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Post by indianadirk on Oct 30, 2007 2:09:14 GMT -5
The vendor of the Indy IV jacket has been announced now, its Tony Nowak (he made the Terminator 3 jackets) He cannot sell his jackets ( indy ones ) untill may 22 08. But you count on them not being availleble for any less then 800 dollars. www.tonynowak.com/ |
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Post by locoindhead on Oct 30, 2007 4:34:22 GMT -5
Any first looks on the jacket yet?
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Post by Kt. Templar on Oct 30, 2007 5:17:26 GMT -5
All the best of luck to Mr Nowak. With the caveat, please don't overprice yourself and don't brand the jackets with Indiana Jones labels or embroidery. Us fans are used to being spoiled with fair pricing and don't like kitschy embellishment.
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Post by Havana on Oct 30, 2007 7:15:58 GMT -5
This is an interesting development. Why didn't they go with Wested? I always thought Spielberg was a big Wested fan. Why the break in tradition? I could only guess money and merchandising. I was expecting the jackets to be made by one of the larger players on the US market who bought their way in for the sake of merchandising. I guess I was wrong on that one. I've heard of Nowak but I thought he produced mostly promotional jackets. Very interesting.
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Post by IndyBlues on Oct 30, 2007 7:37:20 GMT -5
I believe it was because Mr. Pollack wanted to keep things easy by using stateside vendors.
Nowak is practically "right next door" to him. Same thing with the hats, it was cheaper to ship hats from Mississippi, than from England. Steve and Marc had to eat the costs of getting Marcs hats to the States.
Bummer.
'Blues
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Post by Ragingblues on Oct 30, 2007 8:03:59 GMT -5
So the cat is officially out of the bag now huh? I was wondering how long we were going to have to keep this to ourselves. Yep, IB is right. The jacket and hat deals were intentionally kept stateside this time around to cut down on shipping time/costs and communication. That all makes sense until you find out how many hats they had made. There is no way on God's green earth they actually needed that many hats. I'm not sure how many jackets were produced, but I'm betting there was an extra few made for special cast/crew/head honcho types as well. I have all the Indiana Jones jackets I'll ever need, but I wish Tony the best of luck in selling these to the public. Not only are his prices going to be high, but this hobby in general, is a brutal bunch of over nitpicking jacket buyers. I'm sure the current few who make them already would agree.  Ken |
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Post by Ragingblues on Oct 30, 2007 8:10:07 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2007 16:02:52 GMT -5
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Post by Kt. Templar on Oct 30, 2007 16:35:05 GMT -5
I think most will agree that the 1st proto shown there is uncannily similar to the jacket it's meant to replicate. BTW you now know what this is!   (It is slightly incorrect the strap boxes are square rather than little rectangles, but I'm not quibbling!) |
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Post by IndyBlues on Oct 30, 2007 17:36:42 GMT -5
Nice jacket KT, but damn I hate those D-rings!! No offense to you, but Peter HAS to know no one likes those things. He's gotta!!!
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Post by Kt. Templar on Oct 30, 2007 17:42:26 GMT -5
Nice jacket KT, but damn I hate those D-rings!! No offense to you, but Peter HAS to know no one likes those things. He's gotta!!! 'Blues LOL, SA for this jacket and work fine with this thicker leather. Haven't moved since I got it. |
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Post by IndyBlues on Oct 30, 2007 17:49:20 GMT -5
Oops!! You're right, I forgot they were using the D-rings for the KOTCS jacket. I stand corrected, and shall go hang my head in shame.  Still, you're jacket looks great, SA rings or not. Mike |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2007 18:07:22 GMT -5
KT,
This is probably just me seeing things but it looks like the sleeves are double stitched where they meet the body of the jacket.
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Cheers,
John
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Post by Kt. Templar on Oct 30, 2007 18:17:37 GMT -5
KT, This is probably just me seeing things but it looks like the sleeves are double stitched where they meet the body of the jacket. ? Cheers, John Yes, they are double stitched. Kinda like this one  |
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Post by Marc on Oct 31, 2007 2:33:39 GMT -5
Not to hijack the thread, but I just read my name and wanted to reply. Bernie gave us his FedEx account number, so neither one of us paid a dime for shipping. This was all paid by "them". I just called up FedEx, gave them the account number and they fetched it without any further questions.
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Post by locoindhead on Oct 31, 2007 6:05:03 GMT -5
NYUK,NYUK,NYUK. Thanks for the thread link there RB I did not know that was there. And at the risk of combining threads, HOLY CRAP. Thats several pics put together?? Very cool, nice work.
