Kaws Fakes / Bootlegs on the Rise ?

Discussion in 'Americans and Other Western Gaijin' started by jgc, Aug 13, 2009.

  1. jgc

    jgc Addicted

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    Real? Fake? Soon to be released?
     
  2. selekta_nips

    selekta_nips Post Pimp

    a real GID dissected would rule especially with different color GID guts
     
  3. useless toys

    useless toys Post Pimp

    I had to post the first pic over on KR, just to get a laugh at all the little kiddies going crazy...

    and I would also love a GID dissected, w/ said different color GID guts....
     
  4. liquidsky

    liquidsky Vintage

    Yeah, I was thinking how that would have been possible.
    Imagine if he redid the sculpt with removable innards like the anatomy models in biology class?

    Then you could cast the innards in different coloured vinyl and insert or remove them.
     
  5. mz

    mz Toy Prince

    If you're afraid of getting duped, just keep track of what's been released and you should have no problem, really.

    Useless: posting the GID fakes over at KR just to watch the fallout was the smart play.
     
  6. Kevlo9

    Kevlo9 Super Deformed

    I would take a GID Dissected!!!
     
  7. ribbon controller

    ribbon controller S7 Royalty

    wow bring on the bootleggs!!! hopefully I can find em in chinatown for $10
     
  8. BloodDrinker6969

    BloodDrinker6969 Die-Cast

    Wouldn't there be a size difference if they were boots?
     
  9. bannedindc

    bannedindc S7 Royalty

    there would be if they casted it off a Dissected.

    Honestly I love/hate bootlegs and think they are hilarious. I have a nice collection of some awful ones.
     
  10. living dead

    living dead Prototype

    From the pictures the Stormtropper doesn't look that good, but the Dissected one looks great!
     
  11. bannedindc

    bannedindc S7 Royalty

    I want that dissected.

    will trade good(rare) stuff for. Anybody who has one get in touch.
     
  12. ribbon controller

    ribbon controller S7 Royalty

    I want that nara piece next to it
     
  13. Punkin Donuts

    Punkin Donuts Addicted

    Tonight on Shark Week (brought to you by Kaws)

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  14. DYBBUKIM

    DYBBUKIM Post Pimp

    Anyone know where these pictures originated? I love both of them!
     
  15. selekta_nips

    selekta_nips Post Pimp

    there where some GID trooper on the bay a while ago
    cant find any now though
     
  16. Grizlli

    Grizlli S7 Royalty

    Bootlegs of his sorta bootlegged character's seems fitting to me.
     
  17. BloodDrinker6969

    BloodDrinker6969 Die-Cast

    Agreed, bootleg crap is always fun. I actually wish these were just a tad crappier, but I like them more than the originals.
     
  18. mondocoyote

    mondocoyote Comment King

    I liked what KAWS did when he started the originalfake store, making a homage of a bootleg of one of his own toys, (grey be@rbrick) and producing it as an official run.
     
  19. audiodifficulties

    audiodifficulties S7 Royalty

    Hirst?

     
  20. uberboy

    uberboy Line of Credit

    you stole my joke
     
  21. VELOCITRON

    VELOCITRON Comment King

    Having to pay the bills to get toys made can be hard, and because of that its really hard for me to condone booting vinyl on principle. You're basically coasting on the work and investment of other people to line your own pockets. Bootlegging characters with crappy/amazing new sculpts is another matter entirely, though, and one I can wholeheartedly condone.

    That said... I want those bootlegged dissecteds. I want to buy them and paint them ridiculous colors and have a blast. That pearly one is TIGHT, and this coming from a guy who really wouldn't pay more than $20 for any Kaws toy besides maybe the KvP (I could possibly be talked into paying $45 or so for that although I would balk a bit).
     
  22. cliff

    cliff Addicted

    i'd rather have a bootleg...i might actually be able to afford it.
     
  23. BleedingEdges

    BleedingEdges Addicted

    it's a sticky subject, but if it's a boot of an out of print figure at a drastically reduced price... sure
     
  24. bannedindc

    bannedindc S7 Royalty

    Did I mention how bad I want this?
    I will trade a regular dissected for this.

    Ok I'm lying but I will trade some good shit for this.
    Anybody actually seen one in person?
     
  25. JoeMan

    JoeMan Mini Boss

    Watch those boots. Sometimes they look good in photos, but when they make them, they just chop the articulation apart. Most of the time the articulation is terrible, joints don't fit right- to the point where you can't even move them sometimes, you'll have gaps, there will be tears in the mushroom caps.
    I've picked up boots for cheap just for fun and for reference, but never throw down big. You'll be nothing but disappointed- from my experience.
     

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