Nowadays a lot of products in the world have a copycat from the original, sometimes you don’t know whether the one you got was really the original one or fake, so that’s why before buying or purchasing products you need to know and have basic knowledge on the proof of its legitimacy. Of course, you want original products for yourself, right? but sometimes original products cost more and sometimes we can’t afford it we stick to class A products or imitation to suit the things that we want, this goes also on action figure. One good friend of ours asked, how to know the difference between KO (Knock off) figures and authentic figures if the figure and details itself were almost the same? Well, that’s the thing we have to find out today, what’s the proof of authenticity of figure. where to find it? how to know it? without further ado I will start.

If you have seen my previous article, I differentiate KO & BL and told that KO was better at the same the time the quality of it was almost the same as authentic but KO has still a flaws itself and the authentic was still at lead overall. You need to find out what’s the difference between them, so here are the things and proof of authenticity of figure.

BOX

One thing to look and to know if it’s authentic or not was the box of figure, the authentic figure has a mark or a sticker from the manufacturer itself, complete label, while on the other hand a KO/BL figure has something missing in its box, the sticker of manufacturer, also same label encrypted in a box. The image that was shown above was one good example between authentic and not. The first image of KOA Bound Man was the authentic figure, you can see that it has a craneking on the upper left side of the box and Banpresto on the right side, also it has One Piece on the lower left. On the other hand, the second image which is a BL you can see what it’s missing right? A lot. One thing to look if it’s authentic or not was the box.

STICKER

A lot of collector’s often based the authenticity of a figure based on its sticker, an authentic figure has sticker sticked often in the top of the box or sometimes in front of the box. The sticker has different colors and meaning because it was based what country it come from, one good example of that was if the sticker of the figure was gold sticker it was release in japan while if the sticker is white, silver or others it was an overseas release. This is one good proof of authenticity but be careful because sometimes even sticker was copied by imitation figures.

MARKINGS

Markings are one of the most solid proof that your figure was authentic this is the one that the fake cannot totally imitate and copy so if your figure was a markings from the manufacturer well it is totally original nothing more, nothing less.

LICENSE PLATE FRAME

This authenticity was only exclusive for resin figures because other thought that it is fake if it’s box has no figure at the same time it has no sticker but with resin figure it was different, they have what you called license plate and it depends what studio made that type of figure. Resin figures was for people with a lot of money so I think this would not be a problem for normal citizens like us.

So here you go here were some basic knowledge that you need to know if your figure was authentic or not, another thing that I forgot to the say that a resin figure has a brown box and art box I cannot tell the whole details about it because I myself didn’t have a resin figure but maybe in the near future I can have one well that’s a different story tell, hope you learn a little and gain knowledge that I share. Better start collecting now and it’s tempting hehehe, anyways thanks for your time. Happy Collecting.