Not sure where to even begin with all of this, seems like I dropped in at a fun time.
Kinda overwhelmed about what to even address, but let me try:
Holiday, two things...
First, I know how frustrated you are that you cannot just pop in on the Mondo site and purchase at will the prints you want like the old days.
Since the Star Wars license, Mondo has a bigger audience, and thus competition is high and fierce to get these.
'Cool' is what you mean by grabbing the Ansin Metropolis at your leisure when it sat there for weeks and weeks, 'uncool' is that you sat there and played the F5 game as of late and lost and are frustrated...that is what is really going on here. Your broad sweeping strokes of 'uncool' and whatever other negative adjectives you heap towards Mondo as of late is laden with bitterness because you couldn't get the prints you wanted over the past year or so (with ease, anyway), but its like that for everyone so now we get you playing the 'I'm taking my ball home/selling my Mondo prints so there' card. In other words, you are being a brat, and an entitled one at that.
Second, your choice word of 'reprint' on the Struzan Thing is a bit silly and downright wrong, especially by the Movie Poster ONLY Boys Club rhetoric that you have sworn by since the MPF days. This is a licensed screen print and is an art print at that. The Thing poster they sold in a bookstore by campus back in the day was a reprint. Yes the image been used before, but by the terminology that we have used for years around here its not a 'reprint' because this particular art piece was never done this way at all (dimensions, screens, run, etc...) before save the original painting by Drew.
Mel, you are essentially spot on with your post here earlier...it actually feels good for me to type that, so thank you.
Charlie, I think the fumes from your linen-backing apprentice/Padawan duties have done a number on your brain as of late.
Do some laundry. Get outside.
Generally, and more importantly, if folks loathe Mondo....why continuously post in this thread?
I know posters and this poster forum with its fraternity is what gets some of you up in the morning, but to not collect in this niche of movie/art paper and repeatedly say the same thing over and over for no reason is really amazing...in a bad way.
There are areas of movie posters I do not collect or enjoy, but would never think to go shit all over some thread about it. It is nerdy enough that I peruse a poster forum from time to time...to go out of my way to post the redundant and worthless sentiment that I hate a particular subsection of the hobby...well, that is the the 7th circle of Nerd-hell, IMO.