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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 456759" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>8 weapons including 4 Leia blasters for £29.99? If it seems too good to be true... :roll: </p><p></p><p>I agree it is scary just how good these repros are getting. It's obviously being driven by the sky-high cost of originals, but where there's easy money to be made by counterfeiting, crooks will happily oblige. What surprises me more is that there hasn't been a scandal yet about fully repro carded figures being made that look genuine. Toy Toni used all original parts, which is how he managed to fool so many people, but much like really good counterfeit bank notes, if a newly printed / minted cardback, blister and even figure if necessary, were to be made that were virtually indistinguishable from the genuine article, crooks would make tens of thousands, rather than a few hundred off some Leia blasters :evil: </p><p></p><p>It's annoying as hell to think that this might happen, but when a Palitoy carded vinyl caped Jawa can sell for over £20,000, you can't say there isn't a criminal motive there to manufacture more :evil:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 456759, member: 7379"] 8 weapons including 4 Leia blasters for £29.99? If it seems too good to be true... :roll: I agree it is scary just how good these repros are getting. It's obviously being driven by the sky-high cost of originals, but where there's easy money to be made by counterfeiting, crooks will happily oblige. What surprises me more is that there hasn't been a scandal yet about fully repro carded figures being made that look genuine. Toy Toni used all original parts, which is how he managed to fool so many people, but much like really good counterfeit bank notes, if a newly printed / minted cardback, blister and even figure if necessary, were to be made that were virtually indistinguishable from the genuine article, crooks would make tens of thousands, rather than a few hundred off some Leia blasters :evil: It's annoying as hell to think that this might happen, but when a Palitoy carded vinyl caped Jawa can sell for over £20,000, you can't say there isn't a criminal motive there to manufacture more :evil: [/QUOTE]
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