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Post by Chen on Jun 21, 2004 14:32:35 GMT -5
I don't think any of my SOC's have stickers and I'm positive that the Zambot I got today has no sticker on it. But I'm not worried since I know there not bootlegs since it would cost to much to bootleg a SOC, especially for anybody who isn't a multi billion dollar company.
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Post by andrewdsz on Jun 21, 2004 19:07:53 GMT -5
I had three GX-18 getter dragons before, one without siticker and two with it. I opened them and make a comparison, no differences at all.
Same story happened to one of my mineva x, they both beautiful and identical.
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Post by gerb on Jun 21, 2004 20:49:39 GMT -5
Like Andrew says, this isn't new at all, its been going on from the very beginning.
It happens for most of the toy lines produced in China and or HK. Story is that chinese and HK factory workers often sneak some off of the production lines, whether it be the ones that didn't pass the QA/QC checks or just left overs, simply meaning that they aren't legally being distributed. The quality may not be as good as the ones that do have the stickers but technically they still rolled off the same factory lines and are SOCs. EBay is of course what motivates this to happen.
A bootleg would be your classic recast. i.e. the boot for GX-01 being produced in Mexico (MX-01 as mentioned at TBDX), its entirely plastic and it has no working joints.
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Post by GDomino on Jun 21, 2004 22:06:19 GMT -5
Like Andrew says, this isn't new at all, its been going on from the very beginning. It happens for most of the toy lines produced in China and or HK. Story is that chinese and HK factory workers often sneak some off of the production lines, whether it be the ones that didn't pass the QA/QC checks or just left overs, simply meaning that they aren't legally being distributed. The quality may not be as good as the ones that do have the stickers but technically they still rolled off the same factory lines and are SOCs. EBay is of course what motivates this to happen. A bootleg would be your classic recast. i.e. the boot for GX-01 being produced in Mexico (MX-01 as mentioned at TBDX), its entirely plastic and it has no working joints. What he said, all of mine have the stickers cos I don't buy my SOCs of Ebay.... the only real guarantee to have a legit SOC would be buying from a reliable retailer like HLJ or BBTS. |
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Post by Gransazer on Jun 22, 2004 13:08:07 GMT -5
I agree with andrewdsz. Zambot would be much too costly a piece to hack. Even if they did manage to get their hands on the materials, the process is far out of the best bootlegger's league.
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Post by Lanmandragoran on Jun 30, 2004 7:37:40 GMT -5
My take on the bootlegs:
Most bootlegs have brittle palsitc, crappy paint aps and never, never have equal boxes or instruction bookleets.
Let me add one information for you.
Bandai has an agreement in Brazil for the distribution of their cloth myth line, as Saint Seyia is huge here.
All boxes are equal to their japanese countrerparts expect for a sticker with the "Long Jump" brand, their official distributor.
If tehy have such a dela in Brazil for cloth myth, it makes perfect sense to me that they might have a siimilar deal with Daniel & Co in HK for SOCs.
Just my 0.02.
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