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Friday, April 11th, 2014 11:46 amYesterday I was briefly pleased by the apparent revelation that someone had had the happy chance of finding a cheap Chinese knock-off of a RoboCop 2 action figure.
It was so bad and the package writing so poor it had all the air of authenticity. We have all seen examples of stuff put together shoddily and cheaply by manufacturers where nobody speaks English, so the wording is made up from the best guesses of somebody in the factory. This looked to be precisely that and the best example I’d ever seen. It was, frankly, awesome.
Robert Cop 2 THE FURNITURE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Sadly, it was a well-observed spoof, though the name “Robert Cop 2” was coined on a rather superior cheap knock-off.
My memento/collectible buying days are largely behind me now, but I should have made an exception for this had it been real. I might also have looked out for Optical Prime supposedly another collectible in the range.
Kudos, though, to the chap who spoofed the genre.
It was so bad and the package writing so poor it had all the air of authenticity. We have all seen examples of stuff put together shoddily and cheaply by manufacturers where nobody speaks English, so the wording is made up from the best guesses of somebody in the factory. This looked to be precisely that and the best example I’d ever seen. It was, frankly, awesome.
Robert Cop 2 THE FURNITURE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Sadly, it was a well-observed spoof, though the name “Robert Cop 2” was coined on a rather superior cheap knock-off.
My memento/collectible buying days are largely behind me now, but I should have made an exception for this had it been real. I might also have looked out for Optical Prime supposedly another collectible in the range.
Kudos, though, to the chap who spoofed the genre.