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XLVIII: Replica Props Replica props represent an area of collecting that has only arisen in recent years, first with the short-lived Icons license, and more recently with the popular Master Replicas line. Soon fledgling company, eFX will try their hand at it.Icons introduced high quality prop replicas for Star Wars and other licenses. However, some collectors sent in money for Icons pieces to never receive them. It wasn’t long before Icons lost their Star Wars license and went bankrupt. One could write an entire book about the drama surrounding the rise, fall, and sheer incompetence of Icons, but no one would want to read it. A few years later, at around the time of Attack of the Clones, Master Replicas began producing even higher quality replicas props. Covering all of the major blasters, lightsabers, and props from Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith and the original trilogy, Master Replicas filled a large void in collector demand. They also issued “Signature Series” versions of some of their products (with the actor’s signature) and Force FX lightsabers with a glowing blade and sound effects. Master Replicas created a smaller .45 scale line with the same detail as the larger sabers and followed that up with chase sabers plated in gold. In the late 1990’s, Don Post Studios and Rubies began issuing a limited series of lifesize statues, aimed at the high end collectors. The Boba Fett and C-3PO statues, in particular, have striking detail and appear exactly like the on-screen characters (although in the case of 3PO, a tad less annoying).
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