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Moonbase Alpha Male wrote:But if they made Buster Keaton I'd swim to Asia to get one.
Moonbase Alpha Male wrote: I love that camera, but my emotional investment in Chaplin isn't quite there.
davidd wrote:Yes, I would really like to get my hands on one of those hand-cranked cine cameras! Or a couple of those cameras.
I, too, was confused by the "100th Anniversary" notation. I also could not figure out the significance of 1921 or 1922 relative to Chaplin. The 100th anniversary of his most well-remembered film, "The Gold Rush," will be 2025. Is this an older figure that is only finally being released now? Is it a re-release? Is it an out-of-production figure being posted here for reference?
Whatever it is, I'm off to eBay to search for vintage cine cameras in 1/6 scale.
EDIT TO ADD:
Wellll.... a China-based seller claims to have one of the cameras in stock: https://www.ebay.com/itm/254526258183
I have taken the risk and paid the absurd price. I wonder how long before I receive a "Dear Friend! Thank you for your purchase. Unfortunately...." note.
A US-based seller also has the item in stock... or so they claim... but have it listed as a "Bruce Lee Film Camera" - https://www.ebay.com/itm/353786845649
Quite the price. I was tempted before I found the China-Chaplin listing.
I see a few of the Chaplin figures listed on eBay. I was tempted by the one that is listed at $229, only twice the price of the camera alone, until I saw the $129 additional shipping charge. eBay asking prices for the figure currently range from mid-$300 to nearly $600 USD.
davidd wrote:Side note: Keaton's film, "The General," was filmed in and around Cottage Grove, Oregon in 1926. My grandfather grew up in Cottage Grove, and when he was a young man, he and most of the town turned out to watch the filming of the climactic plummet of a locomotive off a burning bridge. He even has a somewhat blurry Brownie camera snapshot of the event in his old photo album. When I was a kid, I asked my grandpa to tell me about that event a number of times. There's a brass plaque on the wall in the old Cottage Grove Hotel stating that Buster Keaton stayed there while filming "The General" in 1926.
Stryker2011 wrote:I’m surprised no one noticed or mentioned the iminime logo. For those unfamiliar, iminime is a small group of artists who over the last 20 years or so are responsible for hundreds of custom figures (like The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly) that have then been bootlegged by companies like Redman. To see them connected with an actual larger-scale manufacturer is interesting to me to say the least. I think the figure looks great, and am on the fence on this, since Chaplin was never one of my favorites of that era (give me Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Laurel & Hardy any day).
Stryker2011 wrote:Unfortunately that Bud Spencer by Kaustic is a statue and not an action figure.
davidd wrote:"Chaplin" camera arrived promptly; order placed on Jan 7, item arrived from China on Jan 18.
Item is exactly as pictured in the listing. It is not the camera with the "weathering" on it that was included with the Chaplin figure. Rather, it is a 1/6 camera of a similar type that was sold as a stand-alone collectible.
It's very similar to the "Chaplin" camera, but not identical. There is no indication on the packaging that this camera is from ZCWO, but it is the camera pictured in the listing I linked to previously.
Of course, now I find a seller offering the camera I received for a lower price:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/403223309578
Diana wrote:I ordered from KGHobby in the end and he is already on his way to me.
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