They wouldn't even hire Chris as a Walmart greeter, not that he'd ever apply.
Go ahead and r8 me l8, m8, but what the actual fuck? Someone is forcing an AI to larp as Chris? Does he want AM? Because that's how you get AM.
He's gluing things over pre-existing transformers boxes to frame it like they're showing up in stores. It's a more autistic version of higher effort types of fake item's "found in stores" type of posts.
Target would never allow you to purchase these anyway.
Oho, that's where you're wrong! have you ever seen the wonderful world of "item swapping" that's taken off? People return boxes with shit that very clealry isn't meant to be in them, and stores take them anyways and put them on shelves. It's been happening for a while now, but it's only gotten more intense/worse as years have gone on. Like many things that affect a lot of collectibles, there's a transformers wiki page explaining it for some reason.
Target's management does weird fucking things with the stock in a way that I'm 100% is tied to some form of internal corruption shit. NECA exclusive figures and the cobra island Gi joe figures never made it to shelves a lot of the time but mysteriously showed up on ebay for 100-200 dollars. I have SCANNED items that are fully stocked on shelves and they'll say "out of stock" despite being clearly in stock, and then the next day that shelf will be barren or filled with stuff that's not supposed to be there. If the last 7 years are anything to go by there is something very fucking wrong at chain retail stores.
I think that's different in that nobody buys the item swapped products. It also looks convincing enough to the store owners, so...
I think "Honor Roll" is still coping with how his life went to crap ever since "Count Graduon" paid him a visit, not long after the "BEST BIRTHDAY EVER" when he turned
The end game is Chris riding his Moomin into the sunset.
if it's closed box it happens a lot more than you'd think. You have shit like TVs being replaced with broken glass or some other wild shit simulating weight from what I remember.
I guess it depends on how easy it is to make them. I don't know much about Transformers, are his knockoff ones just paint jobs with a printed custom box or is he also using parts from different sets? If it's the former I can see it being a marketing ploy for upcoming merch, but if it's the latter I don't think Chris would bother. He even stopped selling his fake amiibos of secondary characters like Rosechu, the chaotic combo etc because it was too much of an hassle to assemble them from different amiibos and make additional parts with crayola magic (the only one left for sale is Sonichu and that's just because Praetor found and stole a fanmade 3D model and they can mass produce it with a 3D printer, Chris just has to paint them)
It's literally the store box with "merged" taped on it. For the last few years they've been doing "eco freindly packaging" for transformers that amounts to "we aren't putting in a plastic window on our increasingly expensive and increasingly collector focused line". Only the ones this year added back the windows so you can still find a lot of the windowless exposed boxes in the wild.
For such a legendary slob, Chris can be strangely diligent at times, but exclusively for monumental wastes of time, like when he made "over 120 dummy e-mail accounts" to stuff the ballot on that Parappa the Rapper contest (instead of employing that time on producing a less embarrassing entry), or his autistic obsession with Animal Crossing, where he 100% the game several times:
I made, like, 1200 Yahoo accounts to stuff a competition as a 6 year old, it's not that hard, actually. It only takes, like, 1-2 minutes per account.
