hello again. just asking a (quick) question on how to tell the difference btw a knockoff computron and a real one? I see alot of them on ebay going to anywhere btw $100-160....are they all real?

thanks, extremegz

 

The ones that are in that range are probably real.

With Computron, the only ones I've seen as knock-offs are Lightspeed and Afterburner in a "Menasor" pack (with KO Motormaster and 2 other Stunticons). Now someone should correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know none of the other Technobots were ever KO'd.

 

i know that nosecones been knocked off before.

actually, i've seen a few, knock off, complete sets on ebay of computron, it's tough, to figure out what is real and not real any more.

 

Other than the few Technobots that have been cheaply bootlegged, I believe there's a Taiwan version from around the 90's. They're actually kinda hard to find and I think still go for good money.

Other than that, there aren't known bootlegs of Computron. Those eBay ones are all legit.

 

Heres the bootleg giftset

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230239449615

His visor is different color and I believe there are a few mold differences

 

all 5 of them were bootlegged many times over. in the late 80s you could get either the above mentioned box set or could get each of them individually bboxed (i have the nosecone bootlegged boxed) the scattershot is very close to the real one except he seems to be universally put together backwards (hands/legs) although he can be taken apart and fixed pretty easily, his red parts are slightly lighter as well.