A fake Wizard on eBay?

we usually put these posts over in this thread, keeps it all together….I’m not real familiar with wizards since I don’t collect them but looks to me like they slapped a different pad on the bottom, it might’ve come from the older days when they might’ve had no pad and then the pad was slapped on by someone later….

Reports of Fake & Knock-off Windstones and general infringements

It is all wrong.Cape is not black,dragon is peacock not green,no windstone pad,base is not correct,etc.We know nothing is marked Taiwan.

Hey I have a couple of them! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in the day when I was a little kid my mother ran a ceramics factory and she got a bunch of (what was called hydracal) statues from a supplier that went out of business. This is like… back in the late 80’s I think. There were the clich’e roaring lions and panthers, giant lifesize bulldogs and dalmations, and 2 or 3 of these wizards. I know I still have at least one somewhere in my attic that I saved. Once I knew they were Windstone rip offs I remember I squirreled them away for whatever reason. They’re raw, unpainted, and look bloated when you compare them to the real thing. I have a Young Dragon like that too somewhere. The area where it is supposed to say PENA is all deformed to where you can’t even tell what was there.

Chances are the put putty over the original sig, made their own cast rubber mold and reproduced them. I’m pretty sure I know exactly where it is if anyone is curious I can take some pictures on Monday of it. I bet its the same exact thing.