Totally radiates “we have Yattarō at home,” energy.

I’m not above adding the occasional bootleg to the collection, especially when they’re this accessible and amusing. This one joins us all the way from our friends at Dong Chang Co, in Korea.

• Manufactured sometime in the early ’90s, this unofficial piece swaps precision for pure personality. Easily one of the most chaotic additions to my collection!

• This is a direct recast of an oddly coloured official Yattarō figure that was sold in Japan (of which, Yattarō was the only character that received the eyesore colour palette treatment figure).

• Bootleggers reused molds, but casted them in whatever leftover cheap colored PVC pellets they had available at the time. Colours can vary from figure to figure, making each one truly unique.

• For a plastic figure, it’s held together by metal screws, which is not unique to the bootleg. This was present in the original official figures.

• The craziest thing is that this isn’t even the first Korean bootleg of its type. There’s another with a pink Toritsukkun, and an even more unhinged colour scheme… like someone out there took it as a personal challenge to make this look even weirder.