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found here on ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-KO-Transfor ... 994wt_1185

and here

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Transformers-Hu ... 221wt_1213

looks like good quality

Wow, can't tell any difference between the real deal (out of package, at least).
$50 and they're actually selling, whoa! Likely because the real one's so much more money. Glad I got one when it was in stores.

It seems to be the same price as the official one I bought at a con last year.

Looks passable at first glance.

Wow, that does look like the real deal. I have the original and it is my fav version of Barricade (my favorite movie character).

I do wish Has/Tak would start capitalizing on demand for the more popular and harder to find figures like this one instead of leaving the demand with no supply waiting for the KO companies to swoop in (not that I can really blame the KO companies for doing so if Has/Tak isn't willing to take care of their own customers).

Holy cow, I can't believe how much those HA toys are selling for right now.

Knock Off Human Alliance? Apparently so.

This auction on eBay has been selling knock off Human Alliance Barricade figures, and it seems there are multiple sellers doing it.
They all claim to be knock offs, and none try to hide it. The quality is in question since no one seems to have one in hand, but based on appearances alone, this is an exact 1:1 duplication of the real figure.

Be careful when buying, don't get ripped off by a "good" deal. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. With Human Alliance prices going for tidy sums on eBay, a price below $50.00 for such a figure should be an instant red flag.

Maybe it ISN'T a knockoff, nut the real deal. They just bring the price down, so people will buy there first. Well, but then calling it a KO doesn't make much sense. there's sense in there somewere.

BeastProwl wrote:Maybe it ISN'T a knockoff, nut the real deal. They just bring the price down, so people will buy there first. Well, but then calling it a KO doesn't make much sense. there's sense in there somewere.

If you look at some of the auctions, you'll see they're selling multiples, sometimes 10 or more. I find it hard to believe that Hasbro or TakaraTomy made case after case of just Barricades and they somehow got misplaced so these guys could hock 'em for low prices.

I get where you're coming from, but I'm gonna believe the seller. If he claims it's a KO, I'm not gonna argue.

thats pretty expensive for a KO good thing i have a real one, picked mine up on clearance at TRU for $18

I know it has to be the standard intro for KO news, but "Buyer Beware" just sounds silly when all the sellers so far have fessed up to what they are.

I too already got the real deal on clearance, but yeah, "beware". Especially if they start selling exact replicas of HA Mudflap for under $50, allowing an opener like myself to have the bike-sisters trio in scale with other Bayniverse figures. Then I'll be REALLY "scared".

Or if someone KOed that cancelled vs. pack of the 3 Legends bike-sisters fighting deluxe Sideways. Then I'll be "terrified".

I know I'm taking a morally dubious stand by wishing for more new KOs, but if Hasbro really has a problem with this, perhaps they could give us their full definition of "retired" I.P. As in what might have happened to the Dinobots without FOC. Now THAT barely averted a situation of which I'd "beware".