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Gray Hoth Trooper facts and not fiction
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<blockquote data-quote="olisuds" data-source="post: 280538" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>Quoting from the SWCA description:</p><p></p><p>"Hoth Stormtrooper Test Shot: This figure came to me through a well-known British dealer. He had several of them and told a very convincing story of how they came about. Apparently before the figure was finally mass-produced a number of them were made as test-shots with the limbs cast in dark grey plastic. Everything else is unchanged. They came to him through a contact at Kenner, at the same time he offered unpainted test-shots of the Micro C3PO made for the upcoming Bacta Chamber, unfortunately I didn't get one"</p><p></p><p>Apologies if this has already been mentioned but can I just point out that the scarred out COO means that this figure was not cast from a new steel mold prior to going into production. And further more i'm not sure what purpose it would serve to create such a piece when the figure was already in production. So I can't see this as anything other than factory error or possibly some sort of plastic degradation if they are still getting darker. There's a lot of similarity with AT-AT Driver limbs so I'm wondering if there was some sort of mix up?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="olisuds, post: 280538, member: 2119"] Quoting from the SWCA description: "Hoth Stormtrooper Test Shot: This figure came to me through a well-known British dealer. He had several of them and told a very convincing story of how they came about. Apparently before the figure was finally mass-produced a number of them were made as test-shots with the limbs cast in dark grey plastic. Everything else is unchanged. They came to him through a contact at Kenner, at the same time he offered unpainted test-shots of the Micro C3PO made for the upcoming Bacta Chamber, unfortunately I didn't get one" Apologies if this has already been mentioned but can I just point out that the scarred out COO means that this figure was not cast from a new steel mold prior to going into production. And further more i'm not sure what purpose it would serve to create such a piece when the figure was already in production. So I can't see this as anything other than factory error or possibly some sort of plastic degradation if they are still getting darker. There's a lot of similarity with AT-AT Driver limbs so I'm wondering if there was some sort of mix up? [/QUOTE]
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