Hardcopy Highbrow and Mindwipe galleries

TF@The Moon · Post by **TF@The Moon** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:36 am

We recently added to galleries to our site of some Generation One hardcopies we aquired earlier in the year. The first was of an unpainted resin hard-copy Highbrow (sadly without Arcana). The toy has about 25 mold differences to the final toy, though most are minor. The second was of a hand-painted resin hard-copy Mindwipe. This toy has a lot of mold changes and most of them quiet significant, from different legs, hips, animal wings, bat head to a different colour scheme. This handpainted resin was used for promotional material such as the toy leaflets.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:41 am

coolness.

you guys must be running out of space by now surely?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:57 am

thats really cool - I know from mold production that the resin cast is used to create a 2nd mold, which in turn creates the heavy mold used for plastic injection.

If u look along the resin edges, none of them are chamfered yet, this is normall done by hand in the finnal mold, any other tiny details, like finger grooves etc can also be added at this stage because the steel is easier to work with, especially when it comes to very small parts.

Obviously each part is made in a seperate mold, if you look on your own normall Highbrow u will notice the injector pin marks, like flat circles pressed in to the plastic, these are the areas where the part is ejected from the mold. The resin one will not have these marks present as its not an ejection part.

Where may i ask did u get this resin version of Highbrow ? - I suddenly thought that every TF toy has a resin counterpart somewhere, they all need one to begin the manufacturing process. Maybe the orginal model makers keep them or somthing.

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:18 am

Indeed, most swish!

When I was wickle I always wondered why half the toys in the catalogue looked different... it never occured to me they were prototypes/test shots/resin

I remember Mindwipe being the colour he is in the resin shot rather than his final colours, and the usual host of mistransformations (Bruticus without his head for example).

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:12 pm

ah the Argos cat... I used to love looking through that!

TF@The Moon · Post by **TF@The Moon** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:55 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:ah the Argos cat... I used to love looking through that!

I think Karl is talking about the toysheets, we have tried to highlight all the examples of protos and other bits being used. There were far more then we had realised.

We got both from the same guy, who lives in the States. He buys them directly of an old Hasbro employee. It took us ages to get to the stage that he would sell to us, there are a handful of people he normally deals with.

We actually picked both of the toys up at BotCon - taking them back home was a worry. Lets just say Steve's bad was 90% bubblewrap and padding.