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[Yom]

Sorry for non-french speaking people here, but to I need to speak french with french people to get/give the best infos about the LB Shields.

Donc pour les français : il semble que nous soyons les seuls (ou presque) à avoir les boucliers des dragonautes. Marty a émis l'idée d'en faire des copies pour tous les collectionneurs etrangers qui n'ont pas la chance d'en avoir. L'idée n'est pas si mauvaise, surtout qu'ils sont sympas ces petits boucliers.

D'apres les photos des collections, je sais dejà à peu près qui a des boucliers (pour ma part je n'en ai qu'un : le #91).
J'aimerai savoir si vous seriez ok pour en envoyer à Marty pour qu'il les duplique (et vous les renvoie ensuite).

Je pense le faire avec le mien. Je pourrais vous dire comment ça s'est passé si c'est ce qui vous tracasse.

Peut etre que certains d'entre vous en ont en double, et dans ce cas là ça devrait moins vous poser de problemes, non ?

Dites moi un peu ce que vous en pensez.

Merci.

[trumanshower]

Marty m'a deja proposé de dupliquer les 2 boucliers que j'ai (98 et 100) , mais je ne suis pas partant pour plusieurs raisons. la premiere, c'est que s'ils se perdent entre les services postaux, ça porterait un sacré préjudice a ma collection. de plus, marty m'a dit que je pouvais decoller facilement l'autocollant du bouclier, or une fois j'ai vu sur ebay un bouclier 99 babouin avec l'autocollant completement arraché, apparemment la colle tient bien. je ne suis donc pas pret à les envoyer a l'autre bout du monde, meme si j'ai une toute confiance en marty.
néanmoins j'espere reussir a en avoir de nouveaux dans les prochains temps, j'ai mis des affiches de recherche de dragonautes dans un lieu où je risque de trouver un public de notre age : la FAC!! donc si j'arrive a en avoir en double, je pourrais les echanger avec nos amis d'outre atlantique, et enfin pretendre a avoir des figurines que je ne pourrais avoir d'aucune autre maniere je pense :les 101 à 112.

voila donc mon point de vue sur le sujet.
une question m'interroge toutefois : pourquoi marty n'a t il jamais dupliqué les boucliers moins rares qu'il possede ( green cat, fennec, cerf, lévrier, hibou, babouin) ?
je vous salut et merci pour ce forum dans la langue de Molière!!!
Amaury

[lazzy lizard]

so from what i get of it, and please correct me if i'm wrong. TGB is thinking of molding the shields for the laser beasts that were not made here in the US???

sorry if i intruded on your thread!

=)

[THEGODBEAST]

so from what i get of it, and please correct me if i'm wrong. TGB is thinking of molding the shields for the laser beasts that were not made here in the US???

sorry if i intruded on your thread!

=)

You are correct!

However...

Only a few collectors own these.

Lord has all 6 (maybe even doubles)
French_Kiki has 4-6 not sure (not sure if he has doubles)
Trumanshower has #98 and #100
Yom has #95
Dabbuu (the only USA collector I know that has some) has #95 & #97

I have offered all of them a handsome reward for letting me mold 1 or all of them. The sticker would have to be gently removed with a warm hair dryer and re-applied after the molding and scanning of the sticker. The molding process does absolutely NO damage to the original toy, however, the sticker could NOT remain on because it would be damaged by the release agent.

I would even go as far as to promise to those collectors that own these originals that I would NEVER try to reproduce them in the same color as the real shields! That way, theirs would ALWAYS remain RARE and VALUEABLE!!! I could make the repros bright gold, bright copper, bright silver, etc...REAL metallic so they wouldn't look like the originals!!! In fact, I would like mine to match the silver guns actually!!!

This would be the GREATEST GIFT the owners of these shields could give to the BB/LB collector community!!! I for one would be compensating them with customs!

TGB

[THEGODBEAST]

Well folks...

I have some most EXCELLENT news!!!

Lord/Sylvain has offered to let me use his complete set of 6 RARE FRENCH SHIELDS from the SB's to mold and reproduce!!!

I have given him my word that I will NEVER reproduce the shileds in the same color plastic as the originals so that all the originals will retain their value and NO ONE will ever be able to pass them off as real!!!

This is an exciting day for ALL BB/LB collectors!!!

A HUGE THANK YOU TO LORD!!!

He is TRULY contributing the ULTIMATE to the BF's community!!!

