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Post by rampagewand on Aug 19, 2009 4:27:37 GMT -5
Can someone give me a background story on this Iwas reading a post about it and was wondering the story?
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Grapple Arcade
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Post by Grapple Arcade on Aug 19, 2009 8:41:23 GMT -5
Hi there,
Basically, so the story goes, Only about 24 Kamala figures were produced with a moon on the belly.
I have heard many different reasons over the years as to why the moon version was never mass released. Here are a few of the tales:
* Someone made a mistake at the factory, simple as that, lost in translation, see my other post about the 'donkey kong/monkey kong' situation.
* It could have been done on purpose, knowing that a very rare carded action figure, made in very small numbers, could be worth a lot of money in years to come. Rare action figures wernt a new thing in the early 90's, someone at the factory, may have been a very clever person and realised, a simple miss print could lead to a huge investment.
* They may have been test runs, but for whatever reason decided to go with the star. Maybe the machine template that printed the moon was faulty, instead of waiting for a replacement, they went with a quicker option of just using a non broken machine that had a star template.
* Kamala/Harris owned the rights to Kamala did he not? (or at least the look), maybe it was a way of WWF/Hasbro getting around legalities of copyrights
Its an amazing story, and a very expensive story, when you think about it, the tiniest thing adds a couple of zeros to $10. Unreal.
People are faking this figure all of the time, its by far the quickest paint job ever (in the custom world) and if you can glue the bubble on to a card, then yeah, some people will be fooled and will splash big bucks on what is simply a custom scam. You need to be very careful.
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familyguy84
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Post by familyguy84 on Sept 29, 2009 10:56:37 GMT -5
It is a hell of a story. One day I hope to accidently pick one up for $10.
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Post by cdp on Sept 29, 2009 11:05:23 GMT -5
Can someone give me a background story on this Iwas reading a post about it and was wondering the story? Have a look on Hasbromaniac Post...you will find the story and pics about the MEGA rare Kamala with Moon on belly..enjoy it!! |
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