How to Distinguish Fake and Real Nendoroid Petits

As you may already know, I went to G-Anime back in Feb 6 and 7, 2010. While I was there. I made a few small purchases, including a FAKE Nendoroid Petit from the Vocaloid Series. I later bought a real one from a store in Ottawa, comicbookshoppe. So here I will compare the two with images.

First of all, the boxes as far as I could see, looked exactly the same. It was unfortunate, since when you buy Nendoroid Petits, they all come in a fully enclosed box. You can't see whats in it.

I don't have pictures of it, but the fake nendoroid petit doesnt have anything for you to build. Just the figure, the base, and the rod to hold it up. It is also just one piece where as the real one has movable pieces (head, arms, waist).

So lets begin by looking at the front. Fake is on the left, real is on the right.
As you can see, the skin tone is completely different, so is the hair colour. The eyes aren't coloured properly either. You can also see the lack in colouring on the clothes and the detached sleeves.

And a close up if you cannot see it clearly.
Though I must say, in poor lighting (this is the best I can do inside a room). Taken early evening. Its a basement by the way. So I don't have much sunlight.

And now for the back shot, again left is fake, right is real.
Again, you can see colouring is lacking on the fake nendoroid petit. It is expected because of the cheep costs. Though since labour is cheap anyway. Why not make a good job out of it? Beats me...

And for the side shot. Same orientation as previous pictures.
I kinda bent the support on the real nendoroid. orz
So it doesn't exactly stand straight. I don't want to risk breaking the rod, so I didn't bend it back. BUT I would assume if the rod wasnt damaged (by me) it would be able to stand straight. Also, notice the base and the rod are not the same between the two. The real one has a smaller base and a more unique rod which has 2 bends instead of just one 90 degrees bend. Also, the one on the right has a ball joint with the base and the figure, so it is possible to change the angle of the figure (ie, to make it slanted like in the picture). The one on the left has no flexibility, it just goes in and stays in. No movement.
It might be also good to note that the hand positions aren't the same, because the real one is movable, while the fake one is stiff. I didn't take pictures of different poses. (Perhaps I should have...)

And time for the biggest difference....
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Another image.

For those who didn't feel like reading.

Summary:
- Real one has more colour than the fake
- Posable vs imposable
- Pantsu vs nopan

Hope this helped.

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Catching up. Some Figurines

I'll talk briefly about the following figurines as I have gotten them some while back but failed to post them due to time constraints.

[Alter] Beat Blades Haruka Narika Figurine
[Orchid Seed] Suku-Mizu Mecha Nurse Girl Nana
[Griffon Enterprises] Marisa Kirisame
[Good Smile Company] Hiyori Pixie

PS. They have all been sitting on my shelf for some time now. I am still building my GP-01 Gundam =x.

This is pretty old. Bawahahaha. I mean I got this a while back. Ordered it from hobby search. Its just that I've been so busy to do anything else. It took so long to post it.

All in all, great fig. Love the face and pose. A little bit of trouble with moving that "blade" (or whatever you'd call that) into place. Kinda like the Suku-Mizu Mecha Nurse Girl Nana. But atleast this one has an instruction on how to do it.

Price-wise, kinda costly. Don't remember anymore but probably around $100 CDN. Well, I do find most of Alter's figurines do cost a bit. Well, they do make good ones though.

Gallery: Here

The Suku-Mizu Mecha Nurse Girl Nana figurine from Orchid Seed was very appealing to me because I like mechas ALOT. I bought the Triggerheart Exelica by Alter (OUCH $$!). So I should get this as well. On first look, it looks very nice, the box is plastic instead of cardboard. The whole thing is transparent, I liked that. Did I mention theres lots of parts? >w< ! The wings were hard to put together. And I mean that. I don't have pictures of the process but I can link you to how its done, via nekomagic (The link is NSFW because the figurine itself is NSFW). While we're talking about that, I might as well mention. I won't be posting (atleast not now), the 18+ images of the figurines I talk about. Reason is because I will need to censor them so my a*s doesn't get banned by Google. If you know what I mean. Censoring takes time and I'm not sure if its worth the effort.

The figure is castoffable, meaning something can be taken apart, in this case clothes (and generally in all cases). Underneath, the figure isn't so great. Some of the clothing are stuck on the figure leaving imperfections like this (NSFW). So I just keep the clothes on and place it on my shelf. Great match for my other mecha figurines.

Gallery: Here

Next, we reach the Marisa Kirisame figurine by Griffon Enterprises. Theres nothing much I can say. It looks solid. The pose is strong. The only thing I might not like would be the skin tone, it looks kinda pale in daylight. Could be just me though.

Unlike the previous figure, this isn't castoffable. Other than the hat and broom which can be put on and off easily (broom, not so much, require bending of sorts).

Oh. I bought it from Gamers. A store known for their mascot, Dejiko from the anime DigiCharat. I watched it a long time ago.

Gallery: Here

Lastly we've reach the last figurine in the discussion, Hiyori Pixie by Good Smile Company. As always, another nice work on by them. Nothing much I can say. I don't know why, I first saw it on HobbySearch, loved the face, wanted to buy it. But I didn't cause I bought that instead. Then I saw it in Japan, I didn't actually plan to buy it, but for only 4000 yen @_@. Couldn't resist. That was the first thing I bought in Japan. At the east Ikebukuro area. At one of the smaller stores near the big Animate.

This is castoffable, the head is the only part of the body that's removable then the "belt" or whatever you would call that, can be removed. You also need to take apart the semi-transparent bit surrounding the leg. Hard to explain, but theres a picture of the instruction. My parents has a problem with me owning this (for good reason, I know). But hey, atleast its still covered. I haven't proved it (nor planning to) but I think the pumpkin hat is magnetically attracted to the head (so it doesn't fall). The hat is somewhat heavy for its size.

Gallery: Here

Well thats all I have to say. I wrote quite a bit. I am satisfied with what I bought. Although there are times where what you see and what you buy are completely different. Glad that didn't happen yet. If you want to ask anything, just drop by the comments. Thanks!

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