Believe it or not, countless companies around the world produce bootleg products. More often than not, you can find these awful bootlegs in foreign countries…but you can also stumble across them in random discount stores across America. People can be tricked into buying the bootleg versions of items, but sometimes consumers just buy them as a gag.
Here are some of the strangest bootleg items that we’ve come across, courtesy of Bootleg Stuff on Twitter. So close, yet so far.
Spongebob has a very strange new look.
we’ve only descended further into darkness pic.twitter.com/2KRjSlC5lM
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) February 2, 2016
I wonder if they are just as delicious as the original.
Detos pic.twitter.com/Uqnd75Xf5j
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) February 11, 2016
Woof. This is waayyyyy off.
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) January 24, 2016
A cartoon, nightmarish Cerebrus.
we have gone too far pic.twitter.com/ui0jH4FEad
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) December 17, 2015
Is this how Minions are made?
every day, we move further and further away from God pic.twitter.com/xJMLHVTwBW
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) January 20, 2016
Oh, those Plucky Ninjas.
@Bootleg_Stuff pic.twitter.com/4sN5Jwv3zI
— Super (@SuperDaStar) February 24, 2016
Wow, Lego Bionicle figures confused with the band Nirvana. A new low.
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) February 8, 2016
Of course his name is Spoony.
@Bootleg_Stuff @jeffparker pic.twitter.com/4MmWR8pgpL
— Darick Robertson (@DarickR) February 13, 2016
Ah, that classic Baet Simpson catchphrase.
words to live by pic.twitter.com/EaqMzQzSoD
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) February 16, 2016
This new-look Genie is haunting.
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) February 9, 2016
These figurines don’t even look secure in that packaging.
what pic.twitter.com/sWQOEHLHLp
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) March 15, 2016
Learn The Force from “Wise Puppet.”
is this from The Force Awakens pic.twitter.com/0wcAqUhxyk
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) January 21, 2016
None of these guys are Avengers.
@Bootleg_Stuff pic.twitter.com/IdLPN7ZqGf
— Pikby (@Pikby0) March 6, 2016
Super Mario has taken up a new mantle!
😀 @Bootleg_Stuff
h/t @VitorLiadz pic.twitter.com/FEn6IcOjnm— Rafaella (@RyonRafaella) March 8, 2016
No, they aren’t angry. They are just ill-tempered.
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) March 13, 2016
What a deal!
@Bootleg_Stuff pic.twitter.com/idvxvQAx8u
— Freak (@CallMeFreak3) March 17, 2016
Pooh…you look…different.
the nightmare fuel used to power the nightmare bus pic.twitter.com/YkoZJYAzMf
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) March 16, 2016
I don’t remember Drive being this action-packed.
??????? pic.twitter.com/fnENSPtYSE
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) March 16, 2016
It’s not gender specific anymore!
don’t talk to me or my son again pic.twitter.com/YJfa5AKHbO
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) March 2, 2016
Transmachine. Seems like a new civil rights movement just waiting to happen.
— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) March 17, 2016
(via Twitter / Bootleg Stuff)
Anyone looking to buy some of these items is out of their mind or absolutely hilarious. I’m sure they don’t cost as much as the originals, so you’ll be spending your money wisely.