Toy Major Raccoon 2002 and China Copy

Hello,
I have a unknown CHINA marked Raccoon and now I got a TOY MAJOR Raccoon and both looks nearly the same.
See here:
Benno.
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Interesting.

Absolutely interesting. Toy Major is the most entertaining manufacturer of this hobby.
We could keep showing their figures for more 20 years and we will keep far from knowing the whole extension of their range.
Thanks for such a clear picture of the way it is marked. I suppose you used some magic.
587-P1 is a new reference for our knowledge. Probably a forest series from 2002. From that year I am only aware of an African series and also a dinosaur series.
Forest series usually come in pairs of adult and young. In AAA, a number 2 means it is a young but this figure is not marked as a TM young animal and it does not look like a baby. Maybe just a pair of adult raccoons and it might be one with number 1.
Now I have hope of another TM fox.
The copy is essentially the same model and it is good to remember Toy Major is a global manufacturer and they produced figures for many companies.
The copy is marked in a very weird way since China and Racoon do not follow the same orientation. The key must be that C-like marking we can see.
It is amazing how many "new" figures you bring to our knowledge.

The 'China' on the copy is strange also. Two different fonts used, C from one with H from another, a space, IN in the same font as H, then A in the same font as C. Are there letters (an E and L) under the INA or is that just the fur sculpting and my eye seeing what isn't there?

pipsxlch wrote:

The 'China' on the copy is strange also. Two different fonts used, C from one with H from another, a space, IN in the same font as H, then A in the same font as C. Are there letters (an E and L) under the INA or is that just the fur sculpting and my eye seeing what isn't there?

Pareidolia? Are you seeing photos from Mars?
I think those are too perfect to be fur sculpt. They look like the remainings from a previous marking which was eroded. EL or EE. I can see some character shaped markings slightly above and to the left of the letter C if you rotate the image to give to CHINA a correct orientation. Oh, what I wrote is ambiguous too.
I'm convinced Benno gave some make-up to those markings but that's the weirdest CHINA I've ever seen.