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So, I purchased a Robocop Auto 9 prop replica, and I'm not familiar with the terminology or names of the parts but, something seems a little off, and I'm not sure if it's supposed to look like this on one side. 

As you can see I've highlighted the areas with a white circle, you can see a ridge line which separates the top and bottom part of the barrel? but in the picture where the trigger is to the right of the picture you can clearly see this ridge line is gone, it's smooshed, the area seems smudged, is this normal? I mean for this prop, is Robocop's like this in the movie? 

I've looked all over the Internet and it's definitely not like other pieces I've found.

Although on the prop makers website where I purchased this from, I've gone back and has another look and it's the same in the pictures  as it is in my hand , I can see this area in the website pictures but didn't notice it at the time of purchasing it.

Your help would be much appreciated, 

So, I purchased a Robocop Auto 9 prop replica, and I'm not familiar with the terminology or names of the parts but, something seems a little off, and I'm not sure if it's supposed to look like this on one side. 

As you can see I've highlighted the areas with a white circle, you can see a ridge line which separates the top and bottom part of the barrel? but in the picture where the trigger is to the left of the picture you can clearly see this ridge line is gone, it's smooshed, the area seems smudged, is this normal? I mean for this prop, is Robocop's like this in the movie? 

I've looked all over the Internet and it's definitely not like other pieces I've found.

Although on the prop makers website where I purchased this from, I've gone back and has another look and it's the same in the pictures  as it is in my hand , I can see this area in the website pictures but didn't notice it at the time of purchasing it.

Your help would be much appreciated, 

I'm hoping someone can please help me,  overnight the ebay app has become annoying,  with my " Recently Viewed " being empty,  I'm not sure if ebay has removed this feature as I found it quite helpful especially when keeping tabs on something I'm wanting to bid on but now it's just empty despite me not deleting anything, that and it's no longer at the top of the landing page instead I immediately see the Live events which I'm not interested in. 

I understand people actually like and use this Live feature and it's the future of ebay, I'm not interested in it nor will I ever be.

How in the blazes do I see my Recently Viewed items? 

I've cleared the cache,  I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app but still all I see is the Live feature and nothing in my Recently Viewed section. 

So here's my set up, my projector is a cube projector by YEZMEK from Amazon cost around £150, that's mounted on the side of one of my dvd shelf units around 9 feet across from the screen using one of those arm mounts, I've been watching around 6 hours a day now since last year around springtime. 

My screen is 100" it came with two options, to wall mount or use with the included tripod, I chose the former option,  there's a central hub that is attached to the wall with the screen being kept taut by aluminium rods.

The wall behind the screen is veneered with dark grey hexagon acoustic panels, with black ones veneering the sides of the dvd shelf units either side to which the screen is located to absorb the glare, the sound is Bluetoothed to an Oakcastle soundbar, which splits apart to provide stereo separation with a subwoofer somewhere in the middle off to the right providing a nice base to the sound. 

I know my 100" screen isn't very big compared to others and you could probably get a TV that size but I love feeling of a projected image it keeps with the aesthetics of being at the cinema, and a projected image is easier on the eyes.

I decided to rearrange my library so it has a video store ambiance, so some of my favourite movies with my favourite poster art the cases are facing forward.

My Steelbooks are mounted on the wall using simple application of masonry nails, the nails are driven in at an angle so their heads fit in the bottom seam of the cases with the cases leaning back against the wall. 

I made my own genre dividers with the likes of 80s Movies,  Comedy, Horror Sci-fi,complete with sub genres, such as,  John Hughes, my favourite comedy stars and types of Sci-fi movies.

I watch my movies on a projector with the wall lined with acoustic panels including the sides of the dvd shelf units,  the sound is Bluetoothed to an Oakcastle soundbar, which splits apart to provide stereo separation with a subwoofer somewhere in the middle off to the right providing a nice base to the sound. 

Gene Hackman plays New York Police detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, in director William Friedkin's 1971 neo-noir action thriller The French Connection, based on Robin Moore's 1969 book of the same name about narcotics detectives. The film went on to win five of it's eight nominations at the 44th Academy Awards in April 1972, and in 2005 the Library of Congress finding it to be "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. This 2014 blu-ray steelbook contains the new and improved colour timing transfer correcting the previous "atrocious" colour timing director Friedkin made altered for the 2009 blu-ray reissue, attempting to give it a "colder" look, to which cinematographer Owen Roizman, was not consulted about.

Does anyone else have to wait like forever for this disc to load?

I believe in physical media, and I am opposed to any form of censorship, digtal platforms such as the Criterion Channel and Apple TV In 2023 decided to censor a scene that contains racial slurs, this decision received backlash from fans and cineasts, who compared the censorship to vandalism and called out the decision for hiding its historical context. Joseph Wade compared the cut to vandalising a piece of art.

