Prototypes? How?

Prototypes? How?
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Action Figure ChatterHey all, I've been wondering, how do (supposed) prototypes and factory rejects come into existence? Im talking about things like this-
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MARVEL-LEGENDS- ... 276628839?
It just seems to be an unpainted version of the figure. How do people get hold of prototypes and factory rejects. Don't they get destroyed by the factory or something? Unless the ones on ebay are fakes? Please help, I'm really confused.

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Thor on eBay
As for the bootlegs like Darth said there not always bootlegs, they do some times "fall off" the production line or it could be something like there just old stock that hasn't sold due to damaged packaging or something, there are a ton of reasons but like I said with enough money anything is possible.
In regard to the bootlegs, the ebay auctions I'm talking about are like these-
http://www.ebay.com/itm/UH7-MARVEL-UNIV ... 35d9790f4d
I'm pretty sure that that's a genuine figure. I've bought auctions like this before,and the figure has been literally the same quality as other real ones. Maybe they just got a while bunch of these figures for cheap? It's often older figures that this happens to.
Btw thanks for all your answers
the only ones that I've come across that were pretty bad were a WWE elite that was made from really cheap plastic, had loose joints and had the articulation missing in the feet. The others were the SOTA Street Fighter Revolution, they come in all the proper packaging and they look genuine but as soon you open the box it's a whole different story, the paint on them is bad, the joints are loose, they break very very easily and you can actually take the entire figure apart without even having to heat it up that's how bad they are.
Btw most prototype figs I've seen are not primer coloured, but in the original plastic colours.