80s Bootleg Popples Toys~

Travel the globe without leaving your seat, and see with your very own eyes a variety of knock-off Popples from different countries... all 80s-era, of course.
(4:19 = 👌)

[@KillerFurby]

It’s So Interesting To See Vintage Bootlegs. Thanks For The Showcase!

[@Morbatx]

I’m glad you enjoyed :3

[@electronicgore8646]

Found this very fascinating as I'm not familiar with the popples toys. This was fun to go through and watch this whole thing :D the last one was really cute!

[@Morbatx]

Thank you so much! I completely agree :3

[@MartenFerret]

ADDENDUM: Well, not every official popple plush had a pouch. The 'bank' popples (Packy, Penny and Plucky) didn't have pouches, and neither did their (very rare) non-bank variants. Granted, the latter was never sold at retail stores, though they could be found at toy fairs. These LOOK like imposter popples, but they're quite real.

[@planetsliveinsidethemoon1600]

Woah, as someone just recently getting into Popple collecting, this was an INCREDIBLY cool video to watch- and so recent, too!!! It’s so cool to see people keepin these lil toys alive, subbed! :D

[@Morbatx]

planets live inside the moon Thanks so much! I appreciate you 💜

[@YourAppleSalesman]

Ooh! I have the official medium green one and 2 of the mini guys

[@MartenFerret]

Popple fancier, pencil collector and cartooner here. ...There are popple people who make their own popples (called 'fakies') for themselves. It's not really 'popple poaching' unless the maker is trying to sell them as the real deal. Given your German popple doesn't seem to have a tag or a patch (and that you've not seen another like it), I'd presume someone's mom made it. ^^ I'm actually looking to have some popple Christmas ornaments made for me, in the colors of my popple OCs. I found such an ornament on eBay (of Potato Chip) that's an obvious fakie, but the seller wants far too much for it, its maker is dead, and I've been unable to find the pattern that was used to make it (I'd hoped it was a Butterick thing, but it's not). lol I'm a man in his 40s; I have a Pikachu backpack I wear everywhere (all the outward attention it's received has been positive). Of course, being a Millennial, I guess that's easy to get away with. ^^ I was able to correctly guess all your bootlegs, and I am much aware of the 2010s JPN Popples Store. That bag came with a mechanical pencil, which I found on eBay not long ago. I passed on it because it didn't have a copyright date and I don't trust Sony Creative Products (the maker). There were wooden popples pencils made for American Greetings in the 1980s, by Empire Pencil Co. Those are SUPREMELY rare (if you have one, shoot me a DM).

[@g-starthefirst]

Oh my gosh I missed videos like this

[@g-starthefirst]

Some of the effects are kinda distracting not gonna lie

[@Morbatx]

Oopsie Kroopsie! - Yeah, sorry... my ADHD was in full swing that day and I was worried it was too boring without some extra zest xD

[@MartenFerret]

Kinda added a nice retro vibe, IMHO. If a video like this was made in the 80s/early 90s with a camcorder, you can bet said video would be replete with strange effects like these (albeit not quite as nice).

[@zebrapringlez3141]

Good video! I always love learning about bootlegs and how they're made. They obviously don't want to get caught by the license holders so they're making them in smaller quantities in less strict places such as Thailand. So they can be very hard to learn about in North america.

[@Morbatx]

I agree! It’s always so fascinating and exciting to me when I discover something like that; sometimes the creativity is downright artistic, and they bring me joy to look at in my room :)