Upgrades and newer Versions: Blade Runner Blaster 2010

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racprops

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About the newer version of the Blade Runner Blaster:

I got a angry email about how I made yet another new version, bigger and better etc.

Here is in part what I answered.


I do the best I can with the information I have at the time I make a model.

THE BEST INFORMATION THAT I HAVE WHEN I MAKE A MODEL.

I cannot see into the future, I cannot predict that someone here in the USA had the gun and would show it at the 2006 Worldcon. Everyone thought Ridley had in hidden in England.

Karl Take took hundreds of pictures and sad to say we were BOTH too timid to open the cylinder, our bad.

So again I had no way of seeing again into the year 2009 and seeing that they would let people open the cylinder and take pictures AGAIN.

To ask that of me is the most stupid imbecilic thing I have ever read.

I CANNOT SEE INTO THE FUTURE. I CAN NOT KNOW WHAT WILL BE REVIELED IN THE FUTURE!!!!!!

GET REAL.

Do you yell like this at car makers each year they come out with a new model??

Or computer makers each time they upgrade their products???

Or software makers when they upgrade their software??

(I kind of do sometimes…)

Did you buy a Brand new Mustang the year before the new “looks like the classic old” one???

Consider the new car… buy it and is loses 20%+ value the second you drive it off the lot.

Keep it a couple of years and it most likely will be worth about 60% or less value.

At lease my models seem to hold their value, many resell for what you paid me for them.

Some like my sound and light model when as high as DOUBLE the price I got.

So I guess in your mind I should still be making the old model 1??

And we should all be driving Model T cars??

Oh and forget about airplanes and trains that go faster than 30 MPH and A/C it is also too new and UPGRADED.

I know you think I am lying about the value going up so check this auction out ...

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA custom prop replica BLASTER gun !! - eBay (item 380269975831 end time Sep-23-10 13:55:22 PDT)


Sold for $480.00

I sold that model for $350.00…

37 fighting bids on it, and without my name even..although I am sure the bidders knew…

And I bet you yelled at MR about the things they got wrong on their Phaser, Communicator, Tricorder and Flashy Thing..BUT they were not willing to do a second run and fix them…

So you got stuck with the props that were wrong, glaring wrong!!. At lease I am willing to upgrade and fix things…

And props that broke so very easy, that no one dared played with them!!

And try to get parts or ANY KIND OF REPAIR now only a couple of years after they sold them. This is sadly true of most of the toy/prop sellers, when made in Hong Kong.

Hell I have done repairs on my models that are over 25 years old.

And I am so bad…..

I will talk with anyone that wants to offer feedback:

Rich
 
Did people think you were INTENTIONALLY make less accurate guns so you could make a new and improved version later? Odd. I can see not wanting to re-buy something, but if a model-maker improves the product, that's not a bad thing.
 
I have never thought anything but positive things when you (Rich) came out with "New & Improved" versions of your blasters. I have resin ones over a decade old, I have metal ones from a couple of years ago. When "found" items are revealed, "secrets" of the gun are uncovered, etc. and you incorporate these discoveries into your models it is appreciated by most. What's the alternative, not improving future versions?

You can't please everyone.
 
Rich, don't let them get to you.

Some people are well let's be blunt morons.

I have seen numerous Colonial laser pistols of yours go for well over the $400.00 mark.

Yours is my main one I wear when I am costuming and my favorite one.

While we are on the subject what type of Bulb does it take.

I am doing a Colonial Warrior for halloween this year and I want to be prepared.
 
That seems to be his take on it.

Sadly it is known for the film companies to do a bone stock release on DVD and then a year later comeout with all the outtakes and extras...and don't egt me started on Star Trek...

Like I made the oringinal one and keep all the info to myself and made upgreade ever couple of years.

Rich


cayman shen said:
Did people think you were INTENTIONALLY make less accurate guns so you could make a new and improved version later? Odd. I can see not wanting to re-buy something, but if a model-maker improves the product, that's not a bad thing.
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Thanks.

Email me with your address and I will send you a couple, they are kind of hard to find, a type # 43.

