Unfortunately, I think this is exactly right - Darrell McNeil wanted some money, so he drew some blueline and pencil on animation paper, signed it, added a production code and voila. They're not even very good - I can draw better than any of the ones on eBay. What a prick. Also, although he did work on Jem, I don't think he ever did Transformers or G.I.Joe: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1396728/
I was sus about these all along, but figured for the price it was worth a look.
I was interested to see what they'd be like in hand. I thought that would give me an answer, and it did.
The paper is pristine, and fresh. It clearly hasn't been in any use.
The seller is honest though. I must stress that I absolutely believe that. He happens to be good friends with Darell, and I believe that has clouded his judgement. He offered me a full refund, and to pay my return shipping. I can't fault the seller at all.
IMO McNeill is abusing his résumé, his past experience and current friends and contacts.
While I'm keeping mine, I wouldn't advise anyone else to buy one. The line work is incredibly poor. These are literally 10 second sketches.
That helps, thanx for the info. I won't be getting any.
When did you get your MISB TM Megatrons?? Because with GPS/BPS the plastic will continue to "rot" even if the toy is kept sealed. You can buy the toy years later after it's been manufactured, and it can still break on you. That's precisely what happened when I bought Randy... the toy came out in 1999, I bought it last year (for only a few bucks thankfully) and the toy broke on me as soon as I opened it and was slowly/carefully removing it from the tray. If I'd purchased that toy sealed in 1999 and it broke on me, then I'd be demanding a refund/exchange. But buying it MISB second hand (found it at a collectables store, but not a 'primary retailer' like TRU) and having it break is different.
So if you purchased and opened your Transmetal Megatrons MISB in 1998 (or not long after) and it broke on you, then I'd say that you should've brought them back to the store for refund/exchange. If you bought them MISB well after 1998 then I'm not surprised that it happened given the nature of that toy's plastic.
I have suffered a little GPS with some of my turbomasters, from late G1, I have an idea rolling around in the back of my head of developing a spare parts inventory that is GPS pieces, modelled and molded in modern plastic. probably wont ever happen but would support long term viability of otherwise destroyed toys.
I have never had a good experience with Canada post, it is slow expensive and unreliable. Often on eBay I pass up on something I'm interested in simply because it's located in Canada.
I recently removed a MISB Airazor from packaging and the plastic felt really tight and squeaked a lot during transformation. I noticed this issue does not happen to BW toys I played with continuously as a kid. Have you noticed this as well (seeing how you periodically do role plays with your collection )?
Sounds like their unions are quite the militant bunch.
I don't use Photobucket but ALOT of people do. And when Photobucket is down, I don't see any pics
"I am not a gun. I'm hitting people with a hammer. On Mars."
The Iron Giant / David Wildgoose
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Oh dear.
These fake animation prelims are getting worse.
I see he's now trying to do fuller- figure shots, which is funny.
For pieces done decades ago for screen-use, why is it that when there are specific areas of complaint about these pieces, that's soon followed by the 'discovery' of more pieces that answer that negative criticism!!