can tell at least from the belt clip one which is all chipped up that that one is metal.

 

[Halliwax]

Without a clamp to lock the top and bottom together I feel like we’re going to need a double-ended connector (a short pipe with 4 tabs) to slip inside the Graflex halves to lock everything together and make it solid.

KR sabers mid band clamp works with out any modifications to the flash, it locks on just like the factory clamp locks on

 

[cwoodreplicas]

EMPIRE Magazine image - looks like the standard clamp card cut down? Or even the slothfurnace type?

 

[Ron]

Roman’s 100%

It's a Roman 2nd gen.

Yep. With that photo from Ridire Firean I don't know how much more proof there could be.

I'm tempted to use a vintage to make mine just for the irony.

If you guys say it's a Roman's, then it's a Roman's. I don't argue with the experts

Romans 100%

Is that the "Trust me" wink or the "I know something" wink? lol

 

[Ron]

To me it looks like the high domed lens in the glass eye from Roman too. The TGS lens is very shallow.

Looking at the shoulder around the eye: comparing it to my TGS Gen 2, I can't say for sure flat spots beside the eye's shoulder would be visible in the photo of the prop if the prop were a TGS, but I certainly don't see them on the prop. The prop's shoulder looks higher and more pronounced than I see on my TGS 1.9 top -- and just like the shoulder I see on my Gen2 from Roman.

(The tips of the bulb clamp flanges are pointed on both Roman's and TGS' clamp, where on a vintage they would be rounded. To my eye, they appear pointed on the prop, but a better photo would be more conclusive.)

Ah I see what you're talking about now. Good eyes.

 

[Halliwax]

If you guys say it's a Roman's, then it's a Roman's. I don't argue with the experts

Is that the "Trust me" wink or the "I know something" wink? lol

That is the “I know, and I see the proof wink”

This is the stick my tongue out at Ron face

And my only teasing Rob wink

 

[SethS]

EMPIRE Magazine image - looks like the standard clamp card cut down? Or even the slothfurnace type?

It looks wider than the standard size to my eye.

And it looks white instead of transparent, but I don't want to make that call of an obviously heavily retouched image.

 

[cwoodreplicas]

It looks wider than the standard size to my eye.

And it looks white instead of transparent, but I don't want to make that call of an obviously heavily retouched image.

To my eye it’s the same card but without the flange of the Graflex clamp it looks bigger.

I do agree it looks more solid in colour than translucent, almost like the slothfurnace.

 

[SethS]

Possibly-- yeah. I'm also not giving this thing too much weight given that we've been fooled many times by display/show variants. I can already see the clip grip is different from the trailer.