Knock-off figures - general discussion

[Dilopho]

Can anyone show me pictures of the Mighty Megasaur Spinosaurus?

I like that company. Even though they are almost all "mix and matched" parts from different dinosaur figures- for example, the Dilophosaurus has papo running rex legs and original, yet well-sculpted head.

They sent me the Dilophosaurus for free because I sent a little review of their Velociraptor mini to them after I got it for Christmas. Good people. I asked if a Mosasaurus was possible since JW ones are too hard to find and they said it would be too hard to make a waterproof toy but that's not what I meant! Haha.



I was the first in the world to own one! Felt really cool! It was at the same time that I won the Protocast contests, I was like...
woah! I've never won ANYTHING before! Now two dinosaurs! Amazing!

[Silvanusaurus]

Are 'Mighty Megasaurs' and plain old 'Megasaurs' made by the same company?

[CityRaptor]

Probably.

First one, based on The Lost World: Jurassic Park


Second one, based on Jurassic World


Possible Indominus and red Schleich T.rex bootlegs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLadJnxsmWQ

More bootlegs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA2TW5hlsTs

That reviewer seems to have tons of them...

[Dilopho]

No, i am friends  on line with her. They are repaints. The indominus is a repaint. The rexes are official colour variations. Sorry for wierd reply here i am on a tablet and not used to flat keybosrd screen thing.

[Dilopho]

Okay, I'm back on a computer now so I can give you a proper answer.
SuperFunReviews repainted her Indominus rex figure because it can change colour. She does a lot of dinosaur battles. The green and red one in that video was the "original" repaint, but since she uses a greenscreen, it was kind of...messing up a little bit? So she repainted it blue!

As for the schleichs, those are real colour schemes and real models!

She only buys proper models.

Are 'Mighty Megasaurs' and plain old 'Megasaurs' made by the same company?

No. Megasaurs are by HGL. Mighty Megasaurs are by Dragon-I.
Dragon-I tend to do the "main" dinosaurs only. Spinosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Dilophosaurus and Pteranodon. They also do dragons. They usually always have a gimmick or action feature.
HGL's Megasaurs are just regular figures. A lot of them are the origin of chinasaurs, such as the humped Megalosaurus. They used to be something different in the 90s I think.
They tend to have more original sculpts.
Here's some examples:
MIGHTY MEGASAURS





MEGASAURS

[CityRaptor]

No, i am friends  on line with her. They are repaints. The indominus is a repaint. The rexes are official colour variations. Sorry for wierd reply here i am on a tablet and not used to flat keybosrd screen thing.

Ah, repaints. Thought they were "high quality" bootlegs. So she has the golden T.rex, too?

[Dilopho]

Yes.

If you want some more examples of MIGHTY Megasaurs copying...




It is clearly based on Blue. Maybe not copied directly from the mold but they clearly took a lot of influence. Better action feature though. Legs kicking make much more sense for a Velociraptor.

[Silvanusaurus]

Oh, that's interesting. I had previously assumed because of the shared 'Megasaur' name that they were both lines from the same origin. HGL's Megasaurs certainly strike me as the more interesting. Thanks for the info Dilopho.

[BlueKrono]

Pertinent article. Shows not only the damage knock-offs sellers can do to the originator of a product but also Amazon's policy on the matter:

http://www.aol.com/article/finance/2016/10/25/counterfeiters-on-amazon-are-putting-this-company-in-jeopardy/21591460/

[CarnegieCollector]

Wal-mart has just recently started selling schleich knock-offs....yes, schleich is the high-quality dinosaur brand they sell, yet they are selling bootlegs of them.

The brand seems to be a wal-mart exclusive called "adventure wheels". There are 3 sets, each one comes with a "Hunter dude", weapons and tools (like pickaxes), a truck, a trailer, and of course, a knock off schleich.
They are:
Triceratops
T-Rex
Gigantotosaurus

They look exactly like schleich, only they are somewhat smaller, have slightly different colors, and have a big gaudy button on their side that, when pressed, emits that stock dinosaur roar everyone is familiar with. It goes something like this, and is very high pitched: EHHHHHHaaaaaerrrrr. Then it repeats 3 times.

Quite amusing. 

https://www.amazon.com/Adventure-Wheels-Dinosaur-Explorer-Playset/dp/B015UTEN8A

And no, they are not that expensive in store.

[stargatedalek]

I can top Walmart selling Schleich and bootlegs, Animal Planet has started licensing Chap Mei bootlegs.

[CarnegieCollector]

I can top Walmart selling Schleich and bootlegs, Animal Planet has started licensing Chap Mei bootlegs.

Holy gosh wow mackerel, that's crazy! Isn't  Chap Mei owned by animal planet? If so, that is even more crazy.

I saw some chap Mei knock offs at Grocery Outlet a week or so ago.
They were packaged in an oversized box (that looked pretty cool though), and each one had a plastic tree, a ceratosaurus that looked OK, a parasaurolophus (made from that same mold we see everywhere), and a...*sigh*..."raptor". It didn't have a sickle claw. It didn't have feathers. It had a strange head. It looked like a megalosaurus... Also, despite being rubbery plastic with no articulation, they had enormous screw holes. All over the place.
Any-who, the piece of resistance, was the chap Mei rip offs that seemed to be the main part of the set. It was the Spinosaurus, the Utahraptor, and a Jurassic park 3 Triceratops knock off.
They were slightly smaller, had very very dull coloration, and made stock dinosaur sounds (and they all sounded the same).

They cost as much as offical chap Mei toys (which are much better).

Oh yeah, and they were officially licensed...
Guess who...



Smithsonian.

Yes, you read that right. Smithonian. Chap Mei molds are NOT museum quality. They make great toys or Jurassic park style dinosaurs, but they are not museum quality.

[Archinto]

Id say one of my most hated knockoffs are the imitation Lego dinosaurs. It makes it difficult to find the real thing there are so many fakes out there.

[CityRaptor]

The seller of these knock-offs claims that they are genuine Schleich...yes, even the Papo and Rebor ones.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/SCHLEICH-Alle-Dinosaurier-zur-Auswahl-Tyrannosaurus-Therizinosaurus-Anhanguera-/272442101655?var=&hash=item3f6ed08f97:m:mqyxTV3MisDal9m8SWLxK9Q

[Flaffy]

Found some knockoff figures of the AAA prehistoric mammals. On TaoBao.

[sauroid]

those are really bad copies of the classic AAAs. the synthetoceras looks particularly horrible.

[CarnegieCollector]

Found some knockoff figures of the AAA prehistoric mammals. On TaoBao.

The entelodont seems to be aware he is a knock off. He seems ashamed.

[docronnie]

It's now hard to determine on Ebay if they're selling the real thing or the fake ones. It is reallly much better if you could see and hold the item.  But then again, not all of us have this opportunity.

[CityRaptor]

Yep, that is exactly how it happened in the movie.

Found by "The Dinosaur Man" and posted on JPToysforum.

[Lanthanotus]

Oh my, nice find,.. that raptor looks like a broiler jumping from the grill