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<blockquote data-quote="laurencedyer" data-source="post: 488612" data-attributes="member: 5990"><p><span style="color: #FF0000"><u><strong>Observation 9.</strong></u></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF0000">Suspect packs with baggies and their content anomalies.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">Before you observe the anomalies that have been identified I will clarify a couple of details regarding the text printed on some classifications of baggies.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">The Chewbacca is in a Palitoy - a baggie. The characteristics of a Palitoy - a baggie are that it is a crisp tape sealed bag with light blue text printed horizontal. A characteristic of the Palitoy baggies that differs to the majority of other baggies is that the text is printed uside down as highlighted in the red box.</span></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000"></span></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46069[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">The Death Star Droid is in a Palitoy - k baggie. The characteristics of a Palitoy - k baggie are that it is soft heat sealed bag with black vertical text</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46158[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">The C3P0 is in a Kenner ESB - c baggie. The characteristic of a ESB -c are that it is a crisp tape sealed bag with Kenner written horizontally above made in Hong Kong printed horizontally in a light blue text. </span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46071[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="color: #FF4000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">Palitoy horizontal positioned text baggies have the position of the text upside down.</span></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000"></span>As I mentioned on the post entitled 'Observation 7', I documented that there were only 3 baggies observed in one of the 12 suspect packs that was documented in the search when the research was undertaken. The Suspect pack with baggies included in its contents was hard to see from his photos. This pack actually has all 8 figures in baggies. The 12 Suspect pack sample offering a 96 figure sample with 93 loose and 3 bagged is incorrect. This data stands corrected at 88 loose and 8 bagged for the suspect data.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">The following observations came as a result from a post of a member of a collecting platform. </span></p><p></p><p>The OP concludes that his Jawa is a Kenner ESB – C with the Kenner font removed. It would appear that the amendment was done to deceive and pass it off as a Palitoy baggie which it had previously succeeded in doing so. This of course is purely speculation with no foundation as is the authenticity of the Suspect packs, hence the name I have used for that variants of packs.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46101[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46103[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46104[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46102[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">Baggies with an anomaly regarding the text have now also been noticed from one of the two collections that have been omitted from the research.</span></p><p></p><p>The following are the observation from the baggies that are visible to classify in the pictures. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">There are 3 additional Suspect packs that have baggies that look like they are Kenner classified baggies and appear to have had their font tampered with in a similar way to the pack of the OP mentioned above.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">The first pack has an AT-ST Driver and Weequay that are not what they seem to be.</span></p><p></p><p>The AT ST is in a ROTJ – C baggie and the Weequay is in a ESB – D baggie.</p><p>Both appear to have had the Kenner text removed. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46105[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">From my knowledge the AT ST is documented in 2 baggie types. They are ROTJ c & h.</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46106[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">The Weequay has 5 known class's.</span></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">They are Palitoy b & n, Euro a / Meccano red sticker, ESB d & h.</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46107[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">The second pack has two baggies that appear to have been altered.</span></p><p><span style="color: #FF4000">They are a Klaatu Skiff ESB – D & a Teebo ROTJ – C with the Kenner removed from the baggies.</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46108[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="laurencedyer, post: 488612, member: 5990"] [color=#FF0000][u][b]Observation 9.[/b][/u][/color] [color=#FF0000]Suspect packs with baggies and their content anomalies.[/color] [color=#FF4000]Before you observe the anomalies that have been identified I will clarify a couple of details regarding the text printed on some classifications of baggies.[/color] [color=#FF4000]The Chewbacca is in a Palitoy - a baggie. The characteristics of a Palitoy - a baggie are that it is a crisp tape sealed bag with light blue text printed horizontal. A characteristic of the Palitoy baggies that differs to the majority of other baggies is that the text is printed uside down as highlighted in the red box. [/color] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMGP9889_zpsfwdnzodv.jpg"]46069._xfImport[/ATTACH] [color=#FF4000]The Death Star Droid is in a Palitoy - k baggie. The characteristics of a Palitoy - k baggie are that it is soft heat sealed bag with black vertical text[/color] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMGP9887_zpsgzbgzqao.jpg"]46158._xfImport[/ATTACH] [color=#FF4000]The C3P0 is in a Kenner ESB - c baggie. The characteristic of a ESB -c are that it is a crisp tape sealed bag with Kenner written horizontally above made in Hong Kong printed horizontally in a light blue text. [/color] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMGP7715.jpg"]46071._xfImport[/ATTACH] [color=#FF4000] Palitoy horizontal positioned text baggies have the position of the text upside down. [/color]As I mentioned on the post entitled 'Observation 7', I documented that there were only 3 baggies observed in one of the 12 suspect packs that was documented in the search when the research was undertaken. The Suspect pack with baggies included in its contents was hard to see from his photos. This pack actually has all 8 figures in baggies. The 12 Suspect pack sample offering a 96 figure sample with 93 loose and 3 bagged is incorrect. This data stands corrected at 88 loose and 8 bagged for the suspect data. [color=#FF4000]The following observations came as a result from a post of a member of a collecting platform. [/color] The OP concludes that his Jawa is a Kenner ESB – C with the Kenner font removed. It would appear that the amendment was done to deceive and pass it off as a Palitoy baggie which it had previously succeeded in doing so. This of course is purely speculation with no foundation as is the authenticity of the Suspect packs, hence the name I have used for that variants of packs. [ATTACH type="full" alt="38000000_2006862949604237_7981973514460594176_n.jpg"]46101._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="38071898_2006856772938188_2749459147446550528_n.jpg"]46103._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="38122960_2006846856272513_5044258172244590592_n.jpg"]46104._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="38003744_2006846852939180_2859816725799501824_n.jpg"]46102._xfImport[/ATTACH] [color=#FF4000]Baggies with an anomaly regarding the text have now also been noticed from one of the two collections that have been omitted from the research.[/color] The following are the observation from the baggies that are visible to classify in the pictures. [color=#FF4000]There are 3 additional Suspect packs that have baggies that look like they are Kenner classified baggies and appear to have had their font tampered with in a similar way to the pack of the OP mentioned above.[/color] [color=#FF4000]The first pack has an AT-ST Driver and Weequay that are not what they seem to be.[/color] The AT ST is in a ROTJ – C baggie and the Weequay is in a ESB – D baggie. Both appear to have had the Kenner text removed. [ATTACH type="full" alt="FB_IMG_1529952094447.jpg"]46105._xfImport[/ATTACH] [color=#FF4000]From my knowledge the AT ST is documented in 2 baggie types. They are ROTJ c & h.[/color] [ATTACH type="full" alt="AT ST.jpg"]46106._xfImport[/ATTACH] [color=#FF4000]The Weequay has 5 known class's. They are Palitoy b & n, Euro a / Meccano red sticker, ESB d & h.[/color] [ATTACH type="full" alt="37970681_2006869269603605_1856359146790584320_n.jpg"]46107._xfImport[/ATTACH] [color=#FF4000]The second pack has two baggies that appear to have been altered. They are a Klaatu Skiff ESB – D & a Teebo ROTJ – C with the Kenner removed from the baggies.[/color] [ATTACH type="full" alt="FB_IMG_1529952122036.jpg"]46108._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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