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well these are my hetalia figures I just got and I decided to take a picture of them (on my crappy camera sorry). the ones on the left are bootleg and the ones on the right are the official released figures by Kotobukiya (if that is wrong please don't sue me I get my information from the internet). I love both sets so please don't hate on them as they were gifts for my birthday!

The differences between them are:

Bootlegs have a much larger base and the figures are secured into them through a bent pole that basically gets shoved into the characters butt (ouch...) and is then shoved into the base to keep them standing. whereas the official figures have a long magnetic pole in the back and because the characters have a magnet in there heads they are able to stand.
As much as I love my bootleg figures you can see the difference in the quality of the figures when they are next to the official figures. a few examples would be Germanys looks like he wanted to try out a pink hair wash (maybe he was consulting with Poland..), Americas burger has two buns and then just the beef (whereas the official figure has lettuce in it as well) and England's tea cup is devoid of the actual tea. This is just to name a few differences as many of there hair colours are off and a lot of things attached to the figures aren't quite right.
Another thing with the bootleg figures is that Romano and Germany's body's are switched, this is not usually a problem as you can just switch the heads around. unfortunately for me the little object which keeps there heads to there body's is stuck in both Romano and Germany. the object is stuck in the socket of Romanos head and I cant get it out and the one that keeps Germanys head to his body is stuck in Germanys body so I cant switch the heads. so i'm stuck with a couple of Germano love children but quite honestly it greatly amuses me so I don't really mind. XD
The thing with the bootleg figures is that they are incredibly cheep so you don't break the bank when buying them (they were roughly about £10 which is really good considering the number of figures you get) also the base of the figures are quite large which means you fill your shelf better. the official figures cost me £108 (ooouuuuccchhhh!!!) and the bases are really small so it can sometimes make the figures look small (they look big in my picture above because I took a picture of them closer by accident DX ) but they honestly are such good quality I don't mind paying that much.
I am also waiting on the second set of figures (which consists of Sweden, Finland, Prussia, Canada, Spain, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Holy Roman Empire and Chibi Italy) and I shall upload a picture of them. as well as these figures I am collecting the special versions of set ones figures which were produced for the Animate Café in japan, I am desperately trying to track down a Russia from that set as he is the only one I can not seem to find (he has sunflowers instead of his pipe), if any of you lovely people know where to find him I would love you forever <3

Description

well these are my hetalia figures I just got and I decided to take a picture of them (on my crappy camera sorry). the ones on the left are bootleg and the ones on the right are the official released figures by Kotobukiya (if that is wrong please don't sue me I get my information from the internet). I love both sets so please don't hate on them as they were gifts for my birthday!

The differences between them are:

Bootlegs have a much larger base and the figures are secured into them through a bent pole that basically gets shoved into the characters butt (ouch...) and is then shoved into the base to keep them standing. whereas the official figures have a long magnetic pole in the back and because the characters have a magnet in there heads they are able to stand.
As much as I love my bootleg figures you can see the difference in the quality of the figures when they are next to the official figures. a few examples would be Germanys looks like he wanted to try out a pink hair wash (maybe he was consulting with Poland..), Americas burger has two buns and then just the beef (whereas the official figure has lettuce in it as well) and England's tea cup is devoid of the actual tea. This is just to name a few differences as many of there hair colours are off and a lot of things attached to the figures aren't quite right.
Another thing with the bootleg figures is that Romano and Germany's body's are switched, this is not usually a problem as you can just switch the heads around. unfortunately for me the little object which keeps there heads to there body's is stuck in both Romano and Germany. the object is stuck in the socket of Romanos head and I cant get it out and the one that keeps Germanys head to his body is stuck in Germanys body so I cant switch the heads. so i'm stuck with a couple of Germano love children but quite honestly it greatly amuses me so I don't really mind. XD
The thing with the bootleg figures is that they are incredibly cheep so you don't break the bank when buying them (they were roughly about £10 which is really good considering the number of figures you get) also the base of the figures are quite large which means you fill your shelf better. the official figures cost me £108 (ooouuuuccchhhh!!!) and the bases are really small so it can sometimes make the figures look small (they look big in my picture above because I took a picture of them closer by accident DX ) but they honestly are such good quality I don't mind paying that much.
I am also waiting on the second set of figures (which consists of Sweden, Finland, Prussia, Canada, Spain, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Holy Roman Empire and Chibi Italy) and I shall upload a picture of them. as well as these figures I am collecting the special versions of set ones figures which were produced for the Animate Café in japan, I am desperately trying to track down a Russia from that set as he is the only one I can not seem to find (he has sunflowers instead of his pipe), if any of you lovely people know where to find him I would love you forever <3