Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Unreleased figures or fakes

Well, we don't know much about "Set 3," but were Bayleef and Rayquaza and the others (not Snorlax) in Groundbreakers?
 
Wasn't Groundbreakers an officially released set?
I think that if some of these were officially released this discussion would be moot.
 
I would hedge on them being real. There were figures in the process of being made. They had prototypes of this generation at Cons. It makes sense a few batches would be made before production was called off for w/e reason.

Keith
 
I've uploaded a new picture to the gallery of another lot someone on the comm found which has some other new figures in it, including three more of the ones from Pops picture of the Set 3 preview. Gyarados, Seviper and Tyranitar.

http://pokegym.net/gallery/showimage.php?i=49669

Theres the image. Apparently they are for sale of ebay somewhere but I can't find the auction.
 
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I'd buy those just for the figures, forget the game! Those are some FREAKING SWEET models! Now if only PBR looked like that...
 
From informed opinions, these figures appear to be made from legitimate parts.
One may notice that one of the stickers is rotated off of the way it should have been applied, but other than that, an educated opinion would be that these are from a test or sample run.
 
Or someone grabbed the discarded pieces, put them together, and made some cool figures.

Bayleef, oh, so close to a good Pokemon.

Vince
 
I gotta throw this out there, the figures from the TFG were Gashapon in Japan. The spinning bases are new, but the figures glued on top of them were molded for a gashapon game in Japan. I have a Bulbasaur, but saw a half dozen or so others that were released as TFGs. I doubt these are fakes, but it's possible they are prototypes with those alredy produced figs glued onto test bases.
 
The figures are not randomly put onto bases with random attack stickers.
The right figures are with the right stickers and on the bottom of the base, the set and promo info is all correct.
This is the right stuff, not pieces slopped together randomly from parts scavenged.
 
ApachePrime said:
I gotta throw this out there, the figures from the TFG were Gashapon in Japan. The spinning bases are new, but the figures glued on top of them were molded for a gashapon game in Japan. I have a Bulbasaur, but saw a half dozen or so others that were released as TFGs. I doubt these are fakes, but it's possible they are prototypes with those alredy produced figs glued onto test bases.
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You're half right. The company producing the TFG molds was Kaiyodo, who are known for doing high quality Pokemon PVCs. The most common way in Japan to acquire one of these PVCs is from a bottletop. because in Japan they actually reward customers for buying things like soft drinks. They don't re-use molds actually, while they have some figures that were repeats for them. If they had done a Pokemon before, they'll sometimes to do something similiar but different. On a random note, does anyone know if the game ever launched in Japan? Because honestly, I could see THAT being the real death of the Trading Figure Game.
 
i bought one of the sets of 12 figures; i'll be uploading pictures to the gallery.

they all look great, except the golbat looks like one of the wings was pushed backwards before the glue dried :( oh well...

'mom
 
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PokePop said:
Here's a picture on the go-Pokemon site from the GAMA show:

gama1.jpg


It shows one of these figures among the "upcoming set 3" figures, the Snorlax.

The article is no longer accessible, but the picture is.
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with the site update, that link no longer works :(

'mom
 
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