219 replies to this topic

[fishers64]

Makes me wonder how they got ahold of the molds? Unless they made their own from the actual sets?

I think they broke into one of the factories and stole em!

Unlikely. I think the people at Billund are pretty good at security, and if there was a Lego mold heist, we would probably hear about it, and we haven't.

[helryx280]

Makes me wonder how they got ahold of the molds? Unless they made their own from the actual sets?

I think they broke into one of the factories and stole em!

Unlikely. I think the people at Billund are pretty good at security, and if there was a Lego mold heist, we would probably hear about it, and we haven't.

Good point.

[Haecceity]

I've found quite a few Hero Factory bootlegs-are these okay here? (Ignore the watermarks.)
Here's a bootleg Bulk and Vapor
Breez
Stormer
Fire Villains
Gresh
Skrall
Furno
Von Nebula
1.0 series line-up
1.0 boxes side
Witch Doctor

Edited by Temporphilic, Sep 22 2012 - 05:25 PM.

[helryx280]

I've found quite a few Hero Factory bootlegs-are these okay here? (Ignore the watermarks.)
Here's a bootleg Bulk and Vapor
Breez
Stormer
Fire Villains
Gresh
Skrall
Furno
Von Nebula
1.0 series line-up
1.0 boxes side
Witch Doctor

The 1.0 pictures line up looks better then the real one!

[Wind Elemental]

I've found quite a few Hero Factory bootlegs-are these okay here? (Ignore the watermarks.)
Here's a bootleg Bulk and Vapor
Breez
Stormer
Fire Villains
Gresh
Skrall
Furno
Von Nebula
1.0 series line-up
1.0 boxes side
Witch Doctor

Great find there. Those HF 1.0 boxes look great. Too bad they're bootlegs.

[~Shockwave~]

i looked at this topic and thought: wow. what the heck is wrong with people. the only ones that look neat are the ones that aren't technically knockoffs.

[Axilus Prime]

Lol. Some of these are hilarious. Click, I saw those that you posted in a store. (Didn't buy them though)

I think they simply bought one set they wanted to clone and made it with inferior plastic and measurements? (The inferior plastic and measurements bit is true, I have some knockoff Rahkshi.)

[Phovos the Raptor]

I've seen quite a few bootleg Av-Matoran in shops. Mostly the Phantoka ones.

If there were bootleg Bohrok, I'd probably buy them anyway. Just so my real Bohrok could beat them up.

Edited by Phovos the Raptor, Sep 23 2012 - 01:58 AM.

[Fastcar700]

remember the old star soldiers: http://www.reasonabl...dier2/front.jpg well... They are back:http://www.dealextre...y.dx/sku.130833

Oh, and heres a pic of INVINCEBILITY ROBOTS (the picture belongs to toa777, not me) http://www.brickshel...2002/bohrok.jpg

Are these real? Or did someone just photoshop them?

EDIT: Oh, these are real. Why hasen't LEGO sued these people for ripping of BIONICLE's epicness?

Edited by Fastcar800, Sep 23 2012 - 10:11 AM.

[Dralcax]

remember the old star soldiers: http://www.reasonabl...dier2/front.jpg well... They are back:http://www.dealextre...y.dx/sku.130833

Oh, and heres a pic of INVINCEBILITY ROBOTS (the picture belongs to toa777, not me) http://www.brickshel...2002/bohrok.jpg

Are these real? Or did someone just photoshop them?

EDIT: Oh, these are real. Why hasen't LEGO sued these people for ripping of BIONICLE's epicness?

They would, but those cool dudes ninja themselves out of harms way using the same excuse Mega Bloks had. As for ripping of intellectual property, well, you see...

It's not a ripoff! You can see that it's completely different! Kualus does not have a Darth Vader head! Roodaka is not that short! Pahrak is not every color imaginable!

... yeah.

[~Shockwave~]

see, here's the other thing I don't like, Hasbro hates it when people steal their molds, plus its illegal. than they go and make kreo. you can't complain when someone steals your molds and pull that! It's the same thing, and it wouldn't bother me if they didn't copy write every mold they ever made for, what was it? 90 years?

[Daiker]

This guy has a ton of bootlegs- those final fighters seem like really cool action figures- just not constraction figures (More in the gundam style you could say?). They seem like russian knockoffs, but I wouldn't know.

[Dralcax]

This guy has a ton of bootlegs- those final fighters seem like really cool action figures- just not constraction figures (More in the gundam style you could say?). They seem like russian knockoffs, but I wouldn't know.

I find it rather amusing that the fake Vakama's Huna is white. Well, of course, that makes sense, but it's still hilarious.

[Sir Flex Nardius]

That fake Tahu is epic, looks like he could of been an actual cool Toa.

