Yeah it'sdefinitelyfactory sealed, but I can see your point.. It was on the shelf at Toy's R Us when I bought it and there were several of them that were like that.. I would have bought more but I couldn't see wasting my money on more than one..especially if they were never going to be worth anything. Yeah if it was just one on the shelf like that I wouldn't have bought it, but there was no doubt a mistake made at the Mattel factory when they wereboxedup.