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by Ketchup_Revenge » Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:14 pm
I wipe it off the tile, the light is brighter this time, everything is 3D blasphemy.
My eyes are red and gold, the hair is standing straight up, this is not the way I picture me.
I can't control my shakes, how the hell did I get here? Something about this, so very wrong.
I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this. Is it a dream or a memory?
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by Naughty Kinto Un » Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:43 pm
I'm not someone who can verify their legitimacy, but those are nice looking figures in any case. They really capture the personalities of the characters.
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by Tanooki Kuribo » Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:54 pm
I'm pretty sure those are real.
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by Ketchup_Revenge » Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:25 pm
Naughty Kinto Un wrote:I'm not someone who can verify their legitimacy, but those are nice looking figures in any case. They really capture the personalities of the characters.
I agree. My favorite one is the Oolong one.
Tanooki Kuribo wrote:I'm pretty sure those are real.
Thank you because I was super worried.
These are the first collector figures I've ever acquired, so I haven't learned all the details about bootlegs yet.
I wipe it off the tile, the light is brighter this time, everything is 3D blasphemy.
My eyes are red and gold, the hair is standing straight up, this is not the way I picture me.
I can't control my shakes, how the hell did I get here? Something about this, so very wrong.
I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this. Is it a dream or a memory?
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by DBZnut » Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:42 pm
These are from the dragon ball banpresto DX series and there are bootlegs of these, though it's very hard to tell by looking at them.
I am not sure if these are bootlegs.
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by The Tori-bot » Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:46 pm
In Chinese, the tea Oolong's name is based on is directly pinyin'd as "
wūlóng", so it's not hard to see where they got "Woolong" from. Though one could argue that, like so many other things, it can be put down to Japanese people not knowing English (or, in this case, not knowing how to romanise Chinese to English).
There are plenty of funky English naming conventions to be found on Japanese
Dragon Ball merch out there (heck, look no further than the GOK
OU figure!), so I wouldn't worry about bootleggage based on that.
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by AgitoZ » Wed Dec 26, 2012 11:04 pm
Isn't the golden Toei sticker found on merchandise a good indicator of not being a bootleg?
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