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Some of you may not even remember this but I was thinking the other day about the brief influx there was some years back with a bunch of Star Wars miniatures making there way out of China with no cards. After seeing how many knock off lego figures are out there I became curious: were those Star Wars miniatures fakes? Or we’re they stolen from a Wotc factory? Or somthing else? Does anybody know? Please satisfy my curiosity.
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I don't know, but they looked like factory rejects - painting that didn't pass QC. Probably should have been destroyed but instead wound up going home with an employee and then on ebay. Or if not rejects just excess.
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That could be. It always seemed like it was just a few certain pieces. Like a Revan or a Vader apprentice redeemed.
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FlyingArrow's theory makes a lot of sense,
though it could be a duplicate if it is a rotary-moulded polyvinyl.
though, lets entertain the hypothetical for a moment more;
We'd have to do a few batch-tests essentially to conclusively determine that.
This would require looking at things like mass spectrometry of chemical composition curve for the 'official set',
and comparing that with the curve for the suspect set; if the miniature was from 2004-2010 run,
it will have a different composition curve and decay-ratio in its polymeraise.
looking at the paints, the different pigment decay ratio in some of the paints etc,
and comparing that curve with the suspect set.
at this time, there aren't many interaction-free ways to non-destructively test that...
so, that causes a problem too - especially if the subset of suspect 'counterfeit duplicates'
is very small. I mean, we can easily determine cursory differences
between recent 3D printed customs, recent Resin/Rotary-Moulded/Drop-extruder'd clones, etc.
we can also discern by subject - we know what miniatures were and were not made from the set
(ie, lots of the Expanded Universe stuff, the TFU/nuDisneyWarsTrek verse didn't exist etc).
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