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Fake Combiners
As if having a catagory of knockoffs wasn't enough, we also have to sub-divide the combiners :-) There are several types of combiner knockoffs. Back in the day, they came from Taiwan. Later on, they came from Korea (see Skorbia). Now, they come from China :-) Since there's already a Korean page covering this stuff (thanks, Steve!) we'll focus on the vintage Taiwan ko combiners. Later, we'll do a bit on the ones coming out currently(both regular size and 1/2 size combiners).
Vintage fakes | New Fakes
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Vintage fakes: Check out the Autochange gestaults! Quite the mish-mash. A teal silverbolt, with two combaticons and two technobots :-)
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Fake Diaclone Devastator: As described on the Pre-Devastator page, there was a spot-on accurate ko of the Construction-robo (minus the copystamp, of course). These fakes came in a giftset box, and individually boxed. Be careful:
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Another fake Bruticus: Part of the vintage Autochange line, these units came either individually boxed, or in giftset format. I've highlighted Onslaught below(nice that the launching mechanism is still intact :-) Et-tu, japanese engineering?)
New Fakes: Over the last couple of years, we've seen a spate of knockoffs of all the combiner teams. At first, it was several differnt versions of Devastator (yellow, green, orange) at places like Big Lots. Then we started seeing a ko red Defensor at Shopko. Pretty soon a Menasaur(minus two cars) and two colors of Abominus began showing up. Our Easter basket has had a slightly-differently-stickered Aerialbots set every year for the last couple of years at Walmart. Somebody stop the madness!
(pics in-process)
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