I think I'm living a day behind, because I'm late with another daily feature. Forgive me for that, and please forgive me for showing the toys just on the other side of this image. You'll wish you were being force choked right now, because these toys will inflict an even greater suffering with just a glance. Even though I would have bet $50 I already wrote about these toys (I checked, and can't seem to find them on the site anywhere), we're taking a look at these mutated chunks of plastic, courtesy of The Undiscovered Playthings bootleg action figure blog, right here in the latest:
Toys with packaging errors are sometimes prized possessions, the ultimate rarity that makes a collector feel so lucky and unique. Something tells me that those same feelings aren't going to come out of finding the toys below, despite the obviously mistmatched packaging. I think the bootleggers just took an image from an old catalog, scanned it into the machine, blew it up by 200% and slapped that sucker on a ziploc. Peg-hole be damned, this is an awesome package.
Unfortunately, the toys inside aren't quite so charming. Sure, every collector would sell their soul for two toys that look this hilarious, but that doesn't make these incredible toys. Just look at the image below, featuring "identical" Darth Vaders, each holding some sort of licorice? A popsicle? Or maybe it's even a pleasure device? No, wait, I think those are actually lightsabers! Lightdaggers maybe? Well, they're ridiculous, I know that much.
These guys might actually be the most poorly made figures we've showcased in an edition of Bootleg Tuesday yet. They look like they were pulled out of their mold about 39 weeks too early, clumps of plastic sticking out randomly, mold lines galore. The paint is so carelessly applied that it has moved from "OH WOW, THAT'S BAD", to "Oh, wow. That's art!" I'm beginning to wonder if these weren't made by some Picasso-worshipping San Franciscan expressing his angst at American consumerism's chaotic existence. Seriously though bootleggers: where are the capes?
As bad as these look from the front, they're even worse from the back. The fellow on the right must be from an alternate universe where Chewbacca dove in to rescue Anakin from his near-demise, taking the brunt of the scarring, and then taking up the moniker of Darth Vader himself (I'm referring, of course, to this blantanty hairy back). The guy on the left has some anger issues, it appears his skin is actually boiling. Even I can't explain the waffle-ironed pants.
For more thoughts on these two special toys, jump over to The Undiscovered Playthings bootleg action figure blog.
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