On a serious note, I know that you can find re-casted headsculpts on Ebay, but has there ever been a fully bootlegged HT figure?
On a serious note, I know that you can find re-casted headsculpts on Ebay, but has there ever been a fully bootlegged HT figure?
That was one of the worst ones. Don't think it's been topped yet.Yep.Origins Wolverine, box and all.
Re casts shouldn't happen. If anyone re casts a custom sculpt it's looked upon badly, yet no one seems to care when a HT sculpt is ra casted and sold.
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What's to snitch about? No one hides their recasts, bootlegs, etc. It's all in flagrante delicto
Maybe I didn't word that correctly. I just didn't care for hot toys trying to make it the communities problem instead of their own. As per the confusion in this thread I think it would be easy for people policing sixth scale to point out third party offerings and not just hot toys knock offs. Bleh. Anyway, I do in fact support hot toys going after purely knock-off figures. I don't support this creeping into third party lines.
Didn't HT start by doing unlicensed figures?
Is there a list of everything hot toys bootlegged back in the day? I'd find that interesting.
The yellow packaging is the second wave release of those figures, the first wave had the black and grey packing the Director has there.Hot Toys did not bootleg any figures, they just made some unlicensed figures. there is a difference. They didn't take someone else's toy, copy it, and resell it. At first, they put out a Neo Matrix, a Tom Cruise, and a George Lucas figure without a license. But nothing was re-casted, or stolen off another toy, then resold. Here were their first 3 figures ever made. kind of funny to see now
The yellow packaging is the second wave release of those figures, the first wave had the black and grey packing the Director has there.
I had written a whole diatribe about this before rethinking and deleting my post. I'll post some of the other unlicensed figures Hot Toys has made.
In the year 2000, they released their Famous type figures; "The Director", "Neo", and "Ethan" which are intended to be George Lucas, Neo from the Matrix, and Ethan Hunt from Mission Impossible 2 respectively.
Then they made look-a-like figures. Such as Tom Cruse as Maverick from Top Gun that they called the "F-14 Aviator" and a Will Smith as Capt. Steven Hiller from Independence Day that they called the F-18 Hornet pilot "Alan J Nance". There's also the many early head sculpts from Hot Toys that look like notable actors that Hot Toys did not have the rights to make such as Vall Kilmer as their second version of the F-18 pilot figure (this could be used to make an Iceman from Top Gun with the F-14 release's suit)
I believe Hot Toys even got a Cease and Desist on their "The Director" figure from Lucasfilm.
Yeah, these figures look like shi- by today's standards, but they are Hot Toys figures that clearly infringe on movie license rights.
Some more pictures:
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