Talk:Hamtaro "The Warm Scarf-capade" (Non-Existent Mid 2000s Episode)/@comment-7559439-20150314051934

I feel we should keep in mind the reasonable possibility that this VCD is a bootleg. If the web description doesn't match the back of the box (and it's not just YesAsia's fault, the same episode list is given on the PMP Entertainment website who distributed this), that's a flag right there, but on top of that, it's Malaysian. I'm sure there are official Malaysian releases out there, but any anime collector who buys online has come across the endless amounts of region-free Malaysian bootlegs with stock promotional images and descriptions pulled from wikipedia.

Aside from my own personal wariness, here's something I found from someone who was selling this on ebay a while ago:

"They have been out of stock for years and ran a very limited print. I am uncertain of the exact story on them, but I believe they never got full permission to make these, so as a result they are incredibly rare and very very very few exist... I am uncertain if they are bootlegged or this was the result of some crazy copyright issue."

They also described the quality of them as "VHS quality (I believe they converted VHS to VCD, so these are merely for viewing purposely only)". So it's a safe bet that these aren't official, and if that's the case, that means getting the name of an episode wrong is very likely, and getting access to an unaired episode is extremely unlikely. What I'm trying to say is that Kangarooo's probably right and this episode doesn't actually exist.