How to identify recast Sideshow ALIENS 1:1 Busts

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It's made of resin. Has for the teeth they are just like Sideshow's version only the sideshow's version teeth look better and even more shiny like polished chrome. Someone that loves to paint would have alot of fun with it I'm sure. An air-brush artist would love to trick it out with their talents has it
wouldn't be hard for them. On a final note: Taiwan recasters can't paint to save their own lifes!
 
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Re: What's with all these recast Aliens 1:1 busts on ebay???

Here's the proof that I own a real sideshow alien warrior bust. Version number #206 Now who you calling out?



Here's another Classic Alien Warrior 38" head to make you cry in your sleep!
That proves nothing. Recasts have been known to have the ES/ bottom plates,styro and all the boxes since the thieves steal those too. Who would trust a guy that buys recasts? If I'm looking for an authentic piece, I wouldn't trust a guy who has recasts to sell me a real bust.
How would you feel if you made highly sought after collectible. Put months of hard work into it only to find out someone made copies and is making money off of these copies making your piece less rare/sought after.
Sabres21768 screw you and that weak forum you belong to over there. The hive isn't even an exclusive forum to say the least. So screw you buddy HA! HA! HA! I recall them trying to block my IP address from logging into their forums. I was able to hack right in and post what ever I wanted to all over their black walls. Their admin couldn't even stop me or even understand how to filter changing ip addresses or let alone a MAC ip address for those who don't understand. It was so fun! Should I come over and express myself again tonight? Should I over ride your admin and post some recast pictures again along with my genuine sideshow bust? Would you like that? I'm sure you would as your content needs updated doesn't it! :) I'm sure you ran back home to tell your boyfriends over there the news. You know what I'm talking about now right? Recast out cast screw you and anyone else that doesn't like me over at your dumb hive. At least this forum has taken a universal approach to understanding and fully expressed it. Your blindness and your forum have proven once again to be the weakest link in the entire universe. I will pay a visit on your site in due time. I hope your up to the task of trying to block me because I know you couldn't last time and it was fun! I might want to change a couple of things on the website this time around. Like instead of the hive I might change it to the Queen's Den!

Guys if your a die hard alien fan checkout these websites.

https://www.alienexperience.com/

https://www.avpgalaxy.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1260476251&archive=&start_from=&ucat=17&

***Buy a recast and the hive will ban you! Express yourself and the hive will ban you! The hive is an elite members only forum!**** They account for 98% aliens, predator content not!

You hack too? Figures. Once a cheat always a cheat.
I don't know about SSF but, I wouldn't want a known hack on my board. All it takes is for a mod to piss them off and down goes the board.
 
Re: What's with all these recast Aliens 1:1 busts on ebay???

You hack too? Figures. Once a cheat always a cheat.
I don't know about SSF but, I wouldn't want a known hack on my board. All it takes is for a mod to piss them off and down goes the board.

I have to agree... all that post did was show this member to be unstable and likely a future problem.
 
Darklord Dave is aware of this thread and everything in, so end the discussion over Digital Maximus or this thread will be permanently closed.
 
Well, at least some of us listened to MaulFan. :rolleyes:

Yes, I own the bust and paid a great deal of money for it to from a very reputable seller. I don't need to explain myself or prove anything to this forum or it's members. I'm not losing anything from it or really gaining anything at the same time. Darth_Pain and his little lover Sabres21768 from the hive come up empty every time with their weak counter attacks. I wish they had some real talent besides setting behind a desk on all fours for each other. At least you know now what a sideshow original looks like from a recast production. Someone had to step up to the plate besides seeing countless threads across the internet which was boring the crap out of me. I think for who's ever reporting listings will have very little effect on removing eBay listings using the vero program has I'm sure it's been reported time and time again only to have a .0% effect in anything. Right now there's about 5 listings for recast on ebay. None of them have been taken down so your efforts have done nothing other then waste time.
 