I am soooooooooooooooooo excited, I think I just pissed my pants!!!

TGB

Edited by THEGODBEAST, 22 February 2005 - 03:08 PM.

[Personality #9]

That's GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much Lord! I think this is super cool that you are doing this!!!

[koppenschevelle]

Very good news. Excellent. Again, thank you Lord for your generousity.

Eric

[Orca]

Now we know why the man is called LORD~!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that is just excellent~!!!!!!!!!!

i'm so happy i think i'm going to pee my pants just for the hell of it~!!!


Marty, i would absolutely just love to get a set of six sheilds done in the Silver like the LB guns.....that would rock and totally set them apart from the other six.


Thanks again for doing this Sylvian~!!!!!

[lazzy lizard]

awesome news & very generous of you LORD! i don't know if i will be able to get a set of these or not, but i'll do my best and try.

=)

[Slowpoke Sloth]

This is Great News indeed!!! The french shields are probably the hardest pieces of the LB line, and they are also some of the coolest. Thanks so much Lord and also Marty for making these accessories that are near impossible to find, accesable to those who want them.

[lord]

A BIG WARNING :
The shields made by Marty will never be the same color than the original ones. So if you expect to get replica to complete your collection you will be disappointed. I will do this with Marty only to be able to get NEW ORIGINAL stuff to add to your collection !

Sylvain

[jkaris]

Personally, I think it wuld be kewl to do the shields in Black, with different coloring on the repro stickers, to accentuate the black.

[THEGODBEAST]

Sylvain,
As I have stated to you personally and here in my above post...

I WILL NEVER MAKE THEM IN THE EXACT SAME COLORED PLASTIC AS THE ORIGINALS!!! NEVER!!! YOU HAVE MY WORD!!!

I personally would like them silver to match their guns...or even crystal clear!!!

Black sounds kewl too!

Lord you are the BEST!!!

I think what the others are trying to say...is simply...most all of us will NEVER get the REAL ones, so having repros will be just fine!!! I know I will be HAPPY!!!

THANKS AGAIN!

TGB

[Yom]

OK.

No more need to send mine (#91, not #95).


(and I though it was a french speaking post ! )

Edited by Yom, 24 February 2005 - 04:01 AM.

[THEGODBEAST]

OK.

No more need to send mine (#91, not #95).


(and I though it was a french speaking post ! )

I messed up...I thought you had a #95 shield...I already have a #91 shield of my own that I will remove the sticker and mold when I do Sylvains 6...I am also going to do my 6 common shields too!!!

Thanks YOM!!!

TGB

[markderoos]

Man, if someone would make custom stickers for those shields........

Then maybe someday every LB/BB has his own shield

Edited by markderoos, 24 February 2005 - 06:16 AM.

[Red Marauder]

So when may we start puting in orders for this set?

[THEGODBEAST]

Man, if someone would make custom stickers for those shields........

Then maybe someday every LB/BB has his own shield

They WILL have stickers!!! When I remove them, I will place them all on a wax paper (sticker paper) and scan them to print on sticker paper. The cool thing is I have already done this with one of my shields to see how safe it was...it worked just fine!!! It looks just like it did before I removed the sticker...

TGB

[THEGODBEAST]

So when may we start puting in orders for this set?

I won't take orders until I have them in my possession and the molds are made. Then I am going to have to figure the price...as I am giving up quite a lot to REWARD Sylvain for being sooooooooooooooo GENEROUS!!!

Please keep in mind...Sylvain DID NOT ask for anything in return, I volunteered a HUGE REWARD because I totally appreciate what he is doing!!!

TGB

[Personality #9]

Please keep in mind...Sylvain DID NOT ask for anything in return, I volunteered a HUGE REWARD because I totally appreciate what he is doing!!!

TGB

...And we are all VERY Thankful for him doing this!

I can't wait to see this whole project materialize!!

[lazorlion]

I never thought I would see the day that I might get ,just one shot at owning the shield battlers. I also would like to thank LORD for giving The GODBEAST the opportunity as I once did with my Skull Groates. I know I don't say much on the Board. Im a low profile guy but I couldn't believe that this could happen. I have looked a long time for these and it really doesn't matter if you have the money. Even if you hade the money to buy these you can't find them. The last one I saw was on e-bay around a year ago and the seller ended the auction for $300. I bid $200. I never found out who got it??????? I have only one idea. I look forward to seeing them in my collection.

Lazorlion