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** Back during its run, ''[[Bionicle]]'' tended to get hit very hard with knockoffs from all over the world, some of the most well-known discovered ones including "Invincibility Robots" and "Maskers". Interestingly, most ''BIONICLE'' knockoffs were visually near-indistinguishable from the real thing - many even used the exact same packaging and canisters, though with the BIONICLE and LEGO logos edited or removed. Amusingly, one discovered instance of a knockoff took the 2005 Rahaga sets and replaced their heads with what appeared to be [[Star Wars|Darth Vader helmets]].

* Oddly enough, the August, 2007 issue of [[Popular Science]] featured an article on the various shameless ripoffs from China. Main part of the article was one of the copied cars getting the attention of the actual car maker - and ''offered to fix it up to them'' (the copied car was extremely dangerous''. It explains how some companies manage to get crap electronics out the doors, even when they're only on display (they literally have loads of engineers photograph the living shit out of electronics on display). Hell - there's even the "iClone" episode, where there was a surprisingly good touch phone (before everyone else started to [[Follow the Leader]]!)

* There are a lot of [[Barbie]] or [[Bratz]] imitations that try(and succeed) to convince older people that they are Barbies or Bratz dolls.

* ''[[Transformers]]'' knockoffs [http://home.clara.net/hexdidnt/collect/transform/bootleg/index.htm here] and [http://www.mykooltoyz.com/bootleg-tf.html here].