The strange history of MeiTai's site
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Originally published 6/16/2024 on the old wiki
The strange history of MeiTai's site[edit]
http://mttoys.com/ has everything you'd want from a b2b site. A midi that it tries to play but can't because I'm not using a primordial browser, a couple of products, all that good stuff. There's an SWF with several links to nonexistent categories that do nothing when you click them, and an english and chinese language option at http://www.mttoys.com/en/index.asp and http://www.mttoys.com/cn/index.asp. A login page at http://www.mttoys.com/UserLogin.asp . But then I decided to dig a bit deeper. What's that SWF that just has sparkles on a poop colored background for? Why is there a slideshow of nonexistent products in the corner? My first idea was to decompile the files. I first tried the image slideshow. What I got were the files in a higher quality, curiously named 1, 3, and 5. Where 2 and 4 went, I have no idea.
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1.png
3.png
5.png
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So what's with the other SWF? It is, quite curiously, JUST SPARKLES on a brown background. No images, no text, no nothing. Okay, this is getting weird. Then I had an idea: the Wayback Machine. The first capture of the site at https://web.archive.org/web/20050406032151/http://www.mttoys.com/ has a completely different flash intro page (with sadly no archived swf). And yes, I checked, the file is not still lying around on the server. The first capture of the actual site at https://web.archive.org/web/20050323071857/http://www.mttoys.com:80/cn/cp.asp has mostly broken images, but the SWF is intact (and even contains some of the same photos as the slideshow!) We'll get to that later. The categories are completely different. No, none of the old photos from that capture are on the site still either. There are a couple surviving ones at https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mttoys.com/* however. The one surviving file that is still on the server is http://mttoys.com/Header.swf , which just seems to be an earlier version of the main SWF. Neither the early menu nor the early main swf had anything interesting (that we haven't already seen) aside from a high quality logo from the old menu:
and a lower quality one with the registered sign from the main swf:
that's all for this installment, but I am planning to make this a frequent thing. See you soon!