Counterfeits: After the minifigs alone, the Super Heroes sets ...

Nothing seems to stop the Chinese manufacturers who flood the market with counterfeit minifigures. Super Heroes, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit, etc ... All licenses go through and the rights holders including LEGO seem strangely silent in the face of a growing phenomenon. For example, I did not find any communication or warning intended for the general public.

Even if on eBay, sellers see their ads regularly withdrawn, in particular at the request of Marvel, which is the most active of the rights holders affected by this wave of counterfeits, on the Aliexpress platform, the offer increases exponentially and these are now entire sets which are available for sale at incredibly low prices.

Some professional resellers do not even hesitate to feed their Facebook page with photos of these boxes under Marvel or DC Comics license sold for $ 4 in Malaysia and which include Batmobile, Quinjet, bat boat or even Spider Mobile...

Fighting against counterfeiting is a complicated task and it is likely that the response of rights holders will gradually be organized, but I remain perplexed by the silence of all those who see their licenses exploited in a totally illegal way by manufacturers capable of producing products. complete sets with more than misleading packaging, instruction booklets and minifigs identical to the official versions while at the same time some manufacturers of custom minifigs are the subject of a much more aggressive witch hunt ...