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School Meeples
« on: May 11, 2016, 04:59:35 AM »
Could someone do me a big favour and post a pic of the school meeples next to each other. specifically the black and purple ones. i feel like the black and purple ones i have are fake! as they seem much more like phantoms than the other coloured school meeples i have?

A side by side with the colours would be great and one showing the thicknesses?

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Re: School Meeples
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2016, 06:34:03 AM »
Here you go:






Looks like my Red is notably thinner, so there is some variance.  Have you got a photo of yours?

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Re: School Meeples
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2016, 06:37:51 AM »

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Re: School Meeples
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2016, 07:05:36 AM »
thanks guys. i think i've been duped then, a while ago.....i think someone is pawning off phantoms as purple/black school meeples on ebay.

not really sure how to avoid that apart from asking for photo proof or maybe a comparison against a phantom.

i'll check again when i'm home tonight but the search may be continuing here!

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Re: School Meeples
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2016, 07:09:20 AM »
Would be good to have a photo of your fakes to warn others.

You can see the teachers are double-dipped in the process of making them; which is probably why they are so much thicker.  You can see the outline of the inner-plastic in every meeple in my photo above. Phantoms don't have this.

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Re: School Meeples
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2016, 07:21:46 AM »
yeah, il put one up tonight when i get back. now, to find who sold them to me...was so long and so many packages ago....

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Re: School Meeples
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2016, 01:02:08 PM »
So here is the purple and black ones that i had lying in a box somewhere that are deffo phantoms i think:

So i spoke to the guy who sold me them. He's German and he said that all of the German ones were the same but slightly different (Hmm) than the phantoms. I'm not sure whether he's trying to do me over or not but i did read somewhere else that some German ones that people received were just phantoms?!






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Re: School Meeples
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2016, 01:21:35 PM »
Interesting pick. They look like phantoms to me. Have you got some phantoms to compare them?

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Re: School Meeples
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2016, 01:04:11 AM »
Interesting pick. They look like phantoms to me. Have you got some phantoms to compare them?

I agree. The purple and black ones look a lot like phantoms to me too. The red one clearly isn't, but I guess it's only been included for comparisons.


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