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Re: Interesting retail pack
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Mon, 5 Aug 2002 19:27:13 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Troy Cefaratti writes:
> > Would anyone from LEgo care to comment on this:
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kkoleda/meetings/August2002/pic00015.jpg
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> > It has to be the oddest thing i've seen recently...
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> Wow! That's kinda odd, but rather dubious looking if you ask me. • [snip]
> Could the cardboard backing be from the Yoda box (or someone's scan)
> modified slightly with the text, and stuffed into the plastic casing for
> something completely un-related? If it's a bona fide set though, very wierd!
> And a great way to get extra ball-and-socket joints!
I vote for a pretty good fake. If you look at the reflections on the plastic
surface of the blister pack and track them around, you can see one that
traverses the price tag. How do they get the price tag under the plastic?
And the blister plastic seems to over extend the cardboard at least on the left
side of the image.
But pretty cool, really.
Chris
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| (...) Well, if it is a fake, it appears that someone went to the trouble to actually make one, as it shows up on the table in these other shots in the same gallery: (URL) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) I'm not seeing it. Maybe it's a defect of the price tag that happens to correspond to the reflection? (...) That's because it's not a plastic-glued-to-cardboard blister pack. The plastic is formed so that the cardboard back can slide in and (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.fun)
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| (...) Wow! That's kinda odd, but rather dubious looking if you ask me. No set number, no part count (could be foreign I suppose?), wacky name for a set (heck, why make such a set?), and to date I can't think of any sets since the late 70's that have (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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