Bootleg Cloud Man Found In Shanghai

"Bootleg" Cloud Man found in Shanghai? [via adFunture-Eddi's blog]
And I know tis wrong to promote bootlegs, but that is simply quite awesome a figure, innit? (Sorry about that Luke! ;p)

FYI: CLOUD MAN was created by CUPCO! and has been featured in an animated clip and was initially a part of a series of creator/artist-toys under the Love Original Project banner under Red Magic (circa 2006-07), but apparently did not make it to full production. Or did it?

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I remembered in an interview with Argentinean-designers DGPH back in 2007 - where they mentioned versions of their GANESH toy (also with Love Original) were also rumored to be floating in the market. These are probably initial samples of the figure, but it sure smells fishy to me. Not cool. And a shame too, becoz clearly Cloud Man would've rawked, IMHO.

Meanwhile, peep these initial different proposed colorways for Cloud Man.