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> "KT3000" <kt3
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>> My understanding is it's a term used in film memorabilia collecting
>> to label costumes and, props which are the best most detailed
>> versions created for use in closeups.
>> For example with alien playing cards there may have been one or more
>> fully detailed decks created for use in closeups but in wide shots
>> of a room of card
>> players most of the players might actually only be playing with
>> pieces of colored cardboard. In that case all the decks could be
>> billed as prop decks but only any fully detailed decks should be
>> billed as hero decks.
> Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
> I thought it was somehow being used in the usual
> sense.
To some degree I suspect it is. I wouldn't be surprised if the useage derives
from the tendancy of a hero of a piece to get most of the closeups and so
stuff associated with a hero or used in a hero's proximity tends to be the
most developed.
And this is speculation, but the strangeness of the usage may be due to it
being a translation of a usage that first developed in Japanese. I don't know
but the first time I encountered the usage it was with Japanese memorabilia.
It had me scratching my head at the time also.
Ken
