G1 Tech Spec reproduction set?

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by ORIO, Feb 24, 2011.

  1. ORIO

    ORIO Team Sentinel Prime Moderator News Staff

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    IACON "That's Vector Sigma?" TFW2005 Supporter

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    Looks great, but I don't if I'll be able to get it. I still have a lot of the original ones.
     
  3. grimlock1972

    grimlock1972 Optimus, serving up the primest of ribs since 1984

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    cool set and i may grab a set if my budget allows for it.
     
  4. nemisispringer

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    Looks nice but overpriced
     
  5. mineraljane

    mineraljane Gravity Hugger

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    The designer of these technical specification cards, C. Wallace on TFW2005, put these up for sale directly in the Junkion Exchange a couple of days ago. He offered a price of $24.95 for the first ten sets sold.
     
  6. Lord Rodimus

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    That is awesome!
     
  7. Murasame

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    cooooool
     
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    So what are the chances if these sell well we'll see releases for other years and/or groups beyond the '84 set?

    Regardless, preordered. Always loved the tech specs, and never had a complete set of the '84 releases.
     
  9. mineraljane

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    From the sale thread in the Junkion Exchange:

     
  10. convoymagnus

    convoymagnus Yeshua Is Mashiach.

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    Exactly! I would like a set ,but 35.00 for papers is kinda too high!
     
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    Pass. G1 Tech Spec scans have been floating around the Internet for years.
     
  12. tractorcommande

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    For some reason I'm compelled to buy this....
     
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    I would buy it...but the price is a bit high for cards...
     
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    Color printing isn't horrible, but it's not dirt cheap either. They probably ran it on a bigger sheet for multiples, then cut them down with a paper cutter. Quite a bit of work really - design work to get the specs into a file and arranged to print on whatever paper stock they chose, the actual printing, then the cutting.*

    * I work on digital color presses.
     
  16. C. Wallace

    C. Wallace Freelance Artist

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    :) 

     
  17. Foster

    Foster Haslab Victory Saber Backer #3 Veteran

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    I could go for 1:1 reproductions of the G1 full cards for the carded figures. I had KO cassettes and sold them off, but I kept the cards because I like the art so much and they drove so much nostalgia for me.
     
  18. Thundershot

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    I like that they're all the same size. It always bugged me how all the cards were different sizes.

    However.... Nope. Not interested. I could buy 3 Generations toys for that price.
     
  19. cryotek

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    Im only 8 away of having all the original ones. I might get the set to hang on my toy wall.
    Is there any plans beyond 87?

    $35.00 for the complete 1984 set. That makes them $1.25 each which isnt bad. There are 28 total TF in 84.
     
  20. Cybertronian

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    If it's all the '84s, even fake ones would run higher than that as a set.

    A pity Skywarp has all of his color discrepensies (black feet and leg jets, lavender tail wings).

    If the 3 planes have their correct numbers, I'm in.
    • Starscream's true graph is on Skywarp's spec.
    • Thundercracker's true graph is on Starscream's spec.
    • Skywarp's true graph is on Thundercracker's spec.