I follow this thread religiously, just waiting for muppetperson to give us more information on Rizzo. My replica's are some of my most prized possessions and I am intensely waiting to add to them with efx's absolutely amazing reproduction.
That said, I really wish that the bickering would completely stop here. It's poisoned this thread and made it extremely uncomfortable. In this situation, I'd probably side with Muppetperson because reading through the thread I honestly don't see that he did ANYTHING to deserve any kind of negativity. Not sure why it's occurred. No offense, frogboy, but I feel like you've hijacked this thread and turned it into an argument that doesn't need to exist, based on false accusations.
If muppetperson was doing ANYTHING it was just trying to offer us little glimmers of hope here and there with still trying to remain reasonable and manage our expectations. It's been obvious from the get-go that Efx's line was going to be a TINY bit more expensive than MR's because MR's story is a cautionary tale. They obviously went about it wrong and suffered as a result. And as fans, we almost lost an amazing opportunity: to get more replicas. But thank God, Efx came in and are trying to satisfy us the best they can. In my opinion, Rizzo is not the most important replica I could own, for sure, but he is a PERFECT starting point for a company that has not actually produced any replica's like this before. He really is a great test subject (no rat pun intended!)
In any case, I hope that any negative discussion here can be ceased so we can continue to read this thread without this awkward distraction.