Question about www.reprolabels.com site

[Rodimus_2316]

I've been adding many new links to my site's links page, and also
found this one. I've heard of it before, but I never really looked
into what it was about. I'm guessing, from what's said/shown, it's
about providing fan-made TF toy stickers, as well as bonus official-
replacement ones? That's all I can gather from looking at it. I
listed it as something like that in my description.

Bottom of Top Fan Sites list:
http://www.virtualtransformerstv.thetfcog.com/links.html


Please LMK. Thanks.



- Rodimus_2316

[Irrellius Spamticon king of the Potato people]

Yeah, I had the tble next to them at botcon 2001, they have also gone
into replacement parts through their partners of commonly broken G1
parts. They also have stickers for classics line toys to make them
look more like the G1 characters they are supposed to pay homages to,
as well as stickers to create toys of characters that didn't
originally get toys.

[M D]

On May 17, 6:49 pm, Irrellius Spamticon king of the Potato people

<Ob1ken...@att.net> wrote:
> On May 17, 6:25 pm, Rodimus_2316 <Rodimus2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been adding many new links to my site's links page, and also
> > found this one.  I've heard of it before, but I never really looked
> > into what it was about.  I'm guessing, from what's said/shown, it's
> > about providing fan-made TF toy stickers, as well as bonus official-
> > replacement ones?  That's all I can gather from looking at it.  I
> > listed it as something like that in my description.
>
> > Bottom of Top Fan Sites list:http://www.virtualtransformerstv.thetfcog.com/links.html
>
> > Please LMK.  Thanks.

> +

> > - Rodimus_2316
>
> Yeah, I had the tble next to them at botcon 2001, they have also gone
> into replacement parts through their partners of commonly broken G1
> parts. They also have stickers for classics line toys to make them
> look more like the G1 characters they are supposed to pay homages to,
> as well as stickers to create toys of characters that didn't
> originally get toys.

They are a legitimate site, and provide a high quality product. I
have used them to fix up a number of my old, pricey G1 transformers
(Dreadwind, Octane, Triggerbots/cons...), and they look fantastic
after the new stickers were applied. For the absolute, over the top
purist, a warning... The stickers are not IDENTICAL, but they are
close enough that there is no way to tell unless you have an existing
set of old stickers, and compare them in detail. Even then,. the
differences are extremely slight. I have been very happy with them.
I haven't tried any of their replacement parts (this must be new, I
didn't know they were selling those.) or stickers for recent toy
releases.

-Banzai-Tron

[Zobovor]

On May 17, 8:02 pm, M D <banzaitron....@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > I'm guessing, from what's said/shown, it's
> > > about providing fan-made TF toy stickers, as well as bonus official-
> > > replacement ones?

I can't believe there are any fans left who have never heard of
reprolabels.com before!

> For the absolute, over the top purist, a warning... The stickers are not
> IDENTICAL, but they are close enough that there is no way to tell unless
> you have an existing set of old stickers, and compare them in detail.

I think Delta Star actually started doing this on purpose because he
was getting complaints from vintage collectors who claimed that his
reproduction stickers were devaluing the older G1 stuff. I don't know
if he still does this, but for a while he was putting colored backers
on the stickers to immediately flag that they were facsimiles to help
the more discerning collectors appraise toys with reproduction
stickers.

Delta Star actually used to use me as a "sticker tester" so I could
fit the stickers to my existing toys, checking the size and colors and
such for accuracy. I'd just like to say that his stuff has come a
long, long way in even just the past few years. His early stickers
were thick and would sometimes peel off the toys, but the recent ones
he's done are incredibly thin and they adhere a lot better. All his
sets are pre-cut, too, so you don't have to fumble with scissors
anymore. (I know I sound like a commercial, but I don't make any
money by saying this, I promise. He offers such an incredible service
to fans, though. So many of my G1 toys have gone from useless junk to
beautiful display pieces, all because of him.)

>   I haven't tried any of their replacement parts (this must be new, I
> didn't know they were selling those.) or stickers for recent toy
> releases.

I didn't know they were doing replacement parts, either. I can't find
a link anywhere on the site. Irrellius, you mentioned this was back
in 2001; do you know if they're still doing it? (I know they were
experimenting with a re-chroming laboratory for toy parts that had
lost their vac-metal sheen. I ended up with a handful of prototype
pieces but I don't think they ever went into a full-fledged
operation.)

Delta Star hooked me up with some gigantic "38" stickers for my
Alternators Smokescreen some years ago. Those were great. I've also
got copies of some of the upgrade sets, which include a special see-
through version of Starscream's stickers (for my ghost Starscream,
naturally) as well as cartoon stickers for the Combaticons (which I
designed, incidentally), and they look really good. Can't figure out
why the Vortex set hasn't been made publicly available to finish off
the team, though.


Zob

[Irrellius Spamticon king of the Potato people]

Back then they were doing gestalt fists and alot of missiles.

The backing was intentionally different color, and there was a layer
in the stickers back then that made them more likely to completely
pull off instead of tear like G1 stickers, so they were visibly
different too. I got a set of my Menasor for watching his table.