When I was a kid my family would
annually go on vacation to Florida to see family and do vacation
stuff. We would often go to flea markets and outlet malls and stuff
like that to find weird stuff for whatever reason was not in the flea
markets and outlet malls of Michigan. At one point I got a wall
scroll of Iori from The King of Fighters, and another I got an
amazing bootleg toy of Zero from Mega Man X. It was clearly
based off of the mold for the old Bandai model kits, but it was
already assembled and the colors were all wrong. All his armor was
metallic silver and his hair was blue. Sure it was janky, but it
also looked cool and it was very cheap. Also, the paint was so
thick, though probably also poisonous, that the joints would actually
stay together, unlike a certain X model. My point is that bootlegs
are awful, but entertaining, and on occasion might accidentally do
something right.
