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As LEGO Fans, i'm really concerned about the problem of infringement products which become more serious.
I heard about there were clones for Superheroes and starwars few months ago, but never find it until yesterday.
I found the clones minifigures available in Hong Kong (and pretty sure that they available in China & south east asia as well)
Almost all popular themes are available include, star wars, superheroes TMNT, Chima, Friends....
The quaility of them are not bad and really hard to differenate them unless experienced players. it may bad news to fans.
In my guess, on of the reason may come from the outsource manufactoring of accessory stuffs like CMF, Keychain,mangnet etc to China.
The Chinese manufacturer learnt the skills / experiences and produced those clone products
The issues will become more serious as long as TLG has move the Factory line to MainLand China few years later.
You may take a look on my hi-res photos for comparison (Left: Geninue, Right: Clones)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10 ... =2&theater
Genuine on the left, copy on the right.
![Image](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3796/9769235874_bf28f8a4e4_c.jpg)
![Image](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3832/9769023361_c51144968d_c.jpg)