What if the resin sabers were made for display purposes at cons and launch bay?
The people at Awesome Con were saying that all of the props and clothes had been screen used, I never tried to pin anyone down as to which movie this or that prop appeared in. Does anyone here have some intell on Graflex and the Luke, at least. Were they really screen used props? Which movies were they featured in? What,is their significance.qq
That super deep bezel tho!
The people at Awesome Con were saying that all of the props and clothes had been screen used, I never tried to pin anyone down as to which movie this or that prop appeared in. Does anyone here have some intell on Graflex and the Luke, at least. Were they really screen used props? Which movies were they featured in?
But the early eyes are stainless not brass, right?:confused
People minding the shop at a con know less than us, and there's plenty of saber variants that claim to be screen-used that are not-- like all the Kurtz sabers, the Barbican, the strobonar hybrid, to name a few. No exhibit will cop to saying their goods are less than legit. Even the Launch Bays pretend legitimacy when the multiple locations have the same stuff.
I could blow this Luke saber off as a resin copy of a real hero if it weren't the same one presented in the SWS as THE saber along side a Graflex that matches the onscreen version so well, and the fact that it's details don't match any other known version of Luke's saber.
It could be a resin version of a metal hero, and if we're seeing a metal hero onscreen, the box is still different (likely due to retouching).
Every time I think We got it, things change. I'm baffled.
I was at Awesomecon too and am kicking myself for not bringing my camera. I took some photos with my phone and will see if there's anything @Fusion didn't already post (but I'm not expecting there to be). I will a agree on a couple of Graflex points though: it looked like the pins were straight, but the inside of the eye was curved and chromed like a later eye, not a Folmer.
Someone said earlier that the bottom of that hole is in fact grey. And aside from that, every nick and scratch, not to mention the finish, looks like dinged and brushed metal. And there's also the rounded edges on the pommel... Everything in those pictures screams "cast aluminum" to me. But maybe that's just me.
Yeah I guess I see it now. It just baffles the mind that the paint job is so shabby, EXCEPT for the brushed metal finish which is pretty much perfect.
I'd give good money to hold that thing in my hands, or at least to see it in person.