Bob Harris Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Sooo, Digger wants to be my facebook friend... Is he trying to connect with our community via FB now? Does this mean the mates will finally show up soon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I think he should trying being your Kickstarter friend first but that's just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youbastards Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Digger also commented on Zach's Facebook about the custom Minimate I made of Zach...I was SOOOOO tempted to post something, but better judgement and respect for Zach won out over the need for snark/using Digger as a pin cushion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellpop Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Sooo, Digger wants to be my facebook friend... Is he trying to connect with our community via FB now? Does this mean the mates will finally show up soon? He probably just wanted to talk about the US-Germany match with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM2 Dinobot Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 What if we started a kickstarter page to raise money for a lawsuit. And THEN we refund all out supporters' money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanester Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 What if we started a kickstarter page to raise money for a lawsuit. And THEN we refund all out supporters' money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrClean Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Sooo, Digger wants to be my facebook friend... Is he trying to connect with our community via FB now? Does this mean the mates will finally show up soon? He probably heard there was a minimate tool thread and assumed it was about him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyx_6 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Sooo, Digger wants to be my facebook friend... Is he trying to connect with our community via FB now? Does this mean the mates will finally show up soon? He probably heard there was a minimate tool thread and assumed it was about him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBMM1 Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Look who's exhibiting @ SDCC. 88 Tranzmedia http://www.agent88films.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniFiend UK Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Pitchforks and torches are available as you enter SDCC I presume Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Harris Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Oh, this is going to be a hell of a party! Not. I'm sure he will have all the Minimates available to pick up. Not. Send my love. Not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Harris Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) Just a thought for a shirt all you 'versers could wear when visiting the Agent88 booth. Might even get a little public interest. Edited July 21, 2014 by Bob Harris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellpop Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Youbastards had shirts made for Chicago, and I'm sure he'd send one to anyone that wants one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Harris Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 He had Agent88 complain shirts? I totally missed that! Super cool.Instead of ordering them, you guys could also just use transfer paper and an iron.____Edit: here's the link to yb!'s shirt in case you missed it, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santos L Halper Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Sooooo glad to see all that money raised through Kickstarter was put to good use making that oh so awesome website, photoshopped posters for the pilot episode, an app(which unfortunately is still under construction, my life won't be complete until I can access news of the Minimates not being made with just one click on my phone) and travel expenses for him to go to SDCC. I really hope someone who visits the Agent 88 booth lets him know what a wonderful and awesome dude we all think he is. Wish I could afford to go to SDCC this year, would totally be worth it just to go and punch him in his smug face and be banned from SDCC for doing so to congratulate him on a job well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyx_6 Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) So, weirdly I just received an email from Facebook saying I may know Digger and should be friends with him. I deleted the email. And Youbastards' shirt is great! I got one at C2E2. Unfortunately wearing it makes me have to relive the joys of funding the project as I explain to everyone what the shirt means. Agent 88 really took off! Edited July 21, 2014 by Onyx_6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youbastards Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 I do have a few left in various sizes, so if anyone attending SDCC wants one (free), PM me your address and size and I can get it in the mail tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youbastards Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Here's the design I made, FYI the colors on the finished product are not the same...long story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 A video intervention would be epic. Just sayin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdyCarter Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Serve him court papers at his panel and get him removed from SDCC, worked with Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellpop Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Except that Geoff's going to be there, leaching on to other vendors, and is advertising exclusives as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr baghead Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 hellpop, on 21 Jul 2014 - 13:36, said: Except that Geoff's going to be there, leaching on to other vendors, and is advertising exclusives as well. I don’t think you can consider Geoff’s involvement ‘official’ in any sense.He’s using a bootleg logo on al his products (it’s his own eye rather than the official one, the “Comic Con” L is aligned differently, it says “GBJR Toys” instead of “San Diego”), I’ve NEVER seen a company make their own SDCC logo for an exclusive even though Marvel could have used the same Spider-man eye from the movie posters and Mattel spends SO MUCH on useless over the top packaging there’s no way they wouldn’t make a new custom logo for EVERY product (I mean this year their Monster High exclusive is a Cyclops girl, they changed the logo