Sunday, July 3, 2016

How to Spot Fake Tomica C-01 Disney Cars "Lightning McQueen"

In this post I will show you how to spot fake Tomica C-01 Cars Disney "Lightning McQueen" , in the image bellow the fake one are on the right side. Ok let's begin:  (ps: sorry my english not good enough T_T)


Box part:

  1. The fake one (on the right side) using font that more darker & thick than the original.
  2. Engrave text on the right side (fake > D0321) are poor quality, and on the left side (original) engrave text (H0315) are deep enough and can be read easily.


Car part 01:

  1. Fuel tank cap on the right side (fake) just a metallic circle paint, the other hand (original) you can see a small protrusion.
  2. Now focus on the rear side, detail and sculpt on the right side (fake) are poor. You can see the different in the lamp part (left lamp), fin bar, at the bottom side, and also poor quality print text detail.
  3. On the right side (fake) eye part are printed exceeds the area, poor printing quality and a somewhat different color.
Car Part 02: (this part are hard to explain in english word, but I hope You can understand what I mean)


  1. On the right side (fake) you can see that engrave line detail can't painting perfectly. It look like paint can't reach the deep engrave area, so it look like you can see black color in the engrave line. And sometime if some text or word pass that engrave line that text or word are look like cut. For example in the image above the number "95", the number '5' that pass the engrave line you can see that part are look like cut.
  2. Now look at the base. At the word "Tomica", on the right side you can see that between the letter 'C' and 'A' there are a gap, the other hand (original) the letter 'C' and 'A' no gap (or sometime a very little gap).

In the image bellow I will show you my tomica collections (all original) and their bottom side, so you can compare word "TOMICA" between fake one and original Tomica.

Conclusion for fake Tomica:

  1. Detail are poor
  2. paint color look different that the original
  3. Price more cheap $2-$4 (some jerk seller put almost same price than original)


For original Lightning McQueen you can see in youtube (Video Link), someone already posting original Tomica C-01, maybe sometime I will posting video about fake Tomica C-01.

*Be aware other cars disney character seems to have copying already.


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