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News Credits: 1 · by **Wheeljack-S70** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:01 am

Parts of Computron are stamped Hasboro/Takara Co 1986, but instead of Japan they say they are from Macau.
Are these guys still legit or are they knock offs?

Please Help if you have an answer.

thanks in advance!

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:21 am

Wheel_Jack wrote:Parts of Computron are stamped Hasboro/Takara Co 1986, but instead of Japan they say they are from Macau.
Are these guys still legit or are they knock offs?

Please Help if you have an answer.

thanks in advance!

Hasbro/Takara have switched production facilities quite often. The only three I can think of is Japan (originally), Macau and China. So they're still legit. It's when they don't have copyright info at all that they're fake.

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:23 am

Are there any KO's that do have copyright stamps, out of interest?

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:28 am

Not that I know off. The makers usually aren't that sloppy

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:31 am

That might mean my Constructicons are genuine, then, as I'm 99% certain they're stamped.

by **DREWCIFER** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:52 am

Most straight up KO's don't have stamps or markings. However, re-tooled ones may, for example the '80's KO toy company Four Star. They re-tooled the Constructicons, seeker jets, and the Insecticons and they have copyright markings.

However, they look different.

:DEVIL:

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:53 am

In what way do they look different? Is it obvious?

by **DREWCIFER** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:16 am

I love Four Star KO toys, they are great looking.

Bombshell I
http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/ ... hell1.html

Bombshell II
http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/ ... hell2.html

Kickback
http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/ ... back1.html

Great resource: http://www.toyarchive.com/

The seekers are on a different person's webpage. I thought it was Saber Prime's but after going through his, they aren't there.

If you want them, I'll look for them later after I get home.

:DEVIL:

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:20 am

Yes, they look very different! Ah, well, none of those Constructicons are the same as mine.

News Credits: 1 · by **Wheeljack-S70** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:14 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit,
thanks a million for responding to this.
cheers

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:51 pm

So Macau did have a purpose before becoming the largest Casino/gambling site in the world... who knew?

by **olokin** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:01 pm

i_amtrunks wrote:So Macau did have a purpose before becoming the largest Casino/gambling site in the world... who knew?

A lot of toys were made there. Not only transformers. Most of my old Matchboxes are made in macau and they were way better that the ones from China that time