General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

might be of interest to some, but I mentioned a little while ago that I was going to dip my toe into Heritage Auctions and send them a few Akira cel setups to see how it goes... we'll they're up!

Can see the 7 consignments I sent into them here. Have to say, The scans they put up really came out well, some great descriptions too.

Nothing coming up for me.

Very interested to see what they go for. Hopefully a fairly chunk off the mortgage for yourself

Woops, try this link instead!

http://www.ha.com/c/search.zx?saleNo=7267&collection=64&type=friend-consignorlive-notice&FC=0 

They sent me along some catalogue scans and that one of Tetsuo on the throne had an estimate of 5000-7500 dollars - I'll believe it when I see it!

There's a buyer's premium added to the top, so whatever the auction ends at, the buyer pays an additional percentage - (so these auctions get even MORE expensive for buyers, if you can believe it). From what I can remember, there might be an additional 1-2% charge to the seller from the hammer price, but it was pretty tiny compared to the usual fees your see at auction.

They are. It is placed on top of the background layer and then shot onto a film frame. This will normally be done once or twice with the same cell depending on if the film is animated on ones or twos.

Iinm there is one very big collector of Akira cells that has amassed something like 40% of the production cells used for the entire film.

You talking about Joe Peacock? He's the biggest public collector that I know of, actually been in contact with him a few times over the years and bought/traded a few pieces. Used to do a tour around animation studios and the likes giving talks about the film and showing off his cels. He's donated his whole collection (I think it was last year?) to The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

Interesting one actually, after hearing that, I was in touch with The Chester Beatty Library as I know they're very fond of promoting anime, wondering would they be interested in me leaving my collection to them.

While I was waiting for a response, coincidentally that Heritage Auctions listings went live over the summer and they made hundreds of thousands of Euro - I decided that donating my collection was maybe not the best course of action.

About a week after the HA auctions ended, a curator in The Chester Beatty got back to me saying they would be delighted and were really interested in meeting about the donation.

Too late Chester Beatty, too late... :pac:

I'd be willing to bed 90%+ of them will never be opened.

I don't see an issue with that to be honest. Vinyls make great collectable items and they're pretty popular these days. The issue here is there was a lot of interest in SH3 but they chose to only release 500 copies of a limited colour for all of Europe. They will release more next year but should have had a general release alongside it.

At least Data Discs reissue theirs every now and then. SoR2, Ikaruga and Sonic Mania were released again this week so at least people can get them. I might not open them but I listen to them regularly enough so I'm happy to have a physical copy.

Not much more in it tbh. Found a few wierd places on Instagram selling boots via invite only. I got splatterhouse 2 and missed out on a bust a groove.

VGM vinyl actually a bigger scene than I thought. Something I can't afford to get overly into though unfortunately

Wish I knew this when I got rid of my One S last year! Sounds like they've added a nice selection of games to BC.

Would that work on a normal 360 though and not BC?

Edit: even US prices are crap, might have to give it a miss :(

Thought the rebooted Gamesmaster was pretty good, overall. It was never going to quite recapture the old atmosphere totally because that was a product of its time, but it's coming from the right place. Trevor McDonald, as Gamesmaster, didn't have a whole lot to do. Florence's game feature/review segments felt lifted right out of his other games show, Consolevania, which is not necessarily a bad thing, as I like his philosophical musings on a particular game.

I think there's more potential there. There are other things they could do if a proper series gets made. They could have a segment demoing an obscure piece of retro gaming tech for example. Basically, take the classic Top Gear format, replace the cars with games and leave out occasional casual racist remarks, and that's the makings of a good show. Have your main segments that don't change, but leave space for different things to rotate in and out each week.