Bootleg

Be very careful on buying this Alter 1/8 Mokyu Mokyu Dark Saber, plenty of anime shops have bootleg version of this Mokyu saber (and obviously the sword version too..). This figurine is a wonderfest limited edition figurine, so it’s actually a rare figurine, most shops in Japan are selling this figurine for more than 9000yen.

I did some research about this bootleg figurine, and found the differences between fake and original mokyu saber.

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It’s been a week since my last post, and this one is going to be the longest post so far :D. This is my rant about the availability of authentic anime figurines in here, Melbourne (Australia). There aren’t many shop that sell official anime figurines, and if they do, the price is quite expensive, about double than the original price.

The only shops that I knew sell authentic figurines are Minotaur, EB Games and Hobby Japan (not related to Hobby Link Japan/HLJ). Other shops are selling mostly bootlegged figurines….

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My 1st Figurine bought from AnimeZone in box hill, and yea~ this one is the bootleg version from Alter Dark Saber. Bought this two weeks ago for A$45 (cheaper than the original but not that much…) to make it worse I spent A$95 total (this saber, and 8 pieces of fate/stay night trading figures) in that shop, and all of them are bootlegs. Well at that time I don’t know anything about anime figurine, but now I’m getting better.

If you guys bought something cheap from AnimeZone, 100% that figurine is bootleg version.

Photo taken by me using Kodak EasyShare V530

Difference with original:

• The original has darker suit, and more vibrant color.
• The original has her upper stocking white triangles nicely painted while the fake one isn’t, the real one should look like this