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Old 05-01-2017, 01:21 AM   #1
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Incredible Japanese, prototype and Lucky Draw collection

A guy from Edmonton named Vance had some of his collection on display at the Calgary Expo this weekend so I took some photos of it while I was there. It was amazing and he was a super awesome guy to talk to.





























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Old 05-01-2017, 01:41 AM   #3
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Re: Incredible Japanese, prototype and Lucky Draw collection

Some nice pieces he's got in there. Thanks for sharing.

What's the story behind the g1 box art pics?
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I'm not really sure but he has a lot of them. It's all original art that was used for the boxes.
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Old 05-01-2017, 03:47 AM   #5
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pretty amazing if those are the originals. A piece of g1 history
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Old 05-01-2017, 05:33 AM   #6
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Amazing, thanks to the collector and Sir Prime A Lot for sharing.
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Old 05-01-2017, 11:52 AM   #7
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pretty amazing if those are the originals. A piece of g1 history
They are all original.
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Old 05-02-2017, 12:52 AM   #8
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Re: Incredible Japanese, prototype and Lucky Draw collection

Maybe I'll explain the art for those that aren't aware, some people seemed confused. When any toy company wants a graphic design done for a comic book cover or toy box or video game box, they commission an artist to do a large scale drawing or painting of the image. They then scan the image, add some backgrounds to it digitally and then print it onto thousands of retail packaging which go out to consumers. That original art piece sits around unused forever, or until a collector purchases it and it makes its way into the collector world.

There is huge money in this, the original art for many iconic comic books, depending on the artist sells for close to $1,000,000 for just the single artist sketch which was used to create that cover. On a much lower scale, there is also demand for the art used on video game boxes and also Transformers toy boxes which you see here.

These are the original drawings that the original artist made and these were scanned into a computer and used for the box art for the toys. Some as recent as the Generations Arcee you see there, many of them have the retail packaging placed in front of the artwork.

Had I seen the collection earlier, I would have brought my Wheeljack and Horribull boxes by to place in front of their respective canvases.
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What an awesome looking collection. Thanks for sharing.
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Old 05-02-2017, 06:36 AM   #10
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Thanks for posting these. I missed out on a lot of panels last year that I had intended to see so I made more of an effort to attend panels this year, but between doing that, and the usual lines for signings/photos, and browsing for loot, I didn't get to see this more closely as I would've liked to. This helps. Impressive is an understatement. Is there a high-res gallery of these somewhere to view some zoomed in details?
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