Hobby & Work Publishing Dinos - Collecta Knock Off's

[Blackdanter]

So, for the curious, here are some pictures of my Collecta knock off's from China. These were really tough to get but I managed a small number! Nearly all have the details hot knifed off of them leaving only the CE mark. I have one which seems to have escaped this treatment and it reveals that these were made for an Italian company called Hobby & Work Publishing. I wonder whether this is another magazine premium type thing along similar lines to the Salvat figures? They are actually really well made figures. The plastic is a kind of heavy acrylic and the finishing and paintwork is well done. It's a shame that the distributor treats them so badly as they are nearly all sent to me loose in boxes and suffer a certain amount of paint rubs.

Anyway, here are the figures. You'll either love them or hate them!





It turns out that these are a magazine premium! I wonder whether it folded before the full sequence could be released?

Here's a link to the site:

http://www.hobbyeworkpublishing.it/opere/bambini-e-ragazzi/dinosauri-3d

Here's the TV advert:

http://youtu.be/72DclFXGyZw

[SBell]

The funny thing is that CollectA recently acknowledged how badly they were ripped off for these figures, while admitting there wasn't a whole lot that they could do.

That could have something to do with the line ending early!

[Blackdanter]

The funny thing is that CollectA recently acknowledged how badly they were ripped off for these figures, while admitting there wasn't a whole lot that they could do.

That could have something to do with the line ending early!

Interesting Sean. So did Collecta enter into some form of licensing deal? I find it strange that one company would copy a line so widely and get away with it!

[Primeval12]

what does the CE stand for, I've always wondered that.

[stemturtle]

what does the CE stand for, I've always wondered that.

CE is the European Community mark that "indicates a product's compliance with EU legislation and enables the free movement of products within the European market." See Wikipedia.

[Jetoar]

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