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Please do not lie. I'm clearing things up here about me and Poppunkmunky. Sadly you don't have any word to say about the truth because it was never fully explained to you. I said they own the printer because it let's you know what budget they have to work with and another reason why it wouldn't make sense to steal the designs. You were supplied reference pictures that showed what the Designer was using for his muscle template, and it looked pretty identical. To that reference picture. Do not listen to anyone else about this because they are not talking about the real story and do not know the truth. The people on eBay say otherwise. You will just add another to the group of people who are mistaken and succumb to peer pressure. Read the long post I made. It clears everything up about Flickr and Poppunkmunky. If I didn't make the Batbrick thing clear, the guy posting was not the same guy who was designing. What do you mean "even f you had enough money"? They make more than any other vendor?!?! I think everyone already knew Poppunkmunky hired a Graphic Designer.

There's already one from the game printed up. It's generally not a good idea for two people to make the same exact figure.

Interested in seeing your work. Already talking a big game ;) I would like to see King of the Hill figures.

If you knew me on Flickr, you would know I've said I am NOT an Graphic Designer. It has actually never been proven that Poppunkmunky deliberately stole designs. They have the receipts from all of the purchases of decals. And it's obvious they hired a Graphic Designer, as you can see by their listings. EliteGrafix was a name created by one of the members, and he based it off of another company he used to work for. In the design industry, it's not that uncommon to see someone purposely misspell "Graphics". I have no "alternate identities" as you claim. Like I said, if you want the truth or any one wants the truth, the only person to get it from is me because Poppunkmunky does not talk about it. I've given Eclipsegrafx money numerous times and that does not mean I'm him. What I'm doing is something similar to Kickstarter, but for the LEGO community. Anything anyone needs to know about what happened with Poppunkmunky and the people on Flickr can read my last post. Only way to get the truth. All the other stuff is bs and gossip.

