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Thermal detonator greeblie, new pics


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The top part is the same as the latest pics from the Blu Ray bonus disc of the Biker Scout thermal Detonator greeble.

The round part is the same as MC part, so we are half right.

It looks right, the two squarish shapes match well with the screen grabs we already have.,

 

bikerscoutthermaldetonatorgreeblie.jpg

 

I think the thermal detonator is on upside down on the Biker Scout display piece but it is this "found"part.

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The greebles are one item we never had a decent shot of. I'll get some pics posted up on Friday if I can. If anyone wants to beat me to it, help yourself. I'll get a gallery up with any new photos.

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No, the whole left half[as you look at it] of the Rebel soldier's greeblie is the part which is on the Biker Scout TD. Same part as the top third rectangle on Admiral Ackbar's chest greeblie.

I think pics of the Blu Ray Biker Scout are needed, :lol:

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No, the whole left half[as you look at it] of the Rebel soldier's greeblie is the part which is on the Biker Scout TD. Same part as the top third rectangle on Admiral Ackbar's chest greeblie.

I think pics of the Blu Ray Biker Scout are needed, :lol:

Wow. The whole left half? Really? :o I thought it would be just the smaller piece. Thats a lot different than I thought it would look like. :D I agree, we really need to find some new pics of the Blu Ray Scout! B)

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Probably a Tamiya Part for a naval ship. It is possible that could be the greeblie that goes on the detonator, painted black. It might be the right size too.

 

I would say look at the extras portions of the disks, for un-retouched photographs, and documentaries. No sense freeze framing the films. So much has been altered from the original celluloid!!

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Is there proof that this greeblie was in the movie? Keep in mind that people who restore the props in the archives sometimes don't get things correct. I believe it was Don Beis who used to run the archive building years ago and he mentioned on the rpf in regard to the landspeeder how he had to replace some of the missing greeblies, gear shifter, steering wheel, etc. The new greeblies aren't the same as the original. This has happened on a lot of the props over the years and could be the case for this costume. The suit that used to be on tour didn't have greeblies on the detonator. Maybe they fell off, who knows but someone could have grabbed this greeblie from somewhere in the archives and slapped it on there just for creating these 3D rotational features on the bluray.

 

That's speculation of course but so is assuming it was in the film. I always felt the red rectangle on the top of the tank may have been used too so it should be an "acceptable" detail but it's not accepted in the lancer requirements. If this piece isn't proven to be in the film then it shouldn't be a lancer requirement either.

 

I'm happy to change my way of thinking, I just want to see something tangible to back it up :)

 

Thanks and happy holidays

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Myself as well. Of course i just replaced my MC "squares" with this new greeblie to go Lancer..sure hope i dont have to change it back..i chewed up the suares pretty bad trying to remove them from my TD lol.

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As far as the orientation, we've got two bits of proof how it's supposed to look like (cylinder on left, smooth top edge and indented lower edge).

 

Now it's just a question of seeing a grab from the actual movie. I personally think we've got it right and I've already changed over to the new greeb. MC's got a point but we've also seen so many pieces that have been reused that it's not impossible that it was also used on the TB TD. Both of the above shots are also from ROTJ. Coincidence?

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This greeblie seems to be the same size as some of the screen shots, it fits well on the Blu Ray thermal detonator and we know it was used on some other ROTJ costumes.

There is a chance it is another archives make do and mend, I believe there is something strange about this , there may have been a couple of different types of greeb on the Biker Scouts, this part may have an opposite part, I don't know.

This is the fun part of costuming, the investigating!

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Stunning thank you Jeff, well id say 100% we have the right part, also clearly shows the two rectangular parts sticking out the top (taking into accout this is a mirrored not flipped image), which clears up the orientation question for me. So that puts the cylinder part on the inside not the out side edge as we first thought. Thank goodness for that as I glued mine on that way, Cyberscout and myself were talking about this last night, said we thought it was this way, but now its all cleared up.

 

Once again thanks Jeff for posting up.

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