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What is a Chinafake?

A Chinafake is a toy or electronic product that is a ripoff of another product that has been popular, often based on popular media franchises. They are mostly found in Europe, Asia and the Americas. This wiki focuses on the toy side of Chinafakes. For more info, see What is a Chinafake.

How to recognize a knockoff toy

Generally, a knockoff, or bootleg, is a product that resembles another item or franchise. A counterfeit, or replica, is a product that is identical to another product. Both knockoffs and counterfeits don't have authorisation from the original creators.
Usually, knockoff toys are ripoffs of other franchises and their toys, but may also have their own design. Some knockoff companies produce original designs which is also included on this wiki.
The majority of knockoff toys play copyrighted songs, notably the Europop genre, and have colourful lights. Most of the toys that fall under this category are bump n go's, and because they are not held under regulations can contain dangerous amounts of material such as lead paint or contain small parts that can break easily, though in recent days knockoff toys have become safer.
Another way to recognise a knockoff toy is its box. Knockoff toys' boxes are often covered with typing errors and grammar mistakes. Popular examples include the phrase "It will give you infinite pleasure" or "Best toy for the children", which is found on many knockoff boxes. This is at the fault of simple online translators and people responsible not having English as their first language.
In addition to copying other toys, knockoffs may also copy popular characters from cartoons, movies, anime, manga, video games, tv shows, and comic books. Some characters include Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, Goku, Naruto, Pikachu, Mario, Doraemon, Spongebob, Ben 10, Angry Birds and Elmo.
If you own a toy that fits these characteristics, then it is likely a knockoff toy, and can become part of the wiki.

Keep in mind not all knockoff toys are chinafakes, and not all chinafakes are knockoff toys. Chinafakes can include any off brand/no-name toy from China, it doesn't have to be explicitly ripping off anything.

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  4. Fanart is allowed but do not add it to any pages (Comments, the forums, talk pages, and blog posts are better places to add fanart to).
    • If you wish to write and/or view articles on fanmade content, please check out the Chinafake Fanon Wiki instead.
  5. No NSFW/NSFL/explicit content, unless the toy itself contains said content.
    • If the toy does contain said content, the appropriate warning templates should be used on the page and the objectionable content should not be the first thing you see upon viewing the page.
  6. Vandals and trolls are not welcome here.
  7. Treat everyone with respect. That means no long, pointless arguments over Calcutta covers on people's message walls.
  8. No racism, sexism, ableism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, ethnic slurs, or anything of that sort will be tolerated, even as a joke. It's not "dark humor", it's just being mean.

Rules may be subject to change without user notice.

Please also note that all rules here are superseded by Miraheze's global policies where applicable. If you wish to file an anonymous report which does not concern global matters, please send a message to [email protected].

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This wiki only covers the toy side of chinafakes. If you want to add anything about the video game side of chinafakes, try the BootlegGames Wiki instead (not affiliated).

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