The Bootlegger's Ball

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1st April 2011, 07:15 PM
GoktimusPrime

The Bootlegger's Ball

This thread is for posting photos of very obvious (and sometimes hilarious) knock offs that no collector could possibly confuse for being legit.

Here in China KOs abound. It's really hard to find legit TFs. But the KOs are pretty shoddy... but here's some photos for a chuckle:

<cue.Benny.Hill.music>

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...tou/ko_dev.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...u/walmart2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...u/walmart3.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...t_animated.jpg

And here are some older photos of KOs I found in my last trip to China back in 2005-06:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ransformax.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...sformer_ko.jpg

I found some really hilarious ones today at a department store, but the staff kept shadowing me so I didn't take any photos. Some of them included:
* Oversized modified GoBots, e.g. Motortron as a police car
* Undersized Ultimate Bumblebee
* Several toys vaguely resembling movie toys... extremely poor imitations - so poor that they could arguably legally pass off as not being counterfeits cos they're so dissimilar!
* A KO Movie Starscream painted in Animated Starscream colours (only the grey-blue was too blue)
* A really poorly KOed movie Megatron in colours akin to Deszaras (probably unintended)
* An even worse imitation of Classics Hot Rod (oversized) in yellow.

That's all for now, but I get a feeling that I'll be seeing more before my journey here is done *sigh* I've only sighted legit TFs ONCE (it was like finding an oasis in a desert of counterfeits!) :rolleyes: And the legit stuff was nothing new. Gah.
4th April 2011, 12:11 AM
GoktimusPrime

Found these yesterday - KO Animated and Beast Wars toys
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ou/sunning.jpg

And found these today:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22.../sunning_1.jpg
+ KO Landcross, undersized w/ Decepticon logos
+ Undersized Vuldigus KO
+ Extremely undersized Fortress Maximus KO, with Brave Maximus' box art on the card!
+ KO Animated Safeguard
+ KO of some other Takara toy line but in packaging style similar to that used by Hasbro
+ (not pictured): undersized KOs of other G1 gestalts; Defensor (with red Hot Spot), Menasor, Superion

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22.../sunning_2.jpg
+ Movie 1 Leader Optimus Prime KO. The "Try Me" window is above the head which makes it hard to reach the switch on the belly, and the other toy is encased in a plastic bubble anyway, so you can't activate the switch!! Fail whale...
+ Ultimate Bumblebee KO
+ Animated Starscream KO

I also saw a remote control toy truck in the colours of movie OP. Unfortunately the store keeper wouldn't let me take photos. :(
4th April 2011, 09:52 AM
liegeprime

Gok if you do find a KO set of those Alphabet robots/ NUmbers robots can you grab one set for me please... You can bring em home loose, I couldnt care for the packaging anyhow :):) Mebbe even 2sets if they're really cheap - as in my budget for a set would be around AU$35-40, Thanks
5th April 2011, 10:50 PM
KillinSpoon

Quote:

Originally Posted by liegeprime

Gok if you do find a KO set of those Alphabet robots/ NUmbers robots can you grab one set for me please... You can bring em home loose, I couldnt care for the packaging anyhow :):) Mebbe even 2sets if they're really cheap - as in my budget for a set would be around AU$35-40, Thanks

This. :D If you find them bring back enough sets for all of us!
5th April 2011, 11:03 PM
LordCyrusOmega

I was in Paddy's Markets in Sydney a couple of years ago and saw that KO Devestator. At the time I thought it would be the closest I would get to Owning a G1 Devestator so I brought it for $8. Upon opening I found it was poorly constructed and mostly unpainted. So I gave it a paint job and displayed him combined. A short time later I realised that he was smaller then the actual release and into the old toy bin he went. First and last time.

They also had some funny stuff for sale. An activators Animated Starscream under the heading Distortion Android and some really bad ROTF Toys I hadn't found at retail. They looked exactly like the ROTF toys. Upon closer inspection they were actually Revenge of the allen (sic).

I love looking at KO's. They're so bad
15th July 2012, 09:49 PM
GoktimusPrime

I saw these fakes in Kyoto (near Kiyomizudera). Which was quite surprising because it's actually rare to find fakes in Japan (unlike China where it's hard to find legits :rolleyes:)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...kaizokuban.jpg
28th October 2013, 11:22 PM
GoktimusPrime

I found this in my recent China trip, and thought it was actually pretty cool!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ps13f116b7.jpg
A microphone Transformer! It's not technically a KO but rather a cheap original creation (AFAIK) -- but what a great idea! I wish Hasbro would get back into making stuff like this like they did in 2007's Real Gear Robots (which harkened back to the Microman-based G1 Transformers of the 80s :o).
30th October 2013, 05:53 PM
Demonac

I found these today at the local import salvage place.
That Soundwave is a lot bigger than the G1.
http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/...psbd14c5de.jpg

http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/...ps78543ddb.jpg

http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/...ps62b6616c.jpg
31st October 2013, 07:42 AM
Lint

Found these gems at Sam's Warehouse

http://i40.tinypic.com/30rmd8o.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/fnyg5y.jpg
10th January 2019, 11:41 AM
GoktimusPrime

He has Mondays!
https://i.ibb.co/q7zpKLL/temp.jpg
10th January 2019, 11:33 PM
Galvatran

Quote:

Originally Posted by Demonac

I found these today at the local import salvage place.
That Soundwave is a lot bigger than the G1.
http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/...ps78543ddb.jpg

I�d buy that just for the cassette tape alone. I�d even pay full RRP.
11th January 2019, 10:19 AM
SMHFConvoy

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime

He has Mondays!
https://i.ibb.co/q7zpKLL/temp.jpg

That's from obvious plant it's got the logo just over on the left, probably a one-off custom.
12th January 2019, 05:24 PM
CHILENO20

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime

He has Mondays!
https://i.ibb.co/q7zpKLL/temp.jpg

That one has been doing the rounds on social media :D
12th January 2019, 11:13 PM
Sinnertwin

Reminds me of the work Suck Lord would produce.
13th January 2019, 03:59 PM
Jetfire in the sky

What. The. Hell. :eek:

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime

He has Mondays!
https://i.ibb.co/q7zpKLL/temp.jpg
13th January 2019, 04:40 PM
CHILENO20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetfire in the sky

What. The. Hell. :eek:

Garfield finally got of his large butt and hit the gym :D:D:D
16th January 2019, 01:11 PM
SharkyMcShark

I think this is the right thread for this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki-leH8Dcpo

I'm quite taken with these. A couple of them are AOE Dinobot reshells and a couple of them are original tooling. The Grimlock in particular looks outstanding.