of their bejeweled knock-off app to be her symbol for cross promotion... if they could make their own logo it’d be her one giant eye this year for sure... and say something stupid like “Scare Diego Comic Crypt” because as much as I love Monster High it makes me hate it with Flintstone puns) For selling at other people’s booths, he doesn’t have one of his own. If Michael Bay was banned, they could keep him from having a panel or a booth, but it’d be unreasonable to expect every seller to remove every DVD, Soundtrack, Art of book, Official Comic tie-in, and Licensed toy from their inventories which might be hundreds of items they’d have to leaf through to find (I’m sure the comic vendors just grab their long boxes and go, they’re not sorting through that crap each con to customize it.) there’s no feasible way they could check to make sure no movie Optums Primes snuck in with Hollywood Hero’s stock or prints of jorts wearing nose turtles didn’t slip in with Acme Lithographs countless framed repos, sure they might ask someone to remove the products from the show floor if they had a big neon “WE SELL BANNED BAY PRODUCTS!” like they do to people selling outright pornography, but if they keep it low key they could probably skate by... so for a small potatoes con man like Geoff it’s even less likely they’re gonna give a crap if someone is selling a Tick figure or if he’s at the show... you’ll noticed GBJR isn’t on the Exhibitors list. They’re also not listed on the official Exclusive list(now granted, Mattel and Hasbro’s aren’t listed either, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this because SDCC wants a fee to be officially listed so smaller companies do it for the attention where the big guys just need a press release, or since they’ll be selling them at their on-line stores and NYCC they can’t legally call them SDCC exclusives.) So in no official way does Geoff exist within SDCC’s exhibitors. And then there’s the fact he’s no selling any new products. He’s been selling Ticks and Mr.Gones for a couple years now (and yet few have found their way to those who are owed them.) and slipping a doll house spoon into Tick’s case is something he’s done before. His “new” product is as follows: -Hand Made Troma Plushies: There’s an on-line tutorial to make Hoodude from Monster High (basically a 12 inch tall felt doll) I was able to make in two days of watching TV for two hours straight hours before bed with limited stitching skills. Hoodude is a lot more complex then the Troma Plushies which Geoff out sourced to someone who makes Hand Made Plushies as a business... I’m just saying the lady (I assume) he outsourced to probably made his entire stock in less then a week, since there’s NO REASON to be selling handmade plushies except for it’s small order number and faster turn around. -“SPOOOOON” shirt. I’m sure Geoff is ironing all of these himself as we speak. (also, I haven’t seen the animated Tick in forever... are Spoons, really the most important thing in the world to him like Geoff seems to think?) He has nothing for sale that he didn’t whip up in less then a week. This is all a long con so people he’s recently tricked into giving him money think he’s a legit business man who’s selling REAL exclusives at the biggest Convention in the world when really he’s banned from exhibiting and has no products to sell. It buys him a little time when his Gofunders ask “so where’s MY the Tick?!” and he can say “Sorry, we had to rush ComicCon product paid for in advance with personal funds not GoFundMe monies no sir, into production before the Factory closed for Spring break, but I’ll be going to China to ensure they make your Tick personally once they reopen all tanned and well rested!” and then his naive funder is all like “COOL! Can’t wait! Good Luck at Comic Con!” TL;DR: Geoff is still banned from SDCC but has found a way to pretend he’s there, he’s just pulling a very elaborate con to seem legit to what’s left of the GoFundMe crowd that still believes they weren’t screwed over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 That Geoff guy has received a lot of (apparently warranted) scorn and derision over the years. . .but the way you're describing him there actually makes me feel a bit of pity for the guy. I can't imagine he's doing very well for himself selling a random figure here or there, or feels that his professional accomplishments are very fulfilling. Maybe that's karma, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellpop Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Don't feel any sympathy for that dirtbag. What Baghead describes is completely accurate; the money he's made has not been off the figures he's sold, but off the people he's managed to fleece with preorders for a decade. Now he's doing this whole "oh, that was Shocker Toys, I was just an employee there" schtick, which is unfortunately able to fool people still. What got him banned from San Diego was that he sold preorders for San Diego exclusives a couple years ago and never delivered them. Last year, he did the same thing he's doing this year, showed up with a few "exclusives" and sold them at (I think) the Betty Page Store, which had a booth there and also has a retail outlet in San Diego. Unfortunately, a lot of people are still going to be tricked by his bait and switch tactics. I think he's really taking a chance here, because the Con could very easily slap him with a lawsuit for creating marketplace confusion by trying to pass his wares off as unofficial "official" exclusives. Certainly no casual attendee could be expected to know the difference. He's spent the better part of a decade getting away with this crap because, let's face it, nobody really cares if some toy fans are conned out of a hundred bucks. But Comic Con has to protect their intellectual property. They already banned the guy. They don't want him associated with the con. What do they do next? Cease and desist letter? Lawsuit? Have him thrown in jail? I'm hoping for all three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanester Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 That Geoff guy has received a lot of (apparently warranted) scorn and derision over the years. . .but the way you're describing him there actually makes me feel a bit of pity for the guy. I can't imagine he's doing very well for himself selling a random figure here or there, or feels that his professional accomplishments are very fulfilling. Maybe that's karma, though. Do not feel sorry for him Sam. He does not deserve your pity in the very least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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