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[Monsters For Sale]

The Larry Talbot face looks pretty good in that video.

[Universalrocks]

Figure looks great, I guess he gave it a good review. So I will go with what he said? Lol

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[Doh!]

Totally getting this... in B&W. Looks great here.

[marsattacks666]

Super rad

[MonsterBaker666]

So someone in Japan gets the figure before us? 

[Anton Phibes]

Was the reviewer speaking Japanese or Chinese? Legitimate question as I only know English... and a little bit of Klingon. If he is in China, it makes all the sense in the world. He could've had someone at the factory nick him on and bring it to him.

[Mike Scott]

Was the reviewer speaking Japanese or Chinese?

Japanese.

[Dr.Terror]

Japanese.

He's speaking Chinese.   No doubt he "borrowed" this frim the factory.

[Mike Scott]

He's speaking Chinese. 

They all sound the same, to me. 

[Dr.Terror]

The text can be confusing, (not to read,, just what  country. Reading it is not happening)   but once you know few key aspects of the languages..Chinese, Korean, and Japanese at least...it's pretty easy.    There are a few ways I thought myself using, but they would seem offemsive by todays standards.🙃

I think this his how the bootlegs get out there.   Maybe simeine knows better but arent they runs in the same factory after hours with less quality control?       

[SpeedierThantheGrave]

(In my amateur experience watching Chinese toy review videos, I agree it sounds like Chinese and not Japanese.)

This also happens a lot in the Transformers world - toy "reviewers" pay a premium to factory workers to steal them an early figure, so that they can be the first to post a video on their social media and gain followers.  These aren't bootlegs, but rather official figures that are stolen stock.  Because these are from the production run, these are usually accurate to what will be hitting store shelves, unless there's a small running change like paint applications or something along those lines.

I've always been curious what they pay, I'm sure any amount is attractive to a factory worker and wages they make.  But then I've also seen a couple videos where the reviewer is obviously mad - expecting a landmark release figure and it only being a repaint of a previous toy. 

[Count Zachula]

(In my amateur experience watching Chinese toy review videos, I agree it sounds like Chinese and not Japanese.)

This also happens a lot in the Transformers world - toy "reviewers" pay a premium to factory workers to steal them an early figure, so that they can be the first to post a video on their social media and gain followers.  These aren't bootlegs, but rather official figures that are stolen stock.  Because these are from the production run, these are usually accurate to what will be hitting store shelves, unless there's a small running change like paint applications or something along those lines.

I've always been curious what they pay, I'm sure any amount is attractive to a factory worker and wages they make.  But then I've also seen a couple videos where the reviewer is obviously mad - expecting a landmark release figure and it only being a repaint of a previous toy.

So....does this end up hurting the company in any way?

[SpeedierThantheGrave]

So....does this end up hurting the company in any way?

From what I've read in forums, not really.  At this point it's come to be expected: "Oh, ____ figure got announced, how many weeks until ____ get's their hands on one to review? Lol."  I'm sure companies like Hasbro are fully aware a few figures are getting skimmed, but they haven't seemed to take any action against it.

In many cases, it's not like the figure was top secret, because by the time it's in production it's already been teased and announced and preorders have been listed to buy it.  (Now, the occasional picture might get leaked of a partial figure that has yet to be announced, but those could be prototypes/paint tests, and not a complete and packaged figure getting reviewed in a video.)

The company isn't out anymore than the profit from that handful of figures.  Is it still stealing and wrong? Yes, but it seems low on the company's priority list.

[Dr.Terror]

Also has a Wolf Man for only $80.😂.


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[Anton Phibes]