Knock-off figures - general discussion

[pylraster]

Ahaha. Perhaps one of those factory workers is aware that the hands shouldn't be pronated, and went and "corrected" it anyway. Though Im willing to bet that they just did it out on a whim.

[Libraraptor]

Haha, do you guys see the irony in that? Schleich is the only company which is ripped off by bootlegers and the fake product shows improvements compared to the original.

Schleich "quality"  mended by the fakers 

[Takama]

Look what i found at Walmart in the same isle

[DC]

Fake Papo Archaeopteryx.... I think? 

I would assume so on Ebay it sold for $4 my local retail store wants $21.  I saw the same packaging arond what looked like a Schleich Styracosaurus.  Schliech has been it pretty hard by copies lately this the first I have seen for Papo.

[pylraster]

Look what i found at Walmart in the same isle

Better pose! Hahaha! I bought a fake Giga this afternoon too and it has trouble standing. The toes are too soft. Waste of $3 I guess.

[Rathalosaurus]

So now we got this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/231666671985?rmvSB=true
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/331638349102?rmvSB=true

[CityRaptor]

The Carno looks like the unholy union of the Papo Carno with the Schleich one...


Papo, Schleich and Collecta knock-offs:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/ANIMALI-DINOSAURI-20-25cm-37417-/111728978008?hash=item1a0390e858

Geoworld knock-offs:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/DINOSAUR-WORLD-CONFEZIONE-3-DINOSAURI-ASSORTIMENTO-NUOVO-GIOCACI-111659-/171903889658?hash=item28064530fa

[pylraster]

Geoworld knock-offs? The originals were terrible already. These are just... uh...

[Viking Spawn]

Wow!  The knock offs have really got plentiful and even out of hand.  I'm surprised none of the real companies haven't done anything about it?!  Or did they commission their molds to lesser companies...?  Which wouldn't make sense.   

[Takama]

Good time to post this

[sauroid]

i don't know if the companies can really do anything about the plagiarism. those chinese manufacturers operate covertly, and as far as i know they dont print their office address on the package/label.

[tyrantqueen]

and as far as i know they dont print their office address on the package/label.

Sometimes they do. I had a set of Safari bootlegs that did. Guess they couldn't resist the chance for self promotion. I passed it onto Safari.

[SpittersForEver]

If you go into Poundland you will probably see some safari knock-offs with Papo box art 

[Raptoress]

Ah yes I see those all the time. XD Just wish they actually had Safari dinosaurs where I live. Genuine ones, I mean.

[LophoLeeVT]

that holy carno.... soooooooo long arms maybe i have uncovered a spezies: carnotaurus longichairus....

[Hypsi]

Just saw this guy on Ebay.





I like the colors! Maybe not the paint job, but it's decent.

[Dilopho]

Just saw this guy on Ebay.





I like the colors! Maybe not the paint job, but it's decent.

Oh no, he's not a bootleg! He's made by Megasaurs, and if you look on his foot it says Saurophaganax. It was apparently purposely made to go along with the papo allosaurus, for the sculptor's kids who loved Saurophaganax. That's why it's just a little bit bigger than the papo allo, too. It comes in three colours!

[CityRaptor]

Sounnds like a lame excuse to justify them making a bootleg. What a bunch of jerks!

[Dilopho]

Sounnds like a lame excuse to justify them making a bootleg. What a bunch of jerks!

It's not a bootleg! But it does copy a lot. I thought it was a bootleg at first. It's a shame that the Megasaurs line ended before they could release the battling dinosaur figures- figures of dinosaurs locked in combat, such as a tyrannosaurus covered in troodontids, or the dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) with prey, including an *incredible* realistic carnotaurus, better than schleich and papo. But the company got sold to another company which didn't care much for dinosaurs.

[Uroplatus]

Sounnds like a lame excuse to justify them making a bootleg. What a bunch of jerks!

It's not a bootleg! But it does copy a lot. I thought it was a bootleg at first. It's a shame that the Megasaurs line ended before they could release the battling dinosaur figures- figures of dinosaurs locked in combat, such as a tyrannosaurus covered in troodontids, or the dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) with prey, including an *incredible* realistic carnotaurus, better than schleich and papo. But the company got sold to another company which didn't care much for dinosaurs.

Seriously? 
It's looking like nothing more then a shameless Papo knock-off to me...