Quote Originally Posted by reillyd View Post
Not a clue. I've learned not to trust company press releases.... for all we know it could have been just a few ebay sellers....... or the douches who used stolen G1 molds to do KO.
Judging by this, I's say the later:

After a thorough investigation, three separate defendants, including two individuals and one corporate defendant, were found guilty of counterfeiting Hasbro’s trademarks and fined by the court, and the two individuals were sentenced to jail time. Thousands of counterfeit TRANSFORMERS products were confiscated and destroyed.