>>9880187>>9880197I'm almost certain it's some obscure country with a Lego factory; my guess is the one in czech republic since there are also russian sellers with a ton of random parts/minifigures that shouldn't be easy to acquire
There's a seller on BL that goes by Minifig_Dreams, and he was able to get a bunch of those weird translucent minifigs I mentioned, as well as tons of Clone Commander minifigs from the UCS Gunship before the minifig pack was even announced
When I asked how he sourced them he told me he isn't going to "out" his connect, which implies he probably gets them illegally
I also knew this other guy in Canada who was able to get a ton of minifigs for me at one point, he had a connection with someone that could get pretty much any minifig in any quantity as long as they were still in production; I ended up with ~50 Mimban stormtroopers because of him, but in the end the dude scammed me for some unknown reason and I never heard from him again
There's definitely some weird shit going on that nobody at Lego looks into, I think these people have "ins" at Lego storage warehouses where all the parts are stored before being put into sets, it's highly unlikely that they get the shit by opening sealed sets in retail stores
I've also wondered if they use custom printed parts and pass them off as genuine lego, pad printed customs are extremely close to Lego quality (Clone Army Customs & Citizen Brick are good examples) so it's not out of the realm of possibility that they just got a shit ton of blank shields and copied the design