Thanks to Genzhao for pointing out that we have become somewhat lazy and have not updated all of the galleries and news story on both Transformers At The Moon and Lucky Draw Transformers which are related to chrome figures to clearly state which are official items and which are fake. We are sorry for this, any of you that spoke to us at Auto Assembly last year regarding the figures that we had on display would have learnt about some of the fakes as well as how to spot them. We have posted various comments on a few message boards around the globe over the last year on fake chrome items as well as making some references to them in news stories on our own websites. We are going to try to run through all of our own news stories and galleries to try to ensure that it is much easier for you to tell whether the items are genuine or not.
We originally planned to have three dedicated toy gallery section on the last revamp of www.luckydrwatransformers.com one to official items, a second for known fakes and a third for unconfirmed items. Unfortunately due to time this did not happen, but it is something we will look into introducing in the future.
For quick reference there are known fake lucky draws of the following figures:
Gold Henkei Convoy (the most common). There are at least three variants of the fakes including the one that we own.
Gold Henkei Galvatron (loose variant) - The loose toy with the orange parts is assumed to be a fake. you can compare it to our carded version within that gallery
Gold Beast Convoy - We do not own this toy but at least two fakes are known to have been produced and sold last year. They had no weapons, were chromed in the same darker chrome as the fake Henkei figures (a much darker chrome than the chrome Takara were using in the 90s when the Beast Wars Lucky Draws were released). The toy is a chromed over reissued and not the original Primal / Beast Convoy figure.
Gold Encore and 25th Anniversary Convoy - There are boxed and un-boxed, long and short smokestack variations of this toy. It was produced in 2008 / 2009 by HeerosToyMaker / TinTinHappy. The toy is a custom chrome figure. Again much like the above toys, the chrome is the darker "orange" and distributed by the same sellers.
Silver Henkei Convoy - Again made by Heero. You can see through the silver to the base figure.
Silver Protoform Optimus Prime - Also made by Heero, this toy is one of the better fakes
Silver G1 Convoy - We purchased this toy back in 2004/2005, showing it off to the public for the first time in 2006 and then later on this website. Its a fake.
Silver Binaltech Smokescreen - We do not own this toy but found the pictures online. It is another custom
Silver Chrome Soundwave - From the same source as all of these figures. This tyo was produced back in the early 2000s and is believed to be fake.
Silver G1 Starscream - Though the source of this toy is unknown and there was talk about official chrome figure during one of the BotCon rarities panel, we believe this figure is a fake. What is for sure is that it is not a Lucky Draw item