A lot of these toys look like dead-ringers for Playmobil knock-offs.
Others deserve some benefit of the doubt... The scale of the figure and the shape of the hand alone shouldn't get a toy line roped in as a knock-off.
We need like a taxonomy, and then train somebody up as the forum Knock-off Playmobil expert.
Scholar: "I'm sorry. Though the hands and the scale of the figure match criteria, that only counts for two points. The cylindrical shape of the head counts 3 points against, and places this figure in the genre of Lego ripoff."