[Toa Xemnas of Crystal]

This guy has a ton of bootlegs- those final fighters seem like really cool action figures- just not constraction figures (More in the gundam style you could say?). They seem like russian knockoffs, but I wouldn't know.

Oh wow, I can't believe they actually made that fake Makuta set. What's funny is that it looks kinda cool, but it's really skinny.

[Chro]

This guy has a ton of bootlegs- those final fighters seem like really cool action figures- just not constraction figures (More in the gundam style you could say?). They seem like russian knockoffs, but I wouldn't know.

Oh yeah, I believe those were mentioned (if not that guy's gallery, the same products- the Russian ones). They're perhaps the most original Bionicle knockoffs I've seen; I would've actually like some.


I just noticed that he also has, somewhere else in his folder, this Nidhiki ripoff. Seems to me that it is from the same line as the other Russian ones mentioned above.

Edited by Chro, Sep 26 2012 - 05:53 AM.

[Sir Flex Nardius]

Thing has got a really... weird head.

[Refy L.S.]

remember the old star soldiers: http://www.reasonabl...dier2/front.jpg well... They are back:http://www.dealextre...y.dx/sku.130833

Oh, and heres a pic of INVINCEBILITY ROBOTS (the picture belongs to toa777, not me) http://www.brickshel...2002/bohrok.jpg

I somewhat wish that INVINCIBILITY ROBOT was a proper set, even though it's incredibly corny. Has some nice parts in it.

Anyway, over time I've had 3 bootleg sightings. I've seen 4 bootleg Rahaga, although they didn't have the Vader heads. I've also seen one of the Bohrok-Kal Kaitas as a bootleg, and I think it was one of the Star Soldier sets.
I also once bought a bootleg Knights Kindom figure. The torso came unasembled and you had to put all the cogs and gears in yourself. It didn't work.
Mind you it came with some pretty cool Chrome Silver swords.

[Rawrmouse_Bieber]

all of these look so cheesy haha, only a few look cool

[GBV]

These are very hilarious FAILS!

[AeroIon]

Wow, companies must really like to make bootlegs. Too bad some of the last ones arent official sets, the pieces looked nice.

[Ultimate Sybre]

Wow, companies must really like to make bootlegs. Too bad some of the last ones arent official sets, the pieces looked nice.

One of the saddest things about bootlegs.

[Click]

This guy has a ton of bootlegs- those final fighters seem like really cool action figures- just not constraction figures (More in the gundam style you could say?). They seem like russian knockoffs, but I wouldn't know.

Oh yeah, I believe those were mentioned (if not that guy's gallery, the same products- the Russian ones). They're perhaps the most original Bionicle knockoffs I've seen; I would've actually like some.


I just noticed that he also has, somewhere else in his folder, this Nidhiki ripoff. Seems to me that it is from the same line as the other Russian ones mentioned above.

Whoa, that one was produced? I wonder if any of the other ones from earlier in this topic were. I really want that one with the drill hands, because his mask looks like a Steampunk Akaku.

[Rooster Nui]

Those Bohrok could be the true Fohrok.

[Toa of Nerds]

Megablocks are basically bootleg Lego's. I think one of their lines was a rip-off of Bionicles.

Alternatively, you could view Bionicles as bootleg Transformers .

-don't touch my pocket protector

[Dralcax]

Megablocks are basically bootleg Lego's. I think one of their lines was a rip-off of Bionicles.

Alternatively, you could view Bionicles as bootleg Transformers .

-don't touch my pocket protector

Technically, they aren't bootlegs, because Mega Bloks is not taking any patent-protected intellectual property or deliberately tricking consumers into thinking they are buying Lego.The Supreme Court won't let Lego monopolize the interlocking building block industry, so Mega Bloks was legalized with every technicality in the book.

[helryx280]

I have a bootleg minifig somewhere..
Its a lime green driver with weird arms and it says 'Designing the future'.
weird

[Kopekemaster]

I actually kinda like this one.

Some of these are absolutely amazing how much they stole (especially those Bohrok-style ones).

[LoTR_Nui]

Some of these are quite awesome!

Wow, companies must really like to make bootlegs. Too bad some of the last ones arent official sets, the pieces looked nice.

Yep. Exactly.

[VezontheBabbler]

I've found quite a few Hero Factory bootlegs-are these okay here? (Ignore the watermarks.)
Here's a bootleg Bulk and Vapor
Breez
Stormer
Fire Villains
Gresh
Skrall
Furno
Von Nebula
1.0 series line-up
1.0 boxes side
Witch Doctor

Who really cares about hero factory, I had a friend who worked at a factory, he ended up getting fired and thrown into the sea. I love the sea, although its very cold there was that one time though when my friends were thrown into the sea....atleast I think they were my friends they ended up as little fishes hehehe.........

