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Originally Posted by dechirico7
Nope. I had nothing but trouble with that piece.
It was broke when I got it. Then I fixed it and sold it to someone, but due to ARH's boxes being garbage it broke again. So, I just ended throwing the POS in the garbage.
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Originally Posted by jedi_don
That sucks. I got lucky when I sold mine. The eBay buyer was local and picked it up in person. Those AP versions fully assembled and not configured for safe shipping.
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Originally Posted by Great Pheidias
Sad to read such hellish experience ..anyway I had the Gold and White edition..both came perfect to Australia...I recently sold the Gold one and the buyer got it perfect..even posted it in its original crappy box after all these years..I kept the white..I like it more!
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Man I wish I had a link to the thread with Decherico pissed about the no box for her A/P, it was entertaining as hell, also I think Arahom used to post himself at that time. That led to the current and ongoing rift that continues to this day.
The reason the A/Ps didn't work in the production box is because at production the piece was cut differently. At that time ARH had a sculpt of the Cleo but was honest and said in order to produce it he had to sell 30 of them in advance as A/Ps. They would either have a top or not (our choice) and be painted by Arahom. Since these were done to finance the run they were shipped old school style in a normal box and not a box with form fitted styrofoam.
I have an AP and the right hand with helmet comes off, the pillar comes off, the cat, and the headress snake but she is all one piece. Arahom told us we would get a production box once the production run was done. But they found out that with stress points and to minimize breakage the production run had the head as a separate piece. So needless to say the production boxes wouldn't work for the AP's. Arahom came on and told us that but that he wasn't going to make special boxes for the 30 AP's.
I have been saying forever if you don't look at ARH as more of a garage type producer and different than a huge run production company with all the pluses and minuses that come with it you are going to have a bad time. You get tiny runs, stuff you don't see elsewhere, and some other stuff but you also get when problems come up they need to be addressed in ways that are feasible to the situation even if it means not what you were initially told. It happens. I think this also happened with the Gold Ares where the helmet tail was done differently to address breakage?
If anybody tried to use the normal run box (which is perfect for that statue) and cut the foam or force the AP in it will almost always get breakage.
