Is this Zoroark plush legit?
Hey, it's a long time since I've posted here. I'm a Pokemon plush collector, not of any one, two, or three particular guys, but (usually) one or so of many different favorites. There's a question I've wanted to ask here about someone I'm trying to obtain.
I've liked Zoroark a lot for a long time, and for years, I really wanted to get that Tomy Zoroark plush, that big one. Thing is, for some reason, I've always had this association with him and thinking there's a lot of bootlegs of him in the wild, which I'd prefer not to get. I never knew 100% which ones were legit or not, save ones that showed the right tag. But he's a guy I've always wanted to get. Well a Zoroark was one of the six final Pokemon I used in Scarlet and Violet, (which I quite liked a lot!) and I want to try to get that plush of him now after all this time. But I always have a lingering weird feeling about what I'm getting. Even searching for stuff on ebay and the like, I'm trying to really scrutinize what I'm looking at, cause you might not know.
So lemme show you some images of something I found, which seems ok on the surface, but might not be, to see what you think, and if maybe I'm just overthinking things.
Now compare these to this image of the plush from Pokevault.com, which is definitely legit.
The fur looks smoother here in the legit one, is the thing I notice, but that could just be a difference with the individual photos taken.
...I'm overthinking this, I know. But for this guy, I just want to be 100% sure it's legit before pursuing it. I saw another Zoroark being sold with a tag that's literally just the Pokepark Wii box art, which makes zero sense, as that game came out before Gen 5! So I HIGHLY doubt that's legit.
But anyway, offhand, does this look like the real thing?
Alternatively, if anyone here is selling him, I could be tempted to buy him here!