Can you not see what's on TIG any more Lars? I know you've had your issues with the site but there is some great info and users on there, it's a shame if you can't access it.
It is near impossible to see through the case but if you hold it at 38 degrees North East against a mid morning sun and...
Seen as my word isn't good enough for you Lars I will confirm that Franks ESB DSC Baggie is this same variant, just looking again and Franks looks like it's has black face paint.
I was guessing he's a euro ROTJ/Tri-logo era figure because there is no China card for him, only a HK Tri-Logo I...
Are your figures the original ones that came packed with your coins and have you still got there cards? I suspect in most cases there's several factories producing each character for the huge U.S. Market during POTF era
Any one know how many different factory codes there is for POTF cards or...
These repos makers are really starting to get those black palace blasters looking original :evil:
Your Bespin blaster looks good I think but I'm not sure from that side 8)
Very interesting Lee and it appears yours was molded at a later time to the one shown above, maybe that can also explains why it has discoulored differently.
No argument there, the scammers making the the repo weapons are just the same and it's like its a challange to them, as soon as the gunnery gets them up on there the repo makers get new ones on the market. Won't be long before you can't even tell by sight :evil:
It's rediculous now the amount of repos in this hobby and these repo makers are still trying to perfect the molds on a lot of items, I just don't understand why they have to make them so original looking.
I've just been having another look at these COO's and I was wrong, yours isn't the Second edited mold this one here on the left is, and yours is from a worn mold so not the first ones produced either.
The only way the luke was like that when he was a kid is if he was still playing with it through the 2000's and some one else had stored it really badly for the other 20 years, no idea what you would have to do to cause him to discolour that badly though.
Some of these figures really do discolor in strange ways
http://www.imperialgunneryforum.com/t3379-everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-discolored-figures-but-were-afraid-to-ask