I thought you could post them as long as you weren't trying to sell?
This is pretty stupid. My custom thread (like others) was completely made up of licensed product, that was modified or kit bashed with other licensed product. I had years....YEARS of documented progress, photos and recipes/tutorials. What a crappy thing to do.
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To be perfectly honest the Star Wars customs page was the only reason I visited Freaks. I started off with Dorgs and Enauds stuff.
After 8 - 9 years of being on here I guess this is another site I won't visit anymore.
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I'm also shocked by this, part of the fun of collecting is customizing the imperfections out of our figures and these custom threads were an oasis of information. I understand closing the for-sale threads because they were copyright infringement, but customized or kitbashed figures are a whole other deal. We already paid for these figures and they are OUR property, therefore we can do with them as we please. The worst part is that customizing actually makes them more sales lots of the time because we buy 2 figures to make a better one. Now that Hot Toys has the Star Wars license the only reason I buy a Sideshow figure is for parts, but they can kiss that money away. I know that this will sound exaggerated but eliminating those threads is like burning the 1/6th library of Alexandria. Such a shame...
Yeah, the decent thing would have been creating a new thread in the Customs section a week or so ago along the lines of "ATTENTION: SW CUSTOMS THREAD TO CLOSE 7/3/2018" or something - let people know what's happening and what can be done to save their thread contents.
The way this was done feels like a dawn raid or something - totally ignoring the fact that many (most) people had done nothing wrong and in some cases had spent years contributing majorly to the forum.
I'm pretty angry about threads like Chakaman's and McHaleyArt's and DarnessPredator's that were really inspiring for customizers being lost forever - dozens or hundreds of pages worth.
I can only guess that this "sudden/no warning closure" was part of Sideshow's letter of demand. Not sure why else it would have been handled in this way. And why Dave or whoever did this didn't simply go through the top 100 or so threads in the section to see if there was solicitation or sales happening and post the standard warning of closure, then close them a week later. It would have taken maybe an hour to do, but that's nothing compared to the thousands of hours of work that's lost.
All of it lost, simply to placate a company that's slowly fading out of 1/6 anyway.
Do a lot of people frequent One-Sixth Warriors?
Watch your mouth! Don’t you know “custom” is a bad word now?
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