Sadly, most of the people calling them thieves do not know the whole story, and are spreading lies. For what reason, I am uncertain of. I don't see why they are saying that they have multiple accounts. Poppunkmunky has never had a Flickr. They don't have the time. I am Jack Ho and I post pictures of their products and that does not make me them. PinnacleGrafix is not them either. They are accusing random people trying to slander their names. I've seen people try to give them a bad name just to bring their sales up. I believe they dominate all minifigure sales so it would make sense for everyone to try to put them down. 99% of the people have nothing to say have nothing to do with the situation either. The big question is why would a company who makes enough money to hire a Graphic Designer, steal designs? They are the nicest out of all the LEGO sellers I've ever spoken with. If you were wondering why people say they stole stuff is because they saw stuff from other companies/LEGO fans like FineClonier. But they never wondered why. I say they are the nicest people because they actually wanted to give money back into the LEGO community, they even take requests just to make a single person happy. Years ago, kids started to download decals off various sites and go to Poppunkmunky to buy them, stating them as their own. They trusted these kids, and eventually it caught up with them. They never "intentionally" stole any designs. They don't want to release any names because they "seller" requested them not to at the time. They hired a Graphic Designer a little over a year ago, so that would also make sure that nothing was ever stolen. It was up until recent where people really started to talk about it and somehow, the occurrences from the last few years were pinned on the brand-new designer. The designer went by the name of Bat-Brick. But there was a guy who asked Bat-Brick if he could use his name for something and basically what the guy who wanted to use his name did was just cause trouble on Flickr, "testing" the LEGO fans for some psychology project. I know a few of the people who will say they stole stuff would be saying it because of peer pressure. Because who wants to be the guy in the group who doesn't stick with the idea, right? Poppunkmunky or their now ex-Graphic Designer(slowing down on the side job) have never "replicated" someones work. They have never had a Flickr They have never intentionally stolen something They removed the stolen items from eBay(still in the process because they have a listing schedule and sometimes old products make their way on it) Another thing people do is try to find a problem with everything that has to do with them. People would actually post on my photos on Flickr, something like "I have never seen that in my life, but it's stolen". They will also try to compare it to other peoples work and try to come up with a reason on how they could try to convince people they stole something. I've seen someone call their Daredevil stolen off some guy on Flickr when the two designs contrast very much so. Something that happened over the summer was the release of Eclipsegrafx's Justice Kids(Young Justice). Some people may know, Pop had been printing Young Justice figures since early this year. But in the world of Flickr, that means nothing. So the next time Pop put out a Young Justice figure, people started calling them copied. It all has to do with the company's reputation in a certain area. Eclipsegrafx and the new customizer Phoenix Custom Bricks are both producing Captain America figures from the new movie. PCB was a week or so after Eclipsegrafx's, but not a single comment was made about someone copying someone. Now I bet if Poppunkmunky were to release one, there'd be 100+ comments on my stream and several comments just spammed on my photostream on random pictures. There was also an occurrence where someone was going to print a Dr. Strange, which Pop had planned since April or so. Poppunkmunky did not have the new UV Digital printer (which they own, let's you know what they have to work with and adds to why it would make no sense to steal), so they could not print the legs, and also, the design was not finished. So then in a conversation with that also new seller(who supposedly used other people's designs too, but guess what, no one cared) it was brought up that Poppunkmunky was going to release a Dr. Strange figure and some Future Foundation Fantastic 4 figures. The seller quickly jumped to defense because he mentioned earlier that he was making those figures(privately). He swore that his ideas were stolen, but little did he know, Poppunkmunky had been selling the FF Fantastic 4 for almost a year before. But then when Poppunkmunky said that they would delay their print of Dr. Strange(money away from their family needs) just so this guy could make a little pocket change. Then he took all his assumptions back Eventually he was taking way too long to get his items printed, that Poppunkmunky had people pushing them to print it, and they had been busy for the week and they picked two easy figures to print and then the assumptions came back from that person. This is also the same guy who had some custom prints from Christo7108 on eBay. These prints were valued a lot because they were """rare Christo prints""". He used Christo's name to boost his sales and Christo did not give him permission to do that and did not want that done. Poppunkmunky actually blocked him on eBay because of his morals. They sacrificed possible purchases because they did not want to deal with someone like that. That guy is the reason that Christo will not do any more custom printing of anyone, ever. A funny thing is because a few of the people calling them thieves, have stolen their pictures and replicated their designs and personal documents and posted them publicly on Flickr and Brickshelf. Hypocrites, trolls and instigators if you ask me. As for PinnacleGraifx(ex-EliteGrafix), I actually gave them money to get their first items printed(willing to do this for anyone given their idea and reasons) and that's all. You can see people's attempt to slander a name that has anything to do with Poppunkmunky. I have attached a picture of one of the emails(with some information blacked out) of someone selling stolen work. Note how they say they are moving overseas and they wanted a confidentiality agreement. I and Poppunkmunky are the only people who can really tell you the truth. And KingPixels, to answer your questions, it's worth every penny. The printing is great(very strong), it is a little thicker than usual but for me, that doesn't take away from the custom.

Guessing that you're talking about us since Christo and Poppunkmunky are the only ones with "real" Flash helmets. So I should clear this up. When you like a vendor don't get partial to them. So Christo makes a Flash helmet, anyone else can to. It was our own idea to make a Flash helmet because we are making all the figures from LEGO Batman. I would say the Poppunkmunky helmet is better than the Christo one(while I still admire his). I comes off as a bit more accurate and has rubber bolts which are removable. Christo's bolts break easily. The Flash helmets are both based off of LEGO Batman 2. That's where we got our idea. There isn't one person that a character is entitled to and no one else can make it. It's not like we're coming out with custom Yoda heads. We have other moulds like a Batgirl Cowl(released before LEGO had pics up of theirs), and she has removable hair. So it's 2 pieces. We listen to our fans, and incorporate what they want and what we think they would want when we make a mould. Such as the Wolverine Cowl. We have the mould made already and plan on hooking it up to the machine soon. It is a 3 part mask I believe. The ears come off and are interchangeable. After all, we're paying thousands of dollars just for one. Point is we make all our own stuff based off what we come up with as a team in the shop. Poppunkmunky's 5 for 25 deal is very good. I've used the service several times. They will even hire someone to make the designs for you if necessary. I have actually changed my mind after remembering something year's ago about Pad Printing. I would say that my old pad printing is better than other digital inks. Can't tell why but we will have a couple pad printed customs every now and then. And possibly might do the switch eventually. About who's best and such. I usually rate it on how well they do a character. Like I have a person I think is the best with superheroes, a person who's best with military, and person who's best with Iron Men, etc. We often do not get much time to prepare for printing. I think it's safe to say no one throws out figures like us. We used the do 5 a week. Now we spend more time on each design. So it's down to 2-3 a week. Usually people would prefer a better product(which we can totally handle), but our guys only have a certain amount of time, but still manage to throw out top notch figures. And then you have to learn your printer. Pad printers are relatively easy to learn. Digital printers are bipolar lol. When pad printing you don't get design errors where the printer somehow messes the design up. But you do get actual print errors. Like the pad may not pick up the entire design. I have numerous pad printed figures which are missing colors. I have Nightwing heads with no white in them. Only Black. I think I'm going to try out some pad printing with my special stuff again ;-) Thanks for the inspiration!

