The report here is talking about a fake-ass Gundam statue they put in some amusement park in Chengdu China. Just like that fake-ass Disneyland park I showed y'all last time, the park director is saying "This isn't a Gundam; Its purely original, straight from China. Sure it isn't... Tell you what. I'm gonna splash some yellow paint on an iPhone and sell it as the jPhone and count how many seconds it'll take for Apple's legal hounds to come callin'...
I'm starting a new column here in the blog called "Fakin' the Funk". Whenever I run across something that's a bad representation of the original, be it tangible or intangible, It'll go here.
We're gonna start this show off right-- Here's a fake-ass Disneyland in China, which has long been the "knock-off" capital of the world anyway.
From The Standard we learn that Beijing's state-owned Shijingshan Amusement Park boasts the slogan "Disneyland is too far" and "features a replica of Cinderella's Castle, with staff dressed like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and other Disney characters." Here's a quote from a 31-year-old housewife and mother at the park that nicely sums up the situation:
"I don't understand why that is such a big problem. Shouldn't others be able to use those characters besides [Disney]?" she asks.
Some have claimed that the park is illegally copying Disney’s Minnie Mouse. However, the park’s operators have insisted that the character ... is not a mouse. It is a cat with very large ears!
Japan Probe also links to several video clips of Japaneses news broadcasts on the topic.