(Mar. 27, 2021 11:58 PM)GodKillgroth Wrote: (Mar. 27, 2021 8:45 PM)Saishreyas.G Wrote: It might simply be that the supposed midfake numbers are the only batch number that were last produced. Maybe tt stopped producing mfb after these batch numbers and that's what we are still getting now. I still think the hard rubber problem has nothing to do with midfakes but it's the rubber that hardened over time because of disuse. This is a real problem that wouldn't have become apparent back in 2013-14. Don't you think it's wierd that the only supposed midfake related changes are hard rubber and a slight change in the dimension of some parts? I recently saw a guy test 'midfakes' for lead and he didn't find anything at all. The metal is that same quality as tt and even darkens. I find it hard to believe that the people who are making fakes went through all that trouble to get the special zinc alloy recipe from tt just to make fakes. I mean, at this point they would just be the original. What was even the point of making the midfakes then? To people who make beys, it's all about money, whoever it is. It would have cost them even more effort and money than tt to make sure that the fakes looked exactly like the original.
So then it might be tt using cheaper materials. .But that's a bad original, not a midfake.
I collected a lots of codes, there is not a case that I found a code for a third time. The A0813 and J1314 are very suspicious, i even think the midfakes are in production right now and they take the A0813 or J1314, but this is my assumption. The term midfake is only there to differenciate them from the older ones. Maybe a better term than midfake will give people who purchase them a better feeling. The main problem is that the sellers do not make it transparent and some seller (portal0) sell them with an overpriced price tag. Beysandbricks display the codes from the random boosters but do not display the code from the other metal ones.
Maybe this is the case. Maybe tt has 'officially' stopped production in 2014. But they still want to make money. So maybe they are still producing the beys with the same tag and selling it directly to online seller. . Or maybe they allowed some other company to carry on production in their name. But since they aren't officially tt, they can't put different batch numbers. This so called company would pay tt for the rights just like Hasbro does, only off the books. This would explain why tt hasn't done anything about the 'midfake' problem.
Tt moved the production out of China and into Vietnam after MFB. Maybe the Chinese company that made these beys still has the blueprints and got permission from tt to continue production (which for all records, stopped in 2014)