Glasslite Luke Skywalker
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DIFFERENCES: Compared to his Meccano (Tri/Mec) counterpart, the Glasslite Luke Skywalker has:
- Pale face, neck and hands
- Lighter yellow hair
- Equal eyebrows
- Darker trousers
- A Black belt
- Hand painted belt / trousers and hands (TBC)
- Excess mould flashing
- Melt marks (*)
- Unique Lightsaber
*Melt marks have been present on 3 of my 4 examples.
NOTE: A Meccano (Tri/Mec) figure with an identical COO is used for the comparison.
Poor QA also resulted in minor differences between batches.
- Differences in paint applications.
- Melt marks on the front of the torso.
- Mould flash (see on these example along the legs and arms)
The Glasslite Luke Skywalker belongs to COO family #I, this family contains three main COO marking variations.
The original mold tooling was stamped “MADE IN HONG KONG” where the production for the earliest version of this figure took place. During the products life and possibly as part of a cost reduction exercise production was moved to China, there the country of origin “HONG KONG” was machined out of the mold tooling and re-stamped with “CHINA”.
The last modification took place for the Meccano (Tri/Mec) line removing the “CHINA” COO by once again machining out the country of origin stamp in the mold tooling. This effect seen in the molded figure is referred to as a “DOUBLE RAISED BAR”.
This version of mold tooling was later shipped to Brazil and used by Glasslite and is therefore common to both the Meccano (Tri/Mec) & Glasslite.
The Glasslite Luke Skywalker came with a v8 Lightsaber compared to the Meccano (Tri/Mec) v4 Lightsaber. The Lightsaber which came with the Meccano (Tri/Mec) variant is not unique and is therefore labelled as Kenner/Meccano in the comparison photos below.
WATER TEST
- Both lightsabers float when placed in water
- Meccano/Kenner lightsaber sinks when tapped
