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G1 Aerialbots Questions

PostPosted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:48 pm
by Aerialbots
Sorry if this has been answered before, I looked all over and could not find anything.

1) I just got a (supposedly)vintage, original G1 Silverbolt. The cockpit and his eyes are silver, but it's coming off. Is this original, or did someone paint it, or something altogether different?

2) I also got a (supposedly)vintage, original G1 Skydive. His rub symbol is under his wing, and the rub symbol itself, the black area, looks slightly smaller, and the black/silver edge is not that crisp.

Was any of this not common, but did happen? Is it a knockoff, reissue, etc. Any help or explanation would be appreciated.

Thank you

Re: G1 Aerialbots Questions

PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:29 am
by The Legend
Silverbolt's eyes and cockpit were not silver so it's likely you have a KO or someone has painted it.
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... bolt/1286/
Pics of Skydive would help.

Re: G1 Aerialbots Questions

PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:11 pm
by Aerialbots
Yeah, after looking at Silverbolt more closely, it was painted on there by someone.

The Skydive I suspect could be a knockoff, but the rubsign is on the underside of the right wing, and the rubsign does not look quite right. I didn't know if anyone had run into that kind of rubsign placement.

Re: G1 Aerialbots Questions

PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:49 pm
by Editor
Image

As you can see on this one. The rubsign for Skydive should be on the top of his tail fin, and not on his main wing.

Hope this helps.

Re: G1 Aerialbots Questions

PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:20 pm
by Aerialbots
That rubsign placement was what I understood it to be. Thank you for all your help.

Re: G1 Aerialbots Questions

PostPosted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:24 am
by Gauntlet101010
It could be a reprolabels rubsign. While good, they aren't perfect replications of the original. And if one of the Aerialbots is painted, it might be that they decided to replace the stickers as well.