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That's not necessarily a scam. I don't have any boxes for my Star Wars 1:1 busts anymore, I don't really anticipate selling them, and I don't need them to move them so I got rid of the boxes to save space. Some of the more fragile item boxes are so big, unless I need it for protection to store/move the piece, I get rid of them, I'd need a whole basement just for empty boxes otherwise. If I ever sold them, they'd be without original box. It deserves caution, but I don't think no original box is a sure thing that it's not a real piece.

Hey Maul, I agree with you that the no box thing doesn't always = recast. I'm more worried about the fact that the seller is located in the same area from which the recasts are coming. Also, the seller supposedly had multiples up for sale. The mouth area in the picture looks more like the recasts to me than the real thing. Buyer beware, I suppose.
 
Hey, a free t-shirt to anyone that can get me banned from here! :naughty I already lost alot of time wasting it on this forum posting examples but that's okay. Half it's members suck anyway! Can't wait for a ban to free up my time lol! Like I'm going to be doing business with anyone here? LMAO!
Besides, the banning part will have .0 effect on me just so you know. I look forward to it and imbrass it with open arms!!! Moving forward that free t-shirt offer is still available!!! :D I love it when I get banned from a toy forum like this. It's going to break my little heart up inside...HA! HA! HA! :)
Geeeeee I'm losing so much gettting banned from a toy forum like this. I won't be able to sleep or play with my toys now......:naughty:naughty

:chew <--- banned for live is the only way to go!
 
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Final warning, if this continues I'm closing this thread permanently and next person to make a comment about people instead of making legitimate contributions to the cause of this thread will be getting an infraction.
 
Just quoting it before he edits it. :rolleyes:

Hey, a free t-shirt to anyone that can get me banned from here! :naughty I already lost alot of time wasting it on this forum posting examples but that's okay. Half it's members suck anyway! Can't wait for a ban to free up my time lol! Like I'm going to be doing business with anyone here? LMAO!
Besides, the banning part will have .0 effect on me just so you know. I look forward to it!
 
Maul, I'm pretty sure Sabres posted that nonsense before he was able to read your warning.

This is a shame that a thread with this kind of important information will be locked because a few people don't know when to stop. I hope this information will still remain available to people who are worried about falling into the trap of ending of with a recast when they think they're getting the real thing.
 
This is ongoing and frankly doesn't belong here. Any problems people have with each other from dealings on other boards has no place here. If someone ripped someone off or something like that, it should be reported to the administration here for review, but just not getting along doesn't belong here.

Freaks is a site for collectors to share their passions for the hobby and talk about collecting, it is not a place to _____ about, harass or antagonize people you don't like, and if this thread can't be put to any use but that, I will close it, I'm not leaving a topic open to become a thread of venomous hate, this site's better than that.

If a multi-day closing and two warnings can't get it to stop, I'm sorry to those hoping to gain something from this thread, but the few will ruin it for the many.
 
I totally agree and understand completely. I hope they can drop it now.

Anyways, what do you think about this?

Hey Maul, I agree with you that the no box thing doesn't always = recast. I'm more worried about the fact that the seller is located in the same area from which the recasts are coming. Also, the seller supposedly had multiples up for sale. The mouth area in the picture looks more like the recasts to me than the real thing. Buyer beware, I suppose.
 
that ebay listing is the fake bust, which is quite low offering it as the real deal, would be intresting to see a picture of the bottom felt, allways reminds me of the time i was after a sideshow endo arm and asked the seller to show me the base / number on it out of 750, it turned out it was a model kit and the guy put a number on the bottom in black marker just for my picture ...lol

https://cgi.ebay.com/Alien-Warrior-...ultDomain_0?hash=item45f006d355#ht_1992wt_962
 
Well those are good causes to be suspicious, it just seemed like people were just assuming it was fake based on the no box scenario and I figured I'd chime in with a personal story regarding that detail.

