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Micro Action Knock-Off Helicopters


Here are some knock-offs of Micro Action helicopters that came with a new (2010’s) aircraft carrier playset.* They each have a separate black rotor piece (which does turn) and a separate black landing gear piece. Unlike the knock-off jets, there are no paint applications on the helicopters.

The first three photos are comparison shots of the real Micro Action Sikorsky SH-60 Sea Hawk compared to its knock-off counterpart. The next three photos are of the knock-off AH-64 Apache which I do not have a real example of for comparison. The last two photos are the knock-offs together.









*The aircraft carrier playset itself (not pictured) isn’t bad either. It is not a knock-off of the Funrise carrier. It has more realistic proportions and electronic features of some sort that don’t work on my copy. It has a small section of the port deck which is removable to allow storage of the jets inside the hull.

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