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Why beware getting a KO Prime? You all should know that if there are no Transformers writing and it's mostly in chinese/Transformer style writing/or any other writing, that means it's fake. If you don't know hiw to differentiate a KO and the original by the box, don't call yourself a Transformer fan!

patrick.timothy wrote:Why beware getting a KO Prime? You all should know that if there are no Transformers writing and it's mostly in chinese/Transformer style writing/or any other writing, that means it's fake. If you don't know hiw to differentiate a KO and the original by the box, don't call yourself a Transformer fan!

7 year old necro? Must have too much free time in your hands. By the by, even the official HasTak packaging have Chinese fonts.

And the statement about not knowing any better and name calling is really trolling/flamebait.

Some of our compatriots purchase via ebay where quite a few of the vendors are hustlers who'd stick you with a KO without raising a sweat. This is what this thread is FOR! Though there are others who'd still blindly get a KO but that is another story.

Already told the mods. Probably a bot.

patrick.timothy wrote:Why beware getting a KO Prime? You all should know that if there are no Transformers writing and it's mostly in chinese/Transformer style writing/or any other writing, that means it's fake. If you don't know hiw to differentiate a KO and the original by the box, don't call yourself a Transformer fan!

Sometimes its not that easy.

Can you tell this is fake? It is, hence why we make these threads to warn people.

This kid has obviously never seen a KO outside of the junk you find at flea markets like those shown in the main post lol. Do your homework before you make lame comments.

Miss my mod days
I'd have locked this necro and deleted the bot.

william-james88 wrote:

patrick.timothy wrote:Why beware getting a KO Prime? You all should know that if there are no Transformers writing and it's mostly in chinese/Transformer style writing/or any other writing, that means it's fake. If you don't know hiw to differentiate a KO and the original by the box, don't call yourself a Transformer fan!

Sometimes its not that easy.

Can you tell this is fake? It is, hence why we make these threads to warn people.

Not really

patrick.timothy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

patrick.timothy wrote:Why beware getting a KO Prime? You all should know that if there are no Transformers writing and it's mostly in chinese/Transformer style writing/or any other writing, that means it's fake. If you don't know hiw to differentiate a KO and the original by the box, don't call yourself a Transformer fan!

Sometimes its not that easy.

Can you tell this is fake? It is, hence why we make these threads to warn people.

Not really

Exactly: we're not talking just knock-offs with just enough changes to make them barely legal, but true counterfeit items and bootlegs, designed and manufactured to deceive the buyer. Matching the original to a tee in appearance, but generally lower quality (though some actually match it ).

Yeah these ko mps are the same quality and sometimes better then the originals. I own all the ko autobot mps and only 2 have minor paint app issues which even the originals have problems with. I still believe that these are not kos but factory rejects or made with factory rejected parts.

fenrir72 wrote:

patrick.timothy wrote:Why beware getting a KO Prime? You all should know that if there are no Transformers writing and it's mostly in chinese/Transformer style writing/or any other writing, that means it's fake. If you don't know hiw to differentiate a KO and the original by the box, don't call yourself a Transformer fan!

7 year old necro? Must have too much free time in your hands. By the by, even the official HasTak packaging have Chinese fonts.

And the statement about not knowing any better and name calling is really trolling/flamebait.

Some of our compatriots purchase via ebay where quite a few of the vendors are hustlers who'd stick you with a KO without raising a sweat. This is what this thread is FOR! Though there are others who'd still blindly get a KO but that is another story.

I mean stuff like this:
[url][url=http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/3rd-party-products/trns-01-valkyrie-arcee/2206/1/][/url]
Help! I can't post Seibertron's toy gallery photo of a g1 arcee ko. Can you help how?

patrick.timothy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

patrick.timothy wrote:Why beware getting a KO Prime? You all should know that if there are no Transformers writing and it's mostly in chinese/Transformer style writing/or any other writing, that means it's fake. If you don't know hiw to differentiate a KO and the original by the box, don't call yourself a Transformer fan!

Sometimes its not that easy.

Can you tell this is fake? It is, hence why we make these threads to warn people.

Not really

Yes, it looks silmilar to a photo on TFW2005

PrimulArchangel wrote:Yeah these ko mps are the same quality and sometimes better then the originals. I own all the ko autobot mps and only 2 have minor paint app issues which even the originals have problems with. I still believe that these are not kos but factory rejects or made with factory rejected parts.

Interesting. Did you get them off e-bay, and if so, from which seller?

Allow me to illustrate what this thread is about. We're warning about counterfeits like this one, barely indistinguishable from the real McCoy:



Not easily identifiable Knock-Offs like this one:



Now that this thread has run its course, I'll point you to our
Unnofficial Transformers, 3rd Party and KO Toys, where we discuss such things.

patrick.timothy wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

patrick.timothy wrote:Why beware getting a KO Prime? You all should know that if there are no Transformers writing and it's mostly in chinese/Transformer style writing/or any other writing, that means it's fake. If you don't know hiw to differentiate a KO and the original by the box, don't call yourself a Transformer fan!

7 year old necro? Must have too much free time in your hands. By the by, even the official HasTak packaging have Chinese fonts.

And the statement about not knowing any better and name calling is really trolling/flamebait.

Some of our compatriots purchase via ebay where quite a few of the vendors are hustlers who'd stick you with a KO without raising a sweat. This is what this thread is FOR! Though there are others who'd still blindly get a KO but that is another story.

I mean stuff like this:

The TRANSFORMERS writing became TAIKONGSHENRS instead

Then question the buyer's naivete or literacy. As I also mentioned in my post, some other collectors chose to be blind. Those are hopeless cases who refuse to be helped otherwise

And, like maybe quit necroing 5 year old threads unless there really is a point in doing so.