Considering even recasts sell for legit piece retail prices, I think anyone looking into buying it should really study over photos of the production piece as well as known recast images to spot the variations.

Granted, they may not be exact to shipped product, but here are the high resolution product images from Sideshow's site.

https://www.sideshowtoy.com/prod_photos/jpg/2922_press01.jpg

https://www.sideshowtoy.com/prod_photos/jpg/2922_press02.jpg

https://www.sideshowtoy.com/prod_photos/jpg/2922_press03.jpg

https://www.sideshowtoy.com/prod_photos/jpg/2922_press04.jpg

https://www.sideshowtoy.com/prod_photos/jpg/2922_press05.jpg

https://www.sideshowtoy.com/prod_photos/jpg/2922_press06.jpg

https://www.sideshowtoy.com/prod_photos/jpg/2922_press07.jpg

https://www.sideshowtoy.com/prod_photos/jpg/2922_press08.jpg
 
Considering even recasts sell for legit piece retail prices, I think anyone looking into buying it should really study over photos of the production piece as well as known recast images to spot the variations.

One would also have to be careful that the seller is not using pics he got off of other rellers of the original piece.

Does the original come with papers or a plaque? One could contact the seller and ask to have an image of that sent for verification but have them include something unique of YOUR chosing to know it is their picture like a lighter or pop can beside it.

Admitedely my alien bust is a recast but the seller was very specific and the 'RECAST' was in big bold letters in the description. I was going after an original for $3000 but by the time I finally raised the money, he sold it to someone else. The recast was $800 and included shipping so I decided to get it.

Was I wrong to support a recaster? Of course. But I also have to weigh the level of 'wrongness' to how much damage me buying this figure will do to SideShow and my desire to have one of these on my shelf (I really don't care about others who bought this for investment so that doesn't factor in).

I would never support a recaster that is competing with the same product at the same time the original is being sold. I would never support a recastor that I know is making false claims that his product is an original. I am not a collector/investor. I buy things I enjoy and that's it. I don't think I have ever sold one of my figures for more than what I paid, mostly because my friends usually want them and I am not about to profit off my friends once I decide to move an item (I had one friend eventualy sell an item for a profit and since he got it from me at cost he shared his profit with me). I have never sold a recast since I personally would not feel right selling one (although I would not have quams about buying them under the conditions I stated above)

I think if I ever did manage to get an original bust for a decent price, I would repaint my recast to look more like it did on screen rather than the glossy green/blue the SideShow version is.

Anyhow, that's my 2 cents on the subject. Love me or hate me, it doesn't affect me.

My collection: https://www.thedragonsden.ca/
 
that ebay listing is the fake bust, which is quite low offering it as the real deal, would be intresting to see a picture of the bottom felt, allways reminds me of the time i was after a sideshow endo arm and asked the seller to show me the base / number on it out of 750, it turned out it was a model kit and the guy put a number on the bottom in black marker just for my picture ...lol

https://cgi.ebay.com/Alien-Warrior-...ultDomain_0?hash=item45f006d355#ht_1992wt_962

This is 100% a fake> the dead give away is the flat surfaces were
the shoulders are cut away, notice they are painted gloss black.
On the original those areas are matt black.

Another thing to look out for is the inner jaw all the fakes I have seen
the inner jaw is painted black. The inner jaw on the original is
painted a very light grey, almost white.
 
This is 100% a fake> the dead give away is the flat surfaces were
the shoulders are cut away, notice they are painted gloss black.
On the original those areas are matt black.

Another thing to look out for is the inner jaw all the fakes I have seen
the inner jaw is painted black. The inner jaw on the original is
painted a very light grey, almost white.
Great points nacho. I never noticed the inside mouth being gray before. Good eye!
 
Hello,
really need to know if the seller mentioned above is selling fakes?
I have recently purchased from him.
Can someone show me the base?
 
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