Bootleg, knock off, generally illegal products. Yea or nay?

What are your thoughts on the bootleg market in the action figure, model kit, and related hobby industries? Please leave a comment or better yet, post a video response.

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Entertainment

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• bootleg
• boot
• leg
• knock
• off
• knockoff
• ko
• illegal
• products
• action
• figure
• toys
• plastic
• model
• kit
• gunpla
• plamo
• gundam
• transformers

[GamingRetrospective]

Not going to lie, I dont know whether or not I'd be able to tell the difference between the official product and fake ones. I'm glad i've watched your video.

[Guiltaur]

@GamingRetrospective - I'm glad you found my video useful. :)

[PistOffBruteStudios]

resign kits are made by b-club (which is a branch of bandai)

[Guiltaur]

@PistOffBruteStudios - B-Club makes a minority of the resin kits on the market.

[2Old4Toys]

What do you say to this? watch?v=Y67gcS5ATBI

[Guiltaur]

@2Old4Toys - It's a product that I classify as a KO as it, as far as I understand, is a replication of the MP OP action figure, albeit scaled down. Being a KO, I have no interest in it and I don't support it as it competes directly with an existing TakaraTomy and Hasbro product.

[mokanaman]

But the B-club stuff is prone to heavy recasting which to my knowledge Bandai has never challenged. Now to TT Hongli and Prime 92, from what I under stand P92 is sponsored by Walter Hobby and reviews the TT Hongli kits. With a very large following of 3000+ subscribers who rely on Prime to give advice in buying model kits. I see this as mass advertisement of a black market good. With numbers like this she can not claim innocents in showing off something she loves. That's my two cents...

[Tri3dgE027]

Plus I loled on Hongli's business goal (quoted from their website's about us page)

"All staffs of the company is active in developing new products with great passion to raise the company to a much higher stage with best development. "

Passion, development? What the heck?! All they've done is to take someone's design and use it for their profit.

[joshuagundamu]

my fav toyline gundam msia was recently discontinued. i would buy replacement shoudlers, or custom made weapons. also knockoffs are interesting things to find. not great, but interesting. i find it fun as a collector to try and find the knock off action figure gundams. but action figures are kinda different than models. in models, if i cant buy the official one because its non existent at present day, id get it knock off.

[darkz1820]

i prefer to get bandai product but for people who love to make custom ones for fun it's better to get a decent knock off one while getting getting actual bandai if entering any competition.

[orgxiiiaxel]

im on bandai side but to think of it some people cant afford to buy original bandai  model so they buy bootlegs..

[kmonsvik]

The biggest reason for me is just that the money goes to the right ppl, if everybody gave their money to the bootlegs, then Bandai would not be able to put out as many new products or put in as much research and development into their kits etc.

[OdeToSoIitude]

@vf1rj lol i thought she was a dude too, till someone told me shes a girl but i still choose to believe shes a guy.

[hidaditsme]

@mokanaman nah, if you look at my vids I'm a gundam guy. So i'm not trolling. Honest mistake on both of our parts, so It's kk. :D