VCJ / Jim Phillips bootlegs
The left deck is an ‘Autex Sports’ complete. The graphic is a crazy mix of the Rob Roskopp 3 from ’85 (designed by Jim Phillips for Santa Cruz) and Powell’s famous Ripper (by VCJ). It all looks pretty ridiculous: a violent Ripper seems to have eaten the monster and is almost strangling himself with a chain, acting all clumsy and the flames make no sense at all. The right ‘Alpha’ deck is clearly a counterfeit of Rodney Mullen’s Mutt deck from 1981, it even says ‘Mutt’. The board was relisted on eBay, since it ‘only’ reached $200 in the first auction, but that wasn”t enough for the seller.
Thanks to christopha80 for the tip and Omar for the pictures.
The Roskopp rip(per)-off:
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And the fake Mullen:
They even made an exact copy of the dragon top logo and put ‘Alpha’ instead of ‘Powell Peralta’.
A collection of known bootleg decks would be kinda cool. There are enough of them in circulation now that it would be worth doing.
I start asap my collection – with a pink Variflex Voodoo II – not a copy but a mockery in itself.
That Mutt was an odd choice for a bootleg, I mean maybe now, since it’s highly collectable, but then… It wasn’t that popular. Strange…..