Saturday, August 11, 2007

Toy OTD: Chicken Little Bootleg Figure: Foxy Loxy

There's a small mall near my house that sells some Japanese toys - every once in a while, I stop by and see if there's anything new. I've picked up some of my Moomin toys there, among other things.

More recently, I discovered that one of the smaller shops sells (what I would assume to be Chinese) bootleg toys. I love bootlegs, but it's hard to find a place that sells them. The stock in this tiny store doesn't change all that often, but it does make for some interesting discoveries!

At the end of last year, I found a four-pack of bootleg Chicken Little figures. The other characters looked pretty awful (I know, isn't that the point?), but this Foxy Loxy was actually pretty good. I liked the character design in the film, but there wasn't a licensed toy of it that I liked, so I kept this one and discarded the others (they weren't ugly enough to be interesting).

I think the four-pack cost me about $6.00, but I think the store's out of them now, and I can't imagine anyone being able to find these again, even on eBay. But that's kind of the way of bootlegs in general - they make money while they can, then disappear.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Jenny said...

Wow, that's pretty cool!

2:03 PM  
Blogger Jeff Pidgeon said...

I thought so! It's cool to find bootlegs of secondary characters. Usually, bootlegs are only made from existing toys or molds, so this is definitely unusual.

5:36 PM  
Blogger Jeff said...

Can you post pics of the other figs??? They might be ugly but that might be a good thing!

11:24 AM  
Blogger Jeff Pidgeon said...

I don't have them anymore. I gave them away to a friend.

11:49 AM  

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