The unlicenced toy industry keeps churning out bogus product and we keep buying them. What if that bogus ALIEN toy is actually broken? Is it worth keeping? Is it worth restoring? Is a counterfeit item, fake and disowned and ignored by its rightful intellectual property owner worth repairing? In some cases, no, it’s not. It’s just junk. What happens when the damaged bootleg is a synthesis of pop culture meaning and simply can’t be ignored?

Let’s take a look at this odd sample. It’s had some attention applied to restore missing parts. This weird and wonderful item is a Mexican bootleg Homer Simpson Xenomorph Alien hybrid, also known as the “Homermorph”. Isn’t he grand? He wasn’t always this good looking, though as multiple parts were missing and its owner, David Aliens EC, has restored this oddity to its original state – at least as original as can be declared for an unlicenced product like this. There’s more images on this page along with a selection of other bootleg oddities and curiosities. Have fun with these!

-Windebieste.