Rich

cayman shen said:
Did people think you were INTENTIONALLY make less accurate guns so you could make a new and improved version later? Odd. I can see not wanting to re-buy something, but if a model-maker improves the product, that's not a bad thing.
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apollo said:
Rich, don't let them get to you.

Some people are well let's be blunt morons.

I have seen numerous Colonial laser pistols of yours go for well over the $400.00 mark.

Yours is my main one I wear when I am costuming and my favorite one.

While we are on the subject what type of Bulb does it take.

I am doing a Colonial Warrior for halloween this year and I want to be prepared.
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And it can be a renewing kind of thing, a new model can be like a new car or a new girl friend, FUN….exciting.

Rich
 
ROFL!!! You cannot make a completely "Hero" accurate blaster unless you own the actual "Hero" blaster. I'm sure that Rich (and anyone else on this forum) would love to have the "Hero" BR in their collection. But who has $250k laying around to plunk down on a movie prop? Not us normal folks...

Now having said that, you could offer what you think is the next evolution in blaster technology in later revisions. Who's to say that the BR did not evolve into something else. Perhaps it soon fired homing rounds or particle beams. Maybe it even makes a nice cup of Joe. Who knows...
 
cayman shen said:
Did people think you were INTENTIONALLY make less accurate guns so you could make a new and improved version later?
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This made me lol... If you don't like things getting accurate then why the hell did you buy the thing in the first place. The correct thing would have been to use reference material and see if the thing you would be buying are 100% correct to the real thing and if it not you don't buy it.

People are stupid
 
Well I would say that based on the reference material we HAD AT THAT TIME, it was.

It was later that we all learned more about it with better pictures..

And I then made the following models accurate to the new infomation.

I do my best to get it right.

Rich
 
racprops said:
Well I would say that based on the reference material we HAD AT THAT TIME, it was.

It was later that we all learned more about it with better pictures..

And I then made the following models accurate to the new infomation.

I do my best to get it right.

Rich
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I understood that and that was what i wanted to convey to the grumpy person who sent you the letter.

It's like bitching about how someone could buy a fanmade OT obi saber with a sinkdrain for the edmitter and a motorbike handle for the grenade part.. AT THE TIME that was what we thought it was. Later people discovered the rocket engine /ig88 head tingy and the WW2 grenade .
 
Thanks.

I would have done it 100% dead on if I could have.

One thing that helped mess that up was the fact that the stunt prop was NOT the final filming prop.

It seems that AFTER they made a mold off the original prop they made a bunch of changes:

The butt plate got reshaped and a finger relief was added.

They added LEDs to the ammo clip/mag and to the side rod.

There is the possibility that the whole grips assembly was redone, the stunt props I have gotten all had a shorter set.

The clay up that filled the holes and cavities covered up some detailing, on the left side cover the lower screw was covered completely.

AS I learned later on, all the above changes made my early models off.

As with so many things about this film, this was another first, most stunt props are dead on copies of the filming prop.

Rich
 
The longer you wait, the better it gets.

Its like the first rule of the hobby isn't it? What other expectation would a customer have?

Not speaking in absolutes here, but come on. If you buy a replica of anything, and it has no lineage to an original prop you must assume its someone's best guess. Taking this thinking one step further and you realize your purchase may not be the final version. An artists work is never finished, and you can't slam 'em for ongoing improvements to accuracy as new details come to light. And you cannot expect upgrades all be done at once.

Personally I'm more project oriented and less on the collector end of things so I can't imagine not knowing the ins and outs of most details of a prop/model. It will never be the original prop, you've got to enjoy it. If you don't... well then I guess the purchase was for bragging rights first, and prop enjoyment second.
 
This is universal; people do it in every field. Yeah, even cars. Computers, certainly - I used to shift laptops to teachers*, and last year's recipients would come back complaining that this year's recipients were getting a nicer model. I lost count of the number of nasty conversations I had on that front. Sometimes ended up saying things like 'sorry mate, it's called the effluxion of time. Nothing I can do, my time machine isn't working'.

Seriously, people's expectations aren't even in line with physics, let alone common sense! :p

* Wish more of them had Cayman's attitude! :)
 
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