For figures they are a plague on the hobby.
Once they start selling copies the producer usually stops, or the copies are of limited runs no longer in production.
Most of the stuff you have never seen before is because they where originally made in limited runs probably a number of years ago.
Most recasts come from Thailand but there are some in the US and UK as well as South America.
If you spend any time on figure forums you see a lot of it.
They think that since most of the "Garage Kit's" are not licensed they have the right to copy them as they please.
The Thai and Chinese copy EVERYTHING. licensed or not.
One of the worst US recasters even has some of his copies shipped from SE Asia.
Frontier Hobbies in the UK's main inventory is recasts.
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