Three Times More Brazen Than A Regular Ripoff

A store opened in the area mall I understood to offer "Japanese design"; that at least piqued my interest. Wandering though it to get an impression of lots of inexpensive housewares on display, I reached a shelf of toys and thought "sure, the Transformers were from Japan to start with." Then, even as an expected name was popping up from stacks of trivia, I looked that much closer and realised what was actually in green text at the bottom of the familiar-looking packages.
( An illustration within )