When your copy gets past the cage at a casino, there should be no surprise when even
Tina decides things have gone too far!
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/cards-mold-arias-500-chip-cashed-at-the-aria.110134/
We're so busy making copies of copies around here anymore, I start to wonder if anyone has fresh ideas? *
[BEGIN RANT] * There are still plenty of amazing and original sets being made, so this is partly a tongue-in-cheek jab. I recall there was a "creativity collective" or similar back on CT that was there to encourage and support original designs and design ideas. I don't recall it gaining a lot of traction (surprise, surprise) before the start of the great void or my earlier departure from here, but with the number of threads around here lately asking "where can I get Aria replicas" or "how do I make a copy of X" threads and posts, I wonder if something similar might be worthwhile.
There is a "grail set" thread around here. For myself, I could easily quit chipping, as in "log out and delete bookmarks" level quit, with a set of full-size inlay MGM Grand chips... cash, tournament through the $5000 (and beyond?). That would be
my personal grail. Despite the ease of it, just can't make copies, Tina or otherwise. It's not the same. It's not a cost issue, but I just couldn't do it. It's no longer the Grail, but a cheap copy.
I'm happy if it makes you happy, but making a replica like this is the equivalent of the kit-car to the Ferrari 250 Spyder in Ferris Bueller. (which ironically, was a kit car in most of the shots...but I digress).
It just feels like many folks don't want to make the effort to make chips their own, and that's a shame. In this time where we have Tina to make quite amazing chips for a surprisingly remarkable price (they have become
the starter chip for incoming chippers... and perfectly respectable forever chips for "one-and-dones"),
CPC still turning out the last of the cutom clay chips and remarkably original ceramic chips that don't try to be clay, I stopped counting the number of threads that want copies of the Aria chips many threads ago.
Do someting
original or at least make an honest tribiute rather than an cheap-ass-copy.
[steps off soap-box and back to the shadows]
