The truth behind the 12 inch Chinese Plushies

[Skeen]

....but it's possible that the other side of the tag contains more info.

If these tags are the same as the ones stuck to the S1 Luna plush, the other side of the tag is completely blank.  I cut the tags off mine though, so you'd have to get an image from someone else. 

[Sprinklecupcake]

I dont care if they are knockoffs or not, they are WAY better than all these plushies I see availible in the toy section! They already have so many characters, and these plushies are beautiful and show accurate. Best plushies and I love the pricetag! Whoevers making them, keep them coming!

I only own Crackle so far, but I feel like I need to buy Cadance and Shining! Heck, I will buy em' all! xD

[Sawkinator]

We need to get Chrysalis  on the wish page and into production - I would DIE to have my own plush of her!

It's nice to finally see show-accurate plushes being produced on a large scale - I would rather not shell out hundreds of dollars for a custom plush unless it was of my own character.

[hathorcat]

That seems most likely that the Japanese company is FrontWinners client Or simply that FrontWinner are producing the product with a Japanese language tag and producing for that market.

[Niksilp]

@hathorcat: It could be that FrontWinner makes them for the japanese company, but I'm not 100% sure on that


@AJLareneg: works fine for me on Firefox and Chrome, but do mind that the charizard is on every page

I'm guessing AJLareneg is having the same problem as me... This is what happens when I try and view the site.

I was able to view a small amount of it using Google cache, but otherwise I can't go anywhere on the site at all.

[WhiteHeather]

....but it's possible that the other side of the tag contains more info.

If these tags are the same as the ones stuck to the S1 Luna plush, the other side of the tag is completely blank.  I cut the tags off mine though, so you'd have to get an image from someone else.

I have one around somewhere if people want a picture, but yeah it is indeed completely blank inside so it wouldn't be much of a picture.

I bought it before I became more aware of the bootleg market and what it sometimes supports. I would encourage people to not buy these plushies (no matter how nice they look) until we have more information about the company that makes them. Save your money for when 4DE finally gets some of their new designs out. Those look fabulous and are licensed too!

[Sapphire-Light]

So the patterns are stolen from plushie artists? 

I hate the Flutterbat episode but that plushie is neat 

Cheese Sandish looks well done too 

[SpaceV]

So are they basicly stolen from custom plushie makers?

Unfortunately, yes. I've seen a few designs that were completely stolen from the original artist. I've even had the 'pleasure' of them ripping off one of my plush designs.

Post Merge: May 15, 2014, 09:00:33 PM

The patterns are copied from pictures of designs which are submitted to them or that they find online - plushies created by artists. They may not have broken down the plush seam by seam but the factories are recreating the design. Its a grey area because of course, no doubt the plush they are copying are also unlicensed.

The 4DE plushies look this way too, like they've copied valleyviolet's famous pattern.  The fact that the plush is in 2 pieces joined together at the back legs is a trait only her pattern (that I have seen so far) uses.

No worries about the pattern being stolen. In fact, ValleyViolet's pattern was inspired by a fan artist. She briefly talked about it in an old dA journal entry, and even mentioned that 4DE had not stolen her pattern when a few people were worried. You can check it out here: http://valleyviolet.deviantart.com/journal/Plushies-on-Equestria-Daily-Other-Stuff-355651996

[AJLareneg]

Just for reference, the frontwinner website blocks north American IP addresses. That's why niksilp and I kept being redirected. I wonder why they've done that?

[cadance89]

Does anyone have the Cadance one? It does look really pretty but it would be good to know if what you see is what you get   

[Judhudson]

As soon as I get her in, I'll post pics

[Niksilp]

Does anyone have the Cadance one? It does look really pretty but it would be good to know if what you see is what you get   

AJLareneg has it! She posted a pic of Cadance with Shining Armor on her instagram after she received it. If I remember right, she told me it's pretty good quality, like the others have been so far.

[nogames]

Oh my

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[Niksilp]

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I might have just screamed with excitement. I need her NOW.

[Skeen]

Chrysalis looks cool!  I wish they'd made the holes in her legs actual holes though.