While on brick link, I ordered a mask that claimed to be a copper hau (tahus mask). Can anyone confirm the existence of a copper hau or was the person simply mistaken and actually had a metallic gold hau?
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there is a bronze/copper colored hau, I think there was
Yea im pretty sure there was one. I recall seeing n a photo somewhere, but when I search it up on google all I see are copper hunas and komaus, no hau, so im not sure if i got a metallic gold or a copper one.
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Edited title for grammer - Invader
No, there never was one. The seller probably has it confused with the gold Hau, like you said - that or it’s a custom.
I think the seller confused, as far as I’m aware there’s only copper Huna and Komau, you can check BS01 for the copper kanohi and the various versions/colorations of the Hau
Edit: Kapura’d?
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I only know of the copper Huna.
The gold coloring back in the day was very close to copper. Looking at a gold hau in front of me, I can definitely see how someone could mistake it for copper
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Like he said, gold looked sort of copper, so that’s likely what it is.
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Note how similar the copper and gold are. They probably just mistook the '01 gold Hau for copper.
(Kapura’d to the maximum extent)
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ive got an old gold one that i thought was copper, its darker than my gold miru’s and kakama
First of all AMAZING COLLECTION.
Most people are saying that its the gold hau, which is disappointing, but still cool
@Mechmaster oh ok so he must’ve confused it with mettalic gold then. Man i was relly hoping it was a copper hau
@Pereki it was in the parts section, ot custom so i can only assume that is isnt copper and that its metallic gold
@Leoxandar
http://board.ttvchannel.com/uploads/db5640/original/3X/6/c/6c76d40b0163cabd3d898dd7f84d3171e388861e.png
As far as this post shows, these are the only 2 copper masks
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Oh man, I wish it was mine.
Sadly, that picture actually belongs to Google Images. 
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Soooooo . . .
How do I tell y’all this?
(Golden pakari for reference)
(Second picture just for doubters who want to see production marks)
So yeah, copper masks definitely exist, but idk about a hau (don’t have one)
Edit: sorry abt the double posting, it’s been a while since I last was actively here
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Huh, that’s peculiar. Do you remember where you got that golden pakari from? The color looks a bit off to me.
just a local lego store. I have several other gold kanohi, all of them match color, so it’s not like it’s spray paint or something.
edit: just noticed the “copper” masks are slightly translucent
Does old gold decolor into copper, just like white turns into tan after sun exposure?
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The masks on the right look more Ike the gold masks I have than the one on the left; where’d you get the left one?
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As I said before, at a local lego store.
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That other gold Kanohi is very likely some sort of painted version. “Copper” was commonly used as a descriptor for the particular shade of gold used on the Kanohi from the 2002 Krana packs. This was a weird point of contention for me when looking through Bricklink for them back in the day. This has mostly been subsumed by “Bionicle Gold,” which I believe was specifically created for those masks.
As you might be aware, the process for molding metallic parts is subject to a wide variety of color inconsistency for these parts. Although silver is most commonly seen with this (Flat Silver vs Pearl Light Gray, etc…), metallic Kanohi have the same issue. All the ones I’ve had (a few full sets now) have been somewhat transparent. I hear this is due to the coloration being added in afterwards, but this is not confirmed and I hadn’t actually checked on this much.
People listing Copper, Metallic Gold, or Metallic Silver are usually just describing the regular release gold/silver Kanohi from the Krana packs. In terms of regular release, the only Copper masks are the Huna and Komau as Copper Masks of Victory. I’ve heard differing remarks on European vs American prints of the Huna, with the American ones supposedly being more transparent. Again, something I read on BZPower 15+ years ago, and cannot confirm myself.
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