Upgrades and newer Versions: Blade Runner Blaster 2010

[racprops]

About the newer version of the Blade Runner Blaster:

I got a angry email about how I made yet another new version, bigger and better etc.

Here is in part what I answered.


I do the best I can with the information I have at the time I make a model.

THE BEST INFORMATION THAT I HAVE WHEN I MAKE A MODEL.

I cannot see into the future, I cannot predict that someone here in the USA had the gun and would show it at the 2006 Worldcon. Everyone thought Ridley had in hidden in England.

Karl Take took hundreds of pictures and sad to say we were BOTH too timid to open the cylinder, our bad.

So again I had no way of seeing again into the year 2009 and seeing that they would let people open the cylinder and take pictures AGAIN.

To ask that of me is the most stupid imbecilic thing I have ever read.

I CANNOT SEE INTO THE FUTURE. I CAN NOT KNOW WHAT WILL BE REVIELED IN THE FUTURE!!!!!!

GET REAL.

Do you yell like this at car makers each year they come out with a new model??

Or computer makers each time they upgrade their products???

Or software makers when they upgrade their software??

(I kind of do sometimes…)

Did you buy a Brand new Mustang the year before the new “looks like the classic old” one???

Consider the new car… buy it and is loses 20%+ value the second you drive it off the lot.

Keep it a couple of years and it most likely will be worth about 60% or less value.

At lease my models seem to hold their value, many resell for what you paid me for them.

Some like my sound and light model when as high as DOUBLE the price I got.

So I guess in your mind I should still be making the old model 1??

And we should all be driving Model T cars??

Oh and forget about airplanes and trains that go faster than 30 MPH and A/C it is also too new and UPGRADED.

I know you think I am lying about the value going up so check this auction out ...

http://cgi.ebay.com/BATTLESTAR-GALACTICA-custom-prop-replica-BLASTER-gun-/380269975831?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5889db5917


Sold for $480.00

I sold that model for $350.00…

37 fighting bids on it, and without my name even..although I am sure the bidders knew…

And I bet you yelled at MR about the things they got wrong on their Phaser, Communicator, Tricorder and Flashy Thing..BUT they were not willing to do a second run and fix them…

So you got stuck with the props that were wrong, glaring wrong!!. At lease I am willing to upgrade and fix things…

And props that broke so very easy, that no one dared played with them!!

And try to get parts or ANY KIND OF REPAIR now only a couple of years after they sold them. This is sadly true of most of the toy/prop sellers, when made in Hong Kong.

Hell I have done repairs on my models that are over 25 years old.

And I am so bad…..

I will talk with anyone that wants to offer feedback:

Rich
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I never have enough time to do all I want to do!

[propsjonnyb]

Rich , you shouldn't have to justify yourself about releasing newer better versions since we are all striving to get the most accurate replicas to the film original, as you have said on many previous occasions that you would always service , repair and upgrade your replicas there shouldn't be any issue , there will always be people you cannot please - that's life - unfortunately.

[racprops]

Well when there is one unhappy person who writes and complains, there are some more that did not write and complain, so I felt better to bring it out into the open...

I try to work with those that these things upet them, and I tried with this person... and it was no go.

He is another once-bitten a power in his own mind, out of touch with the real world...

Rich
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[Deckard]

you are waisting energy on someone that is not worth your time my friend.

if he can´t understand that an Upgrade is not intended to steal his money BUT to better what it offered due to new developments in study and information then it´s his loss.

He should think about selling his prop and buy an upgraded one with the money.

at least that´s what I would do.
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[Photech]

[joberg]

As I said before Rich: your prop is a work in motion, always striving to make it better means that there will be upgrades, tweeking details here and there...and, in the end, make it as close as possible to the real thing.
If some people don't understand the process: their loss.

[racprops]

Thanks.

I would have done it 100% dead on if I could have.

One thing that helped mess that up was the fact that the stunt prop was NOT the final filming prop.

It seems that AFTER they made a mold off the original prop they made a bunch of changes:

The butt plate got reshaped and a finger relief was added.

They added LEDs to the ammo clip/mag and to the side rod.

There is the possibility that the whole grips assembly was redone, the stunt props I have gotten all had a shorter set.

The clay up that filled the holes and cavities covered up some detailing, on the left side cover the lower screw was covered completely.

AS I learned later on, all the above changes made my early models off.

As with so many things about this film, this was another first, most stunt props are dead on copies of the filming prop.

Rich
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[andy]

It is the unfortunate side effect of advertising yourself as the most accurate blaster, people expect perfection at that point. When people pay the price for your gun they are expecting the "end all be all" replica. Otherwise they will wait until you do get it all right, or not buy from you at all. This isn't a functional item that will do the job until you can get another one. It's function is it's bragging rights to accuracy to the studio prop. That is why I am waiting until you get it all right in my eyes before I buy from you. It is the best way to prevent buyers remorse.

For the record, even the Tomenosuke guys have made changes for accuracy to their gun since their first versions, when they made the AP version, and now the Pro version.

Andy

[racprops]

I do understand this and at the time it was/is the most accurate model.

Based on the Best Advalable Data, at the time of its making.

Sadly a few and thank god only a few have taken this to the ninth degree.

And thank god most of my models hold a good resale value and can often be sold to help pay for the new one.

Rich
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