What is a Chinafake
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If you're wondering what a chinafake is, to put it simply, chinafakes are bootleg toys. But there's more to chinafakes than you may think.
What is a Chinafake[edit]
Chinafakes are many things. They're cheap toys, sure, but they're also experiences. To ask what, we must first ask ourselves why, and the reason why all started with a man showing off his favorite restaurant, Mozzarelli's.
The Beginning[edit]
The year was 2008. Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia had just gone to New York. And with him, he brought back some toys of dubious authenticity.
Namely, a Mignon, a Gout Picnic Car, and a Racing Car. Now, this was not the first video on these sorts of things he'd created, but it was the one that got this community started. It was seen by many people, but one of them was a person by the name of Cody. Cody thought this stuff was pretty neat, and endeavored to get some of his own. During his travels, he met people with the same mentality. Six years later, on April 7 2014, the community found a home for their research, on the then up-and-coming wiki hosting platform known as Wikia. The Chinafake Wikia was a massive hit, soon gaining hundreds of pages. The wiki was abandoned every so often, but it was always picked back up by someone else wanting to keep the community alive. 10 years after the wiki's creation (on April 7 2024), Cody was still at it. Him and his cohorts had found hundreds of chinafake tidbits believed by some to be lost to time (or just never paid enough mind to by anyone to be archived) and saved them here. A short while after, we sadly lost the original wiki on Wikia (now called Fandom) to a rogue admin forcibly taking it over. Thankfully, all the pages were moved safely to this wiki on Miraheze, and thus the research was preserved. We invite you to join us in our mission to collect, document, and preserve these oft forgotten bits of toy history, because we can't document everything, but we can damn well try.
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