habrofan83
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Joined on: Feb 4, 2009 9:29:20 GMT -5
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Post by habrofan83 on Aug 20, 2009 10:39:38 GMT -5
i loves these debates. dont you?
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Post by Guest on Aug 20, 2009 11:49:03 GMT -5
i loves these debates. dont you? Exactly! It's just a shame there's no definative answer. The one thing that keeps springing to mind is the different colour plastic molds, if this colour was only used on a certain percentage of the figures and had an effect on the boots this would make it a variant....
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Post by The Madness on Aug 20, 2009 20:09:13 GMT -5
Well, I think it's safe to say that if "yellow boots" Dusty exists today, it definitely wasn't SOLD that way. The way I see it, all Dusty Rhodes figures have always looked the same carded.
If there is, in fact, a difference in the color of the molded plastic, then perhaps that could account for some of the change. I definitely believe that the color change doesn't have to do with the paint, but the plastic underneath.
As I've mentioned before, I have a lot of NES and SNES games that have drastically changed color; from gray to yellow or green. It's always uniform, yet in a random pattern. Sometimes the front half is gray and the back half is yellow, but I don't think that's a variant. The same thing is the case with the old Kenner Star Wars figures. I don't think there was ever a yellow Stormtrooper, but the passage of time has lead to plenty of them.
Perhaps we've struck on something here that the variant isn't the color of the boots, but the type of plastic, and the boots are the determining factor.
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