I would kill so many people to own this...

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:19 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0184468050

That's a seriously funky item... I've always loved those two-mode painted pieces of artwork, it's just a shame the only place you can find them is on video covers and jigsaw boxes. Damn, s'probably going to go for a bloody fortune... I'd pay a lot for the Friendly/Enemy clean backgrounds alone...

Post by **Hound** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:23 pm

You'd kill people for far less than that though...

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:27 pm

Originally posted by Hound
You'd kill people for far less than that though...

Well, yeh, I'd kill for half a cigarette. But I'll kill, like, a good-looking woman (i.e. someone useful) for this.

I wonder if he accepts pretty dead women as payment... Mind, they'd cost a fortune to send to the US... Mind, if she was that pretty she'd be thin...

Post by **Hound** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:34 pm

That'd be a hassle, you'd have to have her sent refrigerated. Y'know, so she wouldn't spoil...

Zeeks · Post by **Zeeks** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:38 pm

Originally posted by Hound
That'd be a hassle, you'd have to have her sent refrigerated. Y'know, so she wouldn't spoil...

Kyle Rayner- GL style!

Re: item: pretty cool.

Post by **inflatable dalek** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:34 am

Hmmm, so tempted to buy it and then offer it to cliffy in exchange for the dead bodies of a few people on my list (don't worry folks, only about half a dozen of them post here...)

Post by **Hound** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:37 am

Originally posted by inflatable dalek
Hmmm, so tempted to buy it and then offer it to cliffy in exchange for the dead bodies of a few people on my list (don't worry folks, only about half a dozen of them post here...)

I swear, if you have Cliffy kill me in exchange for some Gobot cards I am so going to ban you!

Post by **inflatable dalek** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:47 am

No just cards, bits of legal paper as well.

Though my legal advisers advise me to say that if Hound is found dead in the next few weeks with a Baron Von Joy shoved down his throat I had no part in it.

Post by **Sades** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:47 am

Coolness.

I'd kill Hound for them. Well, honestly I think I'd just rather kill Hound.

Post by **inflatable dalek** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:52 am

Originally posted by saysadie

I'd kill Hound for them. Well, honestly I think I'd just rather kill Hound.

As you're closer than Cliffy is consider them yours.

Not that I would endorse such a course of action.

redman prime · Post by **redman prime** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:19 am

is 50 pound a lot for this?
that's what it ended at.

I wouldn't drop $100 on it, but i'm poor

Post by **inflatable dalek** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:51 am

Well, considering it's seemingly a unique item... If a similar auction were to go up for a toyline that was actually popular* it would have gone for a lot more.

*and popular and good are not the same people, so don't accuse me of -Bot bashing...

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:19 am

Yeh, for a unique thing like that in such good condition it's a good price... I didn't have the money to go higher than I did. I just hope whoever does it scans and shares rather than just hoarding it away. Dread to think what the equivalent Transformers pack would have gone for.

Post by **Denyer** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:19 pm

Yeah, I don't get the "mine, all mine and only mine" mindset...

Originally posted by inflatable dalek
popular and good are not the same

CotG is pretty bollocks, though.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:19 pm

Totally, but that stuff's for the toyline, and the original box art has a large amount of charm... I've got some of it on posters wioth jigsaws, and it's lovely

Post by **inflatable dalek** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:38 pm

Perhaps you should just find who brought it and kill them?

redman prime · Post by **redman prime** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:57 pm

or at least kidnapping should be thought of..

Good to know that you were rational with the purchases, I can't set limits sometimes and end up kicking myself

Sunstreaker2 · Post by **Sunstreaker2** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:42 pm

You know what I'd kill for? A prepainted model of GaoGaiGar!

Turbo 07 · Post by **Turbo 07** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:09 am

Cliffjumper wrote:I didn't have the money to go higher than I did. I just hope whoever does it scans and shares rather than just hoarding it away.

I know this thread is a little old, but I only stumbled upon it by accident last week. The suggestions of kidnapping and foul play were amusing, but it was the above quote that prompted me to register and say hi. I made this purchase (and a few others) precisely because the thought of someone else hoarding it away for another 20 years was unbearable.

As I've been working on several projects and searching out rare artifacts for a relaunch of my site, it's been suggested that I publish a book instead. I have yet to seriously investigate the legal hurdles that Hasbro, Warner Brothers, or Bandai might pose, however.

Denyer wrote:Yeah, I don't get the "mine, all mine and only mine" mindset...CotG is pretty bollocks, though.

Well, all I can tell you is that doing everything alone can get old very quickly. Before Counter-X or the French site, mine was, and much was lifted without notice or consent. It was time consuming and expensive and, frankly, I was upset with just about everything related to the project. When I restarted, lots of factors had changed. Consider a recent purchase, a 35mm print of Battle of the Rocklords, and not only the financial costs but legal risks of making it available on DVD.

It's much more damning, in my opinion, that the correlating TransFormers material* has not fared much better. This property remaining a moving target opened the door for larger boards to take center stage focusing almost entirely on duplicating each others' photo galleries. As an irregular visitor since the Simplenet days, I've appreciated more and more the efforts made to preserve bits and pieces of everything else.

If the book idea falls though, I might drop you a line to see if you're at all interested.

*I do know of a text-only transcription of an incomplete G1 bible slowly dispersed over a mailing list in the late 1990s and the Jim Sorenson and Bill Foster animation model book released a decade later.

Post by **Denyer** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:19 am

Turbo 07 wrote:I do know of a text-only transcription of an incomplete G1 bible slowly dispersed over a mailing list in the late 1990s

Yeah, Winterchill's archive of that is for some odd reason still incomplete... I've got it all saved somewhere, or failing that it's still online and at some point doubtlessly worth compiling into a single page or PDF for easy flicking through.

It's not as if the material reveals anything scandalous or is any more owned by fans than things like tech specs and screengrabs.

edit: I suppose I should do that before Yahoo get bought out by Microsoft, too...

I'm sure you've just made Cliffy / Tom very happy.