Signature-witch-I-havn't-made-yet!!
Why did you bother reading this post? CAn't you tell that I am insane? One of my friends is insane, if he is still alive, he kept on threating me that he would kill me unless I fed his pet mice....at leats I think they were mice...maybe they are something else...do mice have wings?? If so these ones did..and there was.......*knockedout by Brutaka who couldn't take it any more*

[LoTR_Nui]

I've found quite a few Hero Factory bootlegs-are these okay here? (Ignore the watermarks.)
Here's a bootleg Bulk and Vapor
Breez
Stormer
Fire Villains
Gresh
Skrall
Furno
Von Nebula
1.0 series line-up
1.0 boxes side
Witch Doctor

Who really cares about hero factory, I had a friend who worked at a factory, he ended up getting fired and thrown into the sea. I love the sea, although its very cold there was that one time though when my friends were thrown into the sea....atleast I think they were my friends they ended up as little fishes hehehe.........

Signature-witch-I-havn't-made-yet!!
Why did you bother reading this post? CAn't you tell that I am insane? One of my friends is insane, if he is still alive, he kept on threating me that he would kill me unless I fed his pet mice....at leats I think they were mice...maybe they are something else...do mice have wings?? If so these ones did..and there was.......*knockedout by Brutaka who couldn't take it any more*

I think we can all tell that you are insane. Thank you very much.

[VezontheBabbler]

Sorry for the outburst guys, but I do have a question...Does it matter what contury you are from when it comes to copy-rights?

[Chro]

Oh yeah, I believe those were mentioned (if not that guy's gallery, the same products- the Russian ones). They're perhaps the most original Bionicle knockoffs I've seen; I would've actually like some.
I just noticed that he also has, somewhere else in his folder, this Nidhiki ripoff. Seems to me that it is from the same line as the other Russian ones mentioned above.

Whoa, that one was produced? I wonder if any of the other ones from earlier in this topic were. I really want that one with the drill hands, because his mask looks like a Steampunk Akaku.

Most of that series apparently was- I've seen pics somewhere, I think it was Jinzoningen's Brickshelf gallery (linked in this topic somewhere).

Sorry for the outburst guys, but I do have a question...Does it matter what contury you are from when it comes to copy-rights?

Copyright law varies by country, but in general it's illegal if it directly takes another product or something, like the repackaged Gresh or the multicolored Bohrok. I'm not an expert on copyright law, I'm sure someone else could correct me if I'm wrong on that stuff.
Oh, and just some advice, keep the random "haha I'm insane" babbling to a minimum- it's always best to stay out of character (unless you're in an RPG) and on-topic.

[You just lost the game]

I haven't laughed so hard in a good while! lol

Those "Brick" bootlegs are hilarious!

 

I never really knew of any of rip-offs before, but then I saw Neo-Shifters......

Edited by You just lost the game, Dec 02 2012 - 10:51 PM.

[Aanchir: Rachira of Time]

I haven't laughed so hard in a good while! lol
Those "Brick" bootlegs are hilarious!
 
I never really knew of any of rip-offs before, but then I saw Neo-Shifters......

I wouldn't call Neo-Shifters a rip-off. TLG had no patent or copyright on the idea of buildable action figures, not even ball-joint-based ones, and so once BIONICLE showed there was a market for them, Mega Bloks was fully within their rights to try and design their own spin on the concept.

Certainly Neo-Shifters was meant to take advantage of the audience BIONICLE showed existed among kids at the time, but that doesn't make it a rip-off much more than LEGO Technic was a rip-off of Erector/Meccano.

[Meiko]

I've actually never seen a knockoff Bionicle set in a store. I hope I never do.

[MisterGryphon]

Dude, you gotta wait for us. And especially don't double post.

Anyway, the Neoshifters from Megabloks seemed pretty confusing and could barely pass as a BIONICLE.

 

I had a few of those back in the day....they were useful for the little light that some of them had on their heads. And that's all. ._.

 

 

Oh, and I found a ton of knockoffs.... xD

 

I'd rather not share the rest so I don't spam the page, but I found many more.

Edited by MisterGryphon, Dec 04 2012 - 01:46 PM.

[Chro]

Yes, Gryphon, I believe those have all been linked to already. Funny stuff, LOL.

[MisterGryphon]

Yes, Gryphon, I believe those have all been linked to already. Funny stuff, LOL.

 

 

Oops, my bad. Sorry~

[Meiko]

I don't even know what this is: http://ultimate-coll.../images/202.jpg

 

Or this: http://ultimate-coll.../images/203.jpg

 

Or this: http://ultimate-coll.../images/301.jpg

 

Makuta? http://ultimate-coll.../images/201.jpg

 

This: http://ultimate-coll.../images/001.jpg

 

What? http://ultimate-coll.../images/101.jpg

 

Finally: http://ultimate-coll.../images/002.jpg

Edited by Meiko, Dec 05 2012 - 06:42 AM.