This shrink is wrong, right? Wasn't early shrink loose baggy and sort of pathetic? Followed by constricting shrink that wrinkled modules? I don't think they got it right till S3 where the shrink got brittle that it was decent. It wasn't good shrink until D1-D2, right?


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96.33% sure that is original shrink. If someone were going to fakeshrink it, they wouldn't wear down one corner and split it in what looks to be the typical corner-split shrink.

Looks like a classic reshrink job to me. That seam down the right looks especially wrong. The ones I've seen (owned) have baggy ("bubbly") shrink. I'm not certain but I think later shrink issues had an h-seam. This looks like neither.

Just my opinion, I think that is game store reshrink that was done a long, long time ago.

Edit: I should say "my gut feeling"

At least we are sure of our opinions.

FoulFoot wrote in Right or wrong?:Here's a nice example of that sweet 70's shrink:


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Foul

Back in the early 80's I worked in a record store and we had a shrink stattion to re-shrink records. It was simply a dispenser for the plastic wrap that had a cutter and a hot air blower that would shrink the plastic. It made the wrap very tight with a single seam where the two cut ends would melt together. When you see old shrink wrap like this then it was probably done in this process. Cheap machine shrink produced a lot of loose baggy shrink. TSR later used a process with a more brittle and stiff plastic that left a fold across the middle back of the module. There were a lot of inconsistencies with the production of modules and they may have hand shrunk some themselves at TSR but im always leery of modules that look to have been done with the hot air blower method.

I could certainly agree with it being a reshrink BITD; I thought he meant the SELLER reshrinked it.
I've never really understood the obsession with shrinkwrap. Kinda similar to being married to a virgin for life, no?

Ah, a trophy wife. Got it.