>>6279656>Are they essentially super high quality bootlegs?No, a bootleg is effectively a "stolen" toy/model repackaged or sold at a cheaper rate.
Third party transformers are stylized takes on characters, sometimes they're based on a character that doesn't have a toy yet (like tarn from the idw comics), a certain version of a character (make toys despotron seems dreamwave megatron inspired) or just outright oc like striker manus or the one you posted.
But its a very grey area since they don't own the rights to make said characters, sometimes they can get a license (like sentinel with the playstation optimus and megadrive megatron or the fuck huge scoponok and megazarak figures) but that cost money so they just do as they do, I quite like a few of their designs but they don't have the same benchmark as official masterpiece transformers so watch some reviews before making a purchase.
Its kinda funny though as some like pic related REALLY stretch things
>wei jang mpp10B>takara mp10 upsized to mp01 height>same proportions just BIGGER and uses the paint scheme bootleg mp10's use with painted feet brackets and such>has same quality if not better than actual mp10'sThey even shrunk the mp10 with the mp10v's (another group, build quality and proportions suffer somewhat however) and other upscales from wei jang, some are even improved (they call it a ko of mp tracks but when you add rubber tries you begin to question things).
Honestly op, buy what you like and avoid what you don't, I'm an official fag first and foremost but you bet when someone list it on ebay for cheap I'll take many 3p's, especially that 3p scourge/black laser optimus mp, fucking sexy despite a fat backpack
