[ukmu]

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Originally Posted by Truebelief80

That was some pretty good timing, perhaps Mr. UKMU himself has a moment to drop some knowledge?

But if I remember the jist of it was that Hasbro contracts these factories to make a certain amount of these figures, so after that quota is met rather than shut down operations they keep going until the end of the day and take that surplus to auction houses to offset production costs. Many times those figures, often considered bootlegs because they don't come in official packaging, are of the same quality as what we can buy off the pegs. This is what can be found right now on ebay from the likes of viperskingdom and so on. Many collectors don't consider these figures bootlegs, more like factory seconds or sometimes even rejects with 2 left hip joints or whatever.

An actual bootleg (to me, anyways) would be any figure that comes with a flashlight in it's chest or some similar gimmick in which it can be classified as something other than a toy to avoid copyright/trademark laws.

But UKMU definitely knows more about this stuff than I.

aaaaand he beat me to it lol. Good on you, UKMU!

Fonzie says, correcto-mundo.

And as for the current PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST and world policing conversation..... seems like a fair debate. We love to complain about about our hobby I bet we could solve this dilemma in two pages!