Gene Hackman plays New York Police detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, in director William Friedkin's 1971 neo-noir action thriller The French Connection, based on Robin Moore's 1969 book of the same name about narcotics detectives.

The film went on to win five of it's eight nominations at the 44th Academy Awards in April 1972, and in 2005 the Library of Congress 

finding it to be "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. 

This 2014 blu-ray steelbook contains the new and improved colour timing transfer correcting the previous "atrocious" colour timing director Friedkin made altered for the 2009 blu-ray reissue, attempting to give it a "colder" look, to which cinematographer Owen Roizman, was not consulted about.

I believe in physical media,  and I am opposed to any form of censorship, digtal platforms such as the Criterion Channel and Apple TV In 2023 decided to censor  a scene that contains racial slurs, this decision received backlash from fans and cineasts, who compared the censorship to vandalism and called out the decision for hiding its historical context. Joseph Wade compared the cut to vandalising a piece of art.

Here's a forgotten gem of a movie, I'm not sure where they got the print from, as it's as clean as cat's arse, like the first time I saw it in the theatre on it's general release back in '79, and this release even has the John Barry overture before the movie starts, just like Star Trek:The Slow Motion Picture the same year, my previous Disney Black Hole DVD ommited this, despite what Wikipedia says.

Now it's a DVD and an Italian release,  but since the only blu-ray to my knowledge is the out of print Disney Club thingy that's way overpriced to which Amazon is currently asking £499.99 + £1.60 for postage,  it's that postage that's a killer, this DVD will have to suffice as it says on the case cover " RESTAURATO IN HD " which translates to restored in HD,  the picture has indeed been restored,  not sure if it's been remastered as remastered and restored are two separate things for example my blu-ray of the theatrical release of the fore mentioned Star Trek movie has been remastered but not restored,  but my it's sequel The Wrath of Khan has been both.

But Google AI Overview says this...

"Restaurato in HD" translates to "Restored in HD" (High Definition) in English. It generally means an older film, video, or piece of art has been digitally remastered, cleaned, or rescanned at a higher resolution to improve its image and audio quality for modern viewing" 

I happen to be very knowledgeable about these things so I know not to trust the AI Overview as that slop is mostly wrong most of time.

I've been collecting since around the early 90s but soon switched from VHS ( I still kept some of them for sentimental reasons) but it's mainly DVD, then upgraded to blu-ray around 2015, yeah I was late, but I feel DVDs are still very much relevant these days as a lot of my titles haven't been released on blu-ray such as National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon, Office Space or Walt Disney's The Black Hole for example.

I've got my steelbooks on the wall, the shelf units on that side are home to 80s movies, with sub genre such as " 80s Sword and Scorcery " and " John Hughes " then there's the Arrow Video section, animation, including amine, and the comedy section starts at the end continues over to the other side, where the Criterion Collection is situated, I've got such genres as " 70s American Road Movies " " Sci-fi and Fantasy " again with it's sub genres " Aliens " and " Robots, Cyborgs and AI " and Horror " which is housed in the black ash shelves, and I designed and made the filofax style dividers that mark the designated genres myself out of different finishes of card.

The home cinema consists of a £120 projector from Amazon, I've had this now for 2 years, projected on to a tripod screen that I got from ebay for around £50 it came with the option to wall mount it, so that's what I chose, the hexicon accustic wall panels from Amazon really help soak up the echo and dampen the light spill from the projected image as does the black accustic wall panels I've installed on the side of the DVD shelf units to help isolate the screen from the units, the sound system is a modest 2.5 soundbar from Oakcastle, it splits apart to form two satellite speaker system each with two speakers each and the matching subwoofer all connect via Bluetooth for a wireless look, ok it's not some expensive, sophisticated sound system but it it's not a bad sound for the money and hassle free set up.

Here's my latest pick ups for the past week, 

Richard Donner's Ladyhawke being one of my favourite sword and sorcery movies of the 80s, and the score composed by Andrew Powell produced by Alan Parsons is amazing.

Bedazzled DVD (2000)

Red Sonja (1985)

They Live (1988)

Soylent Green (1973) " SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE ! "

Ananconda (1997)

Silver Streak, (1976) Spanish blu-ray release  El expreso de Chicago (originally released in Spanish theaters 1977)

Tango And Cash ( 1989)

Dragonslayer, region A locked (1981)

Ladyhawke (1985)

Beverly Hills Cop Trilogy remastered (1984, 1987, 1994)

Highlander (1986)

The Ice Pirates (1984)

Attack of the 50ft. Woman (1958)