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mxpxrobbie

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    Always in motion, the future . . .

    in Sandtrooper Armor

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    One thing I do wish, is that we got back to making the best costumes possible for reasonable prices. Maybe this is why some recast? Because of cost? I mean to pay $1,800 for pieces of plastic is kind of hard to swallow for many people out there who would love to join in this hobby. I do wish the hobby wasn't so expensive.

    I think that's a very valid point. There is serious price gouging going on and in my opinion is just begging somebody to recast your stuff. The phrase "you get what you pay for "only gets you so far"

    Always in motion, the future . . .

    in Sandtrooper Armor

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    TM is not entirely fan sculpted either. And, let's face it the person selling FX was not the original sculptor either, but is the most scrupulous of the FX makers.

    We all know there is OK and not OK recasting, and it's been this way for quite some time, and it's childish to pretend otherwise. At the end of the day we make rules that protect our membership.

    There is always an element that will use the argument of "it's all recast" to further their lies and personal agenda's, but that cry is not made for the benefit of the membership, or the community, but is solely out of a need for personal gain.

    I have no dog in this fight - I'm just trying to get clarification on my part because I'm new to the whole TK scene. So, no lies or personal agenda here. Just seems to me we are saying it's OK to be a recaster if you are one of the many people cranking out TE-derived armor.

    Always in motion, the future . . .

    in Sandtrooper Armor

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    RS is cast from an entirely different set of armor. RS is cast from an original sandtrooper. TE lineage is all ROTJ made to look ANH. Lots of details and I cant type that much! :)

    Right, but it's still cast off of somebody else's work, unlike tm and the old am/fx which was fan sculpted. So we're saying it's obviously ok to recast a rotj suit that has been cleaned up (since all the te lineage stuff is basically the same suit), but once somebody does that with an anh suit the torches and pitchforks come out?

    Also I'm not saying this new stuff is recast or not, sure it looks close but I don't have an eye for that sort of thing.

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