Also, thought I should add: I mean we print more items than just LEGO. Cell phone cases, laptops, USB's cd's, golf balls, etc. Not more LEGO's than LEGO's. Thank you.

Expert pad printers know that there is a lot of pad printing marketing in Germany ;-) But yes apples to apples, they both have their advantages. I think we can agree to leave it at that.

We are expert printers. We print more than LEGO, est. 2000We are on the same level as them because we're trained by them. Remember, we own all the printers. Who was the first to print 360 degrees with a digital printer on LEGO? Also, I didn't add the date that we did it. Our solvent pretty much never comes out. I've tested it against pad printing. Pad does eat a little into the plastic, but I don't think it's nearly as much as solvent. Which companies have you spoken to. Sounds like you've been talking to those DIY t-shirt printer guys. We also come from a background of printing. Printing is really only worth it if you're going to do other stuff besides LEGO. BTW, pad printing is old technology.

You should learn that printing on LEGO is just a needle in the haystack of digital printing. More and more companies ARE switching over to digital because it costs them less, they get a higher quality(more durable) product and it takes less time to setup(more or less). We know this from hundreds of other printers, and we aren't just in the biz for LEGO. I think I noted that pad is better for round surfaces, but digital can print 360 degrees too(think we were the first to do that on LEGO). It may be easier than pad though. We have experience with all those printers. Solvent I would say is the most durable because it eats into the plastic. It's thinner than pad printing. It should only be used on white surfaces though, or your color is thrown off. You can use white with solvent but is is unattractive. I prefer digital because you get more for less, and it still looks good.

Well.. We've been at this since 2000, so we have oodles of experience with UV, Solvent, and Pad printing. The lesson would be more suited for the other viewers. I do say Digital is indeed better(as a fact), because the longevity of the piece is really what matters. How good your product is. While Pad may offer a more aesthetic result at times, it is not the main priority. It is number two. It would actually be a better, smarter, and more economical decision to get a digital printer rather than a pad printer. More and more printers each day switch from Pad to Digital. I think we can agree that digital is much faster than pad(but is still not simple. It takes us a week to perfect 5 figures). In the end, you're going to get tires of making plates, cleaning ink cups or replacing trays, and having to take extra precaution with alignment. Different printers do give different results, and sadly, the thickest ink is the strongest. So far out of all my tests, we have the strongest ink and the most long-lived figures at that. And then you have the boot problem. I believe we were the first to solve that problem using a digital printer. There is a reason why we own both Pad and Digital. Pad is used for objects that are round, or have a lot of detail in them. But eventually, they'll have digital printers that are almost like pad printing.

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We do it for anyone who needs it. You send the design in and if we get to sell it(not profiting off it, just to get our money back for time lost and setup charges) and if we sell 5(almost guaranteed, and if not, I'm a nice guy) we send you one for free. Check here for more info: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98842834@N02/9523191225/

The sad part is. Unless you're a company, you don't need printing. Waterslide decals can give very very good results depending on the paper used, the ink and the color matching. Getting someone to apply them for you who has access to LEGO's color palette is a good option if you can't do it yourself. But if you just want the printed piece, we offer a service to anyone to get their design printed. You send the design in and we print it and send you a free one if we can sell 5 of them. We only do heads and torsos for the public though. It's in exchange for us to continue to sell the printed pieces to make up for lost time and setup fees. So we wouldn't be profiting off the design.

The other guy is incorrect on the price. These printers will run you $30,000-$150,000 and aren't for everyone. We do a lot of digital printing and will print for other people under certain agreements. I agree with you on digital over pad and not because of cost because we have pad printers too. FM me if interested.