Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

The spines on the Mosu-Goji are a dead give-away. Anybody who's seen both the Bandai from the Memorial Box and this figure should be able to tell the difference immediately based on them.

Bandai used a mask when painting the spines. so there's only paint along the outside edges. The spines on these figures are fully painted. That's not something that changes from overspray - it happens because the person/people making these new figures aren't using a mask to prevent the spines from being fully painted.


The Megaro-Goji isn't as obvious, but there's some things to look at:

1. The pupil (white dot on the eye) is much larger than most Bandai produced versions I've seen. On nearly every version of the the genuine Bandai it's just a tiny dot of white. On these figures it's about half the eye. However, Legion posted a closeup pic of his Bandai G73 and the eyes are pretty close (see below, Legion's Bandai is on the left) so now I'm going to have to say this isn't a reliable way to tell.
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2. Lack of paint on the back of the head. I've got 2 of the Bandai figures (I realize this isn't the largest sampling) and on both of mine the spine on the back of Godzilla's head is painted, like the ones on the back of the body. This indicates that Bandai painted the spines after the figure was assembled. On the picture of the new figure show in the auctions it's clear there's no paint at all on the top spine, the one on the back of Godzilla's head. Looking at Legion's G73 (left) shows the same:
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The seller is using the same picture for every auction so it could just happen to be a single figure that happened to not get paint on that spine, but if they're all like that, then it's a good indicator (unfortunately it's also something that's really easy for a bootlegger to correct).

3. High volume, no tags, HK seller - As previously mentioned the 73 was only released by Bandai as a tagged figure. The fact that a seller from Hong Kong (a well known source of bootleg figures) seems to have an unlimited supply, although all of them are untagged, well come on. Unless this is your first year in the hobby the only reason you wouldn't realize these aren't the genuine article is because you don't want to know.

My 2c,

Glow-nut

That's great info Glow, I appreciate you putting this together. Thanks

Edit: I just took a look at the dorsal plates on the fake 64 compared the MB 64 and wow!

These pictures (of a legit 74 figure) should be a little helpful when compared to the one in the auction:

http://www.clubtokyo.org/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=14544

Good pictures Legion.

BTW- I went to Temping Toys and it looks like Tony is selling these boots, errrr sample figures. LOL

These boots should be looked into further and an article should be written on CT to make collectors aware of this... sadly because Godzilla has fallen off the face of the Earth, no one will care enough about this to post anything.

Thanks to Giganzilla, Glow and Legion for the info!

I just wanted to add. I bought this on ebay for cheaper than the bootleg.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0309667367