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<blockquote data-quote="TheJabbaWookie" data-source="post: 493133" data-attributes="member: 9217"><p>I totally get that there are old and young collectors alike, that are not as well off, who love the Star Wars Trilogy and toy line and who want to collect the figures, but who can not afford to buy a blue black Princess blaster for £60, a solid black Endor blaster or imperial blaster for £100 or a pop-up Lightsaber for £200 - and for them the reproduction serves a valuable purpose. Who are we to deny them that right?</p><p></p><p>The issue here though is not the genuine honest collectors who are doing that but the people who are knowingly trying to pass off modern reproductions as originals. There are plenty of examples on eBay at the moment or even in the links I posted above of people knowingly or unknowingly re-selling these Blasters as originals, and here in lies the problem with the latest batch of floating Repro. They are designed with one thing in mind - to deceive. If you're going to buy Repro buy the old Repro from the 90s that was designed as a placeholder before the Internet was around when people wanted an accessory but didn't believe the real ones existed anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheJabbaWookie, post: 493133, member: 9217"] I totally get that there are old and young collectors alike, that are not as well off, who love the Star Wars Trilogy and toy line and who want to collect the figures, but who can not afford to buy a blue black Princess blaster for £60, a solid black Endor blaster or imperial blaster for £100 or a pop-up Lightsaber for £200 - and for them the reproduction serves a valuable purpose. Who are we to deny them that right? The issue here though is not the genuine honest collectors who are doing that but the people who are knowingly trying to pass off modern reproductions as originals. There are plenty of examples on eBay at the moment or even in the links I posted above of people knowingly or unknowingly re-selling these Blasters as originals, and here in lies the problem with the latest batch of floating Repro. They are designed with one thing in mind - to deceive. If you’re going to buy Repro buy the old Repro from the 90s that was designed as a placeholder before the Internet was around when people wanted an accessory but didn’t believe the real ones existed anymore. [/QUOTE]
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