The Undiscovered Playthings

Here’s a look at another classic bootleg toy. Yes, it’s on the old site with the over-compressed photos. This is one of my favorite series of bootleg toys. The Super S. Heros robot series. The series includes Superman, Batman, Wolverine and a Power Ranger (or is it a Masked Rider robot?). Today, we’re going to [...]

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This next bootleg toy series is a concept that is pretty cool. I’ve seen something sort of like these toys, but not with the same kind of fan to fly the toy. What? Did I say fly? Well, sort of. These toys are tied to a line (I guess you can say it’s a tethered [...]

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Here is the second four pack of figures in the bootleg toy set SUPERMAN. The packaging is similar to the first one. But we get the joy of a couple of new figures. And yes folks, as you can see by the way the figures are packaged with the accessories, quality is built right in [...]

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Well, technically, this bootleg toy set isn’t called Superman Come Back. But it’s printed on the card and gave me a good chuckle.
Anybody want to guess what Superman Come Back is actually based on? Yeah, you got it. Superman Returns.
Remember, he’s fighting for THE PEACE OF THE WORLD

I gotta tell ya, I love this packaging! [...]

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Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Superman (times three)!
Can anybody guess the time that this set of bootleg Superman figures came out?

Yeah, you got it! I found this set shortly after the Superman Returns movie was released. The front of the card is actually kind of plain. But [...]

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Now I normally don’t like the bootleg toys that come with multiple figures packaged together. Usually, the shopkeepers figure that because the package is big, the price should also be big.
But in the case of the set below, well, this time around, I got seven figures. So it didn’t feel like I was really getting [...]

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Here’s an update to another toy already reviewed on the old site. This Superman knock off was made by a company called Funskool. Funskool produced GI Joe figures in India. Back in the early 1990s, somebody over there got the great idea to cobble different pieces of Joe figures to put together a Superhero figure [...]

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First, don’t forget that I’ve added photo gallery for you to share pics of your bootleg toys. So grab your cameras and start sharing your pics. CLICK HERE to get to the photo gallery.
I’m gonna keep harping on about the photo gallery until it’s ingrained in you people’s memory.
So anyways, who didn’t see the [...]

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Here’s a neat little four pack of ‘Super Hero’ characters. This is actually something that’s kind of rare nowadays, bootleg action figures packaged as single figures.
The characters in this set are a blend of different Superheroes. Who’s in this set? Well, you’ve got a  Power Ranger, Batman, Superman and Spider-Man.
Let’s take a look at them…
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It’s Super Heroes Week at The Undiscovered Playthings. I’ve come across plenty of bootleg toy sets that are packaged under the line of Super Heroes. So this week will spotlight some of those sets.
We’ll start off with a series I’ve already posted on this blog. Remember these figures? Well, I dug up a couple more [...]

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