Kodoto

The demise of Corinthian Prostars has led to many collectors screaming out for their favourite players to get the Prostar treatment in the latest season's kits. Numerous repainted and remoulded figures can be found on Ebay, some incredibly detailed and about as good as if Corinthian produced them, and for a while that was the best option to get a player in their latest team's kits. 

A Chinese company has emerged on the football figure scene called Kodoto and they've released a wide range of players (basketball figures too but that's for some other guy's blog) in club and national kits. They're roughly the same size of Corinthian Prostars but the plastic material they are made of makes them far more flexible than Prostars. A variety of base-colours are on offer but to the best of my knowledge colour variation is not linked to production rarity in the same way that Platinum Prostars are generally rarer than Green-based Prostars.  The company name is located on each base where player names are located on Prostars. Player likeness is of a reasonably high standard across their entire range and kit detail is similarly well produced (Villa and Messi figures have recently been released with the Qatar Foundation kit). 

You can buy these on Ebay (use search words like the player names and 'non corinthian' or 'figure) or Taobao. See product images at Kodoto's official website. 

I may be missing out on a few but from what I've seen Kodoto has released the following:

• David Villa (National Kit)
• David Villa (Club - UNICEF Kit)
• David Villa (Club - Qatar Foundation Kit)
• Lionel Messi (National Kit)
• Lionel Messi (Club - UNICEF Kit)
• Lionel Messi (Club - Qatar Foundation Kit)
• Lionel Messi (National Kit) - Head variation
• Lionel Messi (Club Kit) - Head variation
• Franck Ribery (Club Kit)
• Franck Ribery (National Kit)
• Wayne Rooney (Club Kit)
• Wayne Rooney (National Kit)
• Frank Lampard (Club Kit)
• Frank Lampard (National Kit)
• Steven Gerrard (Club Kit)
• Steven Gerrard (National Kit)
• Fernando Torres (Club Kit - Liverpool)
• Fernando Torres (Club Kit - Chelsea)
• Fernando Torres (National Kit)
• Roberto Baggio (Club Kit - Internazionale) 
• Ronaldo (Club Kit - Internazionale) 
• Ronaldo (National Kit)
• Ronaldinho (National Kit)
• Andrei Arshavin (Club Kit)
• Filippo Inzhagi (Club Kit)
• Alex Ferguson 
• Ryan Giggs (Club Kit)
• Neymar (National Kit)
• Mesut Ozil (Club Kit)
• David Beckham (National Kit)
• David Beckham (Club Kit - LA Galaxy)
• David Beckham (Club Kit - AC Milan)
• Karim Benzema (National Kit)
• Karim Benzema (Club Kit)
• Carlos Tevez (Club Kit)
• Carlos Tevez (National Kit)
• Alexandre Pato (National Kit)
• Alexandre Pato (Club Kit)
• Cristiano Ronaldo (Club Kit)
• Cristiano Ronaldo (National Kit)
• Cesc Fabregas (National Kit)
• Cesc Fabregas (Club Kit)
• Kaka (Club Kit)
• Kaka (National Kit)
• Arsene Wenger
• Jose Mourinho
• Didier Drogba (Club Kit)
• Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Club Kit - Barcelona)
• Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Club Kit - AC Milan)

Below are some example images of Kodoto figures. They probably should release an update figure with Neymar's mohawk-like hair more extreme than the below. 

Jose Mourinho Figure

Image Courtesy of Kodoto.com

Neymar Figure (National Kit)

Image Courtesy of Kodoto.com