Alt Tracks Variant HOAX!

snkeyes069 · 04-02-2006, 03:46 AM

Happy April Fools day, everyone. Yeah...it was all a hoax. Since the original thread was locked, I'll post this here:

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Originally Posted by Valkysas

meh. fake.

I'm sure you meant for the picture to look like it was taken in a store, and you did a pretty good job of that. but it's really easy to stack a bunch of boxes up to make it look like it's a store shelf, especially if you cannot see the shelf itself in the picture.

You're right. Its very easy to fake a store shelf...especially for an MIB/MISB collector like myself.

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Originally Posted by Dark_Convoy

Camera phone pic huh?

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Originally Posted by Dark_Convoy

The Exif data says it was created in Adobe Photoshop 7... Happy April Fools Day!!!

Thanks for catching my slip-up. I had to crop the cameraphone pic (from an LG VX6000) in Photoshop, but I forgot about the hidden file data. Thanks to you, I had to take exacting pictures using my digicam later to avoid making the same mistake twice. GOOD CATCH!!

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Originally Posted by Omegus Prime

If he got home to upload that pic to us, and he says he got that one at the store... why did he only give us one pic? He has it according to him, he was home to upload, why wouldn't he be able to post more right away.

Hrm...I wonder why?

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Originally Posted by Ra88

Good chance it could be real. Someone at the Dutch site BTFA found the pic on a website...And the pic was posted on the 30th of March, which was last thursday (and around the time it was posted it was still Wednesday in some places in the USA). So unless this is indeed an early April Fools joke...

This is the owner's collection, BTW.

Thanks to you, I had to alter my sig and disable my collection website. How the hell did the Dutch stumble on that pic, anyway? Thanks for the heads-up!

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Originally Posted by Dark_Convoy

He said it was a quick camera-phone pic....

I think he Photoshopped it to look like a cameraphone pic.

I wish it was real, but this is a pretty good prank none the less!

Oh, and the exif data on the new pics say "Olympus C3110Z" - but appear to be of simalar pixel density to the other "camera phone" pic

Like I said, it really was a camera-phone pic...just cropped in Photoshop to hide my kitchen counter. The data for the newer pics is real, as everything was done in-camera.

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Originally Posted by Galaxy Convoy

Wonder if the box pics of the toy have the stripes as well? And here's the Le Mans stickers for comparison: http://www.reprolabels.com/Binaltech/lemans.asp

No reprolabels were used at all. Obviously, the box is standard. The stripes (and hub-cap corvette logos) came from the 1:25th scale model kit available everywhere. I completely disassembled Tracks, coated the blue plastic in a thin layer of Testors Gloss-cote, applied the decals, applied a second thin coat of gloss-cote.

Alas, it was all just an April Fools prank. Not quite the level of "The Fuzzy World" but I tried my best.

Josh · 04-02-2006, 03:55 AM

Ruination04 · 04-02-2006, 03:59 AM

I hate April Fool's

Beastbot X · 04-02-2006, 04:05 AM

Seriously, this stuff has been done so many times it's not even remotely funny anymore, and it's ruined any actual legitimate news that may happen to come out on April Fools' Day. All you guys are doing is annoying people.