It appears that last Friday, a toy store in Beijing, China called 真正的收藏家玩具, which translates to "Real Collector Toys" in Galactic Basic, held a Force Friday event early for what they call, Orange Star Members. Jacen's cousin, Wong Xing was able to sneak into the event, as he is only a White Star Member. After the jump, see the disturbing images he was able to capture of the "authentic" The Force Awakens toys he saw.
Cheap fake after cheap fake is what Wong found and quickly reported to us. Today may be Wednesday but the line at the nearest Western Union was crazy long so there was a delay in getting the message and sneaky Polaroid snapshots to us.
While there was no sign of any official Captain Phasma, Kylo Ren, Finn, or Rey figures there was a plethora of knockoffs that genuinely tricked hundreds of Chinese Star Wars fans.
This is the final image Wong was able to capture before his Polaroid camera was confiscated by store guards dressed as the Knights who say Ren. Warsiors huh? Yeah I have no comment on this one other than shame on you China. Shame on you.
Word has it that the owners of the establishment were able to rake in over $100,000 in US currency alone, no word on Monopoly money or Euros yet. The bootleggers have since flown the coop to somewhere without extradition according to Wong's source who works for the Chinese government.
Stay tuned to FakingStarWars as we dive further into this fandom travesty.
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