MX 436 & VARIANT !!!!!

I just posted an explanation and comment on the other thread, sorry.
The pictures of the two figures (just to compare) I sent Gildor some years ago. He provided them in the “gallery-section” in the “Uniques” thread. I think there you can clearly see the difference in the shield-design.
Yes, Master Gildor, it seems that Groovecrown ( ) still kept a variant-figure for sale.
I wonder what price it’ll achieve.
But I would like to stress again that he’s a very serious collector and absolutely reliable.

You’re right, Milo. Those 30 extra-castings are numbered individually, added to the Mx-number on the right. I know that I received the variant from the seller very late, as I did not realize in time that there were 30 extra-castings. So the base of my figure reads 23. So some might be left. I think that the base was re-primed (which is not common being done by the company) with grey-spray and that Jason added those numbers himself, because all extra-castings of Mx-figures were never numbered at the base by Mithril.
There have been 30 extra-castings of the MX456 (Frumgar) too, but the figures were absolutely identical with those sold by Mithril. You only can identify them by having the original blisters. There on the stickers on the blisters numbers are printed at the bottom, e.g. 04/30 or 07/30 .

I just checked the leaflets which were included in the original blisters of all Mx-releases. The leaflet of the “Mordor Olag-Hai Troll Chief” (mind the misprint) is the same as the one delivered with the regular Mx-figure. There’s only one extra-casting of an Mx having a leaflet of its own, which is the Mx463-Imrahil (with raised sword, instead of holding the banner). Those 30 castings were also numbered on the sticker on the blister. In those days I just wanted to make sure about the origin of the figure by having an individual Mithril-leaflet included.

Ohh, long answer, I know. Sorry, but I just tend to be precise.

And as for the Olog-Hai troll chief, I’m still smiling, as the war hammers in fact seem to be steak hammers, but that must be part of Chris’ humour which I do like very much.

ahh, the variant! excellent!

good luck—i’ve just checked out the variant and like the standard shield better.

That’s doubtless because they’re saving their powder until the last few minutes. That’s what I’d do. Why encourage the prices to escalate unnecessarily by bidding too soon?

Very wise. I do the same.

Well, I guess that the same bots are available to anyone who has the time to set them up, so on that basis there’s nothing unfair about using them. Personally I never have, nor ever would – sounds like too much hassle to me. And if several people have set them up to bid on the same item, I wonder how the bots decide which of their “owners” has won?

I agree about Chris sales

as for bots…. these are only there to do things instead of you… that’s all, but their strength resides in the quickness to place a bid without having to fill the amount and confirm two times… and have an internal countdown they can check … it takes up to 0,1s for a bot to place a bid… after this same bot has been outbid… which means that if someone places a bid 5s before the end, the bot can still react…

i have already lost half a dozen auction in the last TWO seconds, having placed my bid exactly 5seconds before the end…
only bots can achieve that…

indeed if you are willing to fill a max hidden bid of 600€ for a figurine and are READY to pay this price, you don’t need such bots… these are only there to allow you to win by quickness of bid rather than amount spent…

ebay will never allow you to place a bid for you 5s before the end… if two people want to spend the least money possible but are ready to spend a lot…. bots are alas the perfect tool… as it will be a “bid and outbid battle until the end….. welll like a real auction except that ebay auction do have ultimatum times

I suppose many of you have seen auction histories for some references and all the overbid and the quickness of these outbids… sometimtes it is from ebay revealing a higher hidden bid.. but most times it is from bots overbidding as fast as possible after having been outbidded themselves… almost as fast as ebay revealing higher hidden bid…

and well barliman, those “services” are usually not FREE… as to what happen if a same service has two customers for the same figurine… well it’s easy, the one with the higher hidden bid will automatically win, since the bot will resolve all the bid/outbid sequence as fast as light between the two accounts until one has outreached the highest bid of the other