>>10768294They are completely designed, stitched and engineered from the ground up, many use unlicensed IPs sure but theyre not bootlegs of anything other than Vortex Toys who use reverse engineered 3A bodies. Some of them are even officialy licensed such as the Metal Slug figures and tbleague doing comic book characters.
>>10768181I own a few clothed figures from Crazy Figure, Tbleague, Did corp, Verycool and Damtoys. Many of them give up 1/12 products after a handful of releases and focus more on 1/6. These figures are essentially scaled down hot toys. Unlicensed figures are more common but I generally dont care for licenses so mine are just generic soldiers and figures. Didnt stop Damtoys from using the likenesses from Platoon for their Vietnam soldiers.
With anime figures, its a similar story, dozens of companies making one off products because the Chinese premium figure industry is still so new. I own a handful of Snail Shell and Manatee Industry figures. They arent clones of Figma and use different engineering and plastic but the quality and look is definitely close if not on par with Figma. Shf is definitely lagging slightly behind with anime females and I hope they improve in response.
