Nowadays one of the best ways to tell if you have a knockoff or not is both the official logo as well as the holographic sticker that every official box now has on it.

It's extremely unlikely that there are knockoffs for Black Sun already.

Knockoffs tend to be of popular, highly profitable figures, and it helps when they are no longer widely available.

By inserts you mean the little paper instruction guides? I thought those were being phased out. I always wish toy reviewers on youtube looked at packaging more.

Sorry, I know I'm wording it pretty vaguely. I mean these things.

Zoomed in on a picture from my Geats that arrived a few days ago

Oh. Yeah those are common. They're put inbetween joints as a way to prevent paint rubbing off.

If you check out the video I linked, you can see the guy rip the figure straight out of the packaging and it has none of those plastic thingies.

I screencapped the moment from the video.

His belt looks like it is molded on to the groin piece. Do we call it a diaper? Anyway, no room to fit some of those little plastic thingies in there.

I wonder if the figure is just the color of the plastic and that’s why they did not include those plastic protection thingies.

Yeah, I know, I've been collecting SHF since Build, that's why I was concerned by Black Sun not having those in what seemed to be a sealed package, but...
Sounds like that's totally normal. Just my other concern then, the plastic feel. It's legs and arms are almost bendy, like how Hasbro 6inch figures feel. Though I've seen mention of recent SHFs plastic feeling lower quality, I haven't noticed anything of this lever on my Don Momotaro or Geats

I think what we should?ve asked first was where you got your Black Sun from. Was it from like Entertainment earth or Tokullectibles?

To digress a bit, I really hate those stickers they put on the back of the box. I am I know probably the only one in this forum to care about the back of the box but that's why I don't really buy US release. I don't have a good way to remove them as I don't want to take the risk of damaging the box.

A huge (insignificant) pet peeve of mine is stickers on cardboard slipcases, the kind you see on Blu-rays and such. Recently I learned you can hit it with a hair dryer and slowly peel it away without it completely ripping. Downside is there might be some glue leftover you would need to remove separately

It was Kappa Hobby. Hadn't used them before, but I did some research, they seemed legit