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Post by Ragingblues on Oct 31, 2007 7:37:03 GMT -5
NYUK,NYUK,NYUK. Thanks for the thread link there RB I did not know that was there. And at the risk of combining threads, HOLY CRAP. Thats several pics put together?? Very cool, nice work. No problem at all. I was sort of joking by being able to show a pic of the jacket, just when it was being asked for. Thanks much about the jacket image, but it really was a pretty quick little job piecing two images together. We'll see more screen shots soon enough anyway. Ken |
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Post by Rock Ford on Nov 18, 2007 23:44:08 GMT -5
I agree that the price of Tony Nowak jacket is way out of line. I planning to get me a nice jacket also but 800 is pretty steep. My wife would kill me if I bought a jacket for that price. I think I would rather buy a nice handgun with 800.
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Post by Ragingblues on Nov 19, 2007 9:32:54 GMT -5
I agree. If paying a ton more money for an item like a leather jacket got you a ton better quality, it might make some sort of sense. But the reality is, you aren't getting a better grade of leather or even construction here. It will just be more expensive because of the person making the jacket and his usual client base. People in and around the movie industry may be used to paying enormous amounts of money for most things, but not the rest of the world.
I look at the potential pricing situation here like a steak dinner. Buying a $15-$20 steak will certainly be better than a $5 one. But, paying $100 for one will not get you a comparative jump in the quality of meat. With leather, there are only so many levels of either toughness or softness (depending on your idea of what the best is), that you can actually buy.
Paying more money for the design or construction of the jacket might be a valid point if we weren't talking about Indy jackets. We know very well that you can buy varying degrees of screen accuracy and quality of construction in these jackets between $150 to roughly $450. Spending $800 or more on a jacket would simply be because someone wanted to, and definitely not because they needed to in order to buy the best.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2007 9:41:25 GMT -5
I agree that the price of Tony Nowak jacket is way out of line. I planning to get me a nice jacket also but 800 is pretty steep. My wife would kill me if I bought a jacket for that price. I think I would rather buy a nice handgun with 800. I think I would kill myself for spending $800-$1,200 for a jacket that I can wear 60 days at Best a year. Cheers, G-MANN |
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Post by bendingoak on Nov 19, 2007 11:39:01 GMT -5
You guys haven't met my wife yet.
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Post by Kaplan on Nov 19, 2007 11:51:26 GMT -5
I agree that the price of Tony Nowak jacket is way out of line. I planning to get me a nice jacket also but 800 is pretty steep. My wife would kill me if I bought a jacket for that price. I think I would rather buy a nice handgun with 800. Amen to that.... $800 for what? Some leather stitched together in such a way that only a select group of people on the planet fully appreciate it? Or $800 for a molded polymer and high impact light-weight nitride steel engineering beauty that can fire more than 24,000 rounds without a component failure, and can be frozen to −42 °C and fired, frozen again, and then be heated up to 67 °C and fired, then dipped in mud and fired AND all with a grouping of 4 inches at 25 meters. I know how I'm spending my $800.  SPEAKING OF WIVES....for $800, Tony's jacket had better do something more than just keep me warm. It had better buy me a hotel room and a bottle of champagne...or something..    ;D |
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Post by GCR on Nov 19, 2007 12:08:10 GMT -5
I agree that the price of Tony Nowak jacket is way out of line. I planning to get me a nice jacket also but 800 is pretty steep. My wife would kill me if I bought a jacket for that price. I think I would rather buy a nice handgun with 800. Amen to that.... $800 for what? Some leather stitched together in such a way that only a select group of people on the planet fully appreciate it? Or $800 for a molded polymer and high impact light-weight nitride steel engineering beauty that can fire more than 24,000 rounds without a component failure, and can be frozen to −42 °C and fired, frozen again, and then be heated up to 67 °C and fired, then dipped in mud and fired AND all with a grouping of 4 inches at 25 meters. I know how I'm spending my $800. SPEAKING OF WIVES....for $800, Tony's jacket had better do something more than just keep me warm. It had better buy me a hotel room and a bottle of champagne...or something.. ;D Agreed...something tells me Nowak won't be selling a whole lot of these jackets for $800 bucks a pop. Not when people balk at paying HALF that for a great Raiders jacket in the G&B. Original maker or not, $800 is too steep for a jacket that, as far as I'm concerned, doesn't really hold a candle to the Raiders jacket. By the way, Kap, that HK sure is a beauty. What model is that, anyway? Is it a USP? Forgive my ignorance, I'm afraid I let my subscriptions to Guns & Ammo and Handguns expire a while ago. -GCR |
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Post by Kaplan on Nov 19, 2007 12:09:17 GMT -5
that's a HK USP compact in .45 auto
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Post by indianadirk on Nov 19, 2007 12:23:34 GMT -5
from what i've heard its not 800, its more than that!!
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