Now on to the eyes... anyone who customizes figures can tell you how hard it is to hand paint two matching eyes, eye lashes and brows. It's extremely hard to match Hasbro's factory paint mask. So anyone attempting to pull off a hoax would mostly likely not go through stripping the original paint and painstakingly reapply the eye paint. Thus, simply paint over a factory painted Flash. If they were ever questioned, they could just say Palitoy was only given production level figures to create mock-ups.