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Originally Posted by Gokanma
Sorry if this question is stupid but how do we know if a statue is licensed or not?
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It's not always clear - especially when you start getting to the more "obscure" Intellectual Properties.
From a purely artistic - rule of cool - perspective, licensed or unlicensed is pretty irrelevant to the average collector.
The only caveat being, companies specializing in unlicensed products tend to be, well, let's say "less orgsnised" - in that, if you encounter a problem with your purchase, in most cases, you're sh*t out of luck.
And there in lies a way to determine if a product is likely to be licensed or unlicensed, the company selling it. If it's a well known I.P. (e.g Star Wars or Marvel) coming from Sideshow, it's guaranteed to be licensed, if it's coming from a more or less, unknown company - the chances of the product being unlicensed, grow exponentially.
