[Shin Henshin]

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Originally Posted by DH21965

I rarely post but bootlegs/k.o. Figures will always be trash to me, because while they short-term work for a very small amount of people, they long-term hurt the official product with collectors like myself, who consistently buy all the official merchandise. My opinion.

I was agreeing until you made it a "Me" problem.

In a case like this, you have knock-offs that are either releases never done by Bandai like Cyclone or are of extremely hard-to-find and expensive releases like Eternal.

I also tend to avoid knock-offs, but I'm not gonna casually drop 250 to 300 dollars to try and get a real Eternal. If Bandai's not gonna consider reissuing it and a 3rd party company comes along and puts out a knock-off that is confirmed to be good quality and actually improves on the real thing, I'm swallowing my pride and going with the knock-off.

I normally advise against most knock-offs or supporting them, but when it comes to situations and examples like this? That becomes an exception until Bandai either reissues harder-to-find releases or redoes them.

Obviously plenty of respect if you choose to hard-no knock-offs wholesale